Features/Integrations

Plays well
with your stack.

Native two-way sync with the tools Indian SMEs actually use. Zoho's full SaaS suite. Microsoft 365. Google Workspace. Tally. Slack. Whatever biometric devices you already own.

Zoho integration suite

11 Zoho products. One setup wizard.

If your business runs on Zoho, Garuda HR is the missing HR layer that ties payroll to Books, attendance to Projects, offer letters to Sign, and identity to Directory.

Zoho Books

Auto-post payroll journals

Every approved payroll posts a journal to Zoho Books — gross expense, statutory payables, bank payment. One journal per pay-period per company; idempotent (won't double-post).

Phase 1 · Live

Zoho Projects

Timesheet → attendance variance

30-min delta-pull of project time logs. Reconciliation dashboard: punch hours vs Zoho-logged hours per (employee, day). Webhooks fire instantly when tasks are assigned.

Phase 2 · Live

Zoho Sign

Offer letters, NDAs, appointment letters

Generate, send, track, archive — all through Sign's e-signature flow. Webhook on completion downloads + archives the signed PDF to the employee's documents.

Phase 3 · Live

Zoho Cliq

Notifications to channels & DMs

Leave applied → manager Cliq channel pinged. Payslip published → employee DM. Late arrival → ops channel. Best-effort: never blocks the originating action.

Phase 4 · Live

Zoho Expense

Reimbursements → next payslip

Daily pull of approved expense reports. Each becomes a row in the reimbursement queue; the next payroll run consumes them as Other Allowance lines. Idempotent — same report never paid twice.

Phase 5 · Live

Zoho People

One-shot migration importer

Moving away from Zoho People? One click pulls every employee record. Idempotent on email — re-running is safe; conflicts surface in a warnings list.

Phase 6 · Live

Zoho Directory

"Sign in with Zoho" SSO

Employees log in with their Zoho account. JIT-provisions HR users on first login. No separate password to manage.

Phase 7 · Live

Zoho WorkDrive

Document mirror

Every employee document uploaded to HR auto-mirrors to a per-employee WorkDrive folder (opt-in). Folder layout: /Garuda HR/<emp_id> – <name>/

Phase 7 · Live

Zoho Mail

Transactional email send

Use Zoho Mail as the transactional sender for HR emails (welcome, payslip, alerts) instead of SMTP/SendGrid. Set transactional_mail_provider=zoho_mail.

Phase 7 · Live

Zoho Recruit

Hired-candidate auto-import

Daily pull of candidates marked Hired. Auto-creates HR users, links by email or external_id. Idempotent — same candidate imported once.

Phase 7 · Live

Zoho Analytics

Dashboard data export

Pull any Zoho Analytics workspace + view as CSV directly into the HR Analytics page. Bulk export job, async polling, streamed download.

Phase 7 · Live

All 11 set up via the same wizard

One-time superadmin walkthrough: register a self-client app on api-console.zoho.in, paste credentials, pick products to enable, authorize via OAuth, map Books accounts. ~10 minutes.

Try the wizard on demo →

Beyond Zoho

Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) SSO

SAML / OIDC SSO with JIT provisioning. Disable a user in Entra → access revoked in HR within minutes.

Google Workspace

Directory sync (employees from Workspace), calendar block on approved leaves, Drive document sharing.

On-prem Active Directory

LDAP-based auth + 15-min sync from your AD server. Multiple AD servers (primary + secondary). Bind credentials encrypted.

Slack

Channel notifications for leave requests, payslip publish, attendance events, custom alerts. Test-message endpoint.

Tally Prime

XML voucher export — payroll journals, statutory dues, NEFT entries. One-click monthly close handover to your accountant.

WhatsApp

Native Baileys integration (personal WA) + Meta / Twilio / Gupshup / Wati for business API. Send payslips, alerts, OTPs.

Biometric devices

eSSL, ZKTeco, Hikvision, Anviz, Matrix, Suprema, Honeywell, Realtime, Panasonic, ONVIF + generic webhook. See attendance →

SMTP / SendGrid / Twilio

Transactional email and SMS via your existing provider. Pluggable — choose Zoho Mail, SMTP, or SendGrid per send.

REST API + webhooks

Outbound webhooks on every major event (employee created, leave approved, payroll closed). REST API for custom integrations on Enterprise plan.

Already on Zoho?

Half your data is already in Zoho. Don't import it twice. Garuda HR's wizard connects you in 10 minutes — and your payroll runs auto-post journals to Books from day one.