In development, built with a first customer
HR and payroll for growing Indian companies, in one place.
Trellis is a multi-tenant HRMS for small and mid-sized companies in India. Payroll is at its core: people, attendance and leave all feed one monthly run that is prepared, approved and locked.
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Basic
- Formula
House rent allowance
- Balancing
Special allowance
- Rule data
Provident fund
- Rule data
Professional tax
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What Roadmap 1 covers
Everything in the first release either feeds payroll or protects the data payroll depends on. Other modules follow in later roadmaps.
People
One record per employee: profile, employment history, documents, bank details, statutory IDs and reporting lines, with bulk import.
Attendance
Web clock in and out, shifts, weekly offs, regularisation and file import, locked each month before payroll reads it.
Leave
Leave types and policies with accrual and carry-forward, balances, apply and approve, and loss of pay passed to payroll.
Payroll
Configurable salary components and structures, a monthly run per legal entity, payslips, bank advice file and statutory reports.
Self-service
Employees apply for leave, fix a missed punch, declare tax investments and download payslips once they are published.
Reports and compliance
Payroll register, statutory reports, headcount, attendance and leave summaries, with CSV and XLSX export and an immutable audit log.
Coming later
Not in the first release. Planned for the roadmap shown.
- ExpensesRoadmap 2
- AssetsRoadmap 2
- HelpdeskRoadmap 2
- PerformanceRoadmap 3
- RecruitmentRoadmap 3
- Mobile appRoadmap 3
Payroll is the core
Designed for Indian statutory payroll, and configured by your own payroll team. A month's pay is prepared by one person, approved by another, then locked.
Your salary structures, not ours
Earnings, deductions and employer contributions are components with formulas that your payroll team sets up and revises by effective date, without a code change.
Statutory rules kept as dated data
Statutory deductions are held as reviewed rule data with the date each version takes effect, so a rate change is a data update, not a software release.
One prepares, another approves
One prepares, another approves. Once approved, the run is locked; a correction is made in the next run.
Everything comes from the locked run
Payslips, the bank advice file and statutory reports are produced from the locked run, so every output matches what was approved.
A full audit trail
Each change records who made it, when and why, and who approved it, so you can explain any figure to an employee or an auditor.
How a month works
The monthly cycle runs in a fixed order. Inputs are locked before payroll reads them, and after the run is locked, nothing changes. A mistake is corrected in the next run.
Step 1: Requests through the month
Employees apply for leave and fix attendance; managers approve or reject.
Step 2: Attendance is locked
HR reviews exceptions and locks attendance, so payroll inputs cannot move.
Step 3: One-off items added
The payroll admin adds bonuses, recoveries and other items for the month.
Step 4: Draft run
Payroll is run as a draft from attendance, leave and salary structures.
Step 5: Review what changed
A variance view shows who changed, by how much and why. Inputs are fixed and the run repeated.
Step 6: Submitted for approval
The run goes to a finance approver, who is a different person from the preparer.
Step 7: Approved and locked
The approver approves or returns it with comments. After lock, nothing changes.
Step 8: Outputs and payslips
The bank advice file and statutory reports are generated, and payslips are published to employees.
Built for trust
These are design commitments from the Trellis security model. They describe how the product is being built, not a certification or an audit result.
Tenant isolation in the database
Every company's data is separated by row-level rules enforced by the database itself, not only by application code.
MFA for administrative roles
Anyone with an administrative role signs in with a second factor.
Access by role and scope
Roles decide what a person can do; scopes decide whose records they can see.
Bank and identity data protected
Bank details and identity numbers are masked by default and protected at the field level.
Immutable audit log
Changes and access to sensitive fields are written to a log that cannot be edited.
Support access needs your consent
Our support staff can see your account only when you allow it: read-only, for a limited time, and recorded in the audit log.
Data kept in India
Built to run in India on infrastructure the client controls.
Who it is for
Each person sees what their role needs, and no more.
- HR
- One accurate record per employee, with policies applied the same way to everyone.
- Payroll
- Run payroll right the first time and explain any figure.
- Finance
- See what changed since last month before you approve, and get a clean bank file.
- Managers
- Approve leave and attendance corrections quickly and see who is out.
- Employees
- Apply for leave, fix a missed punch and download payslips without waiting on HR.
- Auditors
- Read-only evidence of who changed what and who approved it.
Where Trellis is today
Trellis is in development. Roadmap 1 is the first release, being built with a first customer. Later roadmaps follow it; we do not publish dates.
Roadmap 1
In developmentThe MVP on the web: people, attendance, leave, payroll with Indian statutory deductions, self-service, reports and audit. Being built with a first customer.
Roadmap 2
PlannedFull production: expenses, assets, helpdesk, announcements, more payroll (arrears, full and final settlement, loans), self-service signup and billing.
Roadmap 3
PlannedPerformance, recruitment and the Flutter mobile app for employees and managers.
Roadmap 4
PlannedSingle sign-on with your own identity provider.
Questions
Where is our data stored?
Trellis is built to keep data in India, on infrastructure the client controls. Each company's data is isolated from every other company's in the database.
How are statutory changes handled?
Statutory deductions are kept as reviewed rule data with an effective date. When a rate or rule changes, a new dated version is added, so the change does not need a software release.
Can we customise payroll?
Yes. Your payroll team sets up your own salary components, formulas and structures, and revises them by effective date.
Is there a mobile app?
Not yet. The first release is on the web and works on phones through the browser. A mobile app for employees and managers is planned for Roadmap 3.
How do we sign in?
Use Sign in, enter your organisation identifier, and you are taken to your organisation's sign-in page in the Trellis app. This site never asks for your password.
How do we get started?
Talk to us. Trellis is in development and is being built with a first customer.
What does it cost?
Pricing is not published yet. Contact us to discuss it.
Who can see our data?
Only your own users, according to their role and scope. Our support staff can see your data only after you grant consent. That access is read-only, time-limited and recorded.
Talk to us
Ask about the first release, how payroll would be set up for your organisation, or pricing.
Contact details coming soon.