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Your Sales Team and Your HR Team Are Paying for the Same People Twice

Run payroll, leave, attendance and appraisals in the same platform as your pipeline. One employee record, one login, one flat plan — no separate HRMS bill for the headcount you already have in your CRM.

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HR Teams CRM

Live sample workspace for HR Teams: Payroll with Indian statutory compliance: run monthly pay cycles with PF,.

Open pipeline

42

+12% this month

Follow-ups due

9

5 automated

Response SLA

18m

-34% faster

Automation coverage

76%

Payroll with Indian statutory

1

HR Teams Account

Payroll with Indian statutory compliance: run monthly pay cycles with

Rs. 2.4L

Leave management with live

1

HR Teams Opportunity

Leave management with live balances: define leave types and allocations,

Rs. 1.1L

Attendance and regularisation

1

HR Teams Renewal

Attendance and regularisation: track daily attendance on one grid, flag

Rs. 78K

Performance appraisals with review

1

HR Teams Follow-up

Performance appraisals with review cycles: launch review cycles from reusable

Rs. 3.2L

Quick answer

Is HelloGrowthCRM right for CRM for HR Teams?

Yes. HelloGrowthCRM gives CRM for HR Teams a single system to capture every lead, automate follow-up across phone, WhatsApp, and email, prioritise leads with AI scoring, and forecast revenue — with calling and messaging built in instead of sold as add-ons. It's built for the problems these teams actually hit — like offer-drop is brutal — candidates accept, go silent, and no-show on joining day because nobody stayed in touch for the notice period — rather than generic sales busywork.
  • Payroll with Indian statutory compliance: run monthly pay cycles with PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS applied automatically from statutory settings you configure once, then generate payslips your team opens on their phone
  • Leave management with live balances: define leave types and allocations, let staff apply from mobile, and let managers approve in one tap while balances update automatically — ending the year-end carry-forward argument
  • Attendance and regularisation: track daily attendance on one grid, flag missing punches, and let field teams check in with geo-location from the same app they use to log site visits

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HelloGrowthCRM

Capture. Follow up. Close.

From Enquiry to Customer in One CRMEvery lead captured, followed up and tracked — so nothing goes cold.The path a lead takes inside HelloGrowthCRM, from first enquiry to a repeat customer.
  1. Step 1

    Capture

    Web forms, WhatsApp, calls and ads land in one inbox

  2. Step 2

    Qualify

    AI lead scoring flags who is ready to talk

  3. Step 3

    Assign

    Routed to the right rep automatically

  4. Step 4

    Follow up

    Reminders, sequences and WhatsApp nudges

  5. Step 5

    Track the deal

    Stages, value and next step in the pipeline

  6. Step 6

    Win & retain

    Renewals and repeat business stay on the radar

Every call, message and email is logged on the contact — the history travels with the lead.

One contact record, one pipeline, one clear next step.

01

The hidden cost of running HR and CRM as two separate tools

You pay per seat, twice, for the same team

Most Indian SMEs buy a CRM first and add an HRMS a year later. The problem is that both are billed per user, and it is the same users. Your twenty sales and field staff are already paid seats in your CRM; a standalone HRMS charges you per user a second time for the exact same headcount. HelloGrowthCRM folds payroll, leave, attendance and appraisals into the CRM plan, so you stop paying twice for the people you already have.

Two databases that never agree

When HR lives in one tool and sales in another, an employee's salary and leave sit apart from their targets and pipeline. Finance exports both and reconciles headcount cost against revenue by hand every month. With one platform, salary spend by department sits in the same dashboard as the pipeline it supports — no stitching required.

02

What the switch looks like in practice

A four-step migration most teams finish in a week

First, import the employee directory from your existing HRMS export or payroll spreadsheet — names, roles, departments, joining dates, and salary structures. Second, configure the statutory settings once: PF, ESI, professional tax, and TDS slabs, which then apply automatically to every pay cycle. Third, define leave types and opening balances so staff see accurate numbers from day one. Fourth, run one parallel payroll cycle against your old system to verify the outputs match before switching over. Each module takes 15–30 minutes to configure; the week is spent on verification, not setup. Because employees already use the same app for leads and visits, adoption of leave requests and payslip access is immediate — there is no second login to teach.

Who this fits — and who it does not

The combined platform fits Indian SMEs from roughly 10 to 300 employees where the same people appear in both systems: sales and field teams, service businesses, agencies, and distributors. If you are a 2,000-person enterprise with complex flexi-benefit structures and multi-entity payroll, a dedicated enterprise HRMS remains the right tool. For everyone in between, the arithmetic is simple: one $12/user/month plan (₹899 in India, $10 on annual billing) covering CRM, dialer, WhatsApp, project boards, and HRMS replaces two or three per-seat subscriptions. Compare plans on the pricing page, see the full feature list, or review how the sales side works in the CRM for sales teams guide.

Challenges we solve

Common CRM problems in this industry — and how HelloGrowthCRM solves each one

Every team in this space loses revenue to the same recurring gaps. Each card below states one problem and the specific HelloGrowthCRM capability that closes it.

  • Problem: Offer-drop is brutal — candidates accept, go silent, and no-show on joining day because nobody stayed in touch for the notice period.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Offer-to-joining sequences keep candidates engaged with scheduled WhatsApp check-ins and recruiter tasks across the notice period, catching cold feet early.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Offer-to-joining follow-up

  • Problem: Two consultants submit the same candidate to the same client, and the agency looks amateur while the fee gets disputed.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Duplicate detection flags repeat profiles at entry and every candidate carries one owner, protecting both the fee and the agency's reputation.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Duplicate submission protection

  • Problem: Client requirements arrive on WhatsApp and vanish — three weeks later nobody remembers the JD or who was working it.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Every requirement is a tracked record with owner, stage and candidate matches, so open roles are visible and worked until closed.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Requirement tracking

  • Problem: Interview scheduling is a three-way phone-tag between candidate, client and consultant.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Interviews are scheduled with automatic WhatsApp reminders to both candidate and hiring manager, cutting no-shows on both sides.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Interview scheduling

  • Problem: The owner cannot see per-consultant submissions, interviews and placements without compiling three spreadsheets.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: A live dashboard shows every consultant's funnel — sourced, submitted, interviewed, placed — so coaching and load-balancing run on data.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Consultant performance dashboard

  • Problem: You pay for Naukri and three hundred applications land in an inbox, where the four relevant ones are found the following week.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Portal applicants arrive as candidate records with skills, current CTC and notice period on them, deduplicated against your existing pool and assigned to the recruiter on that mandate.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Job-portal applicant capture

  • Problem: A placement drops in month two, the client invokes the ninety-day replacement clause, and nobody was watching the guarantee window.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: The joining date on the placement record opens a guarantee-window task, so the replacement obligation and its expiry are both visible instead of remembered.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Replacement-window tracking

  • Problem: You bill on joining and get paid in the fourth month, after the client's accounts team asks for the joining confirmation a third time.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Placement triggers the invoice with the joining proof attached and a payment-link reminder cadence, with an ageing view of everything past its credit period.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Placement billing follow-up

  • Problem: The candidate you rejected for one role is exactly right for the one that opens next month, and nobody remembers she exists.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Skills, CTC and last position make the past-candidate pool a searchable segment, so a new mandate starts with a WhatsApp re-approach to people you have already screened.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Candidate pool re-marketing

  • Problem: You have two hundred contract staff deployed and the monthly invoice depends on attendance sheets arriving as WhatsApp photographs.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Attendance, leave and expense claims for deployed staff are captured in the HR module against the client site, so billing and payroll draw on the same record.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Deployed-staff attendance

  • Problem: A client who gave you eight mandates last year has given you one this year, and nobody in the office has noticed because everyone is busy on the mandates you do have.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Client accounts carry last-mandate date and mandates per quarter, so a cooling account shows on the dashboard with a business-development task instead of quietly falling off the book.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Client mandate drift

  • Problem: You worked a mandate for five weeks, the client filled it internally, and the fee percentage everyone remembers differently was never written down.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Terms, fee and exclusivity are fields on the requirement with the confirming email attached before sourcing begins, so five weeks of a recruiter's time is never spent against an undocumented arrangement.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Mandate terms before sourcing

  • Problem: The campus drive is in three weeks, four colleges have to be coordinated, and the whole thing runs on one recruiter's calendar and a WhatsApp group.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Each campus is a scheduled event with its own task board, slot bookings and applicant capture on a QR form, so the drive produces a worked pipeline rather than a stack of forms nobody enters.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Campus drive coordination

  • Problem: The candidate joins on Monday, the background verification is still pending on Thursday, and the client discovers the gap before you do.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Verification is a document checklist on the offer record with owners and due dates, so an incomplete check blocks the joining stage visibly instead of surfacing as a client escalation.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: Pre-joining verification checklist

  • Problem: The candidate cleared three rounds, was told you would get back to her, and heard nothing for eleven days, so she took the other offer and will not respond to your consultants again.

    How HelloGrowthCRM solves it: Every candidate at every stage has an owner and a next action with a due time, and stalled candidates surface on the consultant's board, so silence is an exception you can see rather than the default.

    HelloGrowthCRM capability: No-candidate-in-silence board

What you get

Why teams choose HelloGrowthCRM

AI-powered CRM with the features you need to close more deals.

  • Payroll with Indian statutory compliance: run monthly pay cycles with PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS applied automatically from statutory settings you configure once, then generate payslips your team opens on their phone
  • Leave management with live balances: define leave types and allocations, let staff apply from mobile, and let managers approve in one tap while balances update automatically — ending the year-end carry-forward argument
  • Attendance and regularisation: track daily attendance on one grid, flag missing punches, and let field teams check in with geo-location from the same app they use to log site visits
  • Performance appraisals with review cycles: launch review cycles from reusable templates, collect self and manager ratings, and keep every appraisal on one employee timeline beside their real work output
  • One employee directory: role, department, joining date and salary band live in the same system as leads and deals, so an employee and a sales rep are one record, not two disconnected apps
  • Offer letters with verifiable e-signatures: generate offer and appointment letters, collect native e-signatures, and give every letter a public verification link for background-check vendors
  • Field-level access control: salary and appraisal data is locked behind roles so a sales manager never sees payroll and an HR user never sees deal margins, with every change written to an audit trail
  • Employee self-service on mobile: staff apply for leave, view payslips, mark attendance and track appraisal status from the app, so HR stops being a helpdesk for routine requests
  • Headcount and payroll cost reporting: see salary spend by department and attrition trends in the same dashboards as revenue, giving finance one view of cost against the business it supports
  • One flat bill: HR, payroll, CRM, dialer, WhatsApp and project management on the same Rs.899/user/month plan — no separate Keka or GreytHR per-seat subscription for the same headcount
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Watch it work

CRM for Recruitment: A Pipeline, Not an ATS

CRM for Recruitment: A Pipeline, Not an ATS
A short walkthrough of HelloGrowthCRM for recruitment, staffing and HR.

Key takeaways from this video

  • How recruitment maps onto a sales CRM: client briefs as accounts, mandates as deals, candidates as leads, hiring steps as stages.
  • A dashboard that opens on what is ageing — open roles, stalling candidates and an owner on every item.
  • Candidate records with skills, availability and notice period, plus duplicate detection before resubmitting.
  • Your own hiring stages on one board, from sourced to placed.
  • Booking pages synced to your calendar instead of email back-and-forth.

HelloGrowthCRM by the numbers

$12
per user/month list price — $10/user/mo on annual billing, ₹899/user/mo in India
$0
free forever starter plan — no credit card required
14-day
trial included on paid plans
259+
live integrations, from WhatsApp to Tally and QuickBooks
500+
teams worldwide run their pipeline on HelloGrowthCRM

Frequently Asked Questions

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AI & Intelligence

AI Features Built for HR Teams

HelloGrowthCRM ships 12 AI agents across 3 autonomy levels — from fully autonomous voice calling to assistive smart compose. Every AI action is logged and reversible.

AI Lead Scoring

Score every lead by behaviour, engagement, and fit — so your team always calls the highest-priority prospects first.

Voice Agent

24/7 AI voice agent qualifies inbound leads, books meetings, and follows up on stalled deals automatically.

Smart Compose

Real-time AI writing assist inside every CRM text field — emails, WhatsApp, notes, and proposals.

Deal Risk Monitoring

Detect stalled and at-risk deals before they drop off — automatic alerts when engagement signals decline.

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All AI features included on every paid plan. No add-ons.