Employer of Record India
Every EOR provider can give you a contract and a payroll run. We give you those, the option of a desk at our partner's Bangalore office, and a German-speaking contact who picks up the phone.
From €399/person/month service fee, plus salary and statutory employer contributions.
Not just a contract
Payroll platforms are paper: a contract of record, a monthly run, a dashboard. Three things follow from ours being a company with a floor in Bangalore instead.
A desk, not a kitchen table
Your employee can work from KVC's access-controlled floor in HSR Layout — 30 workstations, a 4K display and a dock at each, enclosed rooms for calls and interviews. Working from home stays their choice rather than the only option on offer.
A German-speaking contact
Lars Krüger, who founded JoinNow, is German and spent 25 years in enterprise software for German companies. When something needs escalating it goes to a person in your language and your working day, not into a ticket queue.
An employer you can look up
KVC issues the contract and runs the payroll, and it is registered at the same address as the desk. Company number and GST number are on public record, and you are welcome to come and see the floor before you sign anything.
Already Have Your Candidate?
Our staff augmentation and dedicated team plans include employment, payroll and full compliance — because we source the talent and KVC employs or contracts them.
Standalone EOR is different: you have already found someone — through your own network, a prior freelance relationship, a referral, or because an employee of yours is moving back to India — and you need a compliant way to employ them there without opening an Indian subsidiary.
KVC becomes the legal employer. We handle everything from contract to payslip, and the person can sit in our office rather than alone at home. You stay in operational control and receive a single monthly invoice in EUR, USD or AED covering our service fee, the agreed salary and the statutory employer contributions.
Flat monthly service fee
€399/person/month
No setup fee. No minimum term. 30 days' notice. Refundable deposit of one month's total charges.
Invoiced in EUR · USD · AED
A flat service fee per person — no setup fee and no percentage of salary. The person's salary and the statutory employer contributions are billed on top, at cost. A workstation at the Bangalore office is a monthly add-on rather than part of the fee, agreed per engagement. A refundable deposit of one month's total charges applies, credited back within 30 days of the last working day.
How It Works
You introduce your candidate
You've found the person — through your own network, a referral, or a previous engagement. Share their details with us.
We issue the employment contract
KVC employs them directly. We handle the contract, statutory registrations (EPF, ESI, PT), and onboarding paperwork.
They get a desk and payroll goes live
A workstation is set up in Bangalore if they want one. We process salary every month, file all statutory contributions and TDS, and handle any deductions or reimbursements.
You receive a single invoice
One line item per employee, billed monthly in EUR, USD, or AED. No Indian tax complexity on your end — we absorb it all.
Who It's For
Your employee is moving home
Someone on your German payroll is relocating to India for family or visa reasons. Rather than losing them, you keep the same person, the same context, and hand the employment to us.
You've found your candidate
Referred by a colleague, met at a conference, or sourced yourself — you just need a compliant way to pay them in India.
You have no Indian entity
Setting up an Indian subsidiary takes months and brings a permanent compliance apparatus with it. EOR gets your hire working this month.
You need clean IP ownership
Every EOR engagement includes an IP assignment clause. All work product belongs to you, unambiguously, from day one.
You want to test before committing
Start with one hire on EOR. If India works out, scale via our staff augmentation or dedicated teams model.
Your contractor should be an employee
A long-running Indian freelancer who works like a team member is the classic false self-employment exposure. Employing them properly removes the argument.
Common Questions
What exactly does the EOR fee cover?
The service fee covers acting as the legal employer in India: the employment contract, payroll run, statutory contributions and filings, and the ongoing HR administration. The person's salary and the statutory employer contributions are billed on top, at cost, so you see what the employment actually costs rather than a bundled rate. A workstation at the Bangalore office is a monthly add-on with its own price, agreed when we scope the engagement — it is not inside the service fee.
Our employee in Germany wants to move back to India. Can you take them over?
Yes, and it is the case this service handles best. Their German employment ends, KVC employs them in India from the following day, and they keep working in your team with a desk in Bangalore. The handover is worth planning a couple of months ahead of the move, mostly because of notice periods rather than anything on our side.
Does the employee have to use the office?
No. The workstation is an option, not an obligation, and plenty of people work from home some or all of the week. What the office changes is that it is available at all — including for onboarding, equipment, interviews and the days when working alone at home stops being productive.
Who is the legal employer, and who directs the work?
The employment relationship sits with KV Consulting Private Limited (KVC) in Bangalore, which carries the statutory obligations as the legal employer. JoinNow FZCO has no Indian entity of its own; it contracts with you and is liable to you for KVC's acts and omissions as for its own. Day-to-day direction of the work sits with you. That split is the point of the model, and it is worth walking your legal team through it early because it is the part procurement asks about most.
Would our own Indian subsidiary be cheaper?
Eventually, at a certain size, and later than most projections assume. A subsidiary is not only a setup cost: it brings a statutory audit every year, annual filings, an India-resident director and transfer-pricing documentation, none of which gets smaller for a two-person team. We have written the comparison out with sources rather than asserting the answer.
How does this differ from staff augmentation?
Sourcing and pricing. Staff augmentation is a single hourly or monthly rate covering the person and everything around them, with us finding the candidate. EOR is a per-person monthly service fee, with salary and contributions passed through at cost, for someone you found yourself.
What happens if the employment has to end?
Indian statutory notice and termination rules apply, and we handle the process as the employer of record. Because the terms depend on the individual contract and the applicable state rules, we confirm them in writing before the person starts rather than leaving it to be discovered later.
Ready to Hire Compliantly in India?
Tell us about your hire and we'll get them onboarded — employment contract, payroll, statutory setup and a desk — within days.
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