I built SynkPay because I needed it myself, three times over.
Four companies, three countries. The first one taught me how an Indian company is really built and kept compliant. The three after it kept running into the same wall: I wanted to hire someone in India, and employing them properly was harder than finding them.
There were two ways to do that, and both were expensive. So I used the Indian company I already had — Synk Consulting, to employ people for my own companies.
Then founder friends in the same position started asking. I began employing their people the same way, through the same entity. That is what became SynkPay, not a product I set out to build, but the workaround I had already been running for years.
If you are deciding whether to trust us with someone's employment, it is fair to want to know who is behind it. That is what the rest of this page is.
Built companies in
- India
- Australia
- United States
India
Australia
United States- Hiring since
- 2016, building and managing hybrid teams across three countries
- Runs
- Synk Consulting Group Pvt Ltd, the Indian entity behind SynkPay, incorporated 2016
Track record
Four companies, three countries
I founded all four and hired into all of them. India was part of every one for a different reason, and each taught me a different piece of the problem SynkPay now solves.
FreshoKartz
Co-founder & Lead Engineer
How an Indian company actually works
Agri-tech in Jaipur, connecting farmers directly to B2B buyers. This is where I learned how an Indian company is really incorporated and kept compliant — the registrations, the filings, the calendar nobody warns you about. Not a payroll problem yet, but the groundwork for everything after it.
Synk Consulting
Founder
The entity that became the answer
A data-engineering consultancy with an Indian entity and clients in Australia. I put my own people on an Indian payroll for years — provident fund, TDS, state registrations — long before it occurred to me that was a service worth offering. This is the company that employs your hire today.
RosterGrid
Co-founder & CTO
An Australian company, an Indian team
An Antler-backed CRM built in Melbourne, with the hybrid engineering team in India and Australia. Two countries, one payroll problem, and an Australian company with no lawful way of its own to employ the people building the product.
Yuzu Labs
Co-founder & CTO
Third country, same wall
An AI-native video and content platform incorporated in the United States. The engineers I wanted were in India again, and a US company employing them properly meant either an expensive EOR or an entity I had no intention of building.
Four different businesses, four different reasons to hire in India, and the same unsolved problem underneath all of them — with the answer already sitting inside one of them.
The wedge
The three options I had, and why I took none of them
Employing people in India, as a company registered somewhere else, came down to three routes. I priced two of them more than once and ruled out the third on day one.
Option one
Use an international EOR
Priced for enterprise budgets, with an India surcharge and a month of salary held on deposit per person. When I had a real question about provident fund treatment or a state registration, the answer came back slowly, from someone whose India knowledge was thinner than my own.
A premium for less depth than I had. No thanks.
Option two
Incorporate in India again
A fresh private limited company for each new business: incorporation, PAN, TAN, GST, provident fund and ESI registrations, an accountant on retainer and a compliance calendar to keep. Months before the first person could legally start.
Expensive, and slow when hiring was urgent.
Option three
Pay them as contractors
The route most founders take, and the one I never took. A full-time person on a contractor invoice is an employee in everything but paperwork, and I knew Indian payroll law well enough to know what misclassification costs: back contributions, penalties, and a contract that no longer protects the work.
Cheap until it isn't. Never worth the exposure.
The answer was already sitting in my first business.
Synk Consulting was registered, the payroll was running and the ops team on ground was already paid. So my own people went on that payroll, properly employed, provident fund and filings included.
Then other founders asked whether I could do the same for their hires. Once that stopped being a favour and started being a service, it needed a name.
Why this
Why I run this instead of building another product
The product was never what stopped my companies. Employing the people who built it was. Fixing that once, properly, is worth more than shipping another thing that hits the same wall.
It is unglamorous work someone has to be accountable for: payroll right on the day, filings in on time, a person who picks up the phone when something breaks. I would rather run that than sell software that points at it.
My own teams were spread across countries, so I know what being stretched thin costs in each of them. This company employs in the one market I know well enough to answer for.
I wrote more about this for EmployerRecords in July 2026: Three Countries, One Hard Lesson — What I Wish I'd Known Before Hiring Developers in India.
What that means for you
- You are hiring through someone who has been on your side of this, not a platform that added India to a list.
- The entity employing your hire is the one I put my own teams through first.
- Background checks happen before day one, not after. I learned that one the hard way.
What we are for
Make employing someone in India as ordinary as employing someone locally, and make the compliance our problem rather than yours.
The company
Who you are actually contracting with
Registered details
- Legal name
- Synk Consulting Group Pvt Ltd
- CIN
- U74999UP2016PTC188811
- Registered in
- Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh (Delhi NCR)
India
Incorporated in 2016, first for my own businesses and later for other people's. The CIN is public record with India's Ministry of Corporate Affairs, where the full registered office is listed, so you can check us before you sign anything.
Your hire is employed by this company — not by a local partner we sub-contract to, and not by a holding company in another country. That single fact is most of what separates us from the global platforms.
Your hire is employed by us directly, with no third-party partner in the chain.
India only
We employ in India and nowhere else, so it is the whole job rather than one of 150 markets.
Every review, five stars.
What we run
Employer of Record, with recruitment and payroll outsourcing as separate services.
One price per employee per month, at any salary, with no salary deposit held.
Real people, no bots
You and your employee reach us on WhatsApp, phone, slack and email.
Where we hire
We employ across every major Indian technology hub, and into tier-2 cities when a role calls for it. Professional tax, labour welfare fund and state registrations differ in each one, which is a good part of what we do.
- Bangalore
- Hyderabad
- Pune
- Chennai
- Mumbai
- Delhi NCR
- Tier-2 cities on request
How to describe SynkPay
For journalists, directory editors and partners. Approved boilerplate in two lengths. Copy either one as it is — both are kept current with our pricing and registration.
Boilerplate, 50 words
SynkPay is an India employment and payroll specialist. It employs staff in India on behalf of foreign companies through its own Indian entity, Synk Consulting Group Pvt Ltd, incorporated in 2016, handling employment contracts, payroll, provident fund, ESI and every statutory filing for a flat US$349 per employee per month.
Boilerplate, 150 words
SynkPay is an employer of record and payroll provider specialising exclusively in India. It was founded by Nagendra Yadav, who founded four companies across India, Australia and the United States and ran hybrid engineering teams across all three. Unable to justify the cost of international employer-of-record providers or the delay of incorporating in India for each new venture, he employed his own teams through his Indian company, Synk Consulting Group Pvt Ltd, incorporated in 2016, and later extended the same arrangement to other founders. SynkPay employs staff in India through that entity rather than a third-party partner network, taking legal responsibility for employment contracts, payroll, provident fund and ESI registration, professional tax, TDS and every statutory filing. Pricing is a flat US$349 per employee per month at any salary, with no setup fee and no salary deposit, and onboarding completes in one business day. Recruitment for engineering roles and payroll outsourcing are available as separate services, across Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi NCR.
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