You found the right person. They live in Pune, or Bengaluru, or Kochi. Now every option in front of you looks like overkill or a compromise. Here is the honest map.
Why you should not incorporate for a team of three
An Indian subsidiary is a federal corp’s worth of paperwork, twice: incorporation, resident director requirements, a chartered accountant, statutory audits, annual filings, GST, and a bank account that takes longer to open than the company did. Months of setup, recurring cost forever. For 20 people, maybe. For 1 to 5, the overhead competes with the salaries. An employer of record gives you the same legal employment without the company. Your hire can be on payroll this week.
Your freelancer wants to be an employee. Let them.
If you already work with someone in India on invoices, you have probably heard the hints. Freelancers in India struggle to get home loans without payslips. They want EPF building, a Form 16 at year end, an employment letter a bank believes. Companies lose good people over this, quietly, to employers who offer it. Converting them through an EOR is a retention move: same person, same work, and now a reason to stay.
The math, since pricing should be public
The biggest EOR platforms list around $599 per employee per month. For a hire at Rs. 1,00,000 CTC, that fee is more than a third of the salary. Omnivoo starts at $99 per employee per month, plus a 0.4% transaction fee on the invoice. Zero setup, zero exit charges. Full pricing is on our site. No sales call needed to see it.
India compliance, handled by people who only do India
EPF. ESI. Professional tax. TDS. Gratuity. State-specific rules. The new labour codes. You should not have to learn any of this, and with us you do not: India is the only country we do, so the depth is the product. Payslips go out monthly, filings happen on time, and your employee gets a self-serve portal for every document.
USD billing, no FX games
You are billed in US dollars. Salary converts at the live market rate with zero FX margin from us, and every fee sits as its own line on the invoice. Your finance lead will check. They should.
PIPEDA and IP, answered before you ask
A DPA is ready for signature, built for PIPEDA. Every employment contract assigns IP to you and carries confidentiality and non-solicit terms as standard. The questions your lawyer will ask are already in the paperwork.
And when you call, a founder answers
IST is 9.5 hours ahead of Toronto. Your evening is their morning. Work hands off overnight and comes back done. You talk to the people who run the company, not a ticket queue.
See your exact monthly invoice
Enter a salary below and see the full monthly invoice: the salary conversion, the platform fee, and the 0.4% transaction fee, each on its own line. Or book 15 minutes with us. Full pricing is on the pricing page, and here is how it works for employers.
Employing in India works the same wherever you are. Read the guide for hiring from Ireland or hiring from the Netherlands.