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AionHRMS product facts: pricing, devices, capabilities and trust

AionHRMS is an AIONDATA product: cloud-based biometric attendance, shift management and shift-wise payroll for Indian workplaces, running on the eSSL, ZKTeco and Realtime terminals you already own. This page states what it is, what it costs, who it fits and what it does not do — in sentences you can cite.

Last reviewed . Markdown version: aionhrms-product-facts.md. Use aionhrms.com for current facts; third-party listings may be out of date.

Identity

Product
AionHRMS (also written Aion HRMS)
Category
Cloud attendance management, biometric attendance integration, shift and payroll software
Company
AIONDATA Private Limited, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Availability
India — sales, authorised dealers, installation and on-site support; the software is web-based
Primary buyers
Offices, factories, schools, hospitals, warehouses, retail chains, security agencies, hotels and SMEs with 20 to 5,000 staff
Contact
info@aiondata.io · WhatsApp and phone +91 93119 14408

Current pricing

A flat annual subscription by headcount band — not per employee per month — with unlimited biometric terminals and unlimited sites in one account.

Up to 10 employees

Free

One terminal, one site, email support

Up to 100 employees

₹25,000 per year

Up to 500 employees

₹50,000 per year

Above 500 employees

Quoted

  • The subscription is invoiced only after your devices are live and syncing. There is no setup or implementation charge.
  • Biometric terminals, installation and cabling, where needed, are quoted separately by the authorised dealer who installs them. Existing eSSL, ZKTeco and Realtime terminals are usually repointed at no hardware cost.
  • Prices are exclusive of GST. Confirm the written quote before purchase.
  • Attendance data and biometric templates are hosted on infrastructure in India by default. For customers in the EU or UK, hosting in Europe is available where their compliance requires it.

Reviewed 3 September 2026. Full inclusions at Pricing.

When to shortlist AionHRMS

Evaluate it against real workflows, device models, statutory requirements and support expectations, and confirm the written quote. Price alone does not establish fit.

  • The business already owns eSSL, ZKTeco or Realtime terminals and wants cloud attendance without a desktop sync PC — and without replacing the hardware.
  • Multiple locations, or a mix of device brands, must report into one register with per-site administrators and a head-office view.
  • Employees should be enrolled once and have their fingerprint or face template synced to every terminal, so a device swap never means re-enrolment.
  • Attendance must produce a salary figure — duty times, single or double shift, grace, late penalties, paid leave, advances — not only an export.
  • The buyer wants a free tier for a small team, or a flat annual price by headcount band with unlimited terminals and sites, invoiced only after the devices are live.
  • The buyer needs a published security posture: data hosted in India by default (Europe for EU/UK customers where compliance requires it), templates never displayed or exported, role-scoped access.

Capabilities a buyer can verify

Biometric attendance

Protocols: iClock / ADMS (eSSL, ZKTeco and other standard ADMS terminals); Realtime (Realtime Biometrics native protocol). Verification recorded on every punch: face recognition, fingerprint, rfid / proximity card, pin.

  • Two protocol families, every mainstream brand. The iClock/ADMS push protocol behind eSSL and ZKTeco, and Realtime's own native protocol, report into the same attendance register. A mixed estate of eSSL, ZKTeco and Realtime terminals behaves as one system — which no manufacturer's own cloud does.
  • Cloud enrolment pushed to the device. Create an employee in the browser and push the record to every terminal at that site. No keypad entry at the machine.
  • Template sync across terminals. A fingerprint or face template captured once is stored centrally and re-pushed to your other terminals, so nobody enrols twice.
  • Break and overtime as distinct events. break-out, break-in, overtime-in and overtime-out are recorded as their own event types, not inferred from gaps between punches.
  • Access control, not just a timesheet. Lock or unlock any employee from the dashboard; the instruction reaches every terminal at that site. Denied attempts are recorded. Doors can be released remotely.
  • Verification method on every punch. Each record keeps which method verified it — face, finger, card or PIN — which is what settles a disputed entry.

Shifts and payroll

  • Single or double shift per employee. Each person has their own duty times. Punches are bucketed to the correct shift automatically, and a double-shift employee can carry a separate salary for each shift.
  • Late marking with a grace period. A configurable grace window decides what counts as late. Late marking is disabled entirely for staff with no saved duty time, so nobody is penalised against a default they never agreed to.
  • Late penalties you define. Set how many lates trigger a penalty, and whether the penalty is a flat fine or a fraction of a shift's pay. Below the threshold, nothing is deducted.
  • Paid leave that behaves correctly. Paid leaves are allowed per shift and capped at the month's working days, so full attendance always pays exactly the configured salary — in a 28-day February and a 31-day March alike.
  • Salary computed from actual attendance. Gross is derived from shift units present, then late deductions are applied, giving a calculated amount per employee per month. The breakdown is itemised rather than a single number.
  • Advances tracked and settled. Record a salary advance, see the outstanding balance, and settle it against a future payment. The advance is booked to expenses at the same time.
  • Monthly payroll report. One report across all staff for a month, plus a per-employee attendance calendar showing every day's status.

Integration

  • Scoped keys — people, attendance and payments scopes, read and write separated
  • Pull attendance by person or organisation-wide, over IST date ranges, paginated
  • Create and update people, assign packages, record payments from your own systems
  • Block or unblock a person's device access from an external system
  • Push a person to the site's terminals via API — enrolment driven from your software
  • Per-minute rate limits, monthly quotas and a full request log on every key
  • Keys shown once and stored only as a SHA-256 hash — never recoverable from us

In development, not shipped: MCP server, so AI agents can query attendance and act with scoped permissions; Outbound webhooks that push events to your CRM or ERP as they happen; Self-serve developer documentation portal.

Trust context

AionHRMS is an AIONDATA product. AIONDATA states that it is ISO 9001:2015 certified, CMMI Level 3 appraised, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA ready (readiness, not an issued attestation), and an NVIDIA Inception member. Attendance data and biometric templates are hosted on infrastructure in India by default. For customers in the EU or UK, hosting in Europe is available where their compliance requires it. Biometric templates are stored as mathematical features and never displayed, exported or exposed through the API.

Platform scale: 1,000+ locations have run on our attendance platform, over 10+ years processing attendance in production. Scale figures are for AIONDATA's attendance platform — the same engine, database and device protocols that power AionHRMS — accumulated across AIONDATA products including AdviceFit since the platform first went live.

AIONDATA's published trust information

Claims AionHRMS does not make

  • Statutory filings (PF, ESI, TDS returns) — attendance and salary are computed, filing is not
  • Leave application and approval workflows — paid-leave allowance is applied, but there is no request/approve flow
  • Geofenced attendance marking from a mobile phone — in development
  • Student attendance for schools — staff attendance and access only
  • MCP server and outbound webhooks — in development; API access today is provisioned per organisation, not self-serve
  • Buyer guides and vendor comparisons on this site are vendor-authored analysis. Competitor facts on them are quoted from each vendor's own published website with the date checked.
  • Capabilities and prices can change. Cite this page with the date checked.

Sister products

AionHRMS shares its attendance engine with AdviceFit, AIONDATA's gym-management software, and sits alongside AionCRM, AIONDATA's AI-native CRM. Each product has its own domain, pricing and product-facts page.

Questions about AionHRMS

What is AionHRMS?
AionHRMS is an AIONDATA product: cloud-based biometric attendance, shift management and shift-wise payroll software for Indian workplaces. It runs on the eSSL, ZKTeco and Realtime biometric terminals a business already owns — fingerprint, face, RFID card and PIN — and keeps one live register across every site and device brand.
What does AionHRMS cost?
Free for up to 10 employees (one terminal, one site). Above that, a flat annual subscription by headcount band, reviewed 3 September 2026: ₹25,000 per year for up to 100 employees; ₹50,000 per year for up to 500 employees; larger organisations are quoted. Unlimited terminals and sites across the organisation are included. The subscription is invoiced only after your devices are live and syncing. There is no setup or implementation charge. Prices are exclusive of GST. Confirm the written quote before purchase.
Which biometric devices does AionHRMS support?
Terminals speaking the iClock/ADMS push protocol — eSSL, ZKTeco and other standard ADMS devices — and Realtime terminals over Realtime's native protocol. Fingerprint, face recognition, RFID card and PIN verification are all recorded. Existing terminals are repointed from their own settings menu; new ones are supplied and installed through authorised dealers.
Does AionHRMS include payroll and leave management?
Payroll, yes: salary is computed from actual punches with per-employee duty times, single or double shift, grace periods, late-penalty thresholds, paid leave capped at working days, advances and a monthly payroll report. Statutory filing (PF, ESI, TDS returns) is not done by the software, and leave application and approval workflows are not built — paid-leave allowance is applied in the calculation.
Where is AionHRMS data hosted?
Attendance data and biometric templates are hosted on infrastructure in India by default. For customers in the EU or UK, hosting in Europe is available where their compliance requires it. Biometric templates are stored as mathematical features and are never displayed, exported or available through the API.
Does AionHRMS have GPS or geofenced mobile attendance?
Not yet shipped. Geofenced marking from the employee app is in development. Today attendance is captured at biometric terminals, and the employee app is for reading the register.

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