Hazir.
A prepaid workforce app for teams that don't sit at desks. Staff clock in, move and finish tasks from a phone. Owners see who is where, what got done and what it cost, from one dashboard.
Owners pay people they cannot see
Field sales, guards, technicians, housekeeping crews and site labour work away from any office. Today their attendance is a WhatsApp selfie, a paper muster roll, or a biometric machine at one gate they never pass.
Ghost attendance
Buddy punching, back-dated registers and "I was there" with nothing to check. Payroll leaks 5 to 12 percent every month, silently.
Unverifiable site visits
A client says the guard was not on post. The rep says the visit happened. Nobody has a timestamped, geo-stamped record to settle it.
Month-end arguments
Timesheets are rebuilt from memory. Overtime, late marks and leave are disputed for days. The owner does payroll math instead of running the business.
The same six seconds, everywhere your staff work
Whatever the uniform, the job is the same: prove you were there, prove what you did. Hazir is built around that one moment, not around any one industry.
Two apps, one codebase, one truth
| Staff | Site | In | Status | Tasks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suresh K. | HQ Andheri | 09:27 | late 27m | 1 / 3 |
| Priya M. | Site A · Powai | 08:58 | on site | 2 / 2 |
| Ramesh T. | Site B · Thane | — | not punched | 0 / 2 |
| Farhan S. | — | — | casual leave | — |
Hazir for staff: PWA, Android, iOS. Hazir Admin for owners and managers. Both built in Flutter from one monorepo, sharing models, theme tokens and seven languages.
Faster than a WhatsApp selfie, and it holds up
Example day · Suresh K.
Shift 09:00–18:00 · what the admin sees
Where the team is, only while on duty
Location is captured between clock-in and clock-out and never outside it. Staff always see an "on duty" indicator and their own trail. That transparency is what makes rollout survive.
last ping 12 s ago · 78%
From "were you there" to "did you finish"
A guard agency can send its client a live link showing which guards are on post right now. Hazir becomes a sales tool for the customer, and the customer's client becomes your next lead.
Face, place and time in one tap, anywhere
A staff member who reaches any location takes one face photo. Hazir stamps it with GPS, server time and address, checks liveness and identity, and files it as a visit. No pre-defined site or task required.
WhatsApp is the second user interface
Owners in this market live on WhatsApp. Hazir meets them there: a daily brief, approvals by reply, nudges for staff. Nothing to learn, nothing to open.
Leave and requests
- Leave types, balances, holiday calendar per site
- Apply and approve from phone or WhatsApp
- Comp-off, half day, short leave Pro
- Shift swaps between staff Pro
Payroll-ready output
- Monthly timesheet: days, hours, OT, late marks, loss of pay
- Muster roll in statutory register layout Pro
- Daily-wage and piece-rate computation Pro
- Export to Excel, Tally, Zoho Payroll, RazorpayX Business
Hazir does not do payroll. It produces the one thing payroll needs and cannot get today: an attendance record nobody argues with.
39 present · 4 late · 2 absent · 3 on leave
Not yet punched: Ramesh T. (Site B), Anita D. (HQ)
Yesterday: 412 hours logged, 6 tasks pending09:30
Farhan S. · casual leave · Mon 8 Sep · 1 day
Balance after: 4 CL
Reply YES to approve, NO to reject09:41
Four roles, one dashboard, every change on record
Owner
- Wallet, recharges, plan
- Sites, shifts, policies
- All reports and exports
- Branding and API keys
- Full audit log
Admin
- Add and deactivate staff
- Devices and unbinding
- Regularisations and leave
- Announcements
- Reports for all teams
Manager
- Own team only
- Live map and today view
- Assign and verify tasks
- Approve leave and punches
- Team timesheets
Staff
- Clock in and out
- See own attendance and trail
- Tasks with photo proof
- Apply for leave
- Read notices
Reports
Punctuality score, absenteeism trend, site utilisation, task completion rate, overtime by team.
Policies per team
Punch method, selfie on or off, geofence strictness, grace minutes. Rules are data, not code.
Audit and white-label
Every admin change logged with before and after. Logo, colours and subdomain per organisation.
Nobody wins on "we also have geofencing"
Prepaid, not subscription
No card, no monthly commitment, no invoice chasing. Recharge ₹2,000 like a phone. Removes the objection owners have from every other SaaS.
Pay only for staff who worked
Daily metering on active staff. A contractor with 60 people in season and 15 off-season is never overcharged.
Offline and cheap-phone first
Punches, tasks and photos queue locally and sync. Fast on a 2 GB Android phone, which is where the staff are.
Tracking staff accept
Shift hours only, visible indicator, own trail visible. Transparency is the feature that makes rollout survive week two.
Anti-fraud stack
Mock-location and root detection, one bound device, selfie liveness, geofence plus Wi‑Fi cross-check. Buddy punching is the number one churn reason elsewhere.
Partners sell it
A reseller wallet lets CA firms and HR consultants recharge for clients and keep a margin. They already sit on the customer list.
Per active staff, per day, from a prepaid wallet
Free forever up to 5 staff on Basic. ₹500 signup credit. Bonus credit is non-refundable; paid credit is refundable pro rata for 30 days. WhatsApp messages, SMS OTPs and face checks are metered add-ons from the same wallet.
Pay on apie.tech, credited in Hazir within seconds
Owner taps Recharge
Picks a pack. Hazir creates a pending recharge with a signed reference and hands off to the payment page.
POST /wallet/recharges → ref HZ-8213-0917Payment on apie.tech
The APIE payments page shows org name, pack and amount, and runs the checkout: UPI, cards, net banking via Razorpay; Stripe for international.
apie.tech/pay?ref=HZ-8213-0917Signed callback to Hazir
On payment success apie.tech calls the Hazir API with the reference, amount and gateway payment id, signed with a shared HMAC secret. Retried until acknowledged.
POST /billing/callback · X-SignatureLedger entry, wallet credited
Hazir verifies the signature, checks the reference is still pending, writes recharge and bonus rows to the append-only ledger, and pushes the new balance to the dashboard.
wallet_ledger · idempotent on payment idWhatsApp and email to owner. Banner in admin. Auto-recharge if enabled.
Grace. Everything works, balance goes negative and settles on next recharge.
Admin read-only. Staff still clock in and out; punches are stored.
Staff app read-only too. Exports always work. Nothing is ever deleted.
Serverless edge, one cost line, no servers to babysit
A 100-staff Pro organisation pays about ₹6,000 a month. Its share of Cloudflare usage is under ₹200. WhatsApp is the only real variable cost, which is why it is metered. Gross margin above 85 percent before support.
Surveillance staff tolerate and the law permits
Consent and law
Anti-fraud layers
Revenue after phase one, a plan tier per phase
Foundation and paid attendance
- Monorepo, tokens, layout shell, CI
- Control-plane D1, tenant shard, onboarding, roles
- Clock in/out, geofence, offline, PWA and Android
- Today view, staff, sites, shifts, timesheet export
- Wallet, apie.tech recharge, daily metering, degrade ladder
- WhatsApp daily brief
Movement and tasks
- Native background tracking, live map, route replay
- Tasks with proof, recurring tasks, push
- Leave, regularisation, face match, kiosk
- iOS release
- Punctuality, absenteeism, muster roll reports
Business plan and partners
- Expenses, mileage, payroll exports, audit log
- API, webhooks, white-label, subdomains
- Client-shareable live links
- Reseller wallet and partner console
- Stripe for international, 7 languages
Scale and moat
- Shard splitting, R2 archiving, anomaly reports
- SSO, shift marketplace, fatigue alerts
- Tally, Zoho, RazorpayX integrations
- Insurance and ESIC partnerships
Who's in, where, doing what.
Answered every morning.
Hazir is designed as a product from day one: multi-tenant, prepaid, partner-resellable, and hosted on infrastructure with a near-fixed cost. Phase one puts the first paying organisation on the platform in ten weeks.