No setup fee, no card, no per-head charge to find out whether it works for you. Create a workspace and run a real month.
Merik is free to start. You can create a company workspace at no cost, invite every employee with unlimited self sign-up, and use employee management, attendance, leave and work-from-home, daily task tracking, monthly payroll and payslips, clients, projects, quotes and invoices, and asset tracking.
There is no setup fee and no card required. If you want the workspace configured around your existing data instead of setting it up yourself, that is what the second option below is for.
For teams replacing spreadsheets today
No card required · under 5 minutes
For teams that want it set up for them
We'll scope it against your team size
Nothing here is held back behind a tier. The paid conversation is about setup effort, not about unlocking features.
| Employees | Directory, departments, designations, per-employee detail pages, document emailing, login provisioning, offboarding with last-working-day and restore |
|---|---|
| Attendance | Geolocated check-in and check-out, daily grid, admin edits, late-mark and half-day rules, monthly summaries |
| Leave & WFH | Date-range requests, approval flow, paid vs unpaid tracked separately, holiday calendar feeding attendance and payroll |
| Payroll | Monthly compute and save, auto-fill from CTC plus attendance, salary and hike history, payslip generation and email — single or bulk |
| Daily tasks | Task log with client, project, time spent, status, blockers and proof links; filtering, search, pagination, CSV export |
| Task insights | Monthly tracker, analytics across the log, local time estimation from your own history, project intelligence with per-project drill-down |
| Clients & billing | Client records with auto-derived codes, projects per client, line-item quotes, quote → invoice conversion, printable output |
| Assets & software | Hardware register with assignment history, software seats or per-user access, monthly spend per tool |
| Performance | Monthly reviews grounded in the employee's own task log and attendance |
| Employee self-service | Own dashboard, attendance marking, leave and WFH requests, task logging, personal notes and to-dos, own payslip downloads |
| Security | One isolated workspace per company, enforced by row-level security in Postgres; server-side payroll computation; role-scoped access |
Plenty of software says "free" and means a trial that expires, or a plan so limited it cannot run a real month. Ours means something narrower and more useful: you can create a workspace, put your whole team in it, and complete a full payroll cycle without paying anything.
That is deliberate. Workforce software is only judged properly at month-end — when attendance has to become payable days and payable days have to become payslips. A trial that ends on day 14 never reaches the part that matters, so it tells you nothing about whether the tool works for your business.
We would rather you run one real month, decide from evidence, and then talk to us about setup help if you want it. If it does not fit your team, you will know within a month and you will not have paid for the privilege of finding out.
If you are still weighing this up, the ROI calculator will tell you what your current month-end admin costs — using your numbers, not ours.
Merik is free to start. You can create a company workspace at no cost, invite your whole team with unlimited employee self sign-up, and use employee management, attendance, leave, daily task tracking, payroll and payslips. There is no setup fee and no card required to begin.
No. Employee self sign-up is unlimited on the free workspace, so you can bring your whole team in rather than paying per head to find out whether the product works for you.
No. Creating a workspace requires no card and no payment details. You sign up, name your company, and start recording attendance the same day.
No. Setting the workspace up yourself is free and takes under five minutes — the three steps are here. If you would rather we configure it around your existing data — departments, designations, CTC, holiday calendar, leave policy, asset registers — talk to us and we will scope that with you.
It stays yours. Employees, attendance, leave, payroll history and the task log can be exported, and the task log has CSV export built in. We would rather you be able to leave than feel trapped, because a tool you cannot leave is a tool you stop trusting. What else to ask any HR vendor →
The optional AI layer is off unless it is enabled for your workspace. It drafts performance summaries and quotes for a human to edit, and it is gated per feature and per company with a monthly call cap. Every core feature works with AI switched off entirely. Where AI actually helps in HR →
Yes, and the safe way is to run one month in parallel before switching off the old sheets. We wrote up a week-by-week plan for exactly this — the 30-day migration plan — including what to migrate, what to leave in an archive, and why you should always cut over at a month boundary.
Create your company workspace today and bring employees, attendance, leave, payroll and tasks together.