Petpooja has been building software for Indian businesses since 2011, and the product many of them open every morning has changed its name. Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) is the same attendance and payroll system, from the same team, on the same account.
The short answer, if you already use it: nothing about your setup changes. Your login works, your devices keep punching, your employee history is intact, and your salary run sits exactly where it was. What is different is the name on the dashboard and the address of the website, which is now attendohr.com.
This post covers what moved, what did not, why the name changed, and the few places you will actually notice it.
Key Takeaways
In short: Petpooja Payroll was renamed Attendo in August 2026. It is the same product, the same team and the same data, used by more than 40,000 businesses. Logins, devices, employee records, pricing and support carry over untouched. The website moved to attendohr.com. Nothing needs reinstalling, re-enrolling or buying again.
What Changed in the Attendo Rename and What Did Not
The rename touches the label rather than the machinery underneath it. Here is the split, side by side.
| What now carries the Attendo name | What stays exactly as it was |
|---|---|
| The product name, on the dashboard and in the apps | Your login ID and password |
| The website, which is now attendohr.com | Employee data, punch history and payslips already generated |
| The Admin app listing on the Play Store and App Store | The devices already mounted at your branches |
| The Employee app listing on the Play Store and App Store | What you pay, and the date you renew |
Support is on that second list too. The same Petpooja team answers, on the same 24×7×365 cover, including on salary-processing days. Nothing in the second column needs an action from you. The official rename note carries the same confirmation in writing. Keep it handy for the month when an auditor or a new colleague asks why the dashboard name does not match last year’s paperwork.
Why Did Petpooja Payroll Change Its Name to Attendo?
A rename usually signals a change of ownership or a change of direction. This one signals something simpler: the product outgrew the name it started with.
Petpooja Payroll was built for restaurant owners. It solved a restaurant problem first, which was managing attendance, shifts, leaves and payroll without manual work and month-end confusion.
Then businesses outside food and beverage began reaching out. Retail shops, factories, offices and educational institutes were describing the same problems: manual attendance, complicated salary calculations, limited visibility, and systems that were hard to run.
That made one thing clear. The problem being solved was much bigger than F&B. The product needed a name that could grow beyond where it started, and describe what it had actually become.
The Daily Use That Outgrew the Name
There was a second shift underneath the first one. Payroll runs once a month, but attendance runs every day, on every shift, for every person. In a factory, the register at the gate fills up long before anyone opens a salary sheet. The same holds true at a hotel front desk or in a school staff room.
For most customers the software was never a month-end tool they opened once and closed again. Over time it grew to cover the whole working day, ending with the attendance to salary run at month end.
“Payroll was only the last five minutes of a job that begins every morning. Our goal is clear: to build the one system every business can rely on to run its entire workday.”
Apurv Patel and Parthiv Patel, co-founders, Petpooja
Attendo carries both halves of that story. The About Attendo page sets out the name origin in full and puts the count at more than 40,000 businesses.
What Existing Attendo Customers Need to Do
The honest answer is nothing. There are five things worth checking once, so you know where they sit now.
- Your login. The same ID and password open the dashboard. There is no reset, no migration step and no new account to create.
- Your devices. A Biometric, Biometric Pro or Face Scanner already mounted at your branch keeps punching against the same records. Nobody has to re-enrol fingerprints or faces.
- The apps. Your installed apps keep working. On the Play Store and App Store, the Admin and Employee apps have been renamed to Attendo Admin App and Attendo Employee App. Search for Attendo when you set up a new phone.
- Your renewal. The date and the amount stay as they were, and the dashboard still shows the 30-day countdown before expiry.
- Your reports. Payslips, the Bank Transfer Report and the Muster Report sit under the same menus they always did.
If something on your screen looks genuinely new rather than merely renamed, the 2026 product updates are a better place to check than the rename announcement.
What Attendo Covers Today
The rename is a reasonable moment to restate the scope, because plenty of people still think of this as the payroll thing from Petpooja.
Attendo holds the full run from a punch at the door to a credited salary:
- Attendance through fingerprint, NFC card, face recognition, an on-screen passcode, or a mobile punch with photo and geofence
- Shifts and rosters covering 9 to 5, rotating, overnight and 24-hour timings
- Leaves, holidays and multi-level approvals
- Payroll on monthly, daily, weekly and hourly cycles inside one organisation
- Settlements for loans, advances and arrears, deducted inside the salary run
- Compliance for PF, ESIC, Professional Tax, TDS and LWF
- Reports, including the Muster Report and the Bank Transfer Report
Devices, Apps and Speed
Three devices and three apps cover the hardware and mobile side of that, and the Employee App runs in 11 Indian languages, which decides whether front-line staff use it at all on a shop floor where English is not the working language. The full feature list goes deeper on each of those. If your staff work with gloves, oils or wet hands, the face recognition device is the one to read about.
The speeds behind that matter more at a gate than they do on paper. A recognised employee clocks in at 0.03 seconds, and a punch reaches the dashboard in under two seconds in typical conditions. Those margins are what keep a line moving during the morning rush. A typical business on Attendo saves more than 40 hours a month on work once done by hand.
Which Industries Use Attendo?
Manufacturing units and corporate offices are the two largest groups, which tends to surprise people who know Petpooja mainly through restaurants.
Hospitality, retail and education follow. In practice, four very different businesses run the same software: a fabrication unit in Rajkot, a diagnostic lab chain in Pune, a garment showroom in Coimbatore, a coaching institute in Indore. The rules sitting behind each one are different.
Take a two-shift fabrication unit in Rajkot that grows from 40 workers to 95 across one season (an example). The roster, the overtime buffer and the wage register all have to keep up inside the same month, without anyone rebuilding a spreadsheet on the 30th. That kind of load is what the manufacturing setup is configured around.
Does the Rename Affect Payroll Compliance?
No, it does not, and that is worth stating plainly because it is the first question finance teams ask.
Your statutory registrations belong to your business, not to your software vendor. The establishment codes you hold with EPFO and ESIC, your employees’ UANs, and the ECR file you upload each month all sit with the government. A vendor changing its brand name has no bearing on any of them.
Inside the product, the five deductions Attendo handles (PF, ESIC, Professional Tax, TDS and LWF) run on the formulas you already configured. Payslip formats, the statutory breakup and the Muster Report are untouched by the rename.
If you happen to be rebuilding your registers anyway, these wage register formats are a sensible starting point. The Ministry of Labour and Employment publishes the rules those registers have to satisfy.
Conclusion: Same Product, New Name
A name change is usually the least interesting thing about a product. This one earns five minutes of your attention only because the old name had started doing a poor job of describing what the product had grown into.
For anyone already using it, the summary is short. Same login, same devices, same data, same team, same renewal, with a new name and a new address.
If you have not looked at the product since it was the payroll tool from Petpooja, the Attendo site is the place to start.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Attendo is built and supported by Petpooja, the same team that has been serving Indian businesses since 2011. Only the product name changed, not the ownership or the people answering your calls. Support stays at 24×7×365, including on salary-processing days. The Attendo FAQ page covers the account-level questions in more detail.
No. Your renewal date and amount stay as they were. The pricing model is unchanged: a flat annual software fee, with no per-employee charges and no tier gating on features. The reasoning behind that model is set out in the flat versus per-employee pricing comparison.
In some cases, yes. Attendo can integrate with select non-Attendo attendance devices on a case-by-case basis, which is aimed at businesses holding on to a recent purchase from another supplier. Package purchases still include an Attendo device.
No. Attendo does not share data or logins with POSS, Petpooja Invoice or Petpooja Tasks. Each runs as a standalone product with its own account, so a change in one has no effect on the others.
Only that the app has a new name. Their leave balances, payslip history and attendance records carry over as they are. The Employee App still signs them in through a WhatsApp OTP, with SMS as the fallback. For staff using the app in Marathi, Tamil or Odia, the language setting stays as they left it.
The rename is not, but the gap between the two methods might be. A written register cannot flag a missed punch-out or hold four shift patterns at once, which is where most month-end arguments start. The manual payroll comparison walks through the same job at 20 employees on a spreadsheet and at 50 across multiple locations, which is where the difference shows.
