Truein is a respectable attendance product for Indian SMBs, phone-based face attendance, geofencing and shift management. Where it falls short for the typical Indian SMB is per-user-per-month pricing that scales with headcount, and an attendance-only scope that leaves payroll, leave and expense to a separate stack. If those are your gaps, WappBlaster is a full-suite alternative with a public tier table, see the side-by-side vs Truein comparison for the detailed breakdown.
When Truein works well
Truein is a good fit if you (a) only need attendance, not payroll, (b) have a stable, predictable headcount, (c) already have a separate payroll vendor you like, and (d) value Truein's specific UI patterns and reporting style.
When a published-tier suite is better
- Growing headcount. Per-user pricing raises the bill every hire; WappBlaster's office attendance tiers (from ₹2,100/year for 7 staff) plus field rates are listed up front on the pricing page.
- Need payroll + attendance together. Adding a separate payroll vendor doubles the SaaS bill and creates the re-entry problem WappBlaster's attendance-based payroll exists to solve.
- Multi-country (India + UAE). WappBlaster ships both India statutory (PF/ESI/PT/TDS) and UAE WPS + gratuity in one product.
- Field workforce. WappBlaster includes field tracking with anti-spoof, geofenced visits and DSR forms, Truein is attendance-only.
Pricing, quick sanity check
50-employee SMB on a per-user vendor at Rs. 100/user/month = Rs. 60,000/year. The same headcount on WappBlaster follows the published office attendance tier table (starting from ₹2,100/year for 7 staff, with tiered adds as you grow), run your exact numbers there; the gap versus per-seat attendance is usually large for multi-dozen headcount. At 200 employees, per-user math is Rs. 2.4 lakh/year at the same Rs. 100/user/month assumption, while WappBlaster still keys off the same public table rather than a universal per-user rate.
Migration from Truein
Standard migration: 5-7 days. (1) Export employee master + attendance history CSV from Truein. (2) Upload to WappBlaster; geofences and shifts configured. (3) Parallel attendance week. (4) Cut-over on the 1st of the next payroll month. Free onboarding call handles the whole process.
Feature parity check
Everything Truein does for attendance, WappBlaster does, selfie + GPS, face liveness, geofence, multi-shift, kiosk mode, manager dashboards, offline-first sync. Plus the full payroll + leave + expense + reports + field-tracking suite. See the full side-by-side at WappBlaster vs Truein.
Put this into production today
WappBlaster Attendance Suite ships everything described in this guide on published tiers: attendance bundles from ₹2,100/year (7 staff), field per-user from ₹180/month, with a free onboarding call and a 3-day trial (no credit card). See pricing · See the full product or start the free trial.
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