People · Self-Service
VanVed vs greytHR ESS
for Self-Service
Why businesses choose VanVed over greytHR ESS
Where the two overlap, VanVed is cleaner and cheaper: the change request captures the old and the new value, refuses self-approval and writes to a dedicated personal-details record, and expense claims are included rather than being an add-on until the top plan. The HR inbox merges pending profile changes and attendance corrections into one queue.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | greytHR ESS |
|---|---|---|
| Payslip view and download | Yes — PDF on web and mobile | Yes, including bulk export across a date range |
| Income tax declaration and proof submission | None — no declaration, no investment proof upload anywhere in payroll | Yes, a headline ESS feature |
| Letter requests (confirmation, address proof, increment) | None | Yes — issued letters are held in the portal and employees can request more |
| Personal detail change with approval | Yes — seven fields including PAN, bank account and IFSC, format-validated, self-approval blocked | Yes |
| Attendance regularisation | Yes — manager or admin approves and the attendance record is written on approval | Yes |
| Expense / reimbursement claim | Yes, included | Yes, but an add-on below the Premium plan |
| Delegate your approvals while you are away | Yes, through the Approvals module — you set your own dated cover and the delegate is added to the step alongside you | Yes |
| Mobile self-service | Partial — leave, payslips, attendance and notifications; profile changes and regularisation are web only | Yes, full ESS app |
Where greytHR ESS is ahead of us today
greytHR's ESS is built around the Indian salary year and VanVed's is not. There is no income tax declaration, no investment proof upload and no letter request or letter archive — three of the things an Indian employee opens an ESS portal to do. Delegating your approvals while you are away is the one item on this list that has since been built, and it lives in the Approvals module rather than in ESS.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, greytHR ESS may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Self-Service module does
- My HR
Employees can update their own profile from one place.
- Attendance corrections
Employees can request a correction instead of asking HR to fix it manually.
- Leave requests
Submit leave requests from the same portal.
- HR inbox
HR admins see and approve every request in one inbox.