Day one should feel like a welcome, not a form.

Onboardly collects PAN, Aadhaar, bank and PF details before the start date, has the laptop and logins ready, and pairs every new hire with a buddy. So the first morning is coffee and introductions.

Offer signedLaptop assignedMeera · Day 1Buddy coffee, 10:30
4 days
from joining to the first real piece of work. It was eleven before.
6 h 40 min
of paperwork saved per hire, counting HR and the hire together.
0
late PF enrolments across 3,180 joiners this year.
142 teams
in Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai run their joining on Onboardly.

Meera’s fortnight, on one line.

Meera Krishnan accepted an offer from Aruvi Software on 18 August and started on Tuesday 1 September. This is every moment Onboardly touched in between, and what each side of it saw.

What the new hire seesWhat the manager sees
  1. Day −14

    Offer signed

    • CTC ₹14,40,000, split into basic, HRA, PF and bonus
    • Signed on her phone with an Aadhaar OTP
    • Four lines from Harpreet, who will be her manager
    • Signed copy filed, 1 Sep on the team calendar
    • Laptop and account requests raised the same minute
    • Arun Prasad proposed as her buddy — same team, same stack
  2. Day −10

    Paperwork done

    • One list: PAN, Aadhaar, bank, UAN, photo, next of kin
    • Nothing she has already typed is asked for twice
    • A progress bar that finished the same morning
    • A verification state per document, not a folder of scans
    • PF and ESI drafted straight into the payroll run
    • Ready for payroll, nine days before she starts
  3. Day −3

    Laptop and logins

    • Which laptop is coming and where to collect it
    • Wi-Fi, VPN and first-login steps before she travels
    • Email, Slack and GitHub that work on the first try
    • Asset ARV-LAP-238 signed for, ₹68,400 on the register
    • Every account created by IT, with an audit trail
    • A red line on day −1 if anything is still open
  4. Day 1

    First morning

    • A day-one schedule on her phone, hour by hour
    • Her buddy's face and desk number before she arrives
    • Every name on the team learned before lunch
    • Six hellos already on six calendars, buddy confirmed
    • A nudge to anyone who declines the introduction
    • Nothing left to arrange on the morning itself
  5. Day 7, then day 30

    Check-ins

    • Two three-minute pulses, not a fourteen-part survey
    • Her goals for the first month, written down
    • A private box for what is still confusing
    • Her pulse scores beside the Engineering average
    • A probation review drafted from what she actually did
    • A flag if a new hire has not opened Slack in five days

Her first week, hour by hour.

Onboardly writes the week before she arrives, then defends it. Nobody books over the reading block on Wednesday afternoon, and the buddy coffee is on Arun’s calendar, not in his head.

Meera Krishnan
Software engineer, Engineering
Buddy
Arun Prasad
Laptop
ARV-LAP-238
Signed for
₹68,400, 28 Aug
Tue 1 Sep
Day 1
  • 09:30–10:30Welcome desk, ID card, seat · Kavitha Rajan
  • 10:30–11:15Buddy coffee · Arun Prasad
  • 11:30–12:30Laptop handover, first login · Suresh Babu
  • 13:00–14:00Team lunch, Peelamedu
  • 15:00–16:30Six hellos, fifteen minutes each
Wed 2 Sep
Day 2
  • 09:30–10:00Stand-up
  • 10:00–11:30How payroll fits together · Harpreet Kaur
  • 12:00–12:30Form 11 and Form 12B signed · Anitha Joseph
  • 14:00–16:00Dev environment, repo, first build
  • 16:30–17:00Reading time, nobody books over it
Thu 3 Sep
Day 3
  • 09:30–10:00Stand-up
  • 10:00–13:00First ticket: the payslip PDF footer
  • 14:30–15:15Design handover · Ayesha Banu
  • 15:30–17:00Back to the ticket
Fri 4 Sep
Day 4
  • 09:30–10:00Stand-up
  • 10:00–12:00Pairing on the fix · Arun Prasad
  • 15:00–15:30First pull request merged
  • 16:00–16:30Week-one pulse, three minutes
Mon 7 Sep
Day 5
  • 09:30–10:00Stand-up
  • 10:00–11:00Sprint planning, her own two tickets
  • 12:00–12:30Day 7 check-in · Harpreet Kaur
  • 14:00–17:00Payslip support queue, with Arun

Friday, 15:00. Her first pull request merged, on day four. The old average at Aruvi was eleven.

Joining checklistMeera Krishnan · joins Tue 1 Sep8/8PANAABCP4721K, name matched at NSDLAadhaar eKYCOTP at 09:19, address prefilledPhotoCropped for the ID card and SlackSalary accountIOB Peelamedu, ₹1 penny-drop clearedUAN and Form 11UAN 100234567890 linked, signed onceForm 12BApril to August payslips carried overNominee, Form 2Amudha Krishnan, mother, MaduraiEmergency contactTwo numbers, one of them a landlineRelieving letterWith Zoho Corp. Not hers to chase.Ready for payroll · 09:55

One checklist in. Six payroll records out.

Meera answered eight things on the morning of 2 September, between 09:14 and 09:55. Onboardly checked each one against the source it came from and then wrote what payroll actually needs. Nobody at Aruvi has photocopied an Aadhaar card since.

PF member ID drafted
Form 11 signed once, the old UAN linked · 09:34
Tax declaration opened
Form 12B carried April to August across · 09:41
Salary account verified
₹1 penny-drop to IOB Peelamedu cleared · 09:27
ESI decided, not applied
Her gross is above ₹21,000 a month · 09:45
Nominee on file
Form 2, reused for PF, gratuity and insurance · 09:44
Payroll record pushed
Zoho Payroll, September cycle · 09:55

41 minutes, one phone, nothing asked twice.

Everyone knows who is new.

Each new hire gets a buddy from their own team, and the whole company gets a directory with faces, roles and start dates. Nobody has to ask “who’s that?” in the second week.

This week at Aruvi Software in Coimbatore, three people started. Their buddies were booked before they were.

  • Meera Krishnan
    Software engineer · started 31 Aug, day 4
    Buddy Arun Prasad
    9 of 12 done
  • Priya Selvam
    Product designer · started 1 Sept, day 3
    Buddy Ayesha Banu
    7 of 12 done
  • Tariq Ahmed
    Sales associate · started 3 Sept, day 1
    Buddy Deepak Nair
    4 of 12 done

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“We hired 38 people in July for the Peelamedu unit. Not one PF enrolment was late, and every joiner knew their buddy’s name before they knew where the canteen was.”
Lakshmi Venkataraman, Head of People, Aruvi Software, Coimbatore

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