How Zuci Systems cut payroll time by 75% with Deel

Zuci Systems built its business around a large team in Chennai and Bangalore, India, and a growing footprint in the US, Canada, and Belgium. India ran on a clear, defined payroll process. Every other location didn't.

Each country meant a different local consultant, a different process, and a different set of rules to track. Varalakshmi Ramasubramanian, Manager, Talent Management, and her team had to coordinate payroll, filings, and compliance separately for every location, since consultants typically covered one function and left the rest to Zuci. As the US and international teams grew, so did the manual work and the risk of missing a compliance requirement the India-based HR team wasn't prepared to catch.

Zuci evaluated ADP, but the cost and service model didn't fit a company of its size, and ADP offered only an escalation matrix rather than a single point of contact. Zuci needed one partner that could run payroll, onboarding, and compliance across every country where it had people, including the ones where it had no legal entity at all.

“We had different consultants for different entities, and it was very difficult to manage everything separately." —Varalakshmi Ramasubramanian, Manager, Talent Management, Zuci Systems

Zuci Systems moved its US team to Deel’s PEO and brought its Canada and Belgium employees onto EOR, consolidating every location outside India onto one Deel platform for payroll, onboarding, and compliance.

The deciding factor was pricing Zuci could work with, paired with a single dedicated relationship manager covering every geography, instead of a different contact for each country. Implementation was straightforward: Zuci supplied entity documents and employee lists, and Deel imported the data and walked the team through every workflow, from adding an employee to running payroll, until the process was second nature.

Day-to-day, payroll inputs, corrections, and reports now run through Deel's portal instead of passing back and forth between Zuci and outside consultants. Employees in the US, Canada, and Belgium can access their own information and raise questions directly, cutting down on requests that used to land on HR. Filings and compliance documentation move on schedule, giving the team confidence they didn't have when compliance sat with multiple regional providers.

“Deel was very seamless. They held our hands until we understood the setup and got everything into shape.” —Varalakshmi Ramasubramanian, Manager, Talent Management, Zuci Systems

Manual payroll work that used to take Zuci's team two full days a month now takes about half a day. Every input, correction, and report lives in one portal, so there's no more juggling spreadsheets between consultants across countries.

Employees handle most of their own questions directly in Deel, freeing the HR team from routine requests and giving Varalakshmi more time for strategic work instead of day-to-day admin. Zuci now treats Deel as its official payroll and EOR partner, and plans to lean on the platform as it expands into new countries.