A one-time licence fee
You pay once for the software and it is yours to run. There is no per-seat rent to keep paying for as long as you use it, and no renewal that has to clear before you can log in on Monday.
Own it.Don’t rent it.
There are a lot of reasons companies choose Darcio, but they all trace back to one decision we made early: build software worth owning, and price it that way. Here’s what that actually means for you.
01What you own
You own the software,
not a login to it.
Pay a one-time licence fee, and the software is yours. An annual maintenance contract keeps it updated and supported — but if you ever choose not to renew, the system you paid for keeps running. No feature clawback, no forced downgrade, no lockout.
Subscription
Switched offY1Y2Y3Y4Y5Y6Y7
Year 4: you stopped paying in year 3. Login gone, data on their terms.
· Paying· Access revoked
Owned · one licence + AMC
RunningY1Y2Y3Y4Y5Y6Y7
Year 4: no AMC since year 3. The system keeps running. No updates until you renew.
· Licence, once· AMC year· Still running
Illustrative, not a quote. The one exception is the Financial Dashboard, which is a living service and sold as a subscription.
An AMC that keeps it current
The annual maintenance contract covers updates, support, and keeping the system working against the platforms underneath it. You are paying for a service, not for permission to keep using what you already bought.
Stop renewing and it keeps running
If the maintenance contract stops being worth it to you, say so. The system you licensed carries on working exactly as it did — you simply stop receiving updates and support.
No clawback, no lockout
We do not switch features off, downgrade your install, or lock you out of your own data when a contract lapses. The licence is in your name and the data stays where you put it.
02Who you are dealing with
One team builds it
and one team supports it.
Every system in our registry is built and maintained by Darcio Labs on the Saiga platform. There’s no reseller layer and no outsourced support desk reading from a script written by someone who’s never seen the codebase.
What you get
- Built by the Darcio Labs engineering team
- Maintained and updated by that same team
- Support from people who have seen your configuration
What there isn’t
- A reseller layer between you and the builder
- An outsourced support desk in the middle
- A script written by someone who has never seen the code
This matters most on the day something breaks. When the people who wrote the code are the people picking up your call, you skip the round of triage where a middle layer works out what your system does before anyone can help you.
03Where it was built for
Built for India and the GCC,
not adapted for it.
Payroll rules, payment norms, and compliance defaults for India and the GCC are built into the product from day one — not bolted on as a regional configuration of software designed somewhere else.
- Discovery
- Blueprint
- Build
- UAT & training
- Handover
Stage 1 of 5
Discovery
We sit with the people who do the work and write down how the operation actually runs — not how the org chart says it does.
Discovery is where we confirm how your rules apply — not where we find out they exist.
Because the regional defaults already ship with the product, the stages above are about your operation rather than about rebuilding basics. Your team is trained on the parts they actually use, and handover leaves them able to run the system without us in the room.
See how we deliver →04How the products fit together
A registry,
not a patchwork.
CRM, ERP, HRMS, and the rest of our systems are built on the same platform, so adding a second or third product doesn’t mean stitching together three vendors, three logins, and three support queues.
Start with one system and add others when you’re ready. They share the same design, the same data conventions and the same support team, which makes the second one a much smaller job than the first — and leaves nobody to argue about whose fault an integration is.
Open the platform →Every system except one is sold on a one-time licence plus an annual maintenance contract. The Financial Dashboard is an annual subscription, and its own page in the registry says so rather than hiding it in a footnote.
That’s the whole commercial map. There’s no second tier of pricing that appears once you’ve committed.
05What it costs
Pricing you can
actually plan around.
A one-time licence and a fixed AMC are easier to budget than a subscription that can change with every renewal notice. You know what you’re paying for the software and what you’re paying to keep it running — nothing hidden in between.
Ask what a system costs for your team size and you’ll get a number, or a straight answer about what still has to be worked out. What you won’t get is a figure that quietly moves at renewal time or a second tier of pricing you only meet once you’ve signed.
The same rule runs through the rest of this site. Where something isn’t confirmed yet, we mark it rather than fill the gap. Clients are named only with their agreement, and you won’t find customer counts or testimonials anywhere here. See our clientele for who we work with.
A note on accuracy
Clients are named only with their agreement. Nothing here claims a count, a testimonial or a statistic — because none has been verified.
Customer counts
Testimonials we wrote
Unverified statistics
Invented case studies
Where a fact is unknown the page says so plainly. Details we could not confirm appear as “to be confirmed” rather than as claims, and unfinished pages are held out of search rather than padded with invented wording.
Ready when you are
Ready to see it running
on your data?
Book a walkthrough and bring the hard questions — what the licence covers, what happens if you stop renewing the AMC, what it would cost for a team your size. You’ll get direct answers, including where something still needs confirming.