DPDP compliance software turns the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 into working systems: it collects and records valid consent, serves notices, answers data principal requests, reports breaches on the 72-hour clock, and keeps the audit trail that proves it all. EasyDP does this for Indian businesses — in every major Indian language, across web, WhatsApp and offline.
Updated August 2026 · Citations from the notified Act and Rules
The Act is a list of duties, each with a section number and a penalty. Here is each duty — and the EasyDP feature that takes care of it.
| No. | Obligation | What the Act asks | Citation | EasyDP feature |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Give notice and collect valid consent | Every collection of personal data needs a clear notice and free, specific, informed, unambiguous consent — with the burden of proof on you. | Act S.5–6 · Rules, R.3 | Consent management → |
| 02 | Offer notices in the language your customer reads | Data Principals can ask to access the notice in English or any of the 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution. | Act S.5(3) | Multilingual notices → |
| 03 | Handle access, correction and erasure requests | Customers can demand a summary of their data, corrections, or deletion — and you must publish how, and how fast, you respond. | Act S.11–13 · Rules, R.14 | Data principal requests → |
| 04 | Report breaches on a legal clock | Affected customers and the Data Protection Board must be informed without delay, with detailed Board filings within 72 hours. | Act S.8(6) · Rules, R.7 | Breach reporting → |
| 05 | Prove all of it, on demand | When a complaint lands, the Board asks for evidence: consent records, notice versions, request logs, training records. | Act S.6 & S.8 | Audit logs → |
The duties are the same for every business. Where the risk sits is not. Each guide below is written for one kind of business, in its own terms.
| Business | What needs most attention | Guide |
|---|---|---|
Online stores and marketplaces | Consent at checkout kept separate from marketing, and a list of the payment gateways and couriers that receive customer data. | Read the guide → |
Shopify stores | What the theme and installed apps collect, and where consent is captured in checkout. | Read the guide → |
WhatsApp and Instagram sellers | Customer numbers gathered in chats, and consent before broadcast or promotional messages. | Read the guide → |
Hotels and guest houses | Guest registers, copies of identity documents, and data received from booking platforms. | Read the guide → |
Clinics and hospitals | Health records, who inside the practice can see them, and how long other laws require them to be kept. | Read the guide → |
Schools and coaching centres | Everyone under 18 is a child under the Act, so verifiable parental consent comes first (Section 9, Rule 10). | Read the guide → |
Vehicle dealers | Loan and insurance paperwork that is shared with lenders and insurers on the customer’s behalf. | Read the guide → |
Software companies | Often handles data on behalf of client businesses (a Data Processor) as well as for its own users (a Data Fiduciary). | Read the guide → |
Marketing agencies | Lead forms and campaign lists run for clients, and the contracts that set out who is responsible. | Read the guide → |
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EasyDP is free to start, with paid plans from ₹299/month that scale with the new customers you add — no per-seat pricing, cancel anytime. Full plan details are on the business page.
See pricing →Work through the interactive DPDP compliance checklist, take the 2-minute applicability checker, or make your consent notice in your customer's own language — all free, no signup.
DPDP compliance software is a system that puts India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 into practice for a business: it collects and records valid consent (Section 6), serves privacy notices (Section 5), handles customer requests for access, correction and erasure (Sections 11–13), runs the breach notification workflow (Rule 7 of the DPDP Rules 2025), and keeps the audit-ready records that prove compliance to the Data Protection Board.
It depends on your size and channels. Large enterprises with security teams often pick suite vendors; SMBs need something they can run without a compliance officer. We maintain an honest ranking of 14 DPDP compliance tools — including where EasyDP is not the right fit.
EasyDP’s DPDP compliance checker is free — it tells you which obligations apply to your business and your penalty exposure. The full platform (consent capture, request portal, breach workflow, audit log) is free to start, with paid plans from ₹299/month.
The law doesn’t mandate software — it mandates outcomes: recorded consent, answered requests, breach reports on deadline, and evidence of all of it. A very small business can meet those manually with spreadsheets and discipline. Software matters once you have more customers than you can track by hand, because every obligation under the Act is ongoing, not one-time.
Yes. Many small businesses turn to their CA first. On EasyDP each client runs its own account and remains the owner of its records. The business can invite its CA, company secretary or lawyer as an auditor, with read-only access to consent records, notices, request logs and breach entries; the auditor role is in early access. CAs who introduce clients can join the partner programme: the first 100 founding partners receive 20% of every monthly plan payment from the clients they refer, locked for life, with payouts beginning once they have 20 active clients.
Three things: customer-facing flows in your customers' own Indian languages (not just an English dashboard), support for how Indian SMBs actually collect data — web, WhatsApp and offline QR — and a partner channel for the CAs and auditors who advise those businesses. See how we compare against the ten platforms Indian businesses shortlist most often.