The Opportunity
Overview
Employee records, attendance, leave, hiring, and payroll — in one place instead of four spreadsheets and a shoebox of timesheets.
The Challenge
Problem
Small teams run HR out of whatever’s closest — a spreadsheet for the roster, a notebook for time off, a calculator for payroll. Nothing talks to anything else, and payroll math gets redone from scratch every cycle.
That approach breaks down in predictable ways:
- Attendance and leave tracked separately from payroll, if tracked at all
- Payroll is a manual multiply-and-subtract exercise every month
- No visibility into hiring status or where candidates sit in the pipeline
The Solution
Approach
One employee record that attendance, leave, payroll, and reporting lines all hang off of, plus a lightweight hiring pipeline for when the team is growing.
The solution included:
- Employee profiles with salary, hire date, manager, and live leave balances
- Daily attendance marking per employee
- Leave requests with approve/reject, deducted straight from the balance
- One-click payroll runs — pays every active employee, generates payslips
- Per-employee payslip history
- A Kanban hiring pipeline — postings, candidates, stages from applied to hired
The Impact
Outcome
What it delivers:
- Payroll that runs in one click instead of a spreadsheet rebuild every cycle
- Leave balances that stay accurate because requests deduct automatically
- A hiring pipeline that doesn’t live in someone’s inbox
Significant decrease in human errors