HR overview
The HR & Payroll module turns your team into part of the book: who works here, what they are owed, what they were given, and what it all costs — with every payment landing in the same ledger as the rest of your money.
Switch it on in Settings → Modules. See Choosing your modules.
What it covers
| Area | Guide |
|---|---|
| People, departments, contracts | Employees & structure |
| Leave, attendance, corrections | Leave & attendance |
| Salaries, PAYE, advances, payslips | Payroll |
| Benefit plans and issued equipment | Benefits & assets |
| What staff can do themselves | Employee self-service |
The screens
HR — the main workspace: people, structure, policies and operations.
People Inbox — requests waiting on you: leave, attendance corrections, document submissions. Approve or decline with a reason.
People Analytics — headcount by department, department coverage, approvals backlog, and where the pressure is building.
Employee Access — who among your staff can sign in, and what they see when they do.
Payroll — pay runs, approvals and payouts.
How HR reaches your books
Nothing in HR is a separate silo:
- A payroll run posts to the ledger as a real expense against a real money location, so cash drops when people are paid.
- A salary advance creates a recoverable balance, then deducts itself from later payslips automatically.
- Issued assets — a laptop, a phone, a motorcycle — connect to your fixed asset register so nothing valuable is untracked.
- Payroll cost feeds your reports, budget and forecast.
Setting up
- Structure first — create departments before adding people, so everyone lands somewhere sensible.
- Add employees — Employees & structure.
- Configure leave policy — entitlements and who approves what.
- Set payroll settings — PAYE, pension rates, and your pay cycle. See Payroll.
- Give access — only to staff who need to sign in.
- Run one payroll carefully — check every line before approving it. Later runs copy the pattern.
Roles and privacy
Salary data is sensitive. Access follows the same role system as the rest of SBB: a cashier with POS access does not see payroll, and an employee sees their own record and nobody else's.
Managers can be given approval rights over their own team without seeing the whole organisation.
Related
- Collaboration & roles — who can see what
- Security & audit — the trail on HR changes