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Swaves ERP · Applications

People & Payroll

Keep employee records, time, requests, expenses and payroll preparation connected. People & Payroll supports the employee lifecycle, organisation structures, shifts, attendance, leave, expenses, performance and controlled payroll preparation with employee and manager self-service.

Employee lifecycleAttendance and leaveExpenses and performancePayroll preparation
A current employee and organisation recordVisible attendance, leave and request exceptionsControlled preparation and review before payroll postingEmployee and manager actions routed through defined approvals

Actual application interface from the official module documentation; final configuration and scope are confirmed per deployment.

People operations applicationAttendance summary
Frappe HR attendance summary with employee attendance and exception states
Actual application interface from the official documentation. View source · CC BY-SA.
01Recruit
02Join
03Attend
04Develop
05Pay
06Offboard

Working coverage

Capability where the transaction and responsibility meet.

Growing organisations that need to replace fragmented employee records and manual approval chains while establishing a governed route into payroll.

Employee lifecycle

Maintain accountable employee events from candidate and onboarding through movement and exit.

  • Recruitment and offers
  • Employee records
  • Onboarding and checklists
  • Promotion and transfer
  • Organisation and reporting lines
  • Separation and exit

Time, shifts and attendance

Connect schedules, check-ins and attendance decisions without hiding exceptions.

  • Shift types and assignments
  • Employee check-in
  • Manual and auto-attendance
  • Late, early and missing records
  • Attendance requests
  • Monthly and shift reports

Leave and self-service

Give employees and managers a visible route for leave, requests and approvals.

  • Leave policies and allocations
  • Leave application
  • Holiday lists
  • Approval workflow
  • Balance visibility
  • Employee mobile and self-service

Expenses and advances

Capture employee spending and advances with evidence, approval and accounting hand-off.

  • Expense claims
  • Employee advances
  • Receipts and supporting documents
  • Multi-level approval
  • Payable and settlement status
  • Project or cost-centre context

Performance

Support goals, feedback and appraisal cycles with agreed review responsibility.

  • Goals and key result areas
  • Appraisal templates
  • Self-appraisal
  • Manager review
  • Feedback records
  • Appraisal cycles

Payroll

Prepare payroll from approved structures and inputs, then review exceptions before accounting output.

  • Salary structures and assignments
  • Earnings and deductions
  • Attendance or timesheet inputs
  • Additional and off-cycle salary
  • Payroll entry and salary slips
  • Accounting and bank output preparation

End-to-end flow

From approved time inputs to reviewed payroll

The payroll run is treated as a controlled sequence with explicit input, exception, approval and posting stages.

01

Close inputs

Confirm attendance, leave, timesheets, benefits, changes and additional salary records for the period.

HR operations
02

Validate

Review missing attendance, unapproved requests, incomplete employee data and policy exceptions.

HR and managers
03

Prepare

Generate the payroll population and salary slips from approved structures and inputs.

Payroll
04

Review and approve

Check totals, variances, exceptions, deductions and the proposed accounting output.

Payroll and finance
05

Post and distribute

Complete authorised postings and outputs, then make approved employee documents available.

Finance and HR

Role views

The same process. Different working context.

Each person sees the queues, measures, records and actions that belong to their responsibility.

01

Employee

Personal service

ProfileAttendanceLeaveClaims and salary slips
02

Manager

Team responsibility

ApprovalsAttendance exceptionsGoalsTeam availability
03

HR operations

Employee lifecycle

OnboardingMovementRequestsExit tasks
04

Payroll lead

Accurate period run

Input readinessPayroll entryVariancesSalary slips
05

Finance

Posting and settlement

Payroll liabilityAccounting outputBank fileReconciliation

Controls retained in the flow

  • Employee and salary-data permissions
  • Manager and HR approvals
  • Attendance exception review
  • Payroll period controls
  • Salary-slip access
  • Accounting and bank-output approval

Configured for the operating model

  • Companies, branches and departments
  • Employee grades and designations
  • Shifts, holidays and attendance rules
  • Leave policies
  • Salary structures
  • Payroll and tax configuration
Payroll, taxation, social contributions, statutory forms, bank files and labour-policy configuration are country and organisation specific and require qualified local review before use.

Connected applications

Continue the operating cycle.

Move into the responsibilities that sit immediately before, after or alongside this application.

Foundation and attribution

Open foundations. Swaves delivery accountability.

Swaves ERP solutions may use and extend established open-source business platforms, including the ERPNext and Frappe ecosystem, alongside Swaves configuration, integration and managed services. Capabilities and interface patterns shown here are referenced against current published module documentation. ERPNext and Frappe are trademarks of their respective owner. Swaves does not claim partner certification, endorsement or ownership of upstream products.

Start with the operating model

Bring the process that is losing control first.

Current companies, sites and systemsUsers, roles and approval authorityPriority process and known exceptionsMigration, statutory and integration requirements