The entire employee lifecycle, from the first interview to the final settlement.
BYTEWISE HR runs recruitment, onboarding, attendance, tasks, leave, overtime, reimbursements, payroll, performance and exit in one system — a web workspace for HR and management, and a mobile app for everyone else.
- 13
- Admin modules
- 30
- Employee screens
- 11
- Built-in roles
- 158
- Permissions
Everything HR needs, and nothing bolted on afterwards
Each module is built on the same employee record, so a joiner, an attendance punch, an approved leave day and a payslip all refer to the same person.
Employee management
One record per person with documents, salary structure, reporting line, assets and the full change history.
- Directory filtered by department, branch and reporting line
- Interactive org chart
- Per-employee document vault
- Bulk import and export
Approval inbox
Thirteen kinds of decision in one queue, so a manager never hunts through screens to find what is waiting on them.
- Leave, overtime, corrections, claims, work reports, payroll, offers and exits together
- Turnaround target per request, with an overdue flag
- Total value sitting in the queue
- Shows only what this approver may actually decide
Attendance & location
Geofenced punches with selfie verification. Every punch is kept exactly as recorded; corrections are approved separately.
- Live dashboard and daily register
- Exceptions for late marks, missed punches and short days
- GPS geofences per branch, with mock-location detection
- Biometric device registry with sync tracking
Tasks & daily reports
Assign work, require photographic proof for field jobs, and collect a daily report from every employee.
- Task board and list with priority and progress
- Daily work reports reviewed by the manager
- Timesheets with approval
- Projects, clients, billable hours and budgets
Leave management
Accruals, carry forward, encashment, holiday calendars per branch, and a balance that is held the moment someone applies.
- Leave types with quota, accrual and encashment rules
- Manager approval, then HR for long or unpaid leave
- Team calendar showing who else is away
- Balance ledger: accrued, carried, used, held, lapsed
Overtime & shifts
Shift rosters, night and weekly-off multipliers, compensatory off, and caps that stop runaway overtime cost.
- Approvers can grant fewer minutes than claimed; the value is recalculated
- Paid or compensatory off, settled per request
- Comp-off balances with expiry
- Monthly reconciliation against payroll
Payroll & salary
Versioned calculation rules, Indian statutory compliance, immutable payslips and bank payment files.
- Prepare, finance review, director approval, then lock
- PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS
- Revisions supersede rather than overwrite, keeping payslip history intact
- Loans and advances, with recovery capped so net pay cannot go negative
- Bank transfer file export
Reimbursements
Category limits, receipt rules, duplicate-receipt detection and an amount-based manager, finance and director chain.
- Multi-line claims with a receipt per line
- Per-category limits and policy checks
- Payment register with reference tracking
Recruitment & onboarding
Requisitions, a public careers page, interview scorecards, offers and a joining checklist that becomes an employee.
- Headcount requisitions with budget range and approval
- Openings published straight to the careers site
- Interview panels, modes and meeting links
- Offer letters, where creating and approving are separate rights
Performance & learning
Goals, review cycles with self and manager assessments, normalisation, training and a skills matrix.
- Goals and OKRs with weight, target and progress
- Self, manager and calibration stages per cycle
- Training catalogue and assignment
- Skill matrix across the workforce
Assets & exit
Asset custody, resignation, department-by-department clearance and a full and final settlement.
- Asset inventory with categories and depreciation
- Assignment and return tracking per employee
- Clearance checklist by department
- Settlement approved by someone other than whoever prepared it
Reports & analytics
Headcount, attrition, attendance, payroll cost and statutory registers, with salary columns hidden from those without access.
- Report library across attendance, leave, payroll and headcount
- Workforce composition, tenure and attrition
- Statutory reports
- Ad-hoc report builder with CSV export
Administration
Companies, branches, departments, roles, approval chains, policies, integrations and an audit log that cannot be edited.
- 11 built-in roles over 158 granular permissions
- Per-user permission overrides
- Configurable approval chains and notification rules
- Append-only audit log recording the actor behind every change
- Session list with immediate server-side revocation
Four workflows carry most of the weight
These are the paths that decide whether an HR system is trusted. Each one is enforced in the service layer, not only in the interface.
Attendance becomes payroll
An employee punches in within the geofence. The day is classified as present, half day, late or absent against their shift. Approved leave and overtime are merged in, and the month closes into a locked attendance snapshot that payroll reads.
Leave is approved once
Applying holds the balance immediately, so the same days cannot be claimed twice. The manager decides, HR sees long or unpaid requests, and the approved days flow into the attendance calendar and the payslip.
Work is proven, not assumed
Tasks can require a before and after photo. Field staff close jobs from the phone with the photo attached, and the daily work report ties the hours to what was delivered.
Money needs two pairs of eyes
A reimbursement travels from manager to finance, and to the director above the escalation threshold. A payroll run is prepared by one person and approved by another — never the same one.
A workspace for the office and an app for the field
Managers and HR work on a dense web dashboard. Everyone else gets a phone-first app with five tabs and nothing they do not need.
Employees. Punch in, apply for leave, claim expenses and read the payslip from the phone.
Managers. One approval inbox for leave, tasks, work reports, overtime and expenses.
HR. Hiring, onboarding, policy, documents, attendance corrections and exits in one place.
Payroll & finance. Prepare, reconcile and pay, with the final approval held by someone else.
Directors. Headcount, cost and attrition at a glance, plus the approvals only they can give.
What an employee sees on day one
- A punch button that knows the office geofence
- Leave balance and a two-tap application
- Today’s tasks, with photo proof where required
- Expense claims with the receipt attached
- Payslips, documents, assets and holidays
Payroll data earns trust through separation, not promises
The person who prepares a payroll run can never approve it. Every action is recorded with who performed it, and the record of what happened cannot be rewritten afterwards.
Every company-owned record is scoped to a tenant, and company access is re-checked on the server for each operation.
Role-based access with app-based two-factor authentication and one-time recovery codes; permission checks never rely on the interface alone.
Attendance punches and audit logs are append-only. A correction is a separate, approved record kept alongside the original.
Payroll uses versioned calculation rules, and each payslip is a permanent snapshot of how it was computed.
Payments and payroll runs are idempotent, so a retried request cannot pay anyone twice.
Photos and documents live in object storage and are served through short-lived signed links, not from the database.
See it with your own org chart in it
Bring one branch, one pay cycle and one month of attendance. We will set it up and walk you through the approval chains as your own team would use them.