Zoho People for Onboarding, Attendance, and Timesheets

A monthly subscription under which we run your Zoho People account. It covers initial configuration, employee records, onboarding and offboarding workflows, attendance, leave, timesheets, performance cycles, and document compliance, plus later changes as policies and headcount move. You get the HR system set up and kept correct without hiring an HR systems administrator.

It is Zoho's HR management system. It holds employee records and the org structure, runs onboarding and offboarding, tracks attendance and shifts, manages leave policies and balances, collects timesheets, runs reviews and goals, delivers training, and stores HR documents with signature and acknowledgment tracking. It connects to Zoho Payroll, Recruit, CRM, Books, and Analytics.

Yes, deliberately. The subscription is in your name, billed to your company. We work inside it as an administrator, so every record, document, and setting is yours, and if we part ways nothing needs to be exported from an agency account.

Yes, along with CRM, Books, Desk, Projects, and the rest of the suite. If you already run several Zoho apps, ask us to compare the Zoho One price with your separate subscriptions. Our plans cover any mix of Zoho apps, priced by hours of Zoho work rather than by users or apps.

They do separate jobs and work together. People is the HR system, with employee records, leave, attendance, timesheets, and performance. Payroll calculates and pays wages. People passes Payroll the approved time and leave that determine pay. We configure that link and check the mapping each cycle, so a leave policy change does not quietly break a pay run.

People covers a wide range of HR functions, notably attendance, shift management, timesheets, and performance. Its edge is integration: CRM, accounting, help desk, and HR share one suite, one login, and one data model. Dedicated platforms can lead on polish and on built-in US payroll and benefits. Setup work narrows that gap, and setup is what we do.

Yes, and most projects begin there. We take your employee sheets, leave balance trackers, and document folders, map them to the right fields, and load them so history carries over. We check the result against your records before anyone relies on it, since a leave balance off by two days costs more trust than the migration saved.

With clean employee data, the core system is typically running in two to four weeks. Records, org structure, leave policies, and attendance come first, then onboarding workflows, then performance and training once people use the system daily. Complicated leave rules, several locations, or messy source data extend that.

In our experience, yes, including accrual schedules, carryover caps, waiting periods, unlimited-leave policies, and different rules by location or employee group. Leave is where companies most often go wrong alone, because the rules interact in ways that appear months later at year end. We build them, then test against real scenarios.

Yes. Zoho People has iOS and Android apps for checking in and out, requesting leave, viewing balances, submitting timesheets, browsing the directory, and finishing assigned tasks and training. Managers approve from the same app. We choose what the mobile view shows and, for field and site staff, set up location-based check-in.

Yes. We configure shift patterns, rotations, and schedules, set the check-in method that fits the work, whether web, mobile with location, or a biometric device, and build regularization rules so a missed punch is fixed by a request. Approved hours then go to payroll without retyping.

Onboarding starts when a candidate accepts: the paperwork, equipment request, account setup, and manager checklist are assigned, each with an owner and a due date. Offboarding follows the same pattern with an exit checklist, so access removal and equipment return do not depend on memory. Open items stay visible until someone closes them.

Whoever you decide. Managers see their own team and nothing beyond it, compensation and sensitive fields are limited to those who need them, and document sharing is set deliberately instead of left at defaults. HR data is among the most sensitive a company holds, so the permission model is part of the build.

That is a common starting point and usually fixable. We audit the account, find what is misconfigured or abandoned, and say plainly what to repair and what to rebuild. Leave rules and permissions are the usual trouble spots. We correct them without erasing accumulated history, and you receive a written record of what changed and why.

You keep everything. The Zoho subscription is in your name, all employee records and documents stay in your account, and the configuration stays as built. We hand over administrator access and documentation of how the workflows, leave rules, and integrations work. There is no export step, because nothing was ever held in our systems.