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What changes is that your HR records connect to the rest of Zoho. We link People to Zoho Recruit so a hire becomes an employee record without rekeying, tie it to CRM where staffing drives commissions, and push headcount and turnover into Zoho Analytics for reporting.

Managed Zoho People is a subscription where we run your Zoho People HR system for you on a monthly plan. That covers the initial configuration, employee records, onboarding and offboarding workflows, attendance, leave, timesheets, performance cycles, and document compliance, plus the ongoing changes as your policies and headcount shift. You get the HR system configured properly and kept correct, without hiring an HR systems administrator to do it.

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

Yes, and that is deliberate. The subscription is yours, billed to your company, in your own Zoho account. We work inside it as an administrator. Every employee record, document, and configuration belongs to you, so if you ever stop working with us nothing has to be exported out of an agency account or handed back. You keep the system and the data, and we hand over the admin access.

They do different jobs and they work together. Zoho People is the HR system, holding employee records, leave, attendance, timesheets, and performance. Zoho Payroll calculates and pays wages and handles tax filing. People feeds Payroll the approved time and leave that determines what somebody gets paid. We configure that connection and check the mapping each cycle so a leave policy change does not quietly break a pay run.

Zoho People covers a wider range of HR functions than most tools at its price, particularly attendance, shift management, timesheets, and performance. Where it wins clearly is integration, because your CRM, accounting, help desk, and HR sit in one suite with one login and one data model. Where dedicated platforms sometimes lead is polish and out of the box US payroll and benefits. The setup work is what closes that gap, and that is what we do.

Yes, and that is where most of these projects start. We take your employee spreadsheets, leave balance trackers, and document folders, map them to the right fields, and load them so history comes across rather than starting everyone at zero. We check the result against your records before anybody relies on it, because a leave balance that is wrong by two days will cost you more trust than the migration saved.

For a straightforward setup with clean employee data, expect the core system running in two to four weeks. Employee records, org structure, leave policies, and attendance come first, then onboarding workflows, then performance and training once people are using the system daily. Complicated leave rules, multiple locations, or messy source data extend that. We sequence it so you get the parts people use every day working first.

In our experience yes, including accrual schedules, carryover caps, waiting periods, unlimited policies, and different rules per location or employee group. Leave configuration is the single most common thing companies get wrong on their own, because the rules interact in ways that only show up months later at year end. We build the rules, then test them against real scenarios before employees see a balance.