By team · HR and people

Hire, onboard, pay and review in one workspace, and the pay run posts to the books.

HR software usually ends where accounting begins, so payroll becomes a monthly export and a manual journal entry. WorkBOS runs recruiting through to the pay register, and the pay run posts real journal entries to the same ledger your accountant reads.

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What usually goes wrong

01

Candidate tracking, onboarding checklists and payroll live in three tools and one shared drive.

02

Every pay run ends with somebody retyping totals into the accounts.

03

Attendance and leave are a spreadsheet nobody trusts by the end of the quarter.

What you get, by name

Every capability below is enforced on the server, not a demo screenshot. Anything that needs a paid plan says so on the card rather than leaving you to find out at checkout.

Recruiting end to endPro and up
Job postings, applications, interviews and offer letters as tracked records rather than an inbox.
Onboarding templatesPro and up
The same first week for every new starter, with the tasks assigned to the people who own them.
A pay register that postsPro and up
Pay runs, payslips and compensation records that produce real journal entries in the general ledger. Gross comes from salary or hours and deductions are typed by an admin: there is no statutory tax calculation, no filing and no direct deposit, so pair it with your payroll provider or your accountant.
Attendance and leavePro and up
Check-in, leave requests and balances in the same place as the shift they belong to, with biometric attendance available on Pro and above.
Appraisals and trainingEnterprise
Review cycles, training documents and job descriptions, so a performance conversation has a record behind it.
Approve-first AI agents
An approve-first AI Chief of Staff that proposes the work and waits for a person to say yes. Every action it takes runs through the same permission checks a human would hit, is recorded against the person who approved it, and can be rolled back in one click. The full append-only audit log you can read back and export is an Enterprise capability.

Your first week

  1. 1

    Bring in your people records and set up leave types and working patterns.

  2. 2

    Build one onboarding template and run your next starter through it.

  3. 3

    Run a pay period in parallel with your current process and compare the journal entries.

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What you are probably weighing this against

Each comparison opens by saying where the other product is the better choice, because that is the half of a comparison worth reading.

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Questions HR teams ask

Is this a payroll provider?

No, and we will not let the page imply it. It is a pay register: it computes gross from salary or hours, applies deductions an admin types, produces payslips and posts the journal entries. Statutory tax calculation, filings and direct deposit are not in it. Teams run it alongside a provider or their accountant.

How does attendance actually get recorded?

Check-in in the app, and on Pro and above biometric attendance: face verification computed on the person’s own device and matched on the server, a passkey thumb, fingerprint and face terminals, or a tablet kiosk with per-person codes. Workspace policy decides which methods count, with geofencing and consent-based enrollment each person can revoke.

Who can see what?

Roles and per-page create, edit and delete rules are enforced in the database, not hidden in the interface, and the people and money modules are covered today. The roles editor marks any page where a setting is not yet enforced rather than pretending. The advanced role controls and the audit log that goes with them are an Enterprise capability.

Set it up the way HR teams actually work.

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