A single home for every employee record
Profiles, documents, departments, designations, and the full employee lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding, in one organised place.
- Employee directory
- Documents and contracts
- Org chart and roles
What is HR management software?
HR management is the system of record for your people: their profiles, documents, roles, and the whole journey from first day to last. BusinessHRM keeps all of it in one place, with self-service for employees and role-based access for everyone else.
What BusinessHRM does about it
BusinessHRM gives every employee one rich profile that holds contact details, job history, documents, and custom fields, so there is a single source of truth instead of five spreadsheets. Onboarding and offboarding run as checklists that trigger themselves, documents can be sent for signature with a clean audit trail, and role-based permissions decide exactly who can view salaries, contracts, or reports down to the field.
Why teams go looking for HR management
- 01Employee data is scattered across spreadsheetsContracts sit in a drive, contact details in a spreadsheet, and salaries in someone's inbox. Nobody is sure which copy is current.
- 02Onboarding is a checklist someone forgetsNew hires wait on accounts, documents, and equipment because the steps live in one person's head instead of a repeatable flow.
- 03Everyone can see what only HR shouldWithout proper permissions, sensitive records are one shared file away from the wrong person, and audits become a scramble.
Your people, from every angle
The directory above is the start. Notices, hiring and approvals on the phone all read from the same records.
Announcements people actually read
Post company updates to the notice board with dates and an audience, attach files, and track who has read them.
- Target a department or everyone
- Read tracking per employee
Hiring feeds the same records
On Scale and Enterprise, the applicant tracker runs your careers page, interviews and offers. A hired candidate becomes an employee without re-typing.
- Public careers page
- Interview stages and scoring
Approvals that do not wait for a desk
In the Android app, managers approve or reject leave and loan requests in a tap, and employees follow their own requests.
- Android from 20 October, iOS coming soon
- Same data as the web app
Move your people out of spreadsheets this week
Start free with unlimited users. We help you import employees, departments and reporting lines, so the directory is ready before your next hire.
How HR management works
The employee lifecycle, on one profile
From the offer letter to the exit record, every step lands on the same person. Payroll, attendance and projects read from it.
- 1
Day one for you
Bring your people in
Add employees with departments, designations and reporting lines, or let our team help you import them. The org chart builds itself from the reporting lines.
- 2
Decide who sees what
Start with the Admin, Manager, Employee and Client roles, then shape custom roles from more than 500 individual permissions, down to single fields like salary.
- 3
Day one for them
Onboard without chasing
A checklist triggers when a hire joins and hands tasks to HR, IT and the hiring manager. You can see who is stuck and where.
- 4
Keep records current
Employees update their own profile and download documents and payslips. Expiry reminders flag visas, IDs and certifications before they lapse.
- 5
Change and exit, on the record
Promotions, transfers, probation and exit records stay on the same profile, with the history intact for audits.
What you get with HR Management
Included on every plan, including the free Starter plan for unlimited users.
Rich employee profiles
Contact details, job history, salary, bank details, documents, and custom fields. Everything you need without a spreadsheet in sight.
Documents and e-sign
Store contracts, offer letters, and policies. Send contracts for signature and keep a clean audit trail.
Departments and org chart
Model your structure, set reporting lines, and give managers visibility into just their teams.
Onboarding that runs itself
Checklists, document collection, and welcome tasks trigger automatically when a new hire joins.
Appreciations and notices
Recognise great work and broadcast company updates from a notice board everyone sees.
Granular roles and permissions
Decide exactly who can view salaries, documents, or reports with role-based access down to the field.
What changes once it is running
- Find any record in secondsOne directory means the current contract, document, or detail is always a search away, not a message to a colleague.
- New hires ready on day oneSelf-triggering onboarding gets accounts, documents, and welcome tasks done before the first morning, not after it.
- Audit-ready without the panicPermissions and signed-document trails mean compliance checks are a report, not a week of digging.
Who it is for
- Growing SMBsTeams outgrowing spreadsheets that need a real HR system before headcount gets unmanageable.
- HR and people teamsOne or two people wearing every HR hat who need automation, not more admin.
- Multi-department companiesBusinesses with reporting lines and managers who should only see their own people.
Software this replaces
Get HR management without paying for a separate tool, and keep the rest of your business attached.
See all comparisons- BambooHRA comparable system of record for people and documents, alongside the time, projects, and billing BambooHR does not cover.BusinessHRM vs BambooHR
- Zoho PeopleProfiles, onboarding, and org charts in the same place as the rest of how you run the company.
- SpreadsheetsOne permissioned source of truth instead of a folder of conflicting files.
Ask HR questions in plain language
The assistant answers with the permissions of the person asking, so a manager only ever hears about their own team.
- In-app AI chat
"Which employee documents expire in the next 30 days?"
- In-app AI chat
"Who joined the design department this quarter?"
- Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor via MCP
"List everyone who reports to Sara, with their start dates and designations."
- Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor via MCP
"Add 25 December as a company holiday for the Karachi office."
Example prompts. The in-app chat answers questions and does not change records. Creating and updating records with AI happens through the MCP server, with the permissions of the person who connected it.
HR Management questions, answered
Can employees update their own details?
Yes. Self-service profiles let people keep their information current, download their payslips and documents, with approval flows where you need them.
Is there an org chart?
Yes. Reporting lines build a live org chart, and managers only see the people who roll up to them.
Can I store and sign contracts in the system?
Yes. Contracts, offer letters, and policies live on the employee record, contracts can be sent for e-signature, and every change keeps an audit trail.
How granular are permissions?
Very. There are more than 500 individual permissions, and add, view, edit and delete are set separately, so you can control who sees sensitive fields like salary right down to the field.
Is recruitment included?
The applicant tracking system, with a public careers page, interview stages and offer letters, is part of the Scale and Enterprise plans. Everything else on this page is on every plan, including the free one.
Every employee, one record, one login
Set up your directory, roles and onboarding on the free plan today, then switch on payroll and attendance when you are ready.
Free forever for unlimited users. No credit card required.