An employee management system is sold with a dashboard and bought, if it is bought well, for the record underneath it: one record per person, the contract, the handbook acknowledgment, the onboarding checklist, the hours, the reviews, the write-ups and the exit against it, each asked for when due, signed where it should be, dated always, and exportable in one action. The tools on this site print every document free, without an account; this page is what the system has to do with them and what the vendors charge.
The record
Keyed by employee ID, with the fields payroll needs and nothing more, and the documents attached in date order. The onboarding checklist on this site assigns the ID as its first line so every later document carries it.
Asked for when due
The contract before day one, the handbook acknowledgment with it, the thirty-day review on the date, the handbook re-acknowledged when it changes. A system that stores documents and does not ask for them is the folder with a login.
Signed, dated, locked
Signed online where a signature is needed, dated always, locked at the signature so the record cannot drift. The employee contract tool, handbook template and review template on this site print the documents the system signs.
The price
From the vendors' own pricing pages, cited below: Homebase lists its Essentials plan at $30 per location per month billed monthly or $24 billed annually, with unlimited employees, and a Basic plan at $0 for one location with up to 10 employees; BambooHR starts at $10 per employee per month for Core and $17 for Pro; Deputy's Core plan is $6.50 per user per month. HeadcountDesk Pro is $24 per month per location.
Questions people ask about employee management system
Is a dashboard useful at all?
The overdue list is; the rest is a picture of the record.
How is this different from payroll software?
Payroll pays; the management system keeps the documents payroll depends on and the ones it does not touch.
What is free here?
Every document tool, without an account.