Employee HR app
- Checklist items
- 37
- Items due before or on day one
- 17
- Items due in the first 30 days
- 20
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An employee HR app for a small employer is judged on what the employee can do from their phone without asking anyone: read and sign the handbook, see their own file, submit a timesheet, request PTO and see the balance, and see the onboarding tasks still open. Everything else is the owner's side. The onboarding checklist on this site scopes the tasks for free; HeadcountDesk Pro is the app the employee opens, with the record on the employer's side.
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What the employee does in it
Reads and acknowledges the handbook, sees their contract and letters, submits the timesheet, requests PTO against a visible balance, closes their onboarding items. If the app cannot do those five, it is a directory.
What the employer sees
Who has not signed, whose review is due, whose probation ends, what equipment is out. Reminders go to the person who has to act. Pro does that; the free tools on this site produce the documents.
The price shape
Per-employee pricing charges for every person who opens the app. From the vendors' own pricing pages: Homebase lists Essentials at $24 per location per month billed annually or $30 monthly, with a free Basic plan for one location of up to ten employees; BambooHR lists Core at $10 and Pro at $17 per employee per month; Deputy lists Core at $6.50 per user per month. HeadcountDesk Pro is $24 a month per location.
Start from the documents
The handbook, the contract, the onboarding checklist and the timesheet are free tools here with no account; Pro is where the employee signs them.
Employee HR app: common questions
Is there a free employee HR app?
The documents are free on this site with no account. Pro, the app the employee signs and submits in, is $24 a month per location.
Can employees see their own file?
In Pro, yes: their contract, their acknowledgements, their letters and their timesheets.
Does it do PTO requests?
Yes, against a visible balance, with the manager's approval recorded.
Will it do what you need for Employee HR app?
Tell us what your business needs and we will tell you straight whether HeadcountDesk Pro does it today, whether it is coming, or whether you are better off with something else. A person reads these and replies.