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payroll countries: UAE, KSA, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, India
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ready reports, plus a report builder
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every screen and the mobile app
WPS
salary file and bank file layouts
On the phone
Your staff will use it every day
Staff check in, apply for leave and open payslips in the ZEO app. Managers approve from the same app, in English or Arabic.
Check-in
Leave
Payslips
Features
Everything in ZEO Cloud HR & Payroll
Employee records
Each employee has one file from the day they join until they leave, including documents and every change made.
- Employee master with photo, job, grade, bank and family details
- Departments, designations, categories and branches
- Organisation chart with reporting lines
- Employee code numbering by company or branch
- Employee transfer between branches and departments
- Probation ending alerts
- Import identity details and upload document files in bulk
- Profile change requests approved by HR
Documents, letters and PRO
You’re told before a visa, Emirates ID or labour card runs out.
- Document library per employee
- Expiring documents hub with alerts by e-mail
- Passport, visa, Emirates ID, labour card and licence tracking
- PRO services and document renewal tracking
- HR letters (salary certificate, NOC, experience) from templates
- Document requests with their own approval levels
Attendance
Punches come from biometric devices, kiosks or phones and are checked against your company’s rules.
- Biometric devices and kiosks with PINs
- Mobile check-in with geo-fence, office IP and selfie or face registration
- Daily attendance board, missing punches and punch photos
- Manual entry, corrections and recheck
- Late in / early out requests and approvals
- Late coming, early exit, round-off and validation policies
- Overtime law, overtime rules and reasons
- Ramadan working hours
Shift planner
Plan rotations, rosters and on-call cover for each team.
- Shift master with rules and shift patterns
- Roster grid by team and week
- Employee shifts and shift overrides
- Shift requests and swaps from employees
- Availability and on-call duty
- Weekend and holiday calendars per branch
- Shift reports
Leave
UAE leave rules are set up already, and employees can check their own balance.
- Leave types, rules and UAE leave policies
- Automatic accrual and leave balance
- Leave planner and conflict check
- Compensatory leave
- Return from leave (rejoin) and leave cancellation
- Leave encashment with approval
- Approval levels with escalation
Payroll
Run payroll each month, with checks that catch mistakes before the bank file goes out.
- Payroll runs with monthly inputs
- AI payroll auditor that flags unusual figures
- Payslip approvals, payslips as PDF and by e-mail
- Pay calendars, off-cycle runs and arrears
- WPS salary file and bank file layouts
- Hold and release salary
- Period locks after a month is closed
- Payments and WPS payment status
Salaries and statutory rules
Salary structures, revisions and the full history of what each person was paid.
- Salary components and salary structures
- Revise salary with approval and salary history
- Salary history import for new customers
- Re-hire with previous service
- Payroll what-if before a change
- Salary splits across cost centres
- Statutory schemes and legal rates by country
- Branch pension schemes (GPSSA, GOSI and others)
Payroll accounting
Send payroll costs to your accounts, split by department or project.
- Accounting journals by department and cost centre
- Provisions for gratuity, leave salary and air tickets
- Accrue now, pay later components
- Cost allocation to projects and branches
- Accounting integration with Odoo, Zoho and others
Loans, advances and air tickets
Staff apply from their phone and repayments come off payroll automatically.
- Loan types, requests, approvals and repayment schedules
- Loan limit linked to gratuity
- Advance salary requests and approvals
- Recoveries through payroll
- Air ticket policy, rules and entitlement by grade
- Air ticket requests, approvals and allocation
End of service and exit
Handles everything from the resignation letter to the final payment.
- Resignations with resignation approval levels
- Gratuity table per country and contract type
- Final settlement with gratuity, leave salary and loan recovery
- Bulk final settlement
- Exit clearance with asset returns
- Exit interviews and leavers list
Requests and approvals
Each request goes through the approval chain you’ve set, with reminders when someone sits on it.
- General requests and request types
- Approval levels by request type
- Escalation when an approver does not act
- Workflow approvals and approval flows
- My To-do list for each user
- E-mail templates for every request type
Performance, recruitment and learning
Goals, appraisals, hiring and training records for your staff.
- Goals, mid-year check-in and self appraisal
- Appraisal results and department performance
- KPI and goal achievement reports
- Recruitment pipeline, candidates and offer letters
- Time to hire, time to fill and cost per hire
- Learning, training plans and certificates with expiry
Benefits and engagement
Benefits, surveys, recognition and forms that employees use every week.
- Benefit plans, enrolments and claims
- Insurer member file
- Surveys, recognition wall and rewards
- Forms, form submissions and e-signatures
- 360° reviews and development plans
- Company wall, announcements with read receipts and chat
HR operations
Helpdesk questions, disciplinary cases and complaints, kept private to HR.
- HR helpdesk and Ask HR
- Disciplinary cases and notices
- Complaints and grievances
- Assignments, secondments and functional managers
- Company policies with acknowledgement
Connected
Works with the other ZEO apps
When two ZEO apps are active in your company, they connect on their own. A manager can switch any of these links off.
- Projects & Support – timesheets and employee cost per project
- Asset Management – assets issued to employees and exit clearance
- HSE – training, competencies and occupational health
- Accounting – payroll journals to Odoo, Zoho and other systems
Reports
Reports included
Filter, group, drill down and export to Excel, CSV or PDF.
- Headcount and turnover
- Joiners and leavers
- Documents and expiry
- Leave statement and balance
- Attendance register
- Overtime summary
- Payroll register
- Payroll by department
- Bank / WPS transfer list
- Gratuity accrual
- Leave liability
- Loans outstanding
- Air tickets
- Payroll variance
- Final settlements
- Recruitment pipeline
- Appraisal results
- Report builder
- Scheduled reports
Want to see it with your own data?
Send us a few details and we’ll set up a demo of ZEO Cloud, Odoo, Zoho or Business Central with your company’s name and data. It’s free.