Everything ZekoHR does
Built module by module for real HR teams, then priced so you only pay for what you use. Everything below is in the product today — and all of it is included in the free year.
Core HR
Employee profiles & directory
Rich profiles with an employment timeline, employee codes, personal details, PF & ESI opt-ins, probation and confirmation dates. A company directory everyone can search, with the full record one click away for HR.
Employee self-service
Employees see their own leave balances, attendance calendar, payslips, documents, expenses and requests — and act on them — without raising a single email to HR.
Leave management
Configurable leave types and allocations, apply & approve workflows, team calendars, and holiday calendars with India's restricted-holiday pattern built in. New companies start with a sensible India baseline.
Attendance
One record per person per day — present, half day, absent, on leave, holiday or weekly off. Corrections replace the day rather than stacking rows, monthly totals are computed live, and days on approved leave are never double-counted against pay.
Employee documents
Drag-and-drop uploads against each employee, organised by category, with expiry tracking and reminders.
Knowledge base & contextual help
A seeded, editable knowledge base plus a per-screen help panel, so the answer is next to the question.
People operations
Onboarding & offboarding
Template-driven checklists take a new joiner from offer to productive, and make exits orderly — with tasks assigned to the right owners and progress visible at a glance.
Documents Center
A verification queue with bulk verify and reject-with-reason, document request batches with auto-fulfilment, org-wide documents with acknowledgements, an expiring-documents view, and daily reminders.
Letters & templates
Generate offer letters, confirmations and more from templates, rendered to PDF and emailed with the document attached.
Policies & acknowledgements
Publish policies and know exactly who has acknowledged them — and who hasn't.
Asset register
Issue and return laptops, phones and anything else, with the history on the employee's profile.
Change requests & audit log
Employee-initiated changes flow through approval, and every material action lands in an append-oriented audit log with actor, entity and before/after values.
Payroll & money
Payroll & payslips
Pay components and salary structures, effective-dated salaries, and monthly runs with a draft → finalize → publish flow (with rollback). PDF payslips are generated and delivered to each employee's portal.
Payroll pre-flight checks
Before a run, ZekoHR flags missing attendance and incomplete or unverified tax declarations — and only for orgs that actually use those modules, so the report stays worth reading.
Tax declarations (TDS)
Full investment declaration flow: draft → submitted → verified or handed back, per-item proof uploads, declaration windows that lock editing, and verified amounts kept separate from declared amounts.
Expenses
Single claims and multi-line reports with receipts, a configurable multi-step approval engine (by amount, category or department; role, manager or named approvers; delegation; bulk approve), and audited HR override.
Reimbursements & advances
Mark claims paid out-of-band, or push them into the next payroll run automatically. Cash advances are requested, approved, disbursed and then auto-reconciled against claims so you only pay the delta.
Expense reports & GST
Spend by category, department, employee and month with billable split and CSV export, GSTIN capture, a GST input-credit register, multi-currency FX capture, and mileage & per-diem rates.
Culture & voice
Employee social feed
Posts with text, images, files, video and link previews; multi-emoji reactions; threaded comments; @mentions and #hashtags; bookmarks; and a moderation queue for reported content.
Kudos & values
Recognition tied to your company values, with a leaderboard that shows who's lifting the culture.
Announcements & polls
Pin what matters, require acknowledgement when it really matters, and take the temperature with polls.
Auto-celebrations
Birthdays, work anniversaries and new joiners are celebrated automatically — birthdays surfaced a week ahead, anniversaries a month ahead, so nobody scrambles on the day.
Grievances & whistleblower reporting
Named or anonymous reports — harassment/PoSH, fraud, discrimination, safety, data privacy, retaliation — each with a secret tracking code for status lookup. An optional public intake link (off by default) lets people report without an account.
Confidential case tracking
Cases move open → in review → resolved or dismissed, visible only to HR Managers and Admins — deliberately excluded from the employee's HR profile, and never exposed to other managers.
Platform
Multi-company
Several legal entities under one org and one login. Departments, designations, holidays and policies are scoped per company; people can belong to more than one.
Roles & permissions
Admin, HR Manager, Manager, Accounts and Employee roles, enforced per-permission on every API route — with HR scoping to narrow further.
Branding & themes
Your logo and brand colour across the portal and every email; each person picks light, dark or system.
Your subdomain
Every org gets its own address — yourcompany.zekohr.com — with your branding on the sign-in page.
Webhooks & API access
The same documented API that powers every screen, available to your systems on Pro — your data is never trapped.
Email that looks like you
Branded, editable email templates with plain-text alternatives, and a daily pending-actions digest that mails a person at most once a day, only when something needs them.