Core HR software that puts you in control
Finally, a single source of the truth. Get control over your admin tasks with edays Core HR software.
A single, centralised employee record
Store key information such as employment history, salary history, right to work status, emergency contacts, and more
Smarter document management
Manage documents with expiry tracking, permission controls, and audit trails built in
Organisational chart
Interactive expandable view, direct click-through to employee profiles, export as needed
Assignment management
Use assignments to distribute, track, and confirm document acknowledgements at scale
CORE HR
Built to transform your everyday HR tasks
Handy HR documents, securely stored in one place
Manage all your important documents in one secure location, with features to keep things organised, compliant, and up-to-date.
Features include:
- Upload HR policies and other documents
- Set expiry dates for things like training accreditations or right to work documents
- Organise into folders and set access controls
- Attach employee-specific documents to their profile for better visibility
Safely store key information and records
Keep a record of all your employees in one centralised place, with individual profiles, document management, performance reviews, and more.
Employee directory helps you to:
- View employee details alongside absence and leave data
Automate your everyday HR tasks
Save time and reduce the manual work by adding automation into your HR processes. Workflow Builder allows you to set different triggers, conditions, and actions, so you can customise the journey based on your own internal policies and processes.
Workflow Builder allows you to:
A flexible Core HR module built for you
We know that every organisation is different. So our Core HR module has been built to be flexible, so you can customise it for your processes, your initiatives, and your employees.
Customisable features include:
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CORE HR
Get the essentials right
Save time on your everyday HR tasks
With edays, you can reduce your time spent on admin by 89%. With lots of customisation options and powerful automation capabilities, the platform helps you to do things quicker, sleeker, and in a more efficient manor.
Here’s some tasks we help you to optimise:
- Requesting and approving leave, with shared calendars and email notifications
- Keeping documents up-to-date with automatic expiry dates and reminder emails
- Onboarding new employees with customisable emails and tasks
Core HR and absence
edays allows you to keep all your HR and absence processes in one easy-to-use platform, while automating processes and saving time on manual processes.
Here’s some edays features that bring core HR and absence together:
- Store, organise, and set visibility on a variety of HR documents
- Book a variety of different types of absence and leave
- Manage employee data, entitlements, and documents in one handy place.
Report on your people metrics
With the edays custom report builder, you can gain the full understanding of your workforce. With total customisation and the ability to pull in the data that’s important to you.
People reports available in Core HR:
- Compensation and salary analysis
- Workforce analytics
- Right to work and visa status reporting
- Gender Pay Gap analysis
TESTIMONIALS
Cut out the manual work and automate your core HR tasks
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Core HR to suit your needs
We have a number of integration options. We have some out-of-the-box solutions with our partners, or you can use an SFTP or our API for more bespoke options. An SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) is an easy way to feed data from one system to another, while our API unlocks plenty of options for how two systems talk to each other.
Yes, the edays time tracking module can integrate with clocking devices. The API endpoints have been created to work with physical hardware, so that you can still use these for access and entry, while feeding the data into edays. We can either connect with your existing hardware, or you can purchase the hardware through one of our partners.
Yes, edays has an API that can be used to connect with many of your other platforms or software solutions. This makes the edays solution even more flexible and helps it to work more seamlessly in your tech stack.
Yes! iCal feeds allow you to sync edays calendars with any web-based calendars such as Outlook, Gmail, and more. This means that when leave is approved in edays, it will automatically pull through to your calendar to help your employees better manage their time.
Yes. The unique flexibility of our system means we’ve helped complement and improve existing systems for our customers, including ERP systems, Payroll, and core HR systems.
Learn more about our integrations here.
Yes, edays offer clocking in functionality. Employees can clock in and clock out of work via desktop or mobile app in just a few taps. Our refreshable, printable QR codes can be placed in different locations so that employees can ‘clock in’ to a certain area, task or activity. Visit our clock in app page to learn more.
Yes, with edays time & attendance software, employees are able to create online timesheets on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
These can then be sent for approval to managers, who can also run reports on working hours in their teams.
Overtime can also be tracked, and mandatory breaks can be enforced.
edays timesheet software also provides the ability to assign working hours to different projects and activities, for a clear picture on how time is spent in your organisation.
edays time & attendance software is a module that enables organisations to record employee working hours. The software consists of various elements – including the ability to clock in and out, either via desktop or mobile app. Refreshable, printable QR codes can also be placed in different locations and by scanning them, employees can clock in to a certain area or task.
Our time tracking software also includes the ability to create and submit online timesheets on a weekly or monthly basis. Timesheets can be submitted to line managers for approval, and reported on on a weekly or monthly basis. Projects, activities or tasks can be assigned to timesheets, so managers can see how much time has been spent on different work throughout a day, week or month.
The software also allows managers to enforce mandatory breaks, and overtime can be logged within the system too.
Find out more about our time & attendance software here.
Yes. If enabled, edays automatically calculates an ongoing Bradford Factor score for every employee, and if turned on, can display live scores on individual profiles. If you do not use the Bradford Factor, this feature can be turned off at the click of a button.
Try our Bradford Factor Calculator here.
Yes. edays allows you to track any type of planned (e.g. holidays, maternity leave, medical appointments, business trips, time off in lieu (TOIL), etc.) or unplanned absence (e.g. sickness, compassionate leave, unpaid leave, etc.) in a single system. You can also create custom absence types specific to your organisation, such as wellbeing leave, and define rules for how these are to be used and recorded.
Learn more about our absence management software.
The return to work process is made faster and more efficient with edays. A reason can be logged alongside an individual’s sickness absence, and for UK employees, relevant NHS guidance can be forwarded on to them to aid in their recovery (see more on our NHS Portal here).
You can automatically send a return to work form to an employee who is returning from sickness absence. This is then stored in the employee’s details in edays, alongside any doctor’s fit notes or medical certificates that may be required.
Before conducting return to work interviews, managers and HR can review the employee’s records and view any previous absences to be fully equipped ahead of the individual’s return.
edays supports all custom absence types, allowing you to add as many types as you like. You also have the ability to define rules for how these are to be used and managed.
Visit our leave management system page to find out more.
Yes. You can configure system alerts to trigger if specific absence conditions are exceeded and automatically notify specified individuals via email immediately.
Find out more about the edays sickness tracker.
Yes. As a cloud-based system, edays can be accessed 24/7 meaning employees always have access to their absence records and can check their entitlement through our annual leave tracker. And, authorised users can export specific absence data from the system at any time.
Yes. edays allows you to configure all absence types to be recorded in hours, days or half-days, with customisable settings for different working patterns (i.e. shift work, part-time employees, etc.)
Find out more about our staff holiday management features.
Yes. edays has the unique ability to manage and track employee long service awards.
We have many optional features which are frequently being added to, for example:
Employee Directory
Document Portal
Time Tracking
Mobile App
People Insights
Workflow Builder
Explore our features pages or chat to our sales team to see which may be right for you.
Yes! Our absence management mobile app lets you access edays from your phone or tablet anywhere, any time. Employees can request leave on the go with our app. Managers will receive a notification and they can log in and approve the request in just a few taps. Sickness absences can also be logged quickly, without the need to log in to your desktop.
The security of our customer’s data is our top priority. We are ISO 27001 certified and data is stored on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. All data is encrypted at all times, both at rest and in transit using the most modern encryption standard and algorithms. For more information, click here to head over to our Security Section.
edays supports more than 25 languages, including English (UK/US), Français, Español, Nederlands, Deutsch, Italiano, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Thai, Arabic, Serbian and more.
Please get in touch to discuss which languages you need.
As well as absence management edays offers a complete workforce management software platform; absence management is the foundation, but the platform extends well beyond it. Alongside absence tracking, Bradford Factor management and return to work workflows, edays includes time and attendance management (clocking in and out, online timesheets, project time tracking and EU Working Time Directive compliance), workforce scheduling (drag-and-drop rota management, skills-based shift assignment and fatigue management rules), leave management, core HR tools (employee directory, document management and workflow automation), a mobile app and People Insights analytics. Everything connects in one platform so absence, leave and time data are always in sync, and payroll always receives accurate, reconciled figures without manual intervention.
We focus on providing the best absence management, leave management and time and attendance solutions for your organisation. We’ll listen to your requirements and offer a best-in-class solution with more functionality compared to any other HR system providers. Our system is packed with features you won’t find anywhere else – helping you to manage absence, leave and time in more detailed, customisable ways that suit your organisation.
Generally speaking, system admins will gain access to Workflow Builder. However, we have added an additional setting for Workflow Builder so that you can restrict or allow access as necessary. This also means that only those who you give permission to, will be able to upgrade to Workflow Builder Pro.
Workflow Builder Pro is for organisations who require even more automation. This module allows you to create and enable an unlimited number of workflows, promoting automation within every area of your business.
edays Workflow Builder allows you to create up to 5 enabled workflows at any one time. This doesn’t limit the number you can build, and you can switch your workflows on and off as needed.
edays Workflow Builder is designed to automate your processes, reduce admin and save time. By building and creating custom workflows, you can set a variety of triggers, conditions and actions to remove the need for manual work around your absence management practices.
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Related features
More features and functionality
Holiday booking
Take the leg work out of calculating and booking staff annual leave
Sickness tracking
Understand when and why employees take sickness absence.
Overtime & TOIL
Make tracking, submitting and managing employee time easy.
Time & Attendance
Effortlessly manage working hours with time tracking software.
Absence reporting
Create the reports you need, and drill down into your attendance data.
Mobile App
An app to manage leave anywhere, any time.