COMPLETE FEATURE CATALOGUE

Every HR workflow,
in one platform.

Explore every module that runs the complete employee lifecycle for Indian businesses, from hiring and payroll to compliance, performance and full-and-final settlement.

90% fewer payroll errors with automation
CORE HR & EMPLOYEE DATA

One employee record, hire to exit

A single digital record holds every employee's personal, employment, salary and compliance data, edited through dated, audited amendments so payroll and statutory filings always stay accurate.

Guided onboarding wizard covering personal, official, salary, statutory numbers, documents & work history
Amendment-first editing keeps a dated, audited history of every change, with no silent edits
Sensitive PII & every uploaded document encrypted at rest
Bulk amendment · 4 employees
Employee
Field
New value
Anjali K
Designation
Sr. Analyst
Rahul S
Basic pay
₹52,000
Meera P
Branch
Kochi
Vishnu T
Salary
+38%
Effective 01 Jul 2025 1 warning to review

Employee master data

The complete digital record at the heart of the system: one place for every employee, from hire to exit.

  • Automatic salary breakup by branch, department & structure
  • Separate mobile-app and web logins with lock/reset controls
  • One-click inter-company transfer carrying over leave & checks

Digital onboarding

New hires complete their own paperwork online before day one. A stack of forms becomes a five-minute link.

  • Secure, time-limited link per prospective hire
  • Self-upload of ID proofs, resumes & certificates, encrypted
  • One-click convert to a full record with auto employee code

Bulk employee amendments

Salary revisions, promotions and transfers across hundreds of employees in one spreadsheet-style grid.

  • Each row validated and applied independently, so one bad row won't block the batch
  • Payroll-impact preview before you commit
  • Effective-dated changes with full before/after audit history

Branches

Manage every work location with the details statutory compliance and multi-branch payroll depend on.

  • Shop vs Factory classification drives licenses, min-wage & welfare fund
  • Statutory identifiers (ESI, PF, welfare, license numbers) per branch
  • Dedicated bank account & optional geo-fencing per location

Departments, designations & zones

The org-structure building blocks behind reporting, approvals and payroll segmentation.

  • Standardized masters keep titles consistent across payslips & letters
  • Category tags (permanent, probation, contract, intern) drive eligibility
  • Zones group branches with configurable incentive multipliers

Documents & signatories

Centralizes the legal and administrative paperwork every company keeps for compliance and official documents.

  • Secure repository for statutory documents, licenses & agreements with renewal tracking
  • Authorized-signatory roster with digital signatures for letters & filings
  • Timestamped digital trail of policy & NDA acceptance
One attendance record
Biometric Face GPS Mobile
Present Off Absent
Muster roll · June 2025Locked & payroll-ready
ATTENDANCE, TIME & SHIFTS

Every punch, one payroll-ready record

Biometric, face, GPS, mobile and manual punches unify into a single lockable Muster Roll, the audited foundation every payslip is built on.

Office, remote/WFH, field and overnight punches handled automatically
Lock a verified period to hand payroll a clean, tamper-proof record
Works with ESSL, ZKTeco & Matrix and all ZKTeco-compatible devices

Attendance punches

A single, reliable source of truth for time, however it was captured.

  • GPS location & photo verification for remote punches
  • Monthly calendar with inline correction of punch errors
  • Bulk re-evaluation plus three ready-to-use Excel reports

Muster roll

Turns raw punches, leave and holidays into a verified, lockable record per period.

  • Interactive grid combining attendance, leave & holidays
  • Highlights missed punches & applied penalties before finalizing
  • Two bulk-upload formats with full validation

Missed-punch requests

Employees formally request a fix, routed through configurable approvals instead of manual edits.

  • Side-by-side current-vs-requested time comparison
  • Single or multi-level approval chains with escalation
  • Approved requests auto-recalculate attendance

Punch devices & rules

Central device management and a rules engine controlling how punches become paid time.

  • Assign terminals per branch with API-key auth & IP allow-listing
  • Live device-health monitoring flags offline terminals
  • Grace periods, overtime & lateness rules by shift/branch/designation

Face recognition & device binding

Identity verification for mobile clock-ins, with control over which phones can punch.

  • Selfie / face-recognition verification targeted by branch & department
  • Mandatory GPS verification to prevent spoofed attendance
  • One-click revoke of a lost or compromised device binding

Shifts & rotations

Define shifts once, including overnight, and let the system schedule rotating teams.

  • Morning, day, evening, night & custom shifts crossing midnight
  • Daily, weekly, bi-weekly & monthly rotation cycles at scale
  • Editable grid with conflict detection & bulk Excel import
LEAVE, BENEFITS & LOANS

Time off and advances, automatically balanced

Eligibility-aware leave with real-time balances, encashment with guardrails, and employee loans with automatic EMI recovery. Every request runs through the right approval chain.

Automatic balance validation prevents anyone overdrawing their leave
Policies change for a future date without losing historical accuracy
Loans recover automatically from salary once disbursed
Leave balances
Annual12 / 18
Sick6 / 12
Casual4 / 6
Loan EMI₹4,200/mo · 8 of 12 paid

Leave requests

The core workflow for requesting time off, with automatic balance tracking so nobody overdraws.

  • Employees see only eligible leave types with live balances
  • Configurable multi-level approval, one-click approve / reject / revert
  • Attach documents; bulk-import large batches at once

Leave structure & heads

The rules engine defining which leave types and allowances apply where.

  • Distinct policies per branch / department / employee-type
  • Tune entitlement, encashment, carry-forward & lapse per type
  • Future-dated changes preserve every past payroll period

Allocation & transactions

The system of record for every leave credit and reversal, fully traceable.

  • Bulk-allocate to hundreds of employees at once
  • Excel import/export with row-by-row error reporting
  • Safeguards prevent double-allocation on finalized periods

Leave surrender (encashment)

Convert unused leave into cash with a full approve → process → pay workflow.

  • Automatic eligibility, retain-minimum & max-days checks
  • End-to-end status tracking from request to payment
  • Guardrails lock a request once money has changed hands

Loan applications

Employee loan requests as a guided, self-auditing process from eligibility to recovery.

  • Employees see only loan types they qualify for
  • Real-time EMI calculator: interest-free, flat or reducing balance
  • Amount-based multi-level approvals; disbursement starts recovery

Holidays & off-day groups

Company holiday calendars and weekly-off schedules that drive attendance & payroll.

  • Per-branch/department calendars with overlap protection
  • Flexible weekly-off patterns planned years ahead
  • Amendment workflow protects already-processed payroll
Payroll run
June 2025
Disbursed
₹48.2L
net disbursed · 248 employees · 100% on time
Draft Processed Hold Disbursed
PAYROLL & COMPENSATION

Nothing by hand. Nothing paid by mistake.

The core engine calculates every employee's pay, applies India's statutory deductions automatically, and manages the full disbursement lifecycle with controls that prevent costly errors.

Draft → Processed → Hold → Disbursed, with cancel & full reversal before payout
Every Indian salary model: monthly, daily, hourly, commission, shift & piece-rate
Disbursed payrolls lock automatically, protecting payment records

Payroll engine

A guided batch wizard that turns attendance into accurate, compliant pay.

  • Auto PF, ESI, Profession Tax & TDS with employer/employee split
  • Hold, cancel or fully reverse a run, including leave restoration
  • One-click payslips, email delivery & Excel export

Payroll settings

Tells the engine how to calculate pay for every group of employees.

  • Branch-level pay frequency, payment days & calculation method
  • Cross-month pay cycles (e.g. 21st–20th) handled automatically
  • Future-dated rule changes preserve past pay periods

Salary heads

Define pay components once and every payslip, filing & wage report calculates correctly.

  • Built-in tax rules for HRA, medical, transport & LTA exemptions
  • Map components to Wage Protection System (WPS) columns
  • Every change versioned through amendment history

Salary structure groups

Exactly how each branch and department gets paid, with formulas that plug into payroll.

  • Visual formula builder using percentages, fixed amounts or custom, no code
  • Different structures per branch/department combination
  • Conflict checks stop overlapping structures causing errors

Allowances & deductions

Ad-hoc pay adjustments that don't belong in a fixed structure, kept under financial control.

  • Single entry, bulk grid, or Excel for the whole workforce
  • Draft → Approved → Rejected workflow before it hits payroll
  • Limited automatically to each employee's configured components

Bonus declarations

Turn bonus policy into payouts: declare, auto-calculate eligibility, and approve.

  • Fixed, percentage or formula-based, with min/max caps & proration
  • Auto eligibility by tenure, attendance, rating, department & band
  • Live cost estimate before committing; figures lock on approval
STATUTORY & TAX COMPLIANCE

Built around Indian labour law

PF, ESI, Profession Tax and TDS pull from one consistent source, state-wise PT slabs stay current, and government-format filing becomes a guided, few-click process.

State-wise Profession Tax slabs, critical for multi-state operations
Company-wide Form 16 bulk wizard with branding, password & watermark
Built-in compliance calendar flags upcoming & overdue deadlines
Statutory filings · June 20254 of 4 filed
PF · ECR
ESI
PT · Kerala
TDS · 24Q
Next deadline · Form 16 wizardin 6 days

Statutory settings

The compliance backbone: one source of truth for every statutory identifier.

  • PF, ESI, TAN, PAN & GST in one place, with no mismatched filings
  • Configurable Profession Tax slabs per state, kept current
  • Centralized TDS parameters, adjustable as slabs change

Profession Tax

Automates India's state-specific PT calculation, with no manual slab lookups.

  • Correct state & local-body slab by salary and location
  • Actual, approximated & advance calculation modes
  • Bulk-calculate a whole branch; validates min working-days

Form 16 & TDS certificates

Automates one of the most tedious parts of Indian payroll compliance.

  • Bulk-generate company-wide in a guided wizard
  • Auto-email certificates; one-click ZIP download
  • Every form hash-verified and fully audited

Compliance library & AI assistant

An always-current reference for Indian labour law, with answers on demand.

  • Central library of central & state acts, forms & deadlines
  • AI Compliance Assistant answers plain-language questions
  • Attach & download official legal documents per rule

Statutory reports

Complex filing turned into a guided, few-click process, with no manual spreadsheets.

  • Wizard-driven EPF, ESI, Factory Act, POSH & PT reports
  • Export to government-portal-ready text with custom delimiters
  • Full history with re-download & regenerate

Never miss a deadline

The compliance calendar keeps every statutory obligation in view, so filings happen on time, every cycle.

All statutory filings up to date
Hiring pipeline
New
24
Screening
11
Interview
5
Offer
2
Hired
1
RECRUITMENT & HIRING

From requisition to first day

A structured request-to-hire process, a public careers page, and a managed pipeline that runs from interviews and offers into a self-service onboarding link, with no spreadsheets or scattered email.

Budget- and headcount-gated requisitions prevent unplanned hiring
Pipeline guardrails only allow valid next-stage moves
DPDP-Act consent & data-retention tracking built in

Requisitions

The formal starting point of every hire, with budget and approval controls.

  • Headcount, department, budget & justification in one request
  • Multi-status approval before a job opening can go live
  • Priority levels with fill-time SLAs; replacement-hire traceability

Job openings & applications

Publish vacancies to a public careers page and manage the whole funnel.

  • Rich job details plus screening questions to auto-qualify
  • Live per-job dashboard: pipeline, sources & conversion
  • Full stage-change history & source tracking

Candidates

The master database of everyone sourced for potential hiring, DPDP-compliant.

  • Reusable profile across multiple applications
  • Star ratings & timestamped evaluation notes
  • Blacklist capability with mandatory reason capture

Interviews

Coordinate rounds, track outcomes and collect panel feedback in one place.

  • Phone, technical, managerial, panel & final rounds
  • Five-point recommendation scale for easy comparison
  • Structured feedback from multiple panelists

Offer letters

The formal offer process end to end: compensation, approval, sending & response.

  • Sequential offer numbers; compensation encrypted at rest
  • Draft → Approval → Sent → Accepted/Declined lifecycle
  • Captures decline reasons; auto-expires stale offers

Agencies, referrals & integrations

Vendor management, job-board integrations and employee referrals.

  • Agency directory with commission & sourcing performance
  • Scoped API keys with rate limits for career sites & boards
  • Referral tracking with bonus-payout tracking
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Goals, check-ins & reviews, in one place

Cascading goals with manager sign-off, KPI tracking with a full trend history, structured 1:1 check-ins, and goal-linked review cycles: a clear structure for how your teams grow.

Goals cascade company → team → individual with true OKR roll-up
Self-assessment → manager review → acknowledgment, every cycle
A lightweight appraisal engine for teams that don't need full OKRs
Goal progress
Reduce attrition to 8%
72%
Revenue / rep KPI +12%

Goals & OKRs

A structured way to set objectives and track progress, with accountability built in.

  • Numeric, percentage & milestone targets with auto progress
  • Categories, types, periods & reusable goal templates
  • Formal approval workflow routed to the owner's manager

KPI tracking

Define the metrics that matter and build a full history of how they move over time.

  • KPI definitions with unit, target & threshold configuration
  • Instances per company, department, team, project or individual
  • Recorded values build a trend history for analysis

One-on-one check-ins

Structured 1:1s between managers and employees, with a shared agenda and follow-up.

  • Schedule by meeting type with a shared agenda & prep checklist
  • Capture notes, mood & effectiveness afterward
  • Action items with owner, due date & priority close the loop

Performance reviews

Configurable review cycles with a structured, goal-linked review flow.

  • Annual, quarterly & probation cycles with separate due dates
  • Review goals with per-goal ratings & achievement roll-up
  • Calibration sessions to discuss & document rating decisions

Self-assessment & appraisal

A standalone, lightweight appraisal module for review cycles without a full OKR system.

  • Auto-generated per employee for each review cycle
  • Custom questionnaires with configurable scoring weights
  • Automatic recurring scheduling with a final weighted grade

Reviewer hierarchy

Multi-level reviewer chains keep appraisals moving and fairly documented.

  • Multi-level reviewers with escalation & delegation
  • Custom grading scales translate scores into branded labels
  • HR publish / override step before results go live
Route today · 3 stops
Kochi · Acme Traders Verified
Aluva · BlueOak Ltd Verified
3Kakkanad · Nila Labs ₹850 over limit
FIELD, EXPENSE & REMOTE WORK

Visibility beyond the office

GPS-tracked field visits, photo-verified meetings, and policy-aware expense claims that flag violations before they reach an approver, plus clear rules for who works remotely and how.

Hard policy violations block submission; soft over-limits route for override
The same policy engine runs on web and mobile for consistent verdicts
Route-map visualization compares actual travel against plan

Expense claims & policies

Reimbursement claims auto-checked against policy, so approvers do less math.

  • Log a trip once with all lines and attached receipts
  • Distance-based travel, food proration & travel-class checks
  • Per-type caps & a company-wide travel rate card

Field visits

Plan, execute and verify on-site customer visits with live GPS tracking.

  • Multi-customer routes with sequencing & scheduling
  • Automatic stop & meeting-checkpoint detection
  • Verification workflow with security risk scoring

Visit expense & photo

Purpose-built expense and evidence capture for field teams, GPS-tagged for authenticity.

  • Receipt-backed claims linked to specific customer visits
  • Photo evidence categorized by type with GPS/timestamp
  • Mobile sync tracking & full approval workflow

Remote work policies

Define exactly who can work remotely, under what conditions, with what safeguards.

  • WFH, field, client-visit, emergency & on-duty remote types
  • Notice rules & monthly/consecutive-day limits
  • Photo/GPS check-in verification; recurring schedules

Remote work overrides

Grant individual exceptions for medical or project needs without changing policy for everyone.

  • Per-employee overrides, time-bound or permanent, with reason
  • Automatic fallback to company policy for anything not overridden
  • "Currently effective" view monitors exactly what's live

Norms Field app

A dedicated mobile app puts visit schedules, check-ins and expenses in every field rep's pocket.

  • Assigned visit schedules with GPS check-in/out
  • Customer & contact management on the go
  • Capture expenses & visit photos from the field
ASSET & EQUIPMENT

Track everything you issue

Every laptop, vehicle and license, tracked from assignment through depreciation, handover and exit recovery, with a full assignment history so nothing goes missing.

Automatic depreciation, current value & warranty-expiry alerts
Availability checks prevent double assignment
Exit handover recovers cost straight into the final settlement
MacBook Air · DL-4521
Assigned · Anjali K
Active
Depreciation60%
Warranty valid till Mar 2026

Assets & assignment

The central inventory for every physical asset the company owns.

  • Auto codes, serial tracking & location visibility
  • Due-date tracking with overdue & due-soon alerts

Categories & types

Organize assets into groups with consistent depreciation & warranty rules.

  • One-click seeding of common categories & types
  • Default depreciation & warranty per type

Asset handover

Collect back property at exit, assess condition, and recover cost.

  • Document condition at return with photo uploads
  • Repair/replacement cost feeds the final settlement

Digital assets & access

Track software licenses and streamline equipment & access requests.

  • Digital-license inventory with assignment history
  • Cost-based escalation; bulk-approve routine requests
Exit clearance
IT Finance Admin HR
Full & final payable₹1,24,500
RESIGNATION & EXIT

Offboarding, fully accounted for

Resignation, multi-department clearance and exit interviews, with full & final settlement calculated automatically and letters generated on approval: one auditable process instead of scattered spreadsheets.

No-dues clearance across IT, Finance, Admin, HR & the employee's department
Settlement blocked until every mandatory clearance item clears
Auto experience, relieving & settlement documents on approval

Resignation workflow

End-to-end offboarding from submission through settlement.

  • Notice & reason capture with auto-built approval chain
  • Early-release & pay-in-lieu handling
  • Auto F&F: salary, leave & bonus minus deductions

Approval hierarchy

Configure exactly how resignations route for sign-off.

  • Multi-level rules targeted by department & designation
  • Role-based or named approvers, with escalation timers
  • "Test" a rule against a sample employee first

Certificate & clearance templates

Design branded documents once, then auto-generate them for every exit.

  • Rich-text templates with logo, letterhead & auto-filled details
  • Multi-language: English, Hindi & Malayalam
  • Version history for reissuing historical certificates
EVERYDAY OPERATIONS

Everything else that keeps the day running

Help desk, knowledge base, announcements, cafeteria, projects and timesheets: the operational glue that keeps HR and employees moving.

HR tickets

An employee help desk with SLA tracking so nothing falls through the cracks.

  • Auto-numbered, categorized & routed with SLA due dates
  • Two-way thread with internal HR-only notes

Knowledge base

Self-service policies, procedures & FAQs so employees find answers themselves.

  • Draft → published → archived articles with full-text search
  • Featured & HR-internal content, with view analytics

Certificate requests

A self-service, trackable workflow for the HR paperwork employees ask for.

  • Salary, experience, employment, relieving & NOC letters
  • Signed documents encrypted, delivered via secure download

Announcements

Broadcast internal communications with precise audience targeting.

  • Target by branch, department, employee type or company-wide
  • Priority levels with real-time delivery notifications

Cafeteria / mess

Full control over the company cafeteria's daily headcount, with self-service booking.

  • Book, edit or cancel meals; one booking per meal per day
  • Configurable meals & cutoffs scoped by branch/department

Projects

Organize work into trackable projects, internal or billable engagements.

  • Full lifecycle with hour budgets & overflow flags
  • Built-in Kanban board & role-based team management

Tasks & categories

The work-item layer that timesheets log time against.

  • Subtasks with status, priority & hour estimates
  • Overdue flags & color-coded categories

Time entries & timesheets

The granular record of the day, rolled up into a reviewable timesheet.

  • Entry against project/task with validation
  • Approval lifecycle with "request revision" & payroll-aligned cadence
SECURITY, AUTOMATION & MULTI-TENANCY

Enterprise-grade by default

Encrypted PII and financial data, full audit trails on every change, strict company-level isolation and role-based access throughout, with configurable approval pipelines and notifications underneath it all.

AES-256 encryption at rest with row-level company isolation
Role-based access control, so everyone sees only what they should
Configurable approval pipelines across every request type
AES-256 encrypted · row-level isolation
Recent audit trail
Salary revisedHR · 2m ago
Leave approvedManager · 1h ago
Admin HR Manager Employee

Approval pipeline

Define who signs off on each request, and in what order.

  • Multi-stage chains per request type
  • Smart rules skip redundant approvals
  • Oversight roles can view all requests

Notification settings

Control what triggers a notification and who receives it, no code required.

  • Triggers for payroll runs, leave, exits & more
  • Target by role, department or branch
  • Preview recipients before turning it on

Report settings

A no-code builder for your own HR, payroll & compliance report formats.

  • Upload Excel/CSV templates with header detection
  • Map columns to employee, salary or leave data
  • Scope reports to specific branches or departments
WHY NORMS

One platform that does what most stitch together

The depth of a full HR suite, the compliance of a payroll specialist, and the field & attendance tooling most Indian businesses buy separately, all in one place.

Capability Norms HRMS Basic HRMS Spreadsheets
Automatic Indian statutory compliance (PF/ESI/PT/TDS)
Draft → processed → disbursed payroll controls
Biometric, face, GPS & mobile attendance in one record
Field force & policy-aware expense management
Recruitment, onboarding & exit / final settlement
Excel-like bulk data amendments with audit history
Multi-branch, multi-state & role-based access
AI compliance assistant & AI-assisted search

See every module in action

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