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HR & Payroll

Your team, from shift to payslip.

Employees, shifts, and rosters; attendance and leave with approvals; onboarding and salary structures that end in payroll. Staff see their own attendance, leaves, and payslips — without asking you.

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  • Attendance, shifts, and rosters
  • Leave types, requests, and approvals
  • Payroll with salary structures
  • Employee self-service — attendance, leaves, payslips

What is HR & Payroll in Flowyana?

Flowyana HR & Payroll is HR and payroll software for growing teams in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf. It covers employees, shifts and rosters, attendance, leave with approvals, onboarding, resignations and monthly payroll from salary structures. Payroll reads attendance and leave on its own, posts to your books, and every employee sees their own payslips, leave balance and attendance.

Small and mid-sized businesses usually run HR across three places: a time clock, a leave spreadsheet and a payroll workbook that someone rebuilds every month. Every month the same questions come back. Who was absent? Was that leave paid? Why is this salary different? Flowyana puts those answers in one place, so payroll is a review, not a reconstruction.

HR runs on the same platform as accounting, expenses and the rest of your business. Employees belong to branches and departments, and staff can link their employee record to their login. A pay run posts salary cost and what you owe staff through the same voucher engine as your sales and purchases. Staff expense claims and advances run in the Expenses module on the same platform.

Buy HR & Payroll on its own plan, sized by headcount, or run it next to sales, inventory or POS. Pick the language per user: the workspace is available in English, Arabic, Hindi, French, German and Spanish.

What it does

HR & Payroll, in practice.

Shifts and rosters

Plan who works when, per branch — and see attendance against the plan.

Attendance with policies

Check-ins tracked under attendance policies you define, reported per person and per period.

Leave, end to end

Leave types, holiday calendars, requests, and an approvals inbox — no paper slips.

Payroll from structures

Salary structures drive payroll runs; payslips reach employees in their self-service view.

Join to resign

Onboarding for new hires and a proper resignation flow at the other end.

Payroll that reaches the books

A pay run posts salary cost and the employee liability through the same voucher engine as everything else; marking it paid moves the cash leg.

Only need this module?

Get HR & Payroll in the plans for the product you run — two or three plans per product, users and branches included. Add one more user or branch any time.

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How it works

HR & Payroll, step by step.

  1. 1

    Set up your people

    Add employees with their branch, department, position, manager, employment type and hire date. Link an employee to a user login so they can clock in and see their own records. Choose who may view pay.

  2. 2

    Plan shifts and track attendance

    Define shifts and a roster per branch. Staff clock in and out themselves, and attendance policies work out lateness, early leaving, half days and overtime.

  3. 3

    Run leave through approvals

    Set leave types with yearly days, accrual and carry-forward. Employees request leave, managers approve or reject it, and balances update on their own.

  4. 4

    Run payroll and post it

    Create a pay run for the period. Flowyana builds each payslip from the salary structure, attendance and paid leave. Approve it, post it to the books, then mark it paid.

In depth

A closer look.

HR and payroll software for the UAE and the Gulf

Gulf businesses have working patterns a generic HR tool often gets wrong. In Flowyana the weekend is whatever you set in the attendance policy, such as Friday and Saturday, or Saturday and Sunday, or a single day. Holidays are your own calendar, so you enter the public holidays for each year, including Eid dates once they are announced. Employees can belong to more than one branch, which suits staff who split time between outlets.

  • Weekend days set per attendance policy, not hard-coded
  • Your own holiday calendar each year
  • Employees across several branches and departments
  • Amounts in your currency, with three decimals where the currency uses them
  • Payslips and HR screens in Arabic or English, chosen per user

Attendance and shift management

An attendance policy sets the rules once: the grace period before someone counts as late, the hours below which a day is a half day, the overtime rate and the weekend days. Each attendance record then shows check-in and check-out times, working hours, overtime hours, minutes late and minutes left early. Staff can clock in from their own login, and you can switch on a location check so a clock-in only counts within a set radius of the workplace. Rosters show who is meant to be on which shift, branch by branch.

  • Late grace period, half-day threshold and overtime rate per policy
  • Self clock-in and clock-out, with an optional location radius
  • Shifts and a roster per branch
  • A “today” view of who is in, and an attendance report by person and period

Leave management with approvals

Leave management software should answer one question fast: can this person take these days? Each leave type has its days per year, whether it is paid, how it accrues (yearly, monthly or quarterly) and how many days may carry forward. Requests can be full or half days. When approval is required, the request waits for a manager, and the employee sees the outcome in their self-service view. Balances show allocated, used, pending and carried-forward days for each type and year.

  • Paid and unpaid leave types with their own colours
  • Annual, monthly or quarterly accrual, with a carry-forward limit
  • Half-day requests, approvals and rejection reasons
  • Balances per employee, leave type and year

How payroll is calculated

Each employee has a salary structure: a basic salary plus components. A component is an earning, a deduction, a reimbursement or a tax line, and its value is a fixed amount, a percentage of basic, or a percentage of gross. For the pay period, Flowyana counts working days, days attended and paid leave days. Any days left over are unpaid absence, and the basic is reduced in proportion. The payslip lists every component, so an employee can see why this month differs from last.

  • Allowances such as housing and transport as earnings, fixed or percentage
  • Deductions, reimbursements and tax lines as their own components
  • Unpaid absence worked out from attendance and leave
  • A printable payslip on your own template

Payroll that reaches the books

Payroll is only finished when the accounts agree. When a pay run is posted, Flowyana writes the salary cost and the amount owed to each employee as accounting vouchers, using the expense, deduction and bank ledgers you choose. When you mark the run paid by bank transfer, cash or cheque, the payment leg posts too. If you use approvals, a pay run can need sign-off before it posts. The finance team sees payroll in the same trial balance and P&L as everything else.

  • Salary expense, deductions and staff payables posted for you
  • Payment by bank transfer, cash or cheque recorded against the run
  • Optional approval before a pay run posts

Onboarding, resignations and self-service

Joining and leaving are the moments HR most often loses track of. An onboarding record names the joining date, an HR coordinator and a mentor, and moves from not started to completed. A resignation records the date, notice period, last working day and reason, and can go through an approval workflow. Throughout, “My HR” gives every employee their own attendance, leave requests and balances, and payslips, without asking HR.

  • Onboarding with coordinator and mentor
  • Resignations with notice period and last working day
  • My attendance, my leaves and my payslips for every employee

Who it’s for

Businesses that run on HR & Payroll.

Retail chains

Shift rosters per store, clock-in at the branch, and one payroll for every outlet, with each store’s staff cost visible.

Restaurants and cafés

Split shifts and overtime tracked against the policy, leave approved by the manager, and payroll posted straight into the books.

Trading and distribution

Office, warehouse and drivers on different shifts, with salary structures that hold each group’s allowances.

Service and maintenance firms

Technicians who clock in on site within a set radius, and leave planned around the job schedule.

Clinics and salons

Part-time and full-time staff on rosters, with half-day leave and weekend days set to match the opening hours.

Professional services

A small team that wants self-service payslips and leave balances, and payroll that the accountant can read in the same books.

Questions

Asked about hr & payroll.

Is Flowyana HR & payroll software suitable for the UAE?

Yes. You set the weekend days, your own holiday calendar, and salary components such as housing and transport allowances. Payroll posts to the books in your currency. As of October 2026 it does not create WPS salary files, so send salaries through your bank as you do today.

Does it calculate end-of-service gratuity?

No, not today. Flowyana does not calculate gratuity or produce WPS, Mudad or GOSI files. It handles attendance, leave, salary structures, payslips and posting payroll to your accounts.

Can employees clock in from their phone?

Employees with a login can clock in and out from their own self-service view in the browser. You can switch on a location check so a clock-in only counts within a set distance of the workplace.

How does payroll handle unpaid leave and absence?

For each period Flowyana counts working days, days attended and paid leave. The rest is unpaid absence, and the basic salary is reduced in proportion before components are calculated.

Can we set Friday and Saturday as the weekend?

Yes. Weekend days are part of the attendance policy, so you can set Friday–Saturday, Saturday–Sunday, or any pattern you work.

Is there a leave management system with approvals?

Yes. Leave types can require approval. Employees request leave, managers approve or reject with a reason, and balances update for allocated, used, pending and carried-forward days.

Can employees see their own payslips?

Yes. “My HR” gives each employee their attendance, leave requests and balance, and payslips, without needing HR for every question.

Does HR work across branches?

Yes. Employees, shifts and attendance are branch-aware, so each branch manages its own staff while HR sees the whole company.

Can we buy HR alone?

Yes. HR & Payroll has its own three published plans, sized by number of employees. Run it by itself, or alongside whatever else you use.

One platform

Plays well with the rest.

HR & Payroll shares its records with every other module you switch on — no connectors, no re-typing.

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