Rutba People

HR and payroll fail in the same place: the gap between the record and the pay run. Rutba People closes it — the clock on the wall writes the attendance, attendance and leave feed payroll directly, payslips post to your accounts automatically, and employees check their own balances without a single email. Nothing in that chain is an export, so nothing in it can disagree.

Rutba People is 7 applications on one login: HR — The employee master and the org structure around it — records, contracts, departments, teams, matrix reporting, lifecycle events, letters and the asset register. Employee Self-Service — One person’s own record: leave, attendance, schedule, payslips, expense claims, documents, assets, benefits, training and performance — plus somewhere to raise a grievance or report a safety incident, and a manager’s approval queue that appears only if the org chart says you manage anyone. Payroll — Pay runs created, previewed, processed and paid — with deduction rules, salary structures, statutory remittances, and the accrual split by cost centre so a department can be asked what its people cost. Time Clock — The shared wall device: badge or PIN, an offline queue for when the network is not there, and no biometrics and no location tracking by design. Workforce — The operational week that line managers run rather than HR: attendance, exceptions and timesheets against the hours the clock actually recorded, with an approval state machine payroll locks when it pays them. Recruit — Requisitions, the candidate pipeline, interviews and offers — and the careers site candidates apply through, which is the group’s only public surface. Talent — After the hire: reviews, goals, 360 feedback and check-ins — with learning, skills and succession to come.

What it does: employee records, employment history, contracts, teams and matrix reporting lines; attendance and leave with approval chains; a shared time clock that gives attendance an actual source; timesheets that move draft → submitted → approved → locked, and stay locked once payroll has paid them; payroll runs driven by recorded hours rather than typed ones; payslips delivered to staff, posted to accounting as they are paid; payroll cost split by cost centre, so a department can be asked what it spends; grievances and health-and-safety incidents raised by the person they happened to; self-service portal — staff answer their own questions.

Built for growing teams outgrowing spreadsheets, businesses running monthly payroll in-house, shift employers paying overtime on hours somebody currently types and any employer handling leave and attendance.

Pricing runs Essentials, Time & attendance, Complete and Enterprise, starting at $0 annual contract. Products can be taken separately or together on one account and one invoice.

Shares its records with Rutba Books and Rutba Chat, so the same customer, stock item or employee is one row rather than a copy in each.