How ZekoHR works

Getting started

• Welcome to ZekoHR · What you can do here and how to find your way around.
• Updating your profile & photo · Keep your details current and add a profile photo.
• Changing your password · Set a new password from your account.
• Notifications & preferences · Where alerts appear and how to tune them.

Leave

• Applying for leave · Request time off in a few taps.
• Checking your leave balance · See how much leave you have left.
• Cancelling a leave request · Withdraw a pending or future request.

Onboarding

• Completing your onboarding tasks · Work through your new-hire checklist.
• Onboarding & offboarding templates · Reusable checklists for joiners and leavers.

Approvals

• Approving your team's leave · Review and decide leave requests.
• HR override for leave decisions · Force a decision or file leave on behalf of someone.

Calendar

• Your team calendar · See who's off and when.

People

• Managing employees · Find, view, and edit the people you look after.
• Inviting a new employee · Create a person and send their invite.

Leave administration

• Setting up leave types & the leave year · Define how leave works for a company.
• Holiday calendars · Public holidays and restricted holidays.
• Allocating leave to employees · Give people their leave balances.

Communication

• Customizing email templates · Change the wording of system emails.

Administration

• Roles & permissions · What each role can do, and how to edit bundles.
• HR scope (assigned companies) · Important: scope narrows a role; it does not grant one.
• Audit log · Every change, who made it, and when.
• Email log · A permanent record of every email sent.
• Branding · Your logo, product name, and colour.
• Managing this knowledge base · Write and target your own help articles.

Documents

• Uploading documents & what the statuses mean · Drag & drop uploads, verification, requests from HR, and company documents.
• Documents Center: verifying, requesting & publishing · The HR hub for document verification, requests, expiries, and org documents.

Payroll

• Viewing & downloading your payslips · Where to find your monthly payslips and what the numbers mean.
• Payroll setup: components & salary structures · One-time setup before you can run payroll for a company.
• Assigning salaries to employees · Give each employee a structure, a gross, and a start date.
• Running monthly payroll & publishing payslips · The month-end cycle: draft, review, finalize, publish.