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Feature index

Every MaverickHR feature, on one page

49 feature areas and 400+ individual capabilities. Use it as a checklist against your requirements — every item links to its detail page.

Core HR

Run the whole employee lifecycle without the paperwork

Employee Directory & Profiles

Every person, their job, history and documents in one searchable profile.

  • Headcount, departments, locations and average tenure at a glance
  • Filter by department, location, employment type and role; sort A→Z
  • Active / inactive views with paginated, export-friendly tables
  • Employee codes generated from configurable ID formats
  • Profile tabs: Info, Employment, Address, Personal, Leaves, Job history, Appraisal, Documents, Attendance QR and Exit
  • Turn portal sign-in on or off per employee
  • Change job — department, manager or designation — with a reason, recorded in job history
  • Document vault per employee, organised by document categories
  • Identity documents (PAN, Aadhaar, passport, national ID and more) per branch
  • Bank details captured once and protected by dual control

Employee Onboarding

A guided five-step wizard with a readiness score, plus bulk upload.

  • Five steps: Basic details, Employment, Education & experience, Address, Review & confirm
  • Readiness score and step checklist from the onboarding copilot
  • Portal sign-in toggle with auto-generated username
  • Work email, personal email and mobile with country-code picker
  • Identity documents added during onboarding, scans uploaded later
  • Designation, department, reporting manager and employment type
  • Bulk employee upload from a spreadsheet
  • Automatic “Welcome aboard” post on the company feed
  • Initial salary set at hire, protected by dual control

Org Chart, Departments & Transfers

Reporting lines, department heads and HR partners that drive routing.

  • Interactive org chart with management chain and direct reports
  • Find a person and jump straight to their place in the tree
  • Departments with Head (one person) and HR partners (ordered fallback list)
  • Custom department role types used by approval chains
  • Gap detection: see which departments have no Head or HR partner
  • Move people between departments in bulk
  • Transfers with a three-stage approval: current Head → new Head → HR
  • Switch departments on or off without losing history
  • Job change reasons: transfer, promotion, reorganisation and more

Leave Management

Balances, requests, team calendar, holidays and leave policy in one place.

  • Leave balance per type: allocated, used, booked and available as of today
  • “Free to plan” days and lapse dates shown on every balance
  • Balance history per leave type
  • Apply leave with half-day support and working-day calculation
  • Team view: who is out today, next 7 days and a two-week calendar
  • Filters for pending, approved, today, this month, upcoming and whole year
  • Holiday calendar with yearly view, long-weekend detection and optional holidays
  • Holiday list export to CSV
  • Unlimited leave types: casual, sick, earned, unpaid (loss of pay) and custom
  • Two-level approval with escalation after a set number of days
  • Leave cash-out (encashment) requests with their own approval chain

Leave Policy & Accruals

Credit rules, carry-forward, lapse reminders and wellbeing nudges.

  • Leave year start month and part-month cut-off day per branch
  • Credit per cycle at the start or accrued, with mid-cycle joiner rules
  • Carry-forward rules per leave type
  • Backdating windows per leave type
  • Request rules: who may take a type and what a request must meet
  • Lapse reminders 60, 30 and 7 days before days expire
  • Year-end leave encashment batches
  • “Time for a break” nudges for people who haven't taken leave — private, never shows scores
  • One-click balance recalculation
  • Manual leave balance adjustments, protected by dual control

Leave Reports & Liability

Employee report, lapse forecast, leave liability and team wellbeing.

  • Employee report: total, taken, upcoming, available, pending and loss-of-pay days
  • Available-by-type breakdown per employee
  • Lapse forecast: who will lose days and when
  • Leave liability: the monetary value of unused leave
  • Team wellbeing report
  • Period presets: today, month, quarter, half year, whole cycle or custom
  • Export to Excel

Goals & Performance Appraisal

Weighted goal sheets, self-rating, manager review and templates.

  • Appraisal cycles per financial year
  • Goal categories with weightage that must total 100%
  • Goals with their own weight inside each category
  • Target goals to everyone or to a specific designation
  • Default goals for new hires
  • Provision goal sheets for the whole company in one click, or assign to one employee
  • Self-rating 1–5 with comments on every goal and overall comments
  • Submit for review to the reporting manager
  • Manager rating 1–5 alongside the self-rating, with manager comments
  • Weighted self score and manager score on every sheet
  • Team Reviews page and a dashboard card for sheets awaiting review

HR Letters & Document Vault

Eight letter templates with placeholders, a design studio and audit history.

  • Offer, Appointment and Confirmation letters
  • Increment letter for compensation revisions
  • Experience certificate, Relieving letter and Full & Final statement
  • Internship completion letter
  • Dynamic placeholders like {{candidateName}} filled from employee data
  • Design Studio to build custom editions of any template
  • Drafts awaiting sign-off with an action-required queue
  • Issued & audit history per letter type
  • Print-ready output on your company letterhead
  • Letterhead details and digital signature protected by dual control

Company Feed & Kudos

Announcements, kudos, birthdays, anniversaries and new-joiner posts.

  • Post types: update, announcement, kudos and birthday wish
  • Kudos badges: Problem Solver, Team Player, Above & Beyond, Customer First
  • @mentions that notify teammates instantly
  • Comments and reactions on every post
  • Pin highlights to the top of the feed
  • Channels: announcements, kudos, birthdays, anniversaries, new joiners, pinned
  • Automatic birthday, work-anniversary and welcome posts
  • Upcoming celebrations for the next 30 days
  • Feed moderation permission for HR and admins

Exits & Separation

Resignations, withdrawal requests and exit letters with approvals.

  • Resignations raised by employees from their profile
  • Two-stage exit approval chain
  • Exit withdrawal requests after approval, with their own chain
  • Exit tab on every employee profile
  • Relieving letter, Experience certificate and Full & Final statement
  • Leave encashment and final pay handled through payroll

Dashboard & Approvals Inbox

Everything waiting on you — leave, attendance, cash-outs, expenses, exits.

  • Upcoming holiday with days-left countdown
  • Team members, reviews pending, leave approvals and average self score
  • Goal sheets to review and pending leave requests on the home screen
  • Approvals inbox tabs: leave, attendance, cash-outs, expenses, exits, transfers and protected changes
  • Waiting-on-me queue with earliest and longest-waiting indicators
  • Decision history of everything you approved or rejected
  • Undo a mistaken rejection within a configurable window

Attendance & Shifts

Attendance you can trust, from every location and every shift

Check-in & Check-out

Punch from the web or the MaverickHR app for Android and iOS.

  • Live clock with first in, last out and worked-today totals
  • Multiple check-ins and check-outs per day as sessions
  • Month tiles: days present, hours logged, average day, late arrivals, short of shift, missing checkout
  • Colour-coded calendar: present, late, half day, overtime, absent, leave, holiday, week off
  • Open any day to see its punches, hours and a correction request
  • Native mobile app with live scan capture and an identity card before the shutter
  • Map view of the geofence circle and your current position
  • Long-shift reminder on the phone if you forget to check out
  • Light and dark themes in the mobile app

Geofencing & Location Rules

Default location, named sites and personal locations with lenient or strict fences.

  • Location check modes: Off, Lenient (allow but flag) and Strict (refuse outside)
  • Default location with latitude, longitude and allowed radius
  • Pick on map or use your current location
  • Named sites with their own fence and enforcement override
  • Per-employee locations (home office, client site) with radius
  • Punch simulator: test distance, fence and photo against the rules
  • Resolved place names instead of raw coordinates
  • Weak GPS fixes and manager-entered punches tracked separately
  • Geofence compliance by site and by person
  • Attendance locations protected by dual control

Selfie & Face-Verified Check-in

Selfie on punch, face enrolment and a shared-tablet kiosk.

  • Selfie modes: Off, Optional (allow skip) or Required on every punch
  • Guided camera: “align your face”, take and retake
  • Selfie stored with each punch and visible in the day's timeline
  • Face enrolment for employees
  • Shared-tablet kiosk mode with no one signed in
  • Kiosk devices registered and revocable from the admin console
  • A punch is written only when the face matches the enrolled template
  • Printable check-in QR per entrance — staff scan it and check in with their face
  • Reprint a torn poster any time; revoke a code and it stops working instantly

QR Code Attendance

Rotating site codes on a screen and personal QR cards for every employee.

  • Rotating site code on a full-screen display (new code as often as every minute)
  • Per-site punch mode: QR only, GPS only or either
  • A screenshot of the code goes stale almost immediately
  • Personal attendance QR card for every employee
  • Issue missing QR cards in bulk — existing cards keep working
  • Print or replace a lost card from the employee's profile
  • Codes issued only for active employees

Shift Management

Shift catalog with presets, grace, overtime thresholds and weekly offs.

  • Quick presets: Standard Day, Morning, Evening, Night, US/Offshore and 4-day 10-hour
  • Shift code, display name, start and end time on a 24-hour timeline
  • Night shift flag for shifts that cross midnight or earn night pay
  • Unpaid break deducted when not punched
  • Late grace window in minutes
  • Overtime starts after a configurable buffer
  • Half-day maximum and full-day minimum hours
  • Fixed weekly offs, or none for rotational shifts
  • Alternate-Saturday policies
  • Live simulator to test punch times against a shift
  • Default fallback shift and retired shifts kept for history
  • “My Shift” page shows each employee their rules and how attendance affects pay

Roster & Shift Rotations

Who works which shift on which day — with clear precedence rules.

  • Roster calendar: every employee × every day of the month
  • Click a day to override it; shift-click to cover a range
  • Precedence: single-day override → employee rule → department rule → branch default → default shift
  • Holidays always stay off
  • Shift assignments with effective-from and effective-to dates
  • Rotation patterns that repeat a sequence of shifts (e.g. alternate weeks)
  • Rotation templates built from your existing shifts
  • Working days, offs and holidays counted per person
  • Filter by department and shift

Corrections & Off-day Work

Attendance corrections, off-day work requests and manager entries.

  • Correction requests for missing punch, wrong time, work from home and on-duty
  • Correction window (e.g. within 3 days) and monthly limit (e.g. 5 per month)
  • Rejected and withdrawn requests don't count toward the limit
  • Two-level approval with escalation
  • Off-day work: earn automatically, or require approval first
  • Ask before working, or after — unapproved work stays on record but earns nothing
  • Manager-entered attendance, sent for approval on off-days
  • Absence deduction policy: record only, or deduct

Overtime, Comp-off & Late Rules

Turn overtime into pay or comp-off, with caps, fines and night differential.

  • Overtime as cash multiplier or comp-off credits
  • Comp-off minting ratio (e.g. 480 overtime minutes = 1 day)
  • Ignore-under threshold and daily, monthly and quarterly caps
  • Taxable flag and “base salary covers shift” option for salaried staff
  • Live payout simulator with sample salary, overtime and days
  • Late deductions with free lates per month
  • Night differential multiplier on hourly wage
  • Comp-off expiry period and leave-only or cash-out use
  • Comp-off earn sweep for week-off and holiday work — preview, then run
  • Overtime → comp-off minting job, reversible and safe to re-run
  • Master switch for shift pay, protected by dual control

Attendance Policy & Reminders

Punch rules, correction rules and smart push reminders.

  • Not-checked-in reminder after the shift's grace period
  • Still-checked-in reminder after the shift ends
  • Checkout-closing-soon reminder, with optional email
  • Configurable delay: right away, 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes
  • Never sent on week-offs, holidays or approved leave; at most one of each a day
  • 5-hour missing-checkout window before a punch becomes a correction
  • Policy summary tiles for geofence, camera, corrections, absence and places
  • Attendance tabs can be switched on or off per organisation

Attendance Dashboard & Reports

Live dashboard, six report views and an insights engine.

  • Today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month or custom range
  • On time, late (with minutes), half day, overtime, on leave, absent and still working
  • Attendance trend and department-wise attendance rate
  • Geofence panel: in range, out of range, no location, missed checkout
  • Reports: Attendance summary, Team comparison, Monthly trend, Punctuality, Geofence, Insights
  • Arrival histogram by quarter hour and late days by weekday
  • Insights: absent without leave, late arrivals, early exits, missed check-outs, outside area, heavy overtime
  • Department hotspots and sortable “who needs attention” list
  • Personal monthly summary with 6-month trend for every employee
  • Export to Excel

Payroll & Compensation

Accurate payroll, every month, in every country you operate

Pay Profiles & Components

Country pay profiles with earnings, deductions and employer costs.

  • Multiple pay profiles for different countries or jurisdictions
  • Currency, fiscal and tax cycle per profile; a default profile for unassigned staff
  • Component types: Earning, Deduction and Employer Cost
  • Flat amount, entered per employee or as a default
  • Formula percentage of Base, Gross or CTC
  • Remainder balancer that absorbs the residual to hit exact CTC
  • Slab / tax withholding from a statutory bracket table
  • Monthly or non-monthly payout (variable pay)
  • Primary base component that formulas calculate against
  • Taxable flag, display order and active switch per component
  • Import template and recommended setup to start fast

Wage Bases, Tax Slabs & Exemptions

Statutory deductions charged on exactly the wages the law counts.

  • Named wage bases such as PF wages, ESI, gratuity, SOCSO/EIS
  • Contributions recomputed from what was actually paid each month — bonuses, overtime and arrears included
  • Progressive or flat tax slab tables attached to TDS components
  • Exemption rules: lesser-of-three (HRA), capped deduction (80C/80D) and fixed relief
  • Old and new tax regime support
  • Eligibility rules by nationality, age and gender
  • Interactive Pay Setup Guide for India and Malaysia, verified against official sources
  • Tax slabs, exemptions and pay components protected by dual control

Salary Structures & Revisions

Enter a target CTC — the breakdown is calculated exactly, to the paise.

  • Company-wide compensation directory with CTC, est. monthly net and effective date
  • Structure coverage: configured vs awaiting setup
  • Target annual or monthly CTC auto-distributed exactly
  • Effective date, revision reason and note visible to the employee
  • CTC change vs previous shown before you raise the revision
  • Salary breakdown, CTC composition (take-home, deductions, employer cost)
  • Revision history and edit history
  • One-time bonuses and arrears on a chosen payroll month
  • Bulk salary upload
  • Initial salary, revisions and corrections protected by dual control

Payroll Runs & Payslips

Monthly runs with LOP, overtime and comp-off, then a locked finalize.

  • Payroll runs per financial year with Calculated → Finalized status
  • Paid days, LOP, adjustments, OT, night pay and comp-off per employee
  • Take-home, employee deductions, employer statutory cost and CTC per run
  • List of employees not paid and the reason (missing setup, not employed)
  • Finalize locks the run; corrections happen in a later run
  • Payslips generated and sent on finalize
  • Configurable payslip PDF content
  • One-off pay adjustments and group adjustments, with upload
  • Company expenditure by month: take-home, deductions, employer cost
  • Payroll finalize protected by dual control

Bank Setup & Salary Files

Company accounts, bank file formats and salary routing rules.

  • Multiple company bank accounts, each paying payslips in its own currency
  • Branch default account for anyone not matched by a rule
  • Pick or build a bank file format (field map) per bank
  • Generate bulk payment files from finalized payroll runs
  • Ordered salary routing rules: who is paid from which account
  • Company bank account, file template and routing protected by dual control

Tax Declarations

A declaration window where employees choose a regime and declare reliefs.

  • Submission window with an editable-until lock date
  • Admin override for late changes
  • Employee self-service: regime, section reliefs and annual rent
  • Company-wide declarations table and card view
  • Flags for missing data such as nationality
  • Declarations used in monthly TDS calculation

Variable Pay & Bonuses

Cycles that settle accrued variable pay onto a payslip.

  • Non-monthly components accrue automatically
  • Variable-pay cycles collect accruals over a window
  • Scale by performance or any factor you choose
  • Settle onto a chosen month's payslip
  • One-time bonuses and group bonuses for a department or company
  • Cycle approval freezes what everyone is paid

Expense Claims

Claim it, approve it, and get it back with salary.

  • New claim, drafts and “repeat last claim”
  • Track: awaiting approval, approved to be paid, reimbursed this year
  • Manager approval chain, then finance queue
  • Awaiting finance and awaiting payroll queues
  • Expense categories with limits and taxability
  • Expense insights for finance
  • Reimbursed with the next payslip

Pay Rules

How overtime, night work, lateness and cash-outs are valued.

  • Overtime, night pay and late deduction valuation
  • Public-holiday work and rest-day work
  • Comp-off cash-out and leave cash-out (and leave liability)
  • Wage base, divisor and hours, rate or multiplier
  • Pay mode, eligibility and limits per rule
  • Falls back to branch shift settings when not configured

Salary Reports & Self-service

Spend, forecasts and cost per head — plus payslips for every employee.

  • Actual spend vs projected total for the financial year
  • Cost per head and average headcount
  • Bonuses, arrears, overtime, night pay and comp-off encashment totals
  • Expenditure trend by financial year with forecast
  • My Compensation: structure and revision history
  • My Payslips by financial year
  • My Tax Declaration and My Expenses

Projects & Delivery

Ship on time, staff it right and know every project's margin

Issue Tracking

Stories, bugs and tasks with keys, points, QA owners and full history.

  • Issue types: Story, Bug and Task
  • Issue keys and a shareable /browse/KEY page for each item
  • Copy a Markdown link to any issue
  • Markdown description and acceptance criteria with preview
  • Task breakdown inside a story — development, testing, deployment
  • Assignee, QA owner and reporter
  • Story points on the Fibonacci scale (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13)
  • Priority: Low, Medium, High, Critical
  • Start and target dates, sprint and feature link
  • Comments, attachments and watchers
  • Dependencies: predecessors and successors
  • Activity audit trail of every field change
  • Time tracked per issue

Roadmap, Epics, Features & Releases

Plan big bodies of work and ship them as versioned releases.

  • Epics for major initiatives with a full epics tree
  • Features with codes (FEAT-001), owner, priority, target date and story progress
  • Feature board: Idea → Planned → In Progress → Done
  • Releases that group features into versions
  • Delivery timeline by release or by epic
  • Project overview: scope completion, delivery health, next release
  • Health signals: on track, at risk, past target date, no target date

Sprints & Backlog

Plan sprints, run the board and keep the backlog groomed.

  • Sprint board with swimlanes by assignee
  • Drag-and-drop between workflow columns
  • Filters: feature, type, assignee, QA owner, status, priority
  • Sprint planning with progress, to-do / in-progress / done counts
  • Project backlog with unestimated work flagged
  • Create stories and tasks straight from the board
  • Quick-switch between projects; star the ones you work on
  • Days-left countdown and sprint goals

Custom Workflows & Boards

Your statuses, your columns — per issue type.

  • Multiple workflows; several issue types can share one
  • Drag to reorder statuses
  • Status categories: To Do, In Progress, Done and sign-off
  • Default flow: Idea → Planned → In Progress → Done → Accepted
  • Board columns mapped from statuses
  • Per-status item counts

Leave-aware Capacity Planning

Capacity calculated from real working days, leave and holidays.

  • Working days per person minus approved leave and holidays
  • Configurable points per day
  • Workload vs capacity, headroom and unassigned points
  • Overloaded, balanced and idle teammates
  • Per-sprint view and across-sprints matrix
  • Table and card views with sorting by utilisation

Sprint Analytics & Contribution

Burndown, cumulative flow, velocity and a contribution matrix.

  • Burndown with ideal line
  • Cumulative flow diagram
  • Velocity across completed sprints
  • Contribution matrix: points, stories, bugs fixed, features, tasks, hours
  • Average cycle time and carried-over spillover
  • Leaderboard by points; drill into any person
  • Filter by project and period

Resource Allocation

Who is on which project, how busy they are and who is free.

  • Allocation % per person per project with effective dates
  • Salaried or rate-based (hourly / daily) resources
  • Horizon: 30 days, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year or custom
  • Fully booked, partly booked, no project, over-booked
  • Views by people, projects, timeline and departments
  • Cost on projects for the period
  • Export

Project Financials & P&L

What each project earns, costs and is still owed.

  • Contract value, invoiced, received and still to invoice
  • Labour cost from salaried staff and day/hour rates
  • Direct expenses: subscriptions, hosting, AMC
  • Net profit and margin with a health threshold
  • Expected total cost by the planned end date
  • Company profit & loss and collections across projects
  • “Needs attention” list, biggest amount first

Client Management

The clients your projects are delivered for, and what they owe.

  • Client profiles with industry, website and primary contact
  • Location, currency and payment terms
  • Projects per client
  • Portfolio value: contracted, collected, due
  • Filter by industry and terms; card or table view

Quotations & Estimates

Model staffing, derive costs and generate customer-ready proposals.

  • Quote references like QT-2026-001
  • Scope & client, staffing, expenses, margin & milestones
  • Billable working days with weekends and holidays removed
  • Internal cost, margin % and quoted value
  • Statuses: Draft, Sent, Won, Converted, Declined, Expired
  • Pipeline value, win rate and average target margin

Effort & Impact Hub

Recognise work that moves the company beyond sprint stories.

  • Categories: client acquisition, DevOps/infra, process improvement, travel, cost saving, mentoring, innovation
  • Impact points and acknowledgement
  • Category mix and top-contributor leaderboard
  • My efforts and team efforts by financial year

Platform & Governance

Enterprise-grade control, without enterprise complexity

Approval Workflows

Multi-stage chains, special-case rules, escalation and fallbacks.

  • Chains for leave, attendance correction, off-day work, comp-off cash-out, leave cash-out, exit, exit withdrawal and transfer
  • Up to multi-level chains: Manager-1, Manager-2, any manager, Head, HR and more
  • Escalation after a set number of days, with reminders per level
  • Special-case rules with a Rules & Sandbox tester
  • Default routing: reporting manager or any manager (first to act decides)
  • Fallback & exits when an approver is missing
  • Undo a rejection within a set number of hours
  • Reopen rejected requests with a dedicated permission
  • “Needs attention” flags for chains with missing roles

Maker-Checker Dual Control

The four-eyes principle on 43 sensitive changes.

  • 43 gates across identity, access, hierarchy, payroll, leave, employment, company and attendance
  • Severity levels: moderate, high and critical
  • Direct edit or dual control per gate
  • Eligible checkers by permission, with staffing checks
  • Creators can never approve their own change
  • Disabling a gate is itself gated by dual control
  • Protected changes inbox with raised-by-you and decision history
  • Examples: bank account, salary revision, payroll finalize, reporting manager, role permissions

Roles & Permissions

Seven roles, 36 permissions and custom roles in a clear matrix.

  • Roles: Employee, Manager, HR, Payroll Admin, Project Manager, System Administrator, Monitoring
  • Custom roles and renaming
  • 36 permissions across projects, people, leave & attendance, money and administration
  • Hover a cell to see what it grants
  • Modules shown only when a user can open something in them
  • Role permissions protected by dual control

Sign-in & Security

Passkeys, email OTP, session security and audit trails.

  • Passkeys for biometric sign-in
  • Email one-time passcodes
  • Password change from settings
  • Silent session refresh and expiry
  • Audit trail on work items, approvals and protected changes
  • Edit history on salary structures
  • Platform-level audit for administrators

Settings & Master Data

Departments, designations, reasons, ID formats and financial year.

  • Departments and designations
  • Identity document types, bank names and bank account purposes
  • Employment types and leave types
  • Document categories
  • Revision, regularization and job-change reasons
  • ID prefixes and padding
  • Financial year start month
  • Payslip PDF content
  • Company letterhead and signature

Multi-company & White-label

Run many organisations and branches under your own brand.

  • Platform console: organisations, onboarding requests, operators and audit
  • Invite-based platform administration
  • Branches with their own currency, leave year, policies and pay profile
  • Enable modules per organisation
  • White-label branding: logo, colours, letterhead and payslip logo
  • Branch-level time zones

Mobile App for Android & iOS

Native apps for employees and managers, with push notifications.

  • Native MaverickHR app for Android and iOS
  • Check in with GPS, selfie or site QR; attendance history and correction requests
  • Leave balances, requests and status tracking
  • Approvals inbox for managers: leave, corrections, comp-off and expenses
  • Payslips, tax declarations and expense claims
  • Push notifications for approvals waiting, decisions and check-out reminders
  • In-app notification feed with unread badge
  • Email and WhatsApp integrations
  • In-app language switcher, light and dark themes
  • Passkey and email OTP sign-in

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