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One employee record (contract, documents, salary history, leave balance) that payroll, attendance and the app all read from rather than each keeping their own copy.
The full list is below. These are the one or two claims the module is actually bought on, with the mechanism behind each one drawn rather than described.
The record
A contract, a document, a salary revision and a leave balance are entered once. Payroll takes the salary in force on the day it runs, attendance takes the shift pattern, and the app shows the employee the same balance the HR screen shows, so there is no month in which two systems disagree about who works here.
The employee record
There is no export, no nightly sync and no reconciliation step, because there is no second copy to reconcile.
Documents
Passports, visas, labour cards and Emirates IDs carry their expiry from the day the scan is filed. The alert is raised at ninety, sixty and thirty days against the PRO who has to act on it, so a renewal starts while it is still paperwork rather than a fine.
Held against the person
Requests
Leave, a salary advance, a letter, an expense claim, a shift swap: each is a different form and the same approval engine underneath. The route is configured once per company, and the request shows whose desk it is sitting on right now, which is the single detail that stops the follow-up email.
One approval engine
The route is configured once per company, and changing it changes every request type that uses it.
11 capabilities, switched on per company
Leave
Accrual by policy, carry-forward, encashment and the balance the employee can see before they ask for it.
Requests & approvals
Seventeen request types through one approval engine, each showing whose desk it is on right now.
Documents & expiry alerts
Passports, visas, labour cards and Emirates IDs, with the expiry registered from the scan and the PRO named against it.
Letters & salary certificates
Generated from the record, stamped, and in the employee’s hand in the time it takes to ask.
Employee directory & profile
Org structure, reporting lines, and the profile each person maintains themselves.
Claims & expenses
Submitted with the receipt photographed, approved in line, and paid through the payroll run.
Business trips
Requests, per-diem, tickets and the approvals that go with them.
Announcements
Company-wide or by branch, in the languages your workforce actually reads.
HR helpdesk
A ticket queue for the questions that are not a request type, so they stop arriving by WhatsApp at 21:00.
Assets
Laptops, phones, tools and uniforms issued against a person, and returned on offboarding.
Onboarding & offboarding
A checklist per role, with clearance and final settlement started by the resignation itself.
Every capability above assumes the days worked are right, and this is where that number comes from: a geofence drawn per site or an open punch for the people who move, an NFC card at the gate, a Bluetooth beacon where there is no GPS, a QR kiosk for a shared tablet, or the ZKTeco reader already screwed to your wall.
Geofenced GPS
A radius drawn per site. Outside it the punch is refused, and the distance is recorded rather than hidden.
Open punch, no geofence
For drivers, PROs and sales, who are meant to be moving. The location is stamped on the punch instead of gating it.
NFC / RFID card
A card at the gate or on the vehicle, for crews where not everyone carries a smartphone.
Bluetooth beacon
A coin-cell beacon on the wall proves presence in a basement, a cold store or a tower core, where GPS reads nothing.
QR kiosk
A rotating code on one shared tablet, so a hundred people are covered without a hundred phones.
The terminal already on your wall
The ZKTeco, Hikvision or Suprema reader you already bought, read over the network as it is.
All six write the same record
One shift recordOne timesheetOne overtime ruleOne payroll inputEach one is switched on per company, on the same employee record. Take this module on its own, or run it with the rest and stop reconciling two systems.
Where the employee record starts
Recruitment
Requisitions, a candidate pipeline with optional AI screening, your own careers page and offer letters from your template. The accepted offer becomes the employee record, so nobody types the new joiner in twice.
See RecruitmentPayday, without the spreadsheet
Payroll & WPS
Leave, overtime, claims and loans arrive in the run on their own. The bank file is generated in your bank’s format and validated before you upload it, not after it bounces.
See Payroll & WPSTasks, goals, reviews and promotions
Performance & growth
Tasks with owners and due dates, goals, review cycles, promotions and benefits, kept on the same record as the contract and the salary, so a promotion is decided on evidence rather than memory.
See Performance & growthPart well, and settle right
Offboarding
A resignation starts the clearance, the exit interview and the final settlement, each desk signing off its own part, with the gratuity basis shown on the settlement.
See OffboardingVehicles, drivers and what they cost
Fleet
Mentioned on the home page and sold here: if you run vehicles, the tolls and fines are already arriving against people whose attendance you are tracking anyway.
See FleetYour field team is already on this app
Mini CRM
Not sold as a CRM, but as the reason your salespeople’s visits are recorded at all. They are already opening Dawmo to punch in; the visit takes one more tap.
See Mini CRMFrom purchase request to goods received
Procurement
Purchase requests with quotes, approved on your own route. Each approved request becomes one purchase order, issued as a PDF with the VAT and the supplier's TRN, and deliveries are booked in against it. It stays light on purpose: no tenders, budgets or invoice matching.
See ProcurementInvisible to an SME, decisive for a group
Platform
The parts nobody asks about until procurement does, and then they decide the deal on their own.
See PlatformBring a real month of your own and we will run it through this module on the call rather than walking you through a standard tour.
In the call
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