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96 capabilities across 10 modules, from hiring to the final settlement. Each one is switched on per company, so you only run the parts you actually need.
The four questions that come up on every first call: is my roster live, how long does a run take, what happens before the bank sees the file, and how does an approval reach a manager. Press one.

Switch a module off and watch what leaves the record. Every line here reads from the same row, which is why a Salik charge already knows whose payslip it lands on.
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Rashid Al Marri
Site supervisor, Al Quoz, joined Mar 2023
Where the employee record starts
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.
8 capabilities, switched on per company
Requisitions with approval
HeadlineA hiring manager asks for a seat, it goes through the same approval chain as any other request, and only an approved requisition can be posted.
Candidate pipeline
HeadlineEvery applicant on one board per requisition, moved stage by stage, with notes and the history of who moved them.
AI screening, as advice
HeadlineSwitch it on and each CV is read against the role's requirements, with the applicant's name and contact details removed. Every requirement is marked met, partly met or missed, with the line from the CV that shows it. It never rejects or moves anyone. Your team decides.
Your own careers page
HeadlineOpen roles published on a careers page with your name on it, in English and Arabic. Applications land straight in the pipeline.
Offer letters from your template
HeadlineThe offer is generated from your own letter design, in either language, previewed before it goes out and tracked until it is accepted.
Internal job board
Staff see open roles first and apply from the app, so a move inside the company is a request rather than a rumour.
Interviews
Interview slots and feedback kept against the candidate, so the decision is made on what the panel wrote down.
Onboarding plans
An accepted offer starts the onboarding plan: documents to collect, assets to hand over and first tasks, each with an owner.
The record everything else reads from
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.
11 capabilities, switched on per company
Leave
HeadlineAccrual by policy, carry-forward, encashment and the balance the employee can see before they ask for it.
Requests & approvals
HeadlineSeventeen request types through one approval engine, each showing whose desk it is on right now.
Documents & expiry alerts
HeadlinePassports, visas, labour cards and Emirates IDs, with the expiry registered from the scan and the PRO named against it.
Letters & salary certificates
HeadlineGenerated 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.
Capture that works where the signal doesn’t
The strongest thing Dawmo does that imported HR software does not: record a shift on a site, on a bus or in a camp, on whatever hardware is already there.
14 capabilities, switched on per company
Offline punch with visible sync
HeadlineOut of coverage the punch is written to the phone and syncs on its own, and the worker watches the state change, which is what stops the second punch.
Geofenced GPS
HeadlineA punch is only valid inside the site boundary, and the boundary is drawn per site.
Open punch, no geofence
For drivers, PROs and sales. The location is stamped on the punch rather than gating it.
NFC / RFID
HeadlineA tag at the gate or on the vehicle, for workforces that do not all carry a smartphone.
Bluetooth beacons
Presence proved in a basement, a cold store or a tower core, where GPS reads nothing.
QR & kiosk
HeadlineA shared tablet at the entrance, or a printed code that rotates.
Existing biometric devices
HeadlineA bridge agent reads the ZKTeco, Hikvision or Suprema readers already on your walls.
Ramadan hours
HeadlineThe reduced working day applied automatically for the dates that apply to it.
Shift templates & rosters
Patterns built once and rolled forward, with coverage visible before the week starts.
Timesheets
Per person, per site, per project, and exportable in the shape your client invoices want.
Missed-punch regularisation
A request rather than an edit, so the correction carries who asked and who approved.
Auto-absence & half-day rules
The policy applied consistently instead of remembered differently by each supervisor.
Break & site movement
Movement between sites recorded as it happens rather than reconstructed at month end.
Overtime & exception reports
What went over, where, and whether it was approved before it was worked.
Payday, without the spreadsheet
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.
13 capabilities, switched on per company
WPS SIF per bank format
HeadlineGenerated to your bank’s own layout and checked against it: IBAN checksums, salary card numbers, totals against headcount.
Gratuity / end of service
HeadlineAccrued from the employment record on the basis the law names, and visible to the employee before they ask.
Final settlement
HeadlineNotice, leave balance, gratuity and deductions on one statement, with the day each line came from.
GL journal export
HeadlineCost-centre allocated and reconciling, in a shape your ledger will take.
Salary structures & formulas
Basic, allowances and deductions defined once per grade rather than typed per person.
Effective-dated revisions & arrears
A backdated increase produces its own arrears line rather than a manual adjustment.
Inputs from leave, attendance, claims and loans
The four things that make a run wrong when they arrive by email.
GPSSA pension
Employer and employee split for UAE and GCC nationals, calculated on the right base.
Air-ticket accrual
Accrued monthly against the entitlement rather than absorbed whenever someone travels.
Run lifecycle & variance report
Draft, validate, approve, lock, disburse, with the variance against last month before approval, not after.
Off-cycle & bonus runs
A separate run that still lands in the same ledger and the same audit trail.
Bank accounts & IBAN validation
Checked at the point the employee enters it, not at the point the bank rejects the file.
Cost centre allocation
Salary cost split across projects, sites or entities, on the rules Finance sets.
Tasks, goals, reviews and promotions
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.
6 capabilities, switched on per company
My tasks and team tasks
HeadlineWork assigned with an owner, a due date and a status. Staff see theirs in the app, and managers see the whole team.
Goals
Goals set per person and tracked through the cycle, so the review starts from progress already recorded.
Review cycles
HeadlineA review cycle opened for a team or the whole company, with self review, manager review and the history of every cycle before it.
Performance analytics
Ratings and completion across teams and departments, so a cycle that stalled is visible before its deadline.
Promotions
HeadlineA promotion raised as a request, approved through its chain and written to the record with the new title and the salary revision it carries.
Benefits
Benefit plans per grade, with claims staff raise from the app and track to payment.
Part well, and settle right
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.
5 capabilities, switched on per company
Resignation and notice
HeadlineAn employee resigns from the app, the notice period is worked out from the contract, and the right people are told the same day.
Clearance
HeadlineIT, access, finance and the line manager each sign off their own part, and the settlement waits until every one of them has.
Exit interview
A short interview kept against the record, so the reasons people leave can be read across the company rather than lost in inboxes.
Offboarding checklist
A checklist per role, with assets to collect and access to close, raised by the resignation itself.
Final settlement
HeadlineNotice, leave balance, gratuity and deductions on one statement, with the day each line came from.
Vehicles, drivers and what they cost
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.
12 capabilities, switched on per company
Salik & Darb
HeadlineTolls pulled in and attributed to whoever was driving at the time.
Mulkiya & insurance expiry
HeadlineRegistration and insurance dates on the same expiry dashboard as the visas.
Vehicle register
Every vehicle, its documents, and the cost carried against it.
Assignment & handover
Who has which vehicle, from when, with the condition recorded at each handover.
Driver eligibility
Licence class and expiry checked before an assignment rather than after an incident.
Traffic fines & attribution
Matched to the driver on duty, with a dispute path that does not run through a spreadsheet.
Live tracking & geofences
Where the fleet is, and an alert when a vehicle leaves where it should be.
Driver behaviour
Harsh braking, speeding and idling: surfaced to a manager, never used to dock pay automatically.
Fuel & cost per km
The number that tells you whether a vehicle should be replaced.
Maintenance
Scheduled by distance or date, with the vehicle taken out of the assignment pool while it is in.
Pool-car booking
Shared vehicles requested through the same approval engine as everything else.
Billed per vehicle
Fleet is priced per vehicle in service each month. Inactive and disposed vehicles are not counted.
Your field team is already on this app
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.
8 capabilities, switched on per company
Field visits with GPS check-in
HeadlineA visit recorded where it happened, when it happened, without a second app.
Customers & contacts
The account, the people at it, and who owns the relationship.
Remarks timeline
What was said on each visit, in order, so a handover is not an oral tradition.
Route planning
The day’s calls in an order that makes geographic sense.
Reminders
The follow-up that was promised, surfaced on the day it was promised for.
Coverage & conversion reporting
Which accounts were visited, how often, and what came of it.
Lead pipeline
A simple stage model: enough to run a field team, not enough to need an administrator.
Billed per user
CRM is priced per person you grant it, each month. The rest of the company keeps using Dawmo without it.
From purchase request to goods received
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.
8 capabilities, switched on per company
Purchase requests
HeadlineAnyone can ask for what they need, with the items, the quotes and a preferred supplier. A request that is sent back goes back to the stage that returned it, not to the start.
Approvals on your own route
Requests follow the route you set, by amount, currency, source or department, such as Finance for anything over AED 10,000. With no route set, the line manager decides and then the procurement desk. Nobody approves their own request.
Purchase orders as a PDF
HeadlineAn approved request becomes one purchase order, issued as a PDF with the VAT, the supplier's TRN and your own terms. Cancel it and the request is ready to order again without a second approval.
Goods received
Deliveries are booked in against the order, in parts if that is how they arrive. Receiving more than was ordered is blocked.
Suppliers
Each supplier holds its TRN, trade licence number and licence expiry, with its documents attached. The desk is warned 30 and 7 days before a licence lapses.
Spend report
What was ordered and what is still to arrive, by supplier, department or month, for a date range and a branch, as a table and a chart.
Asset requests that buy what is missing
Switch it on and an approved asset request with nothing in stock raises its own purchase request for the desk to price. What arrives is added to the asset register, held for the person who asked.
Roles by branch
Everyone can request. Finance approves and orders company-wide, and a branch admin approves, orders and receives for their own branch.
Invisible to an SME, decisive for a group
The parts nobody asks about until procurement does, and then they decide the deal on their own.
11 capabilities, switched on per company
Multi-company & branch
HeadlineSeveral companies and branches in one group, with data and approvals scoped to each company, branch and department.
Row-level tenant isolation
HeadlineSeparation enforced by the database itself, not by a filter in the application that one missing clause would defeat.
Approval engine
HeadlineOne engine behind every request type, so a policy change is configured once.
Eight languages, Arabic and Urdu right to left
HeadlineSet right to left rather than flipped, in the app and in the documents it generates.
Public API
HeadlineDocumented, versioned, and the same API the app itself uses.
Roles & permission scopes
What a branch manager sees is a scope, not a screen someone remembered to hide.
Notifications
Push, email and in-app, with the noise level set per person rather than per company.
Audit & privacy
Every change to a record, every ID reveal and every bank-file export written to a log you can query.
Reporting & exports
Your data out in a shape you can use, without asking for it.
Import / export
Bulk changes staged, validated and previewed before they are applied.
Module & subscription controls
Modules toggled per company, which is what makes the pricing honest.
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