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HRMS features: Everything DenwaysHR does, listed and explained.

131 modules and 810 features. See the nine areas they fall into, follow one employee from hire to final settlement, or search for the thing you need.

The DenwaysHR dashboard scrolled to the Out today list, with 27 people not at work so far and their return dates, and the Pay day panel showing one day to go for October payroll

131 modules sounds like a lot. It is nine things.

Each one answers a question your company asks every week. Start with the question you came with.

Now follow one employee through all of it.

Seven moments in one working life. At each, what a person does, and what happens next without anyone asking.

Hired

A candidate becomes an employee

HR marks the candidate as hired. That one click does the rest.

Then, without anyone asking

  • The employee record is created with the title, department, manager, joining date and pay from the offer
  • Probation is set to end three months after joining
  • The appointment letter is drafted
  • The onboarding checklist starts

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People and records

The employee record and everything that hangs off it: documents, visas, dependants, assets and the compliance dates attached to each.

  • Employee records

    One page per person, opened by their employee code, holding everything from an emergency contact to the IBAN payroll pays into.

    14 features

    Personal details, UAE identity block, Work information, MOHRE skill level and ILOE status, Government IDs with a format check, Bank accounts, Documents on the record, Contracts and amendments, Teams and team leads, Assigned assets, Masked numbers, Who can edit, Per-person switches, Employee list with filters.

    Bank accounts and HR-uploaded documents appear on plans that include payroll.

    Employee records features
  • Adding people

    Four ways to get someone onto the system, depending on whether you are adding one manager or three hundred site workers with no work email.

    10 features

    Create a profile, Duplicate check, Finish the record in the same sitting, Welcome email, Invite by email, Invite link, Import a file, Invitations that cannot be altered, Seat meter, First sign-in profile.

  • Bulk import

    The page a migration runs through: departments, employees, opening leave balances and salary structures, each checked before a single row is written.

    7 features

    Four import types, Dry run first, Error report to download, Safe to re-run, Templates and column help, Import history, Permissions per type.

  • Custom fields

    The fields your company needs that no vendor would think to ship: uniform size, camp room number, driving licence category.

    5 features

    Five field types, Required or optional, HR-only or visible to the employee, Usage count, Retire without losing data.

  • Departments and teams

    Departments hold people; teams sit inside departments and have managers. Both decide whose requests and records a manager can see.

    4 features

    Departments, Teams inside a department, Headcount at a glance, Visibility follows structure.

  • Org chart

    The reporting tree, drawn from the reporting lines on file, with a findings panel that points at what is broken in it.

    5 features

    List and diagram views, Search that opens the tree, Shape of the organization, Findings, Reassign reports.

  • Directory

    Who works here and how to reach them, open to everyone, with nothing private in it.

    3 features

    A card per person, Search and filters, Work details only.

  • Employee journey

    One person's whole employment as a timeline, written by the other modules as things happen. Nobody types it.

    3 features

    Fourteen kinds of event, Show and hide by kind, Three views of the same history.

  • My documents

    Each employee's own document shelf: what is on file, what HR is waiting for, and what runs out in the next ninety days.

    5 features

    Upload with the details that matter, Renew soon, What HR is asking for, Status on every file, Your contract, readable.

  • Document review

    HR's side of the shelf: a queue to check, a list of what was asked for and never arrived.

    5 features

    Verify or reject, Ask someone for a document, Chase list, Both sides are told, On the audit log.

  • Expiry alerts

    A scan that runs at seven every morning across every date that can lapse, and tells the right people once per threshold.

    7 features

    IDs and documents, Dependants, Medical cover and certificates, Trade licences and establishment cards, Probation and contracts, Who hears about it, No repeats.

  • Establishment documents

    The company's own paperwork, held per legal entity, on the same expiry ladder as everyone's visas.

    4 features

    Document types, Number, authority, expiry, Days remaining, Renewed to.

  • Visa processing

    The steps a PRO walks through for every hire, renewal and exit, laid out as dated stages instead of a column in somebody's spreadsheet.

    9 features

    New visa, six steps, Renewal, four steps, Cancellation, three steps, Record each step, Dates that move with reality, Writes to the ID register, Skip or cancel, At a glance, The employee can follow it.

  • Dependents

    The family on a sponsored employee's file, each with documents that expire on their own dates.

    5 features

    Who they are, Sponsorship and cover, Four expiry dates, Kept by the employee, seen by HR, On the daily scan.

  • Medical insurance

    Who is covered, who has lapsed and who has no policy on record at all.

    5 features

    Policy details, Covered, lapsed, none, Renewal alerts, Missing cover is a finding, No self-service edits.

    For organizations registered in the UAE.

    Medical insurance features
  • Air tickets

    The home-leave ticket in the contract, tracked by cycle so nobody argues about whether this year's was used.

    4 features

    Entitlement per employee, Cycle status, Claim the cycle, HR decides.

  • Nominees

    Who receives an employee's end-of-service benefit and insurance, on record before anyone needs to ask.

    4 features

    Beneficiary details, What the nomination covers, Shares that add up, HR sees the gaps.

  • Compliance dashboard

    Every dated obligation the company has, on one calendar, with the action sitting next to the deadline.

    7 features

    30, 60 or 90 day window, Deadlines calendar, Organization deadlines, Document expiries table, Probation decisions, Contract renewals, Mandatory training.

  • Emiratisation tracker

    Your Emirati share of skilled roles against the target for the year, and what the shortfall would cost.

    5 features

    Built from the records, Where you stand, Targets by year, Projected fine, Missing data flagged.

    For organizations registered in the UAE. A tracker and calculator: it does not file with MOHRE or Nafis.

    Emiratisation tracker features
  • ILOE tracking

    Unemployment insurance enrolment for every employee, with the people who are not covered at the top.

    4 features

    Status per employee, Category from salary, Gap list, Alerts.

    For organizations registered in the UAE. Tracks and reminds; it does not subscribe employees or deduct the premium.

    ILOE tracking features
  • Asset register

    What the company owns, who is holding it, and what it will cost if it does not come back.

    8 features

    Asset details, Search and filter, Assign to a person, Confirm receipt, Return with condition, Feeds the final settlement, Archive, Separate view and manage rights.

  • Employee dashboard

    An employee's own day: how long they have worked, what is left, and what they are meant to be doing.

    5 features

    Four cards, Today's shift, Request overtime from here, Work log and timer, My team and manager.

  • Phone home screen

    Open the site on a phone and an employee gets a screen built for a thumb, with nothing to install.

    4 features

    Start and stop, Geofence status, Today and this month, Shortcuts.

  • My workspace

    The pages that belong to the employee, gathered under one heading in the menu.

    8 features

    My profile, My team, My journey, My documents, My assets, My policies, My payroll, My record.

Attendance and scheduling

How a working day gets recorded, from a phone on a site or a terminal at the door, and the roster that says what the day should have been.

  • Daily attendance

    The page everyone opens in the morning: punch in, see how much of the shift is left, and for managers, see who is working right now.

    10 features

    Punch in, out and in again, Today card, Where the expected hours come from, Night shifts land on the right day, Leave is respected, Forgotten punch-outs close themselves, Team view, Month calendar, CSV export, Five ways a punch arrives.

  • Selfie and GPS check-in

    For crews who start the day on a site, not at a desk: a face and a location, once a day, before the clock starts.

    5 features

    One selfie a day, Location attached, Selfie map, Selfie list and export, Private by construction.

    Geofencing and the selfie map start on the Advance Tracking plan, one up from Basic Tracking.

    Selfie and GPS check-in features
  • Geofence zones

    A circle on a map around each place people are allowed to start work from.

    5 features

    Draw a zone, Per branch or company-wide, Checked when work starts, Leaves the zone, stops the clock, Work-from-home days are exempt.

    Geofenced attendance needs the Advance Tracking plan or one above it.

    Geofence zones features
  • Time corrections

    What other systems call regularization: the employee says what really happened, and somebody with authority agrees or does not.

    5 features

    Fix punch times, Extra time, Guard rails, Approve, decline or forward, Runs on the approval engine.

  • Holiday calendar

    The days nobody is expected in, by country and by branch.

    4 features

    Holiday details, The right people see it, Feeds everything else, Branch managers stay in their lane.

  • Break tracking

    Start a break, end a break, and the day's total takes care of itself.

    3 features

    Start and end, The work timer pauses, Today and history.

  • Biometric devices

    Fingerprint and face terminals at the door, registered once, with every punch landing in the same attendance day as a phone check-in.

    12 features

    Vendors and protocols, Register a device, At a glance, Locked to its network address, Employee mapping, Sync employees to the terminal, Quarantine, CSV import, Health checks, Duplicate taps ignored, On-site connector, No templates stored.

  • Attendance warning ladder

    Rules that turn a pattern of lateness or no-shows into a drafted warning, so HR is not counting days by hand.

    6 features

    Write a rule, Draft or issue, Runs every morning, Never written up twice, Half-day leave is not lateness, Detection ledger.

  • Overtime requests

    Overtime that is agreed before it reaches a payslip. Payroll pays overtime from approved requests and nothing else.

    6 features

    Request it, Straight from the dashboard, Pay rule, Into the payroll run, No double counting, Thresholds in hours.

  • Shifts

    The building blocks of a roster: when a shift starts, when it ends, and how late is late.

    5 features

    Shift definition, Overnight handled, Standing assignments, Required skills, Drives attendance.

  • Weekly roster

    A Monday-to-Sunday grid, one row per person, that stays a draft until you publish it.

    7 features

    A cell per day, Draft and publish, Copy last week, Coverage, Skill warnings, The roster wins, My shifts.

  • Working-time limits

    Three limits the roster checks as you build it, so a tired crew is a decision and not an accident.

    5 features

    Rest between shifts, Consecutive days, Weekly hours, Looks across the week boundary, Warns, never blocks.

  • Shift swaps

    Two colleagues agree first. The manager only hears about swaps that are already settled between them.

    5 features

    Ask a colleague, Colleague accepts or declines, Manager approval, Roster updates itself, Sensible refusals.

  • Open shifts

    A shift nobody can cover, posted to the people who are free that day.

    5 features

    Post a shift you cannot make, Managers post unfilled slots, Claim it, First claim holds, Approval moves the roster.

Leave and time off

Requests, balances, days in lieu and remote days, on one calendar the whole team can read.

  • Leave requests and balances

    Ask for leave against a balance you can see, and get an answer from someone who can see the whole team.

    11 features

    Balance cards, Full day or half day, Only working days count, Checked before it is sent, Approve, reject, forward, Revoke an approved leave, Medical certificates, Certificates stay private, Team balances, Stale requests clean themselves up, Attendance agrees.

  • Leave types

    Your leave policy as a short list: what each kind is called and how many days a year it carries.

    4 features

    Up to fifteen types, Gulf presets, Unpaid leave is automatic, Cannot remove what is in use.

  • Team leave calendar

    Who is away, who is working from home and which dates are closed to leave, in one view the whole team can open.

    5 features

    Three views, Leave and remote days together, Filters, Today's numbers, Blackout periods.

  • Comp-off

    Work a Friday or a public holiday and the day in lieu is credited without anyone filling in a form.

    6 features

    Earned automatically, Branch calendar applies, Not paid twice, Take a day, Books real leave, Lapses at year end.

  • Work from home

    A remote day requested, approved and visible to the team, with the geofence stepping aside for the day.

    5 features

    Request a day or a stretch, At a glance, On the team calendar, Geofence off for the day, Thresholds in days.

  • Absence patterns

    The Bradford factor, calculated for you: frequent short absences score higher than one long one.

    5 features

    Spells squared, times days, Five bands, See the spells, Choose what is scored, A prompt, not a verdict.

Payroll and money

The monthly run, the WPS file, gratuity, and every other amount that ends up on a payslip or comes off a final settlement.

  • Payroll dashboard

    The month on one screen: who has been processed, who has not, what it is costing and how that compares with last month.

    6 features

    Pick the month, Four numbers that matter, Charts, Needs attention, Run history, Branch-aware.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Payroll dashboard features
  • Pay groups

    Optional groupings for payroll, when departments are not how you pay people.

    5 features

    Create and assign, Group screen, Progress per group, Unassigned employees, Works without them.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Pay groups features
  • Salary components and formulas

    Earnings and deductions defined once for the company, including ones calculated by a formula you write.

    6 features

    Component types, Formula editor, Test before you save, Applied on every run, Switch on and off, UAE structure.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Salary components and formulas features
  • The monthly run

    Five stages, each with a name against it: draft, locked, approved, released, disbursed.

    15 features

    Six steps per employee, Bulk matrix, Process and pay, How pay is worked out, What gets added, Leavers handled, Lock, Approve by someone else, Unlock with a reason, Release, Disburse, Completeness card, Missing bank details, fixed in place, Activity trail, Password for the big steps.

    On plans that include payroll.

    The monthly run features
  • WPS salary file

    The SIF file your bank's WPS portal asks for, built from the run you just approved.

    6 features

    Employer identity, Per establishment, Standard layout, Missing data is named, Checked before you start, A copy is kept.

    For organizations registered in the UAE, on plans that include payroll.

    WPS salary file features
  • End-of-service gratuity

    What you owe each person if they left today, and what the whole company has accrued.

    6 features

    The UAE formula, Exact service, Liability page, On the employee's own page, On the payslip, Nominee reminder.

    For organizations registered in the UAE, on plans that include payroll.

    End-of-service gratuity features
  • Payslips and My Payroll

    A PDF payslip with your logo on it, and a page where each employee finds every one they have ever had.

    4 features

    Payslip PDF, UAE identity lines, My Payroll, Own payslip only.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Payslips and My Payroll features
  • Bank detail changes

    The request fraudsters love to fake, handled with proof, a side-by-side comparison and an approval.

    5 features

    Employee asks, Old account stays live, Side by side, HR only, Withdraw.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Bank detail changes features
  • Pre-payroll checklist

    Run it before you lock, and find the missing IBAN now instead of when the bank rejects the file.

    4 features

    What it checks, Run sanity, Results, Per-employee failures.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Pre-payroll checklist features
  • Payroll reports

    The register your accountant asks for, by month and department.

    3 features

    Payroll register, Payment status report, Filter and export.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Payroll reports features
  • Salary revisions

    An increment as a letter, an approval and a date, with the back pay worked out for you.

    6 features

    Revision letter, Approval first, Applies on the date, Back-dated? Arrears are drafted, From a performance review, Stale letters are refused.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Salary revisions features
  • Arrears

    Money owed for a month that has already been paid, corrected in a month that has not.

    4 features

    Create an arrear, Detect pay changes, Approve into the run, One per month.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Arrears features
  • Full and final settlement

    The last payment, calculated from the record and blocked until the laptop is back.

    7 features

    What goes in, What is calculated, What comes off, Service is verified, Clearance gate, No double pay, Record the payment.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Full and final settlement features
  • India payroll

    For teams with an entity in India: the statutory deductions, declarations and filings that payroll there requires.

    9 features

    Statutory deductions, Setup wizard, Salary templates, Tax declarations, Proof review, Tax simulator, Loans and advances, Statutory filings, Registers.

    For organizations registered in India, on plans that include payroll. Filings are files you upload to the government portals.

    India payroll features
  • Expense claims

    A claim with its receipt, approved by a manager and then by HR, and paid with the next salary.

    9 features

    New claim, Review before sending, Manager, then admin, Inboxes with counts, Bulk approve and reject, Approval timeline, Paid with salary, Or paid outside payroll, Receipts are private.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Expense claims features
  • Travel requests

    Agree the trip and the budget first, then tie the claims to it afterwards.

    4 features

    Request travel, Approval by cost, Link the claims, At a glance.

Hiring and lifecycle

From a requisition to a signed contract, through probation and promotion, to a clean exit.

  • Roles and requisitions

    A vacancy starts as a draft, gets approved by someone other than the person who raised it, and only then goes public.

    8 features

    Role details, Description from a template, Cover photo library, Approval flow, Publish and unpublish, Open to employees, Managers see their own, Logged.

  • Candidate pipeline

    A board per role, from application to hired, where hiring someone creates their employee record.

    10 features

    Stage board, Candidate card, Application, Schedule interviews, Record feedback, Record the offer, Hire, Probation set automatically, Appointment letter and onboarding, Safe to click twice.

  • Careers page

    A public page at your own address, in your colours, that lists what you have approved and nothing else.

    8 features

    Your address, your brand, Search and filters, Role cards, Application form, Half-filled forms are kept, Straight into the pipeline, Roles expire on their own, Spam protection.

  • Employee referrals

    Anyone can put a name forward and follow what happened to it, without seeing the interview notes.

    5 features

    Refer someone, Tagged in the pipeline, Follow your referrals, Reward status, Sensible refusals.

  • Internal openings

    Roles HR has opened to the people already here, with an application their manager is not told about.

    5 features

    Open now, Apply with a note, Track it, Withdraw and reapply, Discreet.

  • Pre-boarding

    The new joiner's own to-do list, with the company's side of the preparation visible beside it.

    5 features

    Your tasks, Starts before day one, Being prepared for you, Shortcuts, Welcome note.

  • Onboarding and offboarding checklists

    The same steps for every joiner and every leaver, dated from the day that matters and owned by a function.

    7 features

    Built-in onboarding, Built-in offboarding, Your own templates, Dates work themselves out, Started for you, Progress, Not your own.

  • Exit clearance

    The gate between a leaver and their final settlement.

    4 features

    One banner, Three conditions, Payroll is blocked, Exit interview.

  • Probation reviews

    The manager recommends, HR decides, and the end date does not slip past unnoticed.

    8 features

    Who is on probation, Manager recommends, HR decides, Confirmation letter, Extend, History, Reminders, Everyone is told.

  • Position changes

    Promotions, transfers and new reporting lines, recorded with the date they take effect.

    8 features

    Six kinds of change, What can change, Effective dating, Old and new, The org chart follows, Loop protection, Cancel before it applies, The employee is told.

  • Contracts and signing

    Amend a contract, send it for acceptance, renew it before it lapses, and keep the record of who agreed and when.

    8 features

    Contract on file, Amend, Send for signature, Read and sign, One-time links, Renew, Renewal alerts, Salary stays restricted.

  • Company policies

    Publish a policy, require a read receipt, and see who has not got round to it.

    3 features

    Publish with a version, Acknowledge, Who has not.

  • Resignations and exits

    A resignation submitted, approved and acted on, and the employer-side exits that need the same paper trail.

    8 features

    Submit a resignation, Status and history, Employer-initiated exits, Approved by someone else, Approval chain, Offboarding starts on approval, Access ends with the last day, Exit numbers.

  • Exit handover

    What the leaver knows, written down and acknowledged by the people who will need it.

    5 features

    Handover items, Submit, Receivers acknowledge, Manager accepts, Holds the settlement.

Performance and development

Review cycles, goals, one-to-ones, succession, training and the skills people have been signed off for.

  • Review cycles

    An appraisal that moves from the employee to the manager to HR, and ends with a rating somebody signed off.

    10 features

    Competencies, Create and launch, Three stages, Star ratings, Stage counts, Calibration table, Finalise, Rating to increment, Who sees what, No reviewing yourself.

  • My reviews

    One page for your own self-assessment and for every review that is waiting on you.

    4 features

    Three lists, Action needed or submitted, Save a draft, Room to write.

  • Goals

    A goal with a number on it, linked to the review it will be judged in and to the goal above it.

    7 features

    Goal details, Measurable target, Aligns to, Linked to a review cycle, Protected once linked, Update progress, Summary and filters.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Goals features
  • Ad-hoc reviews

    Feedback written down outside a cycle, for the moments that should not wait for the annual one.

    6 features

    Four kinds, Five-point scale with names, Structured lists, Confidential option, No duplicates, On the journey.

    On plans that include payroll.

    Ad-hoc reviews features
  • One-to-ones

    A running conversation between a manager and each report, private to the two of them. HR cannot read it.

    7 features

    Either side schedules, Talking points, Shared notes, Action items with owners, Private note, Held, upcoming, past, Overdue nudge.

  • Talent grid and succession

    A nine-box grid where performance comes from closed reviews and is never retyped, and a successor list for the roles you cannot leave empty.

    7 features

    Performance is read, not entered, Potential is a recorded judgement, Stale assessments are marked, Not placed, and why, Succession plans, Cover at a glance, HR only.

  • Performance reports

    How a cycle went across the organization, without opening anyone's review.

    4 features

    Pick a cycle, Average ratings, By department, Goal completion.

  • Training and certifications

    Who has done which course, when it runs out, and who has never been given it.

    9 features

    Courses, Assign, My training, Statuses, Expiry fixed at completion, Who holds it, Expiry reminders, Mandatory gaps, On the journey.

  • Skills register

    People claim a skill, a manager confirms it, and the roster checks it before someone is put on a shift.

    7 features

    Your own catalogue, Four levels, Claim, then confirm, Change resets the sign-off, Who can do this?, Required on a shift, Warnings on the roster.

Communication and culture

Announcements, chat, recognition and surveys, and the quieter channels: the helpdesk, letters, speak-up and conduct.

  • HR helpdesk

    A question to HR as a case with a thread, not a message on somebody's phone.

    7 features

    Raise a case, Six categories, Response targets, Statuses that move themselves, Internal notes, Confidential from the line manager, Team queue and my cases.

  • Letter requests

    The salary certificate the bank wants, requested in a minute and issued by HR in one step.

    6 features

    Three letters on request, Addressed properly, Preview, issue or decline, View and print, Issued to you, Notifications.

  • HR letters

    Seven standard letters, filled from the employee record, with a signing link when acknowledgement matters.

    6 features

    Seven types, Filled from the record, Issue for signature, Status per letter, Pay stays restricted, Written by other modules too.

  • Speak up

    An anonymous channel built so that anonymity is a property of the database, not a promise.

    8 features

    Raise a concern, No reporter on the record, Access key, Dates, never times, Two-way thread, Outcome, Choose the handlers, Honest about its limits.

  • Recognition

    A thank-you in public, tied to a company value. No points, no leaderboard, nothing to game.

    6 features

    Recognise a colleague, Posts at once, Company values, The wall, A daily cap, On the journey.

  • Pulse surveys and eNPS

    A short survey that repeats on its own, and an eNPS score nobody can trace back to a person.

    10 features

    Question types, Four-question starter, Monthly, quarterly or one-off, Anonymous by structure, Fixed at launch, Five-response minimum, eNPS done properly, Results, Trend over time, Team pulse on the dashboard.

  • Celebrations

    Birthdays and work anniversaries on the dashboard, and an email on the morning itself.

    5 features

    Dashboard card, Years, never ages, Birthday and anniversary emails, 29 February, Three switches.

  • Conduct and discipline

    Warnings that are served, acknowledged and lapse on a known date, and a record the employee can read and answer.

    8 features

    Five record types, Draft, then issue, Acknowledge and respond, Lapses are shown, Improvement plan check-ins, Close with an outcome, Strict access, Fed by attendance.

  • Announcements

    A company notice with a read receipt, so "I never saw that" has an answer.

    7 features

    Compose, Audience, An audience that stays current, Read and acknowledged, Who has not read it, Take down, Three channels.

  • Team chat

    Direct and group messages between the people on the payroll, with nothing to install and no second login.

    8 features

    Direct and group chats, Files, Edit and delete your own, Reactions, Read, typing, online, Unread counts, Notifications, Sixty-day retention.

    Team chat starts on the Advance Tracking plan.

    Team chat features
  • Notifications and polls

    One bell for everything the system tells you, and a quick way to ask the team a question.

    6 features

    Notification centre, Review from the notification, Publish an update, Polls, Four channels, Personal preferences.

Work, monitoring and reporting

Time against projects and tasks, activity for teams that need it, and the reports built from all of it.

  • Time tracking

    A timer that doubles as the attendance punch, knows what you are working on, and stops when you do.

    9 features

    Start and pause, Project and task, Checks you in, Respects leave and location, Idle time is not work, Locked screen, Server-side safety net, Today's entries, Moves the task along.

  • Projects

    The things time and tasks are booked against, each belonging to a department.

    4 features

    Project card, Counts, Visibility by department, Feeds the rest.

  • Tasks

    A three-column board where each card knows how long it was meant to take and how long it has.

    14 features

    Board, Task details, Tracked against estimate, Checklist, Comments and files, Watchers, Labels, Blocked by, Recurring tasks, Reminders, Overdue alerts, Activity log, Filters, Project progress.

  • Weekly timesheets

    The week's timer entries, submitted for review and locked once someone has agreed them.

    5 features

    Weeks to submit, Submit with a note, Review, Send back unlocks, Thresholds in hours.

  • Task time reports

    Estimate against actual, by status, by person and by task.

    3 features

    Totals, By status and by user, Every task.

  • Activity and productivity

    What a tracked hour was spent in, for managers of remote and billable teams. Collected only while a timer is running.

    8 features

    What is recorded, Only on the clock, Productive and unproductive time, Rankings, App and website usage, One person, live, Date ranges and export, Managers see downward only.

    Activity summaries come with the Advance Tracking plan and every plan above it.

    Activity and productivity features
  • Screenshots

    Periodic screen captures from the desktop app, at an interval you set per person.

    6 features

    Interval per employee, Only while the timer runs, Gallery, Admins can delete, Private links, Survives an outage.

  • Productivity rules

    You decide whether a tool is work. For a designer, a design app is; for an accountant, perhaps not.

    5 features

    Classify what was actually used, Three classes, Bulk apply, Rewrites history, Defaults included.

    App and website usage is part of Advance Tracking and the plans above it, not Basic Tracking.

    Productivity rules features
  • HR dashboard

    What an HR lead wants to know before the first coffee, each number a link to the page behind it.

    9 features

    Four headline numbers, Workforce overview, Attendance today, Compliance card, Who is out, Upcoming milestones, Payroll card, Pending approvals and hiring, Only what you may see.

  • Reports centre

    The standing reports a month-end needs, each filtered by date, person and department and exported as CSV.

    6 features

    Attendance report, Hours tracked, Task overview, Timeline, Custom export, Respects visibility.

  • People analytics

    Headcount, attrition and tenure over six months, a year or two.

    4 features

    Headline figures, Headcount trend, By department, Tenure distribution.

Platform and control

Approvals, roles, branches, security, branding, the API and the apps: the parts that decide who can do what, and where.

  • Approval engine

    One engine behind thirteen kinds of request, so an approval works the same way whether it is a day off or a payroll run.

    5 features

    Thirteen request types, Sensible default, No self-approval, In-flight requests finish as they started, Admins as backstop.

  • Routing rules

    Build the chain your company signs things off with, one request type at a time.

    6 features

    Up to five stages, Who reviews, How many must agree, Applies from, Password to change, Stage shown to reviewers.

  • Out-of-office cover

    Going on leave should not freeze your team's requests. Name a stand-in and a date.

    4 features

    Delegate to a manager or admin, Branch access is checked, No chains, Visible both ways.

  • Approval inbox

    A review queue for leave, time corrections and resignations, with enough context beside each request to decide it properly.

    6 features

    Pending and decided, Everything on the card, Leave insights, Who is out today, Counts in the sidebar, Other requests, their own pages.

  • Team overview

    A manager's morning page: who is in, what is waiting on you and what needs attention this week.

    4 features

    Today, Waiting for a decision, Out this week, Needs attention.

  • AI assistant

    A chat bubble on every page that knows the product and can look up your own numbers. It proposes; it never writes.

    7 features

    How do I…, Your leave balance, For managers, For admins, Prepare a leave request, Same permissions as you, Logged.

    Built, but not yet switched on for customers: it runs once an AI provider is connected for your deployment.

    AI assistant features
  • Desktop app

    Denways Tracker for Windows: the timer, screenshots and activity tracking a browser tab cannot do.

    6 features

    Starts with you, System-wide idle and lock, Works offline, Tray icon, Updates you approve, A short menu.

  • Browser extension

    Adds the website, not just the browser, to tracked time. For Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers.

    5 features

    What it reads, Talks to the desktop app only, Pair with a code, Only on the clock, Three permissions.

  • Mobile app

    In development for iOS and Android: check in, ask for leave and read a payslip from a phone. Until it ships, the web app does these in a phone browser.

    9 features

    Home, Attendance, Leave, Team, Requests, Approvals for managers, Payslips, Announcements and polls, Push notifications.

    In development: not yet in the App Store or Google Play.

    Mobile app features
  • Sign-in and sessions

    Every workspace has its own front door, and a session issued for one is worthless at another.

    6 features

    Own sign-in page, Password rule, Attempt limits, Reset and verify, Leavers are cut off, Remember me.

  • Single sign-on

    Sign in through Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or Google Workspace over OpenID Connect.

    5 features

    Any OIDC provider, Allowed domains, Create accounts on first sign-in, Require SSO, Owner keeps a key.

  • Session and access policy

    Four controls an admin sets for the whole organization, each enforced on every request.

    5 features

    Maximum session length, Idle timeout, IP allowlist, Password again for sensitive actions, Logged.

  • Roles and permissions

    Three roles to start with, and as many of your own as the organization needs.

    7 features

    Built-in roles, Custom roles, Permission catalogue, See everyone, or only your line, Payroll is granted per person, Role assignment, Owner protection.

  • Audit log

    Who did what, to whom, from where.

    5 features

    What is recorded, Each entry, Filters, Payroll has its own trail, Support visits are logged.

  • Privacy requests

    The two things a data-protection law lets an employee ask for: a copy, and to be forgotten.

    4 features

    Export, Erase, History stays intact, A log of both.

  • Data protection

    The controls underneath, which you never see unless something tries to get past them.

    7 features

    Tenant isolation, twice, Field-level encryption, Signed links for private media, Upload checks, Rate limits, Security headers, Deleting an organization.

  • Branches

    Each site with its own weekend, holidays, shifts, geofence and devices, inside one account.

    6 features

    Branch details, Inherit or override, Default branch, Transfers with a date, Three levels of visibility, Branch switcher.

  • Establishments

    The legal employers behind the branches: one per trade licence, each with its own WPS identity.

    3 features

    Legal details, Payroll groups by it, Its own documents.

  • Directory provisioning

    Create and deactivate accounts from Microsoft Entra ID or Okta over SCIM 2.0.

    5 features

    User provisioning, Deactivate means out, Always an employee, Seat-aware, Tokens.

  • API tokens

    A token that acts as the person who created it, with their role, their permissions and their branches.

    4 features

    Create and revoke, Lifetimes, What a token cannot do, Logged.

  • Webhooks

    A signed message to your own systems when something they care about happens.

    6 features

    Events, Signed, Retries, Delivery log, Send a test, Internal addresses refused.

  • Branding

    Your logo, your colour and your photographs on the screens your people see every day.

    7 features

    Logo, Accent colour, Sign-in page photos, Browser tab icon, Live preview, Branded emails, Link previews.

  • Your own address

    yourcompany.denways.com, chosen once and yours for good.

    4 features

    Choose it, Permanent, Protected names, Everything links to it.

  • Client portal

    Where the company that pays for DenwaysHR signs up, creates its organizations and opens them.

    7 features

    Sign up, Guided setup, What you get at the end, Several organizations, Needs attention, Open workspace, Hand the keys to a colleague.

  • Plans and billing

    Per seat, per month, with every change quoted before you agree to it.

    8 features

    Monthly or yearly, Seats, Upgrades now, downgrades at renewal, Exact quote first, Free changes during a trial, Invoices, Reminders and grace, Read-only inside the workspace.

  • Support tickets

    A ticket with an urgency, a thread and a rule: we cannot look inside your workspace unless you say so.

    8 features

    Raise a ticket, Three urgencies, Attachments, Consented access, Every visit is listed, Resolve and reopen, Rate the answer, Help inside the workspace.

Questions

Platform questions, answered.

Is everything on this page in the product today?

Yes. The list was written from the application itself, screen by screen, and a feature that exists only on a roadmap is not on it. Where something applies to one country or needs a particular plan, the module says so.

Do we have to take every module?

No. Employee records, attendance, leave, scheduling and approvals come with every plan. Chat, activity monitoring and geofencing start on the Advance Tracking plan. Payroll and what depends on it (payslips, expense claims, settlements, salary revisions) switch on with a payroll plan, and recruitment, pre-boarding and performance come with Professional Payroll.

Can we start small and add modules later?

Yes. Moving up a plan enables the additional modules on the same account, with your employee records, attendance history and documents already in place. There is no migration and no second installation.

How do the modules share data?

There is one employee record behind all of them. A candidate hired through recruitment becomes that record, with a probation date, an appointment letter and an onboarding checklist created in the same step. Attendance and approved overtime post against it, leave draws down its balances, and payroll runs from the same source. Nothing is exported between our own features.

Which countries does payroll cover?

The United Arab Emirates and India. For the UAE that means a WPS salary file per establishment, end-of-service gratuity, and Emiratisation and ILOE tracking. The rest of the platform (records, attendance, leave, recruitment, performance) works in any country.

Which modules matter most for a UAE company?

Payroll with the WPS file and gratuity comes first. After that, the ones that save a PRO the most time: visa processing as dated steps, expiry alerts on every Emirates ID, visa and trade licence, and attendance with geofenced check-in for site teams.

What does activity monitoring record, and when?

The application in front, its window title, idle time and periodic screenshots, and only while that person's timer is running in the desktop app. There is no keystroke logging. It is meant for remote and billable teams, and you should give staff the notice your local law requires before using it.

What can an employee do from a phone?

Check in with a selfie and location, start and stop the timer inside the geofence, apply for leave, request a time correction or overtime, read payslips and announcements, and vote in polls. Managers approve leave, time corrections and expenses.

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