Roles and permissions

Roles and Permissions You Can Trust

Give each person exactly the access they need, scoped to the whole organisation, a department, their own team or just themselves, and checked on the server for every request.

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Permission editor for a custom role, with individual permissions grouped by module

Built-in roles

Sensible roles from day one

Organisation admin

Runs the whole organisation and is the only role that approves and releases pay runs.

HR manager

Organisation-wide HR authority, including raising leave on behalf of an employee.

HR executive

Organisation-wide read access plus a small set of delegated approvals.

Accountant

Reads payroll and expenses and can approve, but cannot release payment.

Manager

Sees and approves only their own reporting line.

Employee

Self-service for their own records and requests.

Custom roles

Create your own, safely.

  • New custom roles start with no permissions; access is granted deliberately
  • Every role is scoped to everyone, a department, a reporting team or just the individual
  • Grant or remove single permissions for one person as an exception
  • Permissions are checked on the server for every request
Permission editor for a custom role, with individual permissions grouped by module

Approvals

Approval chains you control

Who approves

For each type of request, choose the requester’s manager chain, anyone holding a permission, or a named person.

Money needs a person

Actions that release money cannot be set up to skip a human approver.

Approvals inbox

Everyone sees what is waiting on them, with a link to the record where the decision is made.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can managers see employees outside their team?

Not when their role is scoped to their reporting team. A team-scoped manager only sees their own reporting line.

Can I create custom roles?

Yes. Custom roles start with no permissions and you choose exactly what to grant, with a scope for each.

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Security

How we protect sensitive workforce records.

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Audit trail

Who did what, when and from where.

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HR management

Records, structure, documents and org chart.

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Payroll

UK PAYE, NI, pensions and payslips.

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Reporting and analytics

Reports, a report builder and dashboards.

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Pricing

Every module included, from £3.99 per user.

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