Platform overview
One HR platform. Every module your organisation needs.
HR Manage is a modular, fully integrated HR system that covers the full life-cycle of people at work. Deploy any module or combination of modules: they share one database, so work done in one place updates the core record everywhere else. Built and supported in South Africa since 2001.
The platform at a glance: the core and the modules around it. Click the diagram to enlarge it.
Modules
Find the module you came for
Each module is a complete product on its own and part of one system when combined. The tiles say what each one does, so you land on the right page; every module page then covers who uses it, what it does and what it works with.
People management
Core HR
The employee file for employees, contractors and trainees: biographic data, staff movements and terminations, occupational history, organisational charts and compliance requirements. The core record every other module builds on.
Performance
Core HR
Online performance and competence reviews on generic or custom job profiles, 360° appraisals, consistency reviews and review cycles scheduled through workflows.
Workflows & forms
Process & compliance
No-code business-process workflows with sign-offs, forms, decisions, generated documents and tasklists. Onboarding, staff movements, and any process of your own, routed by your org structure.
Training & learners
Core HR
Schedule, book and track training, bursaries, study loans and certificates, and feed SETA, Employment Equity and NQF reporting. Proven with training providers running millions of records.
Leave
Core HR
Online applications and approvals with complex leave rules, daily accrual, a leave planner and custom workflows per leave type. Balances stay in step with your payroll.
Job profiling
Core HR
A library of job profiles linked to employees, automatic OFO codes, skills profiles and CV templates, with a matrix for profiling whole departments in batches.
Self-service web app
Core HR
The web application for every employee and manager: leave, workflows and forms, reviews, documents and signing on any device, in your company colours.
Document signing
Process & compliance
Internal and external electronic signatures inside your workflows, tracked to completion, with no per-envelope fees.
Incident reporting
Process & compliance
Injuries, near-misses and investigations as type-driven workflows with their own forms, costs and classification. Everything the workflow engine can do, applied to incidents.
Industrial relations
Process & compliance
Disciplinary and grievance cases with hearings, outcomes, warnings and reporting, kept on the employee’s record.
Compliance
Process & compliance
Requirements by role and site, expiry tracking, and AI-assisted checks of uploaded documents such as licences, permits and certificates.
Reporting & BI
Insight & connect
Employment Equity, SETA and BBBEE reports, WYSIWYG report designers, Excel export of almost anything, and BI dashboards.
Payroll & integrations
Insight & connect
Sage 300 People, PaySpace and SimplePay built in; file, database or API integration with virtually any other payroll, e-learning, time and attendance or access-control system.
Asset register
Insight & connect
Equipment issued to people, from laptops to PPE, with issue and return tracking per employee and reporting across the company.
Recruitment
Coming soon
Vacancies, applicants, shortlists and a careers portal, built on your job profiles. In development; follow the roadmap for the release.
Across the platform
What every module shares
The modules differ in what they manage; the platform underneath is the same. These are the things you get whichever modules you subscribe to.
Two applications, one database
The web application serves every employee and manager. The Windows application gives HR practitioners the depth a browser cannot: configuration, importers, the report and form designers, bulk work and BI. Both run on the same database and security model.
- Work done in one module updates the core data used everywhere else
- The web app carries your logo and colours, in light or dark mode
- Power users manage thousands of records without waiting on a page
A user interface built for volume
Every module shares the same look and the same tools, so a user who knows one knows them all. The filter engine, column layouts and exports are designed for HR teams that work with thousands of records, not a handful.
- Advanced filter engine on every list
- Column layouts you customise and save
- Export any list to Excel with one click
Security you administer yourself
HR Manage has its own user accounts, so your administrator sets up users and rights without logging a call with IT. Sign-in links to Microsoft Entra ID (Active Directory) and Google, and multi-factor authentication can be left to each user or enforced by policy.
- Rights per feature inside every module
- Access limited to employees at specific locations
- Multi-factor authentication, optional or enforced
Email notifications with smart tags
Emails go out when events occur: a leave application, a workflow sign-off due, a training invitation. Who receives each one, and what it says, is yours to set with smart tags that pull in the details.
- Automatic notifications, such as a leave application
- Manual ones, such as inviting a person to attend training
- Recipients and wording configured per event
Configured, not re-programmed
System behaviour, fields, dashboards, themes, rules and reports are all configuration. When standard functionality is not enough, custom plugins add screens and data structures, and custom workflow activities talk to external systems, while you stay on the standard product and keep receiving every upgrade.
- Custom fields, rules and dashboards without code
- Visual report and form designers
- Custom plugins and workflow activities by the product team
Hosted by us, or on your own servers
Run HR Manage in our South African cloud or on your own Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure. The same product and the same releases either way, and we have solutions that keep a cloud-hosted HR Manage in sync with an on-premises payroll.
- Cloud hosting by People Resolutions, in South Africa
- On-premises on your own SQL Server
- Hybrid: hosted HR Manage, local payroll
Subscription
Subscribe to the modules you need
The Core System is always included. Organisations with more than 100 employees choose which of the other modules to implement and subscribe to, and add modules as they grow. Smaller organisations subscribe to the full system: at that size one or two modules would already reach the minimum monthly subscription, so they get everything for it. Pricing is in Rand, per employee.
- Affordable subscription, priced in Rand
- Low start-up cost
- No locked-in contracts: a subscription ends on 30 days’ notice
- Traditional licensing also available
Modules and packs
- Core SystemAlways includedPeople Management, Contractor Management, Compliance, Employee Self-Service, Importer
- Job Profiling & Performance
- Workflows & Incident Reporting
- Training, Certification & Bursaries
- Leave Administration, Asset Register, BI Dashboards, Document Signing
- RecruitmentComing soon
Extending HR Manage
When the standard product is not enough
Most requirements are configuration. Your administrator renames entities (Branches to Districts, Departments to Divisions), adds custom fields to any record, saves filter and column layouts, rewrites the wording of every notification, designs reports and dashboards, and applies your branding. Each module page lists the options of that module.
When a client asks for something HR Manage does not do, we assess the request against the roadmap. A feature that other clients would use too is scheduled and delivered to everyone in a later release, as part of the standard product. A requirement specific to one client is built as a plugin. A plugin uses the same login, server communication and security as HR Manage, with access roles tailored to it, and looks and feels like part of the product. You stay on the standard release and keep receiving every upgrade.
Kinds of plugin
- Scheduled server tasks that exchange data with another system at set intervals
- Excel workbook reports in the Specialised Report Generator: every SETA and BBBEE report is one, which is why they update without an upgrade
- Windows application plugins that add buttons and screens to a module, such as capturing overtime or rosters
- Scripted grid reports, written by an administrator without development
- Custom data sources for a module’s report designer
- Custom web API methods, behind the standard API authentication
- Custom workflow activities, configured like any other in the Workflow Designer
Why HR Manage
Built here, for here
Employment Equity, SETA and BBBEE reporting are not add-ons; they are why the product exists. When the Department of Labour changed the EE report in 2025, HR Manage clients had the new report within weeks.
Rand-based pricing
No exchange-rate surprises. Subscription or traditional licensing, both in Rand.
We own the code
Everything is developed in-house, so improvements and custom plugins are never blocked by a vendor abroad.
No-code workflows
The most flexible workflow engine in any South African HR system, and the only one that understands your org structure.
People who answer
Dedicated key account managers and a support team that knows your configuration, in your time zone.
HR Manage is a marvelous system that allows full customisation in order to suit the real needs of the business.
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See every module on your own org structure
Tell us a little about your organisation and we will set up a walkthrough of the modules that matter to you, on data that looks like yours, with the people who build the product.
- A demonstration takes about 45 minutes, online or on site
- We answer the pricing and implementation questions on the call
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