HR & Payroll

A geofence proves where someone was standing, not whether anyone expected them there yet, so a clock-in from the car park at 03:00 passes every location check and turns into pending overtime. Per-site clock hours refuse self-service clocking outside the ranges you set, and never bind the HR register.

Leave starting on Monday is mentioned on Friday, when a handover can still happen, and leave ending says who is back and when. Two reminders to the employee and their manager, timed by your working week rather than the clock.

Every reminder AWRA sends to an employee is about something they can fix now in one tap: a shift with no clock-in, a shift that ended while they are still clocked in, a claim left in draft. Anything about the past goes to HR instead.

A payroll auditor asks for three things: proof every name on the run is a real person, every change to pay or bank details between two runs with a name against it, and an old payslip that reprints exactly as it was paid. What the system already holds for each, how to pull it, and where to prepare by hand.

Annual reviews fail on the round, not the form: nobody knows whose turn it is, the manager’s rating is visible before the self-review, and the cycle never ends. How a cycle runs from draft to close, who reviews whom, how weighted goals work, and why closing locks it.

Between an accepted offer and the first payroll, someone retypes the new starter, and the start date, pay and probation drift. Hiring in AWRA creates the employee record, closes the pipeline and starts onboarding in one step; pay is the one field still entered by hand.

A leaver’s final pay is assembled from the calendar, the leave balance, the contract, the loan ledger and the advances book. Here it is its own payroll run: salary to the last day, leave encashed, notice pay, recoveries that never go below zero, and a Taxable switch HR decides.

Paying a bonus after payroll has gone out should not mean reopening a paid run, or taxing the bonus as if it were the month’s only income. Off-cycle runs pay chosen people, and every payslip is taxed on the month’s combined pay.

The board approves an establishment in November and by May nobody can say whether the organization is on it. The headcount plan sets planned seats and cost per head by position against the people and vacancies already on record.

A fixed-term contract runs out on a date nobody diarised, and the person keeps working. One Expiring soon list shows contracts, probations, end dates and documents about to lapse, alerts HR and the line manager, and never expires a contract by itself.

A PDF proves someone owns a PDF. How AWRA Academy certificates are verified on a public page, why the learner’s email must be confirmed, and which staff your workspace can see are certified.

A refused clock-in is a row carrying where the phone thought it was, how sure it was, and which of eight refusals applied. One combination of those fields — a failure alongside a valid site code — is the first thing HR is shown.