/odoo-erp/hr-and-payroll
Odoo HR & Payroll — what they do, and where teams get it wrong.
Employees, attendance, leave, recruitment and payroll. One question decides whether this belongs in phase one, and it's about your jurisdiction rather than your requirements.
/what-it-covers
What it covers
- Employee records, contracts and organisational structure
- Leave management with approval flows and balance accrual
- Attendance, from kiosk check-in to badge or biometric integration
- Recruitment — job postings, applicant pipeline, and the careers page itself
- Appraisals and skills tracking
- Expense claims with approval and reimbursement into accounting
- Timesheets feeding project costing and client billing
- Payroll, where a localisation exists for your jurisdiction *(Enterprise)*
/who-its-for
Who it's for
Businesses running HR in spreadsheets
where leave balances are calculated by hand and disputed occasionally.
Service businesses
where timesheets have to reach both payroll and client invoicing without being entered twice.
Growing teams
where recruitment is currently an inbox and a folder of CVs.
/what-it-connects-to
What it connects to inside Odoo
/customisations
Customisations we're asked for
sometimes unavoidable
Payroll rules for a jurisdiction without a localisation
Always a long-term commitment. It has to be maintained as legislation changes, and that obligation should be explicit in the contract rather than assumed.
frequently justified
Biometric device integration
Usually straightforward; most devices export a format that can be imported on a schedule.
usually configuration
Custom appraisal templates
Odoo's appraisal module is more flexible than it first appears.
occasionally necessary
Bespoke leave calculations
For unusual entitlements, but most requests turn out to be standard accrual rules that weren't configured fully.
/proof
Proof
A multi-site manufacturer moving leave and attendance off spreadsheets, with biometric terminals at both plants importing on a schedule. Payroll deliberately kept in phase two until the localisation question was settled.
Sector. Manufacturing · Scale Two plants · Ref ref /MF-02
Link. Read the case study →
/next
Start with the payroll localisation question.
Thirty minutes, no slides. We will tell you straight if Odoo is not the answer.