Product overview
Every suite and every module, on one platform
Orvo HCM is designed as 7 suites of 46 modules on one platform, sharing the same records, permissions, and audit trail. 7 modules are available today, each marked Available.
The base platform
The base platform comes with every plan and is not a module.
- Sign-in and access control
- Roles and permissions
- An audit trail of every change
- Policies and custom fields
- Many companies, each with its own country and currency
- A time zone for every site
- English and Arabic, with full right to left
- The web app and the mobile app
People
One record for every person, from hire to exit
3 of 13 modules available
Core HR
AvailableKeep employee records with hires and rehires, contracts, probation, transfers, promotions, separations, documents with expiry dates, and the history of every change.
Organization
AvailableSet up companies, sites with their time zones and holiday calendars, departments, positions, jobs, grades, and cost centers, and see the org chart on any date.
Lifecycle
AvailableRun onboarding, transfer, and offboarding checklists from templates, with task owners, due dates, escalation, and an exit clearance that tracks what a leaver must finish before they are cleared.
Assets
Track company assets from issue to return, with the employee's acknowledgement, recovery at exit, and equipment requests that go through approval.
Compliance calendar
Follow statutory deadlines from country packs and your own obligations, with alerts before contracts, identity documents, permits, licences, or certifications expire.
Letters and e-sign
Generate letters and certificates from templates, sign them electronically, and store them on the employee record.
HR helpdesk
Handle employee cases and questions by category, with response targets, confidential handling, and a full case history.
Contractors
Manage contractor engagements, agreements, and timesheets or invoices, and pay contractors in a run kept separate from payroll.
Document management
Publish policies, handbooks, and forms with versions and owners, and track who has read and acknowledged them.
Background and eligibility checks
Run identity, education, employment, reference, and right-to-work checks through providers, with recorded consent and restricted results.
Employee relations
Handle disciplinary, grievance, and complaint cases from report to appeal, with warnings that expire and an anonymous reporting channel.
Health and safety
Report incidents, injuries, and near misses from web or mobile, and follow them through investigation and corrective action.
Global mobility
Manage international and inter-company assignments, with visas and permits, relocation tasks and costs, and pay split between home and host.
Time
Shifts, attendance, and leave without lost punches
3 of 6 modules available
Time and attendance
AvailablePlan shifts and rosters, check in from the mobile app with a geofence and an offline queue, work out lateness, absence, and overtime, and close attendance through a date, with a period summary ready for payroll.
Biometric devices
AvailableConnect ZKTeco fingerprint and face devices that send punches to the cloud, or through an on-site gateway for devices on a closed network, which holds punches until they are safely received. Health monitoring flags a device or gateway that goes quiet, and consent to fingerprint or face use is recorded.
Leave
AvailableSet leave types and entitlement policies, keep balances in a ledger, handle requests and half days with approval, cancel leave that has not started, and see the team calendar.
Kiosk and web check-in
Turn a shared tablet into a locked check-in kiosk using face, PIN, QR code, or badge, and allow web check-in only from set networks or locations.
Project timesheets
Record hours against clients, projects, and tasks, mark them billable or not, and check them against attendance and leave before approval.
Advanced scheduling and labour forecasting
Forecast demand per site and day, generate schedules from skills, availability, and budget, and compare planned with actual labour cost.
Payroll
Calculate pay from components and formulas, run regular and off-cycle payrolls, check each run against correctness gates before posting, and produce payslips, bank files, and GL exports.
Country packs
Apply each country's statutory tax, contributions, default leave types, holidays, and reports from versioned rate tables with a verification log.
Benefits administration
Set up benefit plans with eligibility rules, enrolment, and dependants' cover, and send their costs to payroll.
Expenses
Submit expense claims with receipts, check them against policies and limits, approve them, and reimburse through payroll or a separate payout.
Travel
Request and approve trips, pay travel advances, and apply daily allowances in several currencies under policies by grade and destination.
Earned wage access
Let employees draw pay they have already earned before payday, within limits you set, with recovery in the same payroll.
Pay simulation
Run what-if payrolls for pay rises, policy changes, and budgets, and compare them with actual results.
Compensation planning
Run pay review cycles with budgets and guidelines by grade and rating, collect manager proposals for approval, and issue total reward statements.
Piece work
Pay by the piece with rates per operation, product, and grade, production entry per worker or team, and a top-up to the minimum wage.
Retirement and end-of-service funds
Run provident, gratuity, and pension funds with member accounts, contributions from payroll, loans and withdrawals, and member statements.
Recruitment
Open requisitions from approved headcount, post jobs, move applicants through a pipeline to an offer with e-sign, and hire without entering data twice.
Performance
Set goals and OKRs, hold check-ins, run review cycles with calibration and 360 feedback, and manage improvement plans.
Learning
Offer courses and learning paths by role or grade, schedule training, and track certifications and required training.
Succession and career planning
Name successors for critical positions with their readiness, and build talent pools, career paths, and development plans.
Skills and internal talent marketplace
Record the skills each job needs and each person holds, see the gaps, and match people to internal vacancies and projects.
Planning and insight
Headcount, cost, and trends across every company
0 of 4 modules available
Position control and headcount budgeting
Set approved headcount per department and position, track vacancies, and compare budget with actual cost.
Workforce planning
Plan future headcount and cost, compare scenarios side by side, and turn the approved plan into the headcount budget.
Reports and dashboards
Use standard reports, build your own over governed data, schedule exports, and see dashboards per role across companies.
People analytics
Follow turnover, absence, overtime, cost, pay equity, and time to hire over time, and drill down within your permissions.
Experience
Approvals where people work, on web and mobile
1 of 6 modules available
Approvals and workflows
AvailableRoute approvals to a line manager, level, role, or named person, with conditions, deadlines, escalation, delegation, and an inbox on web and mobile.
Engagement
Share announcements, collect policy acknowledgements, run surveys with anonymity thresholds, and support peer recognition and milestones.
Ovi, the AI agent
Ovi will answer policy questions with the source cited, answer managers' questions about their teams, and draft letters and explanations that a person confirms before anything changes.
Communication hub
Send messages by company, site, department, grade, or shift through the app, push, email, or SMS, and track delivery, reads, and acknowledgements.
Alerts and automation
Set alerts on dates, events, and thresholds, choose recipients and channels, and automate routine steps without code, with a log of every run.
Guided setup and in-app help
Start with a setup guide and sensible defaults, learn each screen through tours and help, and try things in a training mode with sample data.
Platform and partners
Connect Orvo HCM and run it for many clients
0 of 2 modules available
Integrations and marketplace
Connect Orvo HCM through a public API, webhooks, SCIM, and single sign-on, and through connectors for accounting, collaboration tools, job boards, and banks.
Partner and service bureau portal
Run HR and payroll for many clients from one workspace, with audited access by each client's consent, one work queue across clients, and your own brand.
See how Orvo HCM fits your companies
Book a demo and we will walk you through what Orvo HCM can do for your companies today.