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EMPLOYEE SELF-SERVICE (ESS) PORTAL

Our ESS portal empowers employees with anytime, anywhere access

The Employee Self-Service (ESS) portal is designed to help employees access payslips, attendance, leave, documents, HR policies, and more without depending on HR. The intuitive, mobile-ready self-service platform improves transparency, enhances employee engagement, and streamlines communication across your organization.

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Make short work of repetitive HR tasks,
Make way for high-value work

Often, a HR department’s time and resources are sucked dry by manual, repetitive documentation work. greytHR’s ESS portal saves precious hours and effort by getting all routine HR work done in a jiffy, making time for your HR resources to focus on strategic thinking that is critical to business growth.

  • Zero effort collection of onboarding documents
& investment declaration
  • Streamlined workflows between employees and managers
  • Easy updation of employee information without HR intervention
  • Standardised processes and uniform policy enforcement

Improved employee experience and morale Improved productivity with ESS

greytHR’s ESS portal helps you build an environment of efficiency, transparency and trust where employees have easy digital access to all necessary people, processes, information and documents. It’s all as simple as you want it to be.

Here’s how greytHR’s ESS Portal helps employees help themselves.

Mark attendance via web sign-in or the mobile app
Access payslips and other payroll information in a few clicks
View holiday calendar, apply for leave, check attendance information
View/download HR letters, company policies and documents
Easy expense claims submission process
Employee Help Desk for quick resolution to queries
Directory for easy communication with peers and managers
Leave Apply by ESS

Automated

HR workflows

greytHR’s ESS portal has a number of built-in workflows that streamline transactions between employees, managers and administrators, minimising the need for HR intervention.

  • Leave application & approval
  • Attendance regularisation & approval
  • Expense claims & approval
  • Confirmation & resignation
  • Loan applications

Easy access to payslips,

IT forms

and declarations

greytHR’s ESS portal reduces all payroll-related documentation for employees to just a few clicks.

  • View/download payroll-related information
  • View/download IT-related information
  • Submit proof of investment

Simplified

Leave & Attendance management

Employees can handle all attendance and leave-related processes via the ESS portal on their desktop or mobile.

  • Real-time attendance marking
  • Attendance regularisation
  • Leave application & approval
  • Track/view leave balance
  • View ‘team on leave’ (for managers)

Efficient

employee help desk solutions

Employees have a single point of contact on the ESS portal to raise queries on absolutely any subject relevant to them.

  • Employee queries on payroll, accounts, holidays etc.
  • A single platform for HR admins to offer solutions

Fair, uniform policy implementation

Designed for workplace success

The ESS portal helps build trust in the workplace by enabling fair and uniform implementation of HR policies in a very transparent manner.

  • Direct employee access to all HR policies (published on portal)
  • Ensures standardisation of processes across the organisation
  • Apply auto-validation of leave balances, attendance regularisation, reimbursement caps etc.

Open communication channels

Lets employees express themselves

The ESS portal gives all employees direct access to colleagues, improving engagement and collaboration. It also allows HR admins to share company policies/updates and send reminders for payroll inputs to employees.

  • Networking with colleagues
  • Birthday & anniversary alerts
  • Feeds for mass communication
  • Share company policies/updates
  • Payroll input reminders to employees

Mobile app

For anytime, anywhere accESS

Let employees discover the convenience of being able to connect with their company while on the move.
  • Remote attendance marking
  • Remote leave application/approval
  • View/download payroll related information
    • View/download IT related information
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Leave Apply by ESS

Automated

HR workflows

greytHR’s ESS portal has a number of built-in workflows that streamline transactions between employees, managers and administrators, minimising the need for HR intervention.

  • Leave application & approval
  • Attendance regularisation & approval
  • Expense claims & approval
  • Confirmation & resignation
  • Loan applications
Payslips through ESS

Easy access to payslips,

IT forms

and declarations

greytHR’s ESS portal reduces all payroll-related documentation for employees to just a few clicks.

  • View/download payroll-related information
  • View/download IT-related information
  • Submit proof of investment
Attendance regularization by ESS

Simplified

Leave & Attendance management

Employees can handle all attendance and leave-related processes via the ESS portal on their desktop or mobile.

  • Real-time attendance marking
  • Attendance regularisation
  • Leave application & approval
  • Track/view leave balance
  • View ‘team on leave’ (for managers)
Employee Help Desk

Efficient

employee help desk solutions

Employees have a single point of contact on the ESS portal to raise queries on absolutely any subject relevant to them.

  • Employee queries on payroll, accounts, holidays etc.
  • A single platform for HR admins to offer solutions
Company Policies

Fair, uniform policy implementation

Designed for workplace success

The ESS portal helps build trust in the workplace by enabling fair and uniform implementation of HR policies in a very transparent manner.

  • Direct employee access to all HR policies (published on portal)
  • Ensures standardisation of processes across the organisation
  • Apply auto-validation of leave balances, attendance regularisation, reimbursement caps etc.
Employee Feeds

Open communication channels

Lets employees express themselves

The ESS portal gives all employees direct access to colleagues, improving engagement and collaboration. It also allows HR admins to share company policies/updates and send reminders for payroll inputs to employees.

  • Networking with colleagues
  • Birthday & anniversary alerts
  • Feeds for mass communication
  • Share company policies/updates
  • Payroll input reminders to employees
ESS Mobile app

Mobile app

For anytime, anywhere accESS

Let employees discover the convenience of being able to connect with their company while on the move.
  • Remote attendance marking
  • Remote leave application/approval
  • View/download payroll related information
    • View/download IT related information
  •  
    Apple Store
     
    Google Play

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FAQs

What is the pricing for recruitment software?

The pricing for recruitment software varies by vendor. The cost depends on a number of factors, including subscription plans, the number of users, and the features/modules selected. greytHR’s recruitment software, greytHR Recruit, starts at ₹2,500 per recruiter per month via add-on modules.

What is greytHR Recruit?

greytHR Recruit is a cloud-based Recruitment Software that allows companies to manage the entire hiring process from posting jobs, sourcing candidates, shortlisting, scheduling interviews, to extending offers—all in one place.

What is recruitment software, and how does it work?

Recruitment software is a unified, digitized system that automates the hiring process for businesses and talent acquisition professionals end-to-end and at scale. The system works by centralizing the hiring lifecycle, including posting job ads, screening resumes, managing candidate engagement and information, scheduling interviews, hiring, and ultimately onboarding.

What are the benefits of using greytHR Recruit?

greytHR Recruit simplifies your recruitment process by automating tasks and reducing hiring costs. It eliminates the need for spreadsheets and manual tracking, providing a seamless experience for candidates. The recruitment software centralizes resumes, simplifies compliance with hiring regulations, and provides valuable analytics to help you make data-driven decisions.

What are some unique features of greytHR Recruit?

greytHR Recruit features include AI-powered skill-based shortlisting of candidates, the Lisa pre-screening AI bot, a centralized inbox, and integration with Outlook and Gmail calendars.

What features to look for in a recruitment software?

Talent leaders need to ensure the recruitment software they are considering has key features like an applicant tracking system (ATS), integration capabilities, offer management, automation, and more. In particular, they should look for certain must-have capabilities such as candidate sourcing, resume screening, interview scheduling, engagement management, and analytics.

Which is the best recruitment software for small businesses and enterprises?

greytHR is a highly recommended recruitment software for businesses of all sizes as it not only unifies the entire hiring process in one place but also reduces manual effort, streamlines workflows, offers payroll integration, enables data-driven decision-making, and more. It is an efficient, scalable, and easy-to-use hiring solution that enables businesses to meet their talent acquisition goals.

ATS vs Recruitment Software: What’s the Difference?

An Applicant Tracking System or ATS is a software application that helps track candidates throughout the hiring lifecycle, while recruitment software is the overarching system that includes ATS along with the capabilities for candidate sourcing, resume screening, engagement and offer management, onboarding, and reporting. In short, an ATS manages applicants while recruitment software manages the entire hiring process.

How does AI improve recruiting software?

AI improves recruiting software by automating repetitive tasks, eliminating redundancies, and providing data-driven insights for well-informed decision-making. These capabilities enable HR teams to focus better on strategic activities while the software takes care of administrative tasks such as resume screening, candidate sourcing and matching, interview scheduling, and more.

What is an ATS vs CRM?

An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is a centralized, digitized system that helps streamline the tracking and management of applicants throughout the recruitment process. A Candidate Relationship Management (CRM), on the other hand, is a software solution that helps HR teams build and maintain relationships with existing and potential candidates in order to develop a talent pipeline to meet hiring needs.

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