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Bespoke Human Resources Systems

Turn talent organisation into a competitive edge. Custom platforms handling base payroll prep, complex shift mapping, and annual performance loops flawlessly.

What a custom HR system is

A custom HR system covers the employee lifecycle with that company own rules: shifts and rotas as they actually work, allowance and overtime rules, and appraisal as it is actually done.

It differs from a generic module in shift planning, which is where almost every product fails: mandatory rest, night rotation and last-minute cover rarely fit a standard grid.

What makes it useful

  • Advanced logic shift and complex roster management module
  • Salary and variables data sync preparation protocols
  • Fully paperless annual review mapping systems
  • Central GDPR-compliant documentation secure hubs

Bureaucracy Blocking Talent

Coordinating shift rotations, night hour bonuses, or managing review pipelines through 20 excel sheets stalls HR's strategic potential under administrative avalanches.

Signs HR is living in spreadsheets

  • Rotas are built by hand and one change means redoing the month.
  • Overtime and night work are checked manually.
  • Mandatory training validity is tracked in a sheet with dates.
  • Nobody can state the real cost of a team without asking accounting.

What it integrates with

The value is in what you plan reaching what you pay without re-entry in between.

  • Payroll, for hours, absences and variable pay
  • Time clock and access control
  • Company authentication, for the employee portal
  • Occupational health and training, with expiry dates and alerts
  • Accounting, for cost by cost centre

How the project runs

Four phases. Scope, timeline and price are fixed at the end of the second, and from there on there is no budget revision halfway through.

  1. 01

    Assessment

    30 minutes

    We understand the operation, the systems in use and where the manual work sits. Free and with no commitment to proceed.

  2. 02

    Discovery and proposal

    3 weeks

    We map the real process, design the architecture and list the integrations. Scope, timeline and price close here.

  3. 03

    Build

    12 to 18 weeks

    Two-week cycles with a demo at the end of each one. You validate every delivery before we move to the next.

  4. 04

    Go live

    1 to 2 weeks

    Data migration, team training and documentation. Three months of support included after delivery.

What it costs

We publish the numbers so you can decide before talking to us. These are real ranges from projects we run, not a price list. The exact figure closes in the proposal and does not change halfway through.

Portal and attendance

€18,000 to €30,000

Employee portal, holidays, absences and time clock link.

Rotas and shifts

€30,000 to €50,000

Adds rota planning with legal rules and cover management.

People platform

from €50,000

Appraisal, skills, mandatory training and cost by cost centre.

Frequently asked

Rest, maximum duration and night work rules are configured in the system and validated in the proposal with whoever handles this on your side. The system warns when a rota breaks a rule, but legal responsibility remains with the company.
No. It feeds it. Payroll stays where it is, and the system hands it hours, absences and variable pay already calculated, which is where the manual work was.
Rotas are usually the slowest module, between week 10 and 16, because each company rules only surface in full once you test with a real month.
Without shift work and with fewer than fifty people, an off-the-shelf product covers it well. Custom pays off when rotas or variable pay rules are specific to the operation.
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