Documentation
What is FM HR?
A complete HR system inside EspoCRM: attendance, excuses & leaves, payroll & commissions, KPIs, and employee activity monitoring on their machines.
Main features
- Attendance (Whours): Check in/out from a top-bar button, with optional IP or device restriction.
- HR Cases: Late/early-leave excuses, attendance corrections, overtime, and leaves with manager approval and a leave balance.
- Salary: Payroll with deductions and target-based commissions, plus a printable payslip.
- KPIs & Scorecards: Monthly per-employee metrics from various sources.
- Activity monitoring: Live status (Active / Idle / Break), apps & sites, network usage, screenshots, and a Live Activity Board.
- Schedules & breaks: Special work hours (e.g. Ramadan) and fixed break windows.
- My HR page: Each employee sees their balance, attendance, requests and payslips.
How to use
- Configure everything under Administration → HR Settings.
- Link each employee to a Profile and set their direct manager.
- Employees check in from the Check In button at the top.
- Requests go through the HR Cases tab; managers approve.
- Payroll is under the Salary tab.
- Monitoring is on the Live Activity Board and the Activity tab.
Settings & permissions
- All settings are in Administration → HR Settings.
- My HR and HR Reports visibility is controlled per role under Administration → Roles.
Notes
- Activity monitoring requires the desktop app (FM HR Agent) on employee machines.
- Employees must be informed and consent, per data-protection law.
Install & activate
- Download the package from the link you receive with your license key.
- In EspoCRM: Administration → Extensions → Upload → Install.
- Administration → Integrations → open the extension license, enable it, paste the key, save.
- The guide and the license status are on the extension page inside Administration.
Changelog
v2.9.0 Minor 2026-10-01
- New Attendance (Whours): check in/out from the top bar, with optional office-IP or device restriction
- New HR Cases: late/early-leave excuses, attendance corrections, overtime and leaves with manager approval and a leave balance
- New Salary: payroll with deductions and target-based commissions, plus a printable payslip
- New KPIs & Scorecards: monthly per-employee metrics from multiple sources
- New Activity monitoring: live status (Active/Idle/Break), apps & sites, network usage, screenshots, and a Live Activity Board
- New Desktop agent (FM HR Agent): zero-config pairing from the browser, auto-start after restart, password-locked settings
- Improve My HR and HR Reports visibility is now controllable per role under Administration → Roles