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I'm an employee
Check in and out, apply for leave, see your payslips, and keep your profile, documents and policies up to date.
11 steps to get going
I'm a manager
Approve leave and attendance corrections, see who's in today, and look after your team.
9 steps to get going
I'm an admin
Set up people, leave policies, holiday calendars, shifts, payroll, letters and who can do what.
13 steps to get going
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Getting started and signing in
How to sign in with a one-time code, set up a new organization, find your way around and sign out.
9 guides · 14 questions
Your home page and checklist
What you see on the home page, the Things to finish checklist, the Today card and announcements.
5 guides · 10 questions
Profile and personal details
What's on your profile, which details you can add yourself, your profile photo, and how HR edits the rest.
5 guides · 11 questions
Documents
Uploading documents HR asks for, finding letters issued to you, reviewing uploads as HR, and the onboarding checklist.
7 guides · 12 questions
Assets and equipment
Laptops, phones and other company equipment: the asset bank, owned, leased and client provided assets, handing them over and taking them back, and My assets.
4 guides · 8 questions
Payroll, payslips and tax
Monthly payroll for India: turning it on, salary structures, PF, ESI, PT, LWF and TDS, running a month, payslips, bank files, full and final, and bringing past payroll over.
13 guides · 13 questions
Expenses and reimbursements
Claiming travel and other work expenses with receipts, advances, approvals, and how approved claims are paid with your salary or by finance.
7 guides · 8 questions
Policies, acknowledgements and announcements
Reading and acknowledging company policies, publishing policies as HR, and posting announcements.
3 guides · 8 questions
Attendance, check in and check out
Checking in and out on the web or phone, the selfie face check, reading your month, what each status means, and overtime and comp offs.
14 guides · 22 questions
Offices, geofencing and remote work
Name your offices, draw a circle around each, and every check-in counts as in office or remote (work from home) by where it happened.
5 guides · 6 questions
Field tracking
For sales, service and delivery staff: where they are between check-in and check-out on working days, their routes, stops and distance. Off by default.
6 guides · 6 questions
Shifts and the working week
How shifts decide working days, late marks, half days and loss of pay, and how to set them up.
5 guides · 8 questions
Biometric attendance devices
Connecting a ZKTeco or eSSL fingerprint or face machine, matching its users to your people, and fixing a device that won't connect.
5 guides · 8 questions
Attendance regularizations
Asking for a day's check-in or check-out time to be fixed, and approving regularizations.
3 guides · 8 questions
Applying for leave
Requesting time off, half days and split days, loss of pay, cancelling, and what happens after you apply.
6 guides · 17 questions
Leave balances and how they build up
Reading your balance, monthly build-up, How it adds up, pending days, carry forward and the leave year.
7 guides · 13 questions
Leave policies, rules and the leave year
For HR and admins: creating leave policies and types, build-up, carry forward, who can take each type, limits, sandwich rule, notice, backdating and the leave year.
8 guides · 16 questions
Leave encashment
Turning unused leave into pay: asking to encash, approving requests, setting it up per leave type, and the encashment report.
4 guides · 5 questions
Holidays and calendars
Seeing your holidays, how holiday calendars work, and setting them up.
4 guides · 8 questions
Approvals
The Approvals page: everything waiting on you, your own requests, filters, approving from an email, approving several at once, and who approves what.
9 guides · 12 questions
Team and organization views
The People directory, reporting lines, departments, and performance reviews.
4 guides · 9 questions
OKRs, appraisals, check-ins and increments
Goals with OKRs and weekly check-ins, appraisal cycles with peer feedback and calibration, recurring check-ins from managers, peers and client managers, increments from ratings, and when arrears from a backdated revision are paid.
15 guides · 9 questions
1:1s, kudos, development and talent
Running 1:1s, kudos and private feedback, development plans and the skill matrix for everyone; performance improvement plans, potential and the 9-box, promotions, job levels and salary bands for HR and managers.
13 guides · 5 questions
Onboarding new hires and probation
Adding a new employee, the onboarding link, what makes someone active, and confirming or extending probation.
6 guides · 12 questions
Resignation, notice, exit and the past employee portal
Submitting and withdrawing a resignation, the notice period, approving resignations, exit checklists and the exit interview, marking someone as exited, and letting people who have left download their documents.
12 guides · 15 questions
Letters and verification
Issuing letters as PDFs on your letterhead, letter types and wording, and checking a letter is genuine with its QR code.
4 guides · 10 questions
Reports and exports
Attendance, leave and loss of pay reports by month, quarter or year, and monthly exports for payroll and audits.
4 guides · 8 questions
Importing employees
Bringing people over from another HR system with a CSV or Excel file, or straight over its API from Zoho People, Keka, greytHR, Darwinbox, BambooHR, HiBob, Personio or Freshteam, and their documents and history.
16 guides · 12 questions
Roles and permissions
The five roles, what each can do, limiting HR to departments or clients, sensitive data, and giving or removing access.
6 guides · 12 questions
Company settings and notifications
The Settings page and its groups: company, time and attendance, payroll, people and documents, performance, access and security, notifications and integrations, and plan and billing.
10 guides · 10 questions
Reminder emails
The emails Sunday People sends on its own, when they go out, who gets them, and how to choose yours.
4 guides · 8 questions
Clients and the Timesheets link
Managing clients shared with Sunday ATS and Timesheets, placing people at clients, and linking people to Timesheets.
5 guides · 8 questions
The mobile app
The Sunday People app for iPhone, on the App Store, and for Android, on Google Play: check in with a selfie, reminders, attendance, leave, approvals, holidays, your checklist, your assets, expense claims, your payslips in My pay and your profile.
7 guides · 12 questions
Troubleshooting
Common messages, what they mean and how to fix them.
4 guides · 9 questions
Glossary
What the words around the app mean.
62 terms
Popular guides
Sign in with your email and a one-time code
Getting started and signing in
Your home page as an employee
Your home page and checklist
See your profile
Profile and personal details
Find your documents and letters
Documents
Confirm the laptop or phone you were given
Assets and equipment
Run payroll for a month
Payroll, payslips and tax
Claim an expense
Expenses and reimbursements
Read and acknowledge a policy
Policies, acknowledgements and announcements
