# HR Software for Small Business With Hiring Source: https://nerix.ai/product/people Product, People and HR, Business workspaces # Everything about your staff, in one place that stays private. Staff records, time off, hours and shifts, hiring, staff reviews, training and payroll. You switch on only the parts you use. A person sees their own details and their own pay, and nobody sees more than their role allows. Start free Pricing The free plan is one seat and 3,000 credits a month, never charged. People - Staff Who works here, who reports to whom, contracts and documents. - Time off Requests, balances, a team calendar and approvals. - Hours and shifts Clock in and out, timesheets and a weekly rota. - Hiring Openings, applicants by step, interviews and offers. - Staff reviews Review rounds with self, manager and peer parts. - Training Courses, skills, certificates and policies to read. - Payroll Pay runs, payslips and a bank file you upload yourself. **Fig. 1** The People pages and what each one is for. They open in business workspaces, once you pick them. 01 Staff records ## A record for each person, with their contracts and documents. Add a person with their name, work email, job title, department, first day and type of work (full time, part time, casual, contractor or intern). Their page has Details, Contracts, Documents and a Timeline. Invite them to sign in by email when you are ready. A contract change adds a new line and the old terms stay. Documents such as a contract, an identity document, a certificate or a work permit can have a date they run out on. Mark a person as left with a last day, and their records stay. What nerix does here - Draft a job description or a letter when you ask. It changes no record by itself. - It never rates or ranks people. - Staff Search by name or email. Filter by working here, on leave, starting soon or left. - Who reports to whom A chart everyone in the workspace can see. - Departments Group people the way your company is built. - My details Each person sees and keeps their own details. 02 Time off, hours and shifts ## Requests, timesheets and the rota without a spreadsheet. A person asks for time off with the kind, the dates and half days if needed. nerix shows what is left and refuses a request that is too long or overlaps another. Managers approve, or decline with a reason the person reads. The team calendar shows who is off and warns when many people are away. For hours, people clock in and clock out, with a break if they took one. The week's timesheet shows worked, overtime and planned hours, and goes to a manager for approval. A manager builds the rota by person and day, can leave a shift open, and publishes the week. People see only published weeks. What nerix does here - Explain a balance, or draft a request for you to send. It never approves or declines, and never changes hours. - Time off Mine, Team calendar, Approvals and All requests. - Today Clock in and clock out, the shift planned today and hours so far. - Timesheets Worked, overtime and planned hours for the week, sent for approval. - Rota Shifts by person and day, open shifts, published week by week. 03 Hiring and reviews ## Fill a job, then look after the people you hired. Open a job, add applicants and move each one along the steps, from applied to screening, interview, offer and hired. Plan an interview by phone, video, in person or as a panel. Each interviewer fills a scorecard with a rating, a recommendation and comments that only the hiring side sees. An accepted offer turns the applicant into a staff record in one tap. For reviews, start a round with its dates and the parts people write: a self review, a manager review, peer feedback, or any mix. Each person submits their part. A part stays hidden from the others until the manager finishes the review, and only then can the person read it. What nerix does here - It never ranks, scores, shortlists or rejects applicants, and never says hire or do not hire. - It never rates staff or writes a review rating. A short summary of a resume may be shown, marked as a reading aid, and a person always decides. - Openings Draft, open, paused, filled or closed, with who is hiring. - Applicants A board by step, with notes and the resume. - Offers Sent, accepted, declined or withdrawn. - Review rounds Self, manager and peer parts, then Finish review. 04 Training and payroll ## Skills and policies to confirm, and pay runs a second person approves. Training keeps a skills matrix of people against the skills their job needs, with courses, booked sessions and certificates that expire. Send a policy to read, and people tap that they have read and understood it. You see who confirmed, who is waiting and who is late, and you can remind them. A quiz can be drafted from the document, which a person checks. Payroll works in pay runs. Choose the dates, calculate, read the lines marked Needs a look, approve (a different person from the one who prepared it), then finalise. nerix makes payslips and a bank file as XML or CSV. You upload that file to your bank yourself. nerix never pays anyone and never moves money. Mark as paid is only a note that someone paid. What nerix does here - It drafts quiz questions. It never grades people, marks them late or ranks them. - It never changes pay, approves a run or shows one person's pay to another. - Skills matrix In place, expires soon, missing or expired, for each person. - Read and confirm A policy sent to people, with a read by date and reminders. - Pay runs Calculate, check, approve, finalise, then make the bank file. - Payslips Each employee sees their own, with why it changed. 05 Questions ## Questions Can everyone see everyone's pay and contracts? + No. Contracts, pay and private documents need a separate permission. Without it a person is told it is private and who can open it. Employees see only their own payslips. Does nerix pay my staff? + No. Payroll makes the numbers, payslips and a bank file. You upload the file to your bank. Mark as paid only records that someone paid. Does the AI choose who to hire? + No. It never ranks, scores or rejects applicants. People interview, fill the scorecards and decide. Is it in a personal workspace? + No. These pages are for business workspaces. A personal workspace never shows them. Do I have to use all of it? + No. Staff records come first and the other parts need them. You switch on only what you use. Which countries does payroll cover? + Pay rules are kept per country and reviewed before they are used. Ask us about yours before you rely on it. Need something this does not do? We build it into your workspace. [Built for you](https://nerix.ai/product/custom) Related ## More that goes with this. Start free Pricing - [Tasks and projects Tasks, cases and projects as a list, a board, a table or a calendar.](https://nerix.ai/product/work) - [Meetings Agenda, live notes, minutes and action items, filed as tasks.](https://nerix.ai/product/meetings) - [E-signatures Send a document to be accepted or signed, with a record of every step.](https://nerix.ai/product/e-signatures) - [Feedback Feedback: reviews, 360 feedback and surveys, sent by link, with anonymity that holds.](https://nerix.ai/product/evaluations) - [All products Every nerix product in one list.](https://nerix.ai/product) ## Learn more ### Learn more - [How to Invite People to nerix](https://nerix.ai/help/invite-people) - [Roles and Access in nerix](https://nerix.ai/help/roles-and-access) ### Templates for this - [Leave request](https://nerix.ai/templates/leave-request) - [Timesheet](https://nerix.ai/templates/timesheet) - [Job offer letter](https://nerix.ai/templates/job-offer-letter) - [Employment contract](https://nerix.ai/templates/employment-contract) - [People and HR](https://nerix.ai/templates/people-hr) ## Keep reading - People and evaluations hiring [People and evaluations](https://nerix.ai/blog/category/people-and-evaluations) November 1, 2026 6 min read ### [Do you need an applicant tracking system? Options for small teams](https://nerix.ai/blog/applicant-tracking-system-for-small-business) Applicant tracking system for small business: when a spreadsheet is enough, what free plans really give you, and a hiring process that stays fair and tidy. Read the guide - Teamwork expenses [Teamwork](https://nerix.ai/blog/category/teamwork) November 1, 2026 5 min read ### [Expense tracking for small teams](https://nerix.ai/blog/expense-tracking-for-small-teams) Expense tracking for small teams made simple: write a short policy, capture receipts at once, approve claims quickly and choose a tool that fits your size. Read the guide - People and evaluations payroll [People and evaluations](https://nerix.ai/blog/category/people-and-evaluations) November 1, 2026 6 min read ### [Payroll for a small business, step by step](https://nerix.ai/blog/payroll-for-a-small-business-step-by-step) Payroll for small business made plain: what to collect, how a pay run works from gross to net, the checks that catch mistakes and how to keep records. Read the guide