Sage HR Essentials is a version of Sage HR that comes free as part of Sage Payroll (also known as Sage Business Cloud Payroll). It provides Sage Payroll users basic functions such as employee profile management, leave management, as well as employee self-service tools.
If you use Sage Payroll and want to create and set up your Sage HR Essentials company, use our collection of guides in our support hub.
This covers how to:
Activate your Sage HR company
Set up your user permissions and add additional admins
Set up documents
Set up time off
Create your company positions
How to invite your employees to Sage HR
📌TIP: Once you set up Sage HR Essentials, you can subscribe to Sage HR modules for extra HR functionality.
Once you subscribe to modules such as Core HR, Leave Management, Timesheets, and more, you can start setting up these modules.
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