Features

Everything your people — and your school — run on

Over thirty modules that share one record per person — so nothing is typed twice and every number on screen is computed from your real data.

Every day · Starter+

Dashboard

One screen with everything that needs you: approvals, who's out, your tasks, the company feed and your attendance.

  • Approvals, interviews and onboarding tasks assigned to you
  • Who's out today — leave and public holidays per country
  • Company feed with kudos, polls and shoutouts
  • Clock in / out with a weekly view of your hours
Dashboard in Staffvelo
People · Starter+

Team directory

Profiles for everyone, filterable by department and location, with employment details, documents and access levels in one place.

  • Rich profiles: role, department, office, manager, working week, country
  • Departments you manage yourself — add, rename, merge
  • Invitations by email; people set their own password
  • Archive leavers without losing history
Team directory in Staffvelo
Leave · Starter+

Time off

Requests, approvals, balances and a wallchart. Public holidays per country are built in, so nobody is charged a day for a bank holiday.

  • Holiday, sick leave and work-from-home with per-person allowances
  • Manager approval with notifications by email, Slack and in-app
  • Wallchart calendar of who's out, by team
  • UK, Ireland and Kosovo public holidays out of the box
Time off in Staffvelo
Compared with BambooHR, CharlieHR, Personio
Time offStaffveloBambooHRCharlieHRPersonio
Leave requests and manager approval✓✓✓✓
Balances calculated automatically✓✓✓✓
Who's-out calendar✓✓✓✓
Kosovo, UK and Ireland public holidays built in✓◐by country; Kosovo not named◐UK built in◐several countries
Covered4/43.5/43.5/43.5/4

Checked against each vendor's own website, October 2026. ◐ partly · ? not confirmed.

Structure · Starter+

Org chart

A live reporting chart generated from your data. Drag to re-organise, collapse teams, print it for the wall.

  • Always up to date — no drawing tools
  • Search anyone and jump to their profile
  • Span of control and depth at a glance
  • Printable
Org chart in Staffvelo
Paperwork · Starter+

Documents & e-signature

Policies, contracts and templates with built-in signing and an audit trail. Files live in encrypted object storage.

  • Request signatures from specific people and chase them
  • Signed audit trail per document
  • PDF, Word and text uploads up to 10 MB
  • Visible to admins and the person's manager
Documents & e-signature in Staffvelo
Work · Starter+

Projects

Kanban boards for the team's actual work — cards, subtasks with owners and due dates, comments with @mentions and reactions.

  • Viewer / Editor / Owner roles per board
  • Drag between columns, filter by person
  • Notifications for every change; email for the people who must act
  • Activity log per board
Projects in Staffvelo
Money · Growth+

Payroll

Multi-country pay runs computed live from salaries: UK PAYE, National Insurance and auto-enrolment; Irish PAYE, USC and PRSI; Kosovo's progressive bands and Pension Trust.

  • Per-country rules, per-currency totals — never mixed
  • Designed PDF payslips emailed to everyone
  • Immutable pay-run history
  • Expenses reimbursed alongside pay
Payroll in Staffvelo
Compared with BambooHR, CharlieHR, Personio
PayrollStaffveloBambooHRCharlieHRPersonio
Runs payroll in the UK✓—US only—via Xero / PayCaptain—Germany only
Runs payroll in Ireland✓—US only—integrations—Germany only
Runs payroll in Kosovo, with the ATK EDI file✓—US only—integrations—Germany only
Payslips created and sent to employees✓◐US add-on◐uploaded, not created◐Germany only
Covered4/40.5/40.5/40.5/4

Checked against each vendor's own website, October 2026. ◐ partly · ? not confirmed.

Money · Growth+

Expenses

Claims with categories, approval by managers and a monthly reimbursement run.

  • Approve or decline from the dashboard
  • Category and monthly totals
  • Reimbursement date shown to everyone
  • Declined claims keep their reason
Expenses in Staffvelo
Recruit · Growth+

Hiring

A real applicant-tracking flow: public careers page, application forms, pipeline, interviews with calendar invites, offers and a talent pool.

  • Careers page and per-role application forms you design
  • Interview scheduling with Meet/Zoom links and .ics invites
  • Offer letters, acceptance and one-click conversion to employee
  • Candidate replies land back in the conversation
Hiring in Staffvelo
Compared with BambooHR, CharlieHR, Personio
HiringStaffveloBambooHRCharlieHRPersonio
Careers page and application forms✓✓◐paid Recruit add-on✓
Interview scheduling with video links✓✓◐add-on✓
Offer letters✓✓◐add-on✓
Hired candidate becomes an employee✓✓◐add-on✓
Covered4/44/42/44/4

Checked against each vendor's own website, October 2026. ◐ partly · ? not confirmed.

Recruit · Growth+

Onboarding

Checklists that make sure every new starter has a great first month — from contract to 30-day check-in.

  • Templates per role with due days
  • Account status: invited, joined, completed
  • Probation review reminders
  • Manager and People team both see progress
Onboarding in Staffvelo
Develop · Growth+

Growth

Goals and OKRs with progress, plus 1:1s with agendas, talking points and calendar links.

  • Personal and team goals with health status
  • Recurring 1:1s with Google Meet links
  • Talking points carried between meetings
  • At-risk goals surfaced on the dashboard
Growth in Staffvelo
Develop · Growth+

Reviews

Performance cycles, check-ins, probation reviews and 360 feedback — self, manager and peer — with sharing controls.

  • Cycle templates: performance, check-in, probation, 360
  • Reviewer-only writing; submitted reviews are immutable
  • Manager reviews private until shared
  • Completion tracking per cycle
Reviews in Staffvelo
Compared with BambooHR, CharlieHR, Personio
Reviews & goalsStaffveloBambooHRCharlieHRPersonio
Review cycles: self, manager and peer✓◐Pro plan and up✓✓
Goals with progress✓◐Pro plan and up✓✓
1:1 meetings with shared agendas✓◐Pro plan and up✓◐inside review cycles
Covered3/31.5/33/32.5/3

Checked against each vendor's own website, October 2026. ◐ partly · ? not confirmed.

Culture · Growth+

Engagement

Kudos, anonymous pulse surveys with eNPS, and an anonymous voice channel — so you hear how people feel, not just what they deliver.

  • Kudos with values tags on the company feed
  • Pulse surveys with custom questions and auto-close
  • Anonymous breakdowns by department, office, country (min. 5)
  • eNPS history
Engagement in Staffvelo
Insight · Growth+

Reports

People analytics computed from your real data: headcount growth, tenure, attrition, absence and leave by type.

  • Headcount by department and over time
  • Absence days per month, leave by type
  • New hires and leavers
  • CSV export
Reports in Staffvelo
Teamwork · Starter+

Team chat

A messenger for the whole team, inside the same app as HR: direct messages, groups, and All-staff and department channels that keep themselves up to date as people join and leave.

  • Live messages with read receipts, files and emoji reactions
  • All-staff and department groups follow the staff list
  • Chat popups on every page, plus phone notifications
  • Private: nobody reads a conversation they're not in — admins included
Time · Starter+

Attendance

Clock in and out from the app, or from ZKTeco devices at the door. Admins and managers see the day, week and month — and corrections are audited.

  • App clock-in or ZKTeco ADMS devices (push, no extra server)
  • Day, week and month views with “only issues” and Excel export
  • Corrections need a reason; the person is told and the timesheet re-syncs
  • Absent shown only for people who are actually tracked
People · Growth+

Training, insurance & assets

Courses with due and expiry dates, health and life insurance with each person's dependants, and who has which laptop, phone or key.

  • Mandatory courses with expiry and reminders
  • Insurance policies, premiums and dependants
  • Assets assigned, returned and self-registered
  • All of it on the person's profile
School · Starter+

Students & school cards

Every student and their parents, one card — or a QR code — for the gate, the canteen and the van, and today's attendance at a glance.

  • Import from Excel or sync from PowerSchool every night
  • Cards and QR codes; lost cards blocked everywhere at once
  • Today: in school, went home, not arrived, reported absent, on a bus
  • “Not arrived” alerts to parents and class teachers
School · Starter+

Canteen till

A full-screen till for the kitchen: tap a card to pay, with allergy checks, stock, lunch pre-orders and closing the day — and it keeps working offline.

  • Allergy and parent-blocked food checks before every sale
  • Stock, suppliers and recipes per store
  • Top-ups at the desk, online top-ups by card (Paysera)
  • A nightly journal to QuickBooks
Compared with ParentPay
Canteen & cardsStaffveloParentPay
Cashless canteen till✓✓
Allergy check at the till✓✓
Parents top up online✓✓
The same card at the gate and on the van✓?
Accounting: nightly journal to QuickBooks✓◐reconciliation reports
Covered5/53.5/51 unconfirmed

Checked against each vendor's own website, October 2026. ◐ partly · ? not confirmed.

School · Starter+

Timetable

Enter the bell schedule, teachers, classes and lessons; Staffvelo places every lesson so that no teacher, class or room is ever double-booked. Fix by hand, publish, arrange cover.

  • Clash-free in seconds, even for a full week
  • Drag a lesson to move it; moved lessons are locked
  • Teachers see their own timetable; parents see the class's
  • Cover for absent teachers, picked from who's free
Compared with aSc TimeTables, Untis
TimetableStaffveloaSc TimeTablesUntis
Generates the timetable without clashes✓✓✓
Drag to fix, with locked lessons✓✓✓
Teachers see their own timetable online✓✓✓
Cover / substitution planning✓✓✓
Parents and students see the class timetable✓✓✓
Cover suggested from staff's approved leave in HR✓?—school-records links only
Covered6/65/61 unconfirmed5/6

Checked against each vendor's own website, October 2026. ◐ partly · ? not confirmed.

School · Starter+

Grades & dëftesa

Final grades from PowerSchool on the Kosovo 1–5 scale, and the MASHT dëftesa printed from them — numbered, kept exactly as printed, and never typed by hand again.

  • PowerSchool courses mapped to the subjects on the dëftesa
  • Result and average per MASHT Administrative Instruction 06/2022
  • Issue, reprint, void with a reason, yearly register
  • Whole dëftesa on A4, or data only onto the official form
Compared with e-Shkollori, PowerSchool
Grades & dëftesaStaffveloe-ShkolloriPowerSchool
Day-to-day gradebook◐final and term grades✓✓
Kosovo 1–5 scale and MASHT result✓?◐custom grade scales
MASHT dëftesa printed and numbered✓?◐custom report cards
Parents see grades✓✓✓
Covered3.5/42/42 unconfirmed3/4

Checked against each vendor's own website, October 2026. ◐ partly · ? not confirmed.

School · Starter+

Parent app

Parents follow the school day on their phone — and the school reaches every family with messages, letters and permission slips they can answer per child.

  • Arrivals, the van and the card balance, with phone notifications
  • Messages and forms with Yes / No per child, and who answered
  • Grades, homework, the timetable and the school calendar
  • Fees: what's owed, instalments and payments — parents only
Compared with e-Shkollori, ClassDojo, ParentPay
Parent appStaffveloe-ShkolloriClassDojoParentPay
Messages to a class or the whole school✓✓✓◐in Schoolcomms
Permission slips answered per child✓??✓
Arrival at the school gate, live✓◐absences, not the gate◐attendance alerts?
Card balance, top-ups and canteen✓??✓
Grades and homework✓✓◐behaviour points◐via Schoolcomms / SIMS
School fees visible to parents✓?◐trip fees, US only◐debts and due payments
Covered6/62.5/63 unconfirmed2.5/62 unconfirmed3.5/61 unconfirmed

Checked against each vendor's own website, October 2026. ◐ partly · ? not confirmed.

School · Starter+

Vans & gate

Van lists with who may ride, a phone app for drivers to scan students on and off, and gate devices — so parents know when their child is on the way and in school.

  • Drivers scan cards with their phone (or search a name)
  • PASS / NO PASS and wrong-van warnings
  • Parents told on boarding, getting off and at the gate
  • An alert when a child got off the van but never reached the gate
School · Growth+

PowerSchool, QuickBooks & tuition

Students and parents come in from PowerSchool every night; tuition, payments and debt from QuickBooks. Every child is matched to their family, and anything that doesn't agree is flagged.

  • Read-only: nothing in PowerSchool or QuickBooks is ever changed
  • Tuition collections with debt aging, notes and Excel
  • Students check: same student number, or same name and parent
  • A nightly bell for new differences
Sell · Scale+

Clients & Sales

Contacts and companies, pipelines for deals or admissions, web forms, an email dropbox and follow-up automations — next to the people who do the work.

  • Pipelines you design, with stages and owners
  • Web forms that create contacts and deals
  • Emails logged by forwarding to your dropbox
  • Automations: follow up when nobody has been in touch
Compared with HubSpot, Pipedrive
Clients & SalesStaffveloHubSpotPipedrive
Contacts, companies and deal pipelines✓✓✓
Web forms that create contacts and deals✓✓◐Premium plan or add-on
Emails logged against the contact✓✓✓
Follow-up automations✓◐1 action free, 10 on Starter◐Growth plan and up
HR in the same product: leave, payroll, people✓——
Covered5/53.5/53/5

Checked against each vendor's own website, October 2026. ◐ partly · ? not confirmed.

Also included

Built-in assistant

Ask questions about your workspace in plain English — headcount, who's out, what's pending — and get answers from your live data. No AI subscription.

Integrations

Slack and Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet, Greenhouse, PowerSchool, QuickBooks, Paysera and ZKTeco devices. Connections are verified, never faked.

Global & Compliance

Contractor and multi-currency views plus a compliance hub on the Scale plan for teams spread across countries.

Notifications

In-app bell for everyone; email and Slack for the people who actually have to act. Per-person mute.

Access levels

Employee, Admin and Super Admin, plus manager-scoped views — line managers see their reports, nothing more.

Your subdomain

Every company gets yourname.staffvelo.com. Data is isolated per workspace.

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