Features

Everything you need to run your people, connected.

From the first application to month-end payroll and Employment Equity reporting, INNOVACE covers the full employee lifecycle in one South African-built platform.

Core HR

A single, trusted record for every person.

Employee directory

A complete, searchable record of every employee: contact details, role, department and history in one place.

Org hierarchy

Visualise reporting lines and structure, and keep them accurate as your business changes.

Change-request approvals

Employees request updates; managers approve. Every change is captured with a clear trail.

Lifecycle management

Onboard, transfer, promote, hold and offboard with structured, repeatable workflows.

Time & Attendance

Know who is working, and when, across every shift.

Daily register

A clean, daily attendance register your people and managers can rely on.

Team attendance

Managers see their team at a glance and action exceptions in seconds.

WFM & rostering

Build rosters that match demand and keep the floor covered.

Approvals & corrections

Attendance change requests flow to the right approver, fully logged.

Payroll

Payroll-ready data and real-time visibility, straight from HR.

Payroll-ready extracts

Clean, reconciled data for your payroll run, with no re-keying.

Real-time visibility

See deductions, overtime, public holidays, incentives and commission as they happen.

Connected to HR

Payroll reads from the same source of truth, so fewer errors.

Reporting

Summaries and exports for finance and management.

Recruitment

Vacancies and referrals with QR & public capture.

Vacancy management

Publish roles internally and externally and manage them through to close.

Public capture forms

Candidates apply via a public form or a scannable QR code, with no login required.

Employee referrals

Let your team refer talent and track every referral to outcome.

Applicant pipeline

Move candidates through stages from applied to hired.

Performance Management

Coaching, one-on-ones and PIPs that get followed through.

Coaching, 1:1s & PIPs

Run structured coaching, one-on-one and performance-improvement sessions from a shared template library.

Two-party sign-off

Manager and employee complete each session together and both e-acknowledge the outcome.

Reusable templates

Author a template once and roll it out consistently across teams.

Performance reporting

Aggregate every session against a template into clear, per-question insights.

Employee Surveys

Listen at scale, then act on what you hear.

Anonymous & public surveys

Run login-free surveys with a soft one-response limit to protect honesty and data quality.

Branching logic

Questions adapt to earlier answers, so people only see what is relevant to them.

Live results

Responses summarise into donuts, rating histograms and coloured bars as they arrive.

Audience controls

Target the right people, or open a survey to everyone.

Knowledge & Comms

Reach your people and gather what you need.

Articles

Publish company news and knowledge, targeted to the right audience.

Forms & surveys

Build forms and surveys quickly, with audience controls.

Quiz scoring

Score quizzes automatically on choice questions, graded server-side and fairly.

Acknowledgements

Confirm that important communications have been read.

Recognition & Culture

Make your culture something people can see.

Birthdays & work anniversaries

Celebrate birthdays and work anniversaries with reminders and a place to send wishes.

Media centre

Share photos and updates from across the business.

Slideshows

Display media and announcements on reception and office screens.

Recognition

Keep good work visible and your culture front of mind.

Compliance & Reporting

Evidence-ready, the way South African law expects.

Employment Equity reporting

Structured workforce data that makes EE reporting straightforward.

Audit logging

A tamper-evident record of who changed what, and when.

POPIA-aware design

Personal information handled with privacy front of mind.

BBBEE & management reporting

Pull the summaries leadership and committees need.

Administration

Control, branding and the keys to the platform.

Roles & permissions

Grant exactly the access each person needs, no more and no less.

Branding & white-label

Make INNOVACE look like yours, from logo to colours.

IP allowlisting

Restrict access to trusted networks for added security.

Session & security controls

Sensible defaults that protect your people's data.

Developer / API

Automate and integrate with a documented REST API.

REST API v1

A documented, versioned API for building on top of INNOVACE.

Bearer-token auth

Secure, key-based authentication for your integrations.

API key management

Issue, rotate and revoke keys with full control.

Usage visibility

Understand how your integrations are using the platform.

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