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title: "Frappe HR"
space: "Frappe HR"
url: "https://docs.frappe.io/hr/introduction"
updated: "2026-02-04"
---

Frappe HR is an open Source, modern, and easy-to-use HR and Payroll Software for all organizations. It has everything you need to drive excellence within the company. It is a complete HRMS solution with over 13 different modules right from Employee Management, Onboarding, Leaves, to Payroll, Taxation, and more!

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## Why Frappe HR

Businesses often struggle with scattered HR processes, manual payroll calculations, disconnected employee records, and time-consuming approvals.

- Frappe HR brings everything under one roof so HR teams can focus on people, not paperwork.
- Built for organizations that need a flexible and cost-effective solution, Frappe HR eliminates inefficiencies, ensures compliance, and gives employees a seamless experience. 
- Whether you are managing a handful of employees or scaling to thousands, it helps you stay organized without getting bogged down in administrative overhead.

## Key Features

- **Employee Lifecycle**: From onboarding employees, managing promotions and transfers, all the way to documenting feedback with exit interviews, make life easier for employees throughout their life cycle.
- **Leave and Attendance**: Configure leave policies, pull regional holidays with a click, check-in and check-out with geolocation capturing, track leave balances and attendance with reports.
- **Expense Claims and Advances**: Manage employee advances, claim expenses, configure multi-level approval workflows, all this with seamless integration with ERPNext accounting.
- **Performance Management**: Track goals, align goals with key result areas (KRAs), enable employees to evaluate themselves, make managing appraisal cycles easy.
- **Payroll & Taxation**: Create salary structures, configure income tax slabs, run standard payroll, accomodate additional salaries and off cycle payments, view income breakup on salary slips and so much more.
- **Frappe HR Mobile App**: Apply for and approve leaves on the go, check-in and check-out, access employee profile right from the mobile app.

And more.

## Under the Hood

- **[Frappe Framework](https://github.com/frappe/frappe)**: A full-stack web application framework written in Python and Javascript. The framework provides a robust foundation for building web applications, including a database abstraction layer, user authentication, and a REST API.
- **[Frappe UI](https://github.com/frappe/frappe-ui)**: A Vue-based UI library, to provide a modern user interface. The Frappe UI library provides a variety of components that can be used to build single-page applications on top of the Frappe Framework.

## Installation

To install/setup the app, follow the [guidelines here](https://github.com/frappe/hrms/?tab=readme-ov-file#production-setup).

### Learning and Community

1. [Frappe School](https://frappe.school) - Learn Frappe Framework and ERPNext from the various courses by the maintainers or from the community.
2. [Documentation](https://docs.frappe.io/hr) - Extensive documentation for Frappe HR.
3. [User Forum](https://discuss.erpnext.com/) - Engage with the community of ERPNext users and service providers.
4. [Telegram Group](https://t.me/frappehr) - Get instant help from the community of users.