HR Automation on the Channel Your Staff Actually Read
Payslips, approvals, reminders and announcements delivered over WhatsApp — instead of a self-service portal most of your workforce will never log into.
Employee self-service portals have a quiet failure mode: the employees who generate the most HR queries are the least likely to use them. A portal assumes a work email, a remembered password and a reason to visit. For factory, field, retail and contract staff none of those hold, so the queries arrive anyway — by phone call to HR, through a supervisor, or as a message in a group chat. WhatsApp HR automation inverts the model. Instead of waiting for employees to come to a system, the system reaches them where they already are, and handles the routine traffic before it ever becomes an HR ticket.
Where HR time actually goes
"Send me my payslip" arrives every month
Payslips sit in a portal nobody opens, so HR fields the same request from the same people every cycle and re-sends documents by hand.
Approvals stall in inboxes
A leave request waits because the approving manager is on a site visit and does not check email during the day. The employee chases HR, HR chases the manager.
Announcements do not land
Holiday lists, policy changes and payroll cut-off dates go out by email and reach the subset of staff with email. Everyone else finds out late, or does not find out.
Missed punches surface at month end
Nobody notices an incomplete punch until reconciliation, by which point the employee cannot reliably remember the day in question and the correction becomes a negotiation.
How whatsapp hr automation works
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Connect your WhatsApp business number
AttendancePay sends and receives on your own business number, so employees see a consistent, recognisable sender rather than a random shortcode.
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Choose what gets automated
Enable the flows you want — payslip delivery, leave status, attendance reminders, shift changes, announcements — and leave the rest alone. Nothing is forced on.
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Employees reply in the same thread
Approvals and simple queries are answered by replying to the message. There is no separate login and no context switch.
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Everything is recorded in the HRMS
A leave approved over WhatsApp is the same record as one approved in the web portal, with the same audit trail. WhatsApp is a channel, not a parallel system.
What you get
Automated payslip delivery
Payslips go out on the schedule you set, to every employee, without HR sending anything by hand.
Leave requests and approvals
Employees apply and managers approve in the thread, so a manager on a site visit is no longer a bottleneck.
Attendance and punch reminders
Catch a missing punch-out the same day, while the employee still remembers what happened, instead of at month-end reconciliation.
Shift and roster notifications
Roster changes reach staff directly rather than depending on a supervisor to pass them on.
Company-wide announcements
Holiday lists, policy updates and payroll cut-offs reach the whole workforce, including staff with no work email.
Quiet hours and delivery controls
Notifications respect configured quiet hours in your company timezone, so automation does not turn into 3am messages.
Who this is for
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Frequently asked questions
Does this replace the employee self-service app?⌄
No — it complements it. Employees who use the app keep using it; WhatsApp reaches the ones who never would. Both write to the same records, so HR sees one consistent history regardless of channel.
Are payslips safe to send over WhatsApp?⌄
Payslip delivery is configurable, and you control whether the document itself is attached or whether the message carries a secure link that requires authentication. Companies with stricter policies typically use the link approach so the salary document never sits in a chat backup.
Can managers approve leave from WhatsApp?⌄
Yes. The approval is written back to the same leave record as a web approval, with the same audit trail and the same effect on leave balances and payroll.
Will employees be spammed with notifications?⌄
You choose which flows are enabled, and delivery respects configured quiet hours evaluated in your company timezone. Every flow can be turned off independently.
Do we need our own WhatsApp Business number?⌄
Yes, and that is deliberate. Messages come from a number your employees recognise as yours, which materially improves both open rates and trust compared with an unfamiliar sender.