Administration

This section covers System Control — the part of the system that governs how the rest of it behaves.

It is written for whoever administers the system for your organization. If that is not you, you will probably not see these screens in your sidebar at all.

Task	Page
Give somebody access, or take it away	Users and Roles
Change how the system behaves	Settings
Manage the public-facing website	Website and Content

Changes here affect everybody

Everywhere else in the manual, a mistake affects one record. Here it affects every user at once — a wrong role permission can expose salary data to people who should not see it, and a wrong email setting can stop every notification in the system without any warning that it has happened.

Change one thing at a time, and check it worked before changing the next.

What to set up first

If you are configuring a new deployment, this order avoids the most rework:

1. System Settings — company name, timezone, date format, currency. Almost everything displays through these.
2. Brand Settings — logo and colours, so what people see is yours.
3. Email Settings — and send the test message. Nothing that mails anybody works until this does.
4. Working Days Settings — which days are working days, before any attendance data exists.
5. Organization structure — branches, departments, designations, holidays.
6. Roles — before creating users, so people can be given the right role immediately.
7. Users — the accounts themselves.

Steps 3 and 4 are the ones people skip

Email and working days are both invisible until they are wrong.

Unconfigured email fails silently — the system does not tell you that nothing was sent. Wrong working days quietly miscount attendance and leave from the first day, and correcting it later means correcting the data too.