HR and payroll software for hybrid software and product teams
Nexa People gives tech companies one place for people records, remote and office attendance, leave, review cycles and payroll. Engineers request remote days and time off from their phones, managers approve in a click, and payroll reads the approved result without anyone re-keying it.
- Remote work with approvals
- Review cycles and KPIs
- Payroll from approved data

Built for
- Software houses
- SaaS and product companies
- IT services and outsourcing firms
- Digital and development agencies
- Startups and scale-ups
- Customer support centres
01Hybrid and remote work
Know where your team works, without tracking anyone
Hybrid teams split the week between home, the office and a client's site. In Nexa People, employees raise a remote-work request for the days they're out of the office, and it goes through the approval chain you set. Office days are captured by the mobile app or the terminal at the door. Location is only checked at the moment of a punch, and only for people you've set restrictions for, so nobody is followed around all day.
- Remote-work requests with up to five approval levels
- Mobile check-in with location, network or device checks where you need them
- Desk booking for hot-desk, assigned or hybrid offices
Pending
1 item
Missed punch
JWJonas Weber · Thu · out at 21:40 after the release
Approved
2 items
Remote work
LMLeo Martins · Fri · Mobile app team
Shift transfer
SRSofia Rossi · Support · late shift from Monday
Every request follows the approval chain you set, never to the person who asked.
02Performance and growth
Review cycles and KPIs your engineers actually finish
Run quarterly, half-yearly, annual and probation cycles from one place. Opening a cycle notifies the whole company, reviews move from draft to submitted to finalised, and none can be finalised without a rating. Give each engineer KPIs with a target and weighting across the four scorecard perspectives, keep a competency library for technical and leadership skills, and close the gaps with training programs run by internal or external trainers.
- Annual, half-yearly, quarterly and probation cycles
- KPIs marked active, achieved or missed, with targets and weightings
- Core, leadership, technical and behavioural competencies
Achieved
1 item
Reduce API support escalations
Customer · weight 30%
Active
1 item
Complete the cloud architecture course
Learning · weight 30%
KPIs and reviews stay on the employee record, even after people move on.
03Hiring engineers
Hire faster, with AI running the first round
Every vacancy starts with a requisition approved through your chain, and you can require that approval before a job is posted. Add Nexa Recruiter and AI screens each applicant against the role and runs first-round interviews by voice or text, in the candidate's own language, at a time that suits them. Your hiring panel gets a transcript, a summary and a score with the evidence behind it, and people make the decision. The hire becomes an employee record, ready for onboarding.
- Requisitions approved before a job goes live
- AI screening and first-round interviews with Nexa Recruiter
- Hired candidates move into HR and payroll with nothing re-typed
- 8.4 / 10
AI interview
FZFatima Zahra · Voice · 22 minutes · strong on system design
- 7.1 / 10
AI interview
ECEthan Clarke · Text · Go services and database design
- Scheduled
Panel interview
JWJonas Weber · Online · Thu 14:00 · three interviewers
- Pending
Offer
LMLeo Martins · Waiting for approval · starts 1 Sep
Your team reads every transcript and decides who moves forward.
Every day
The rest of tech HR, on the same record
The work that sits around hiring, reviews and pay, without another tool to log into.
Onboarding that includes the laptop
Keep a checklist per role, so every new engineer gets the same tasks: laptop, email and repository access owned by IT, contract sign-off owned by HR, and a buddy introduction owned by the line manager. Documents move from pending to verified before the first payroll.
Leave without the spreadsheet
Live balances, half and quarter days, and compensatory leave for weekend or holiday work after a release. Requests over the balance are blocked, and approved days show as On Leave in attendance.
A help desk for HR and IT questions
Payslip queries, access requests and policy questions become tickets with a category, priority, owner team and SLA in hours. Common answers go into a knowledge base, so the same question isn't answered every week.
An AI agent and an open API
Ask the Nexa agent to approve leave or find missing punches, and it asks before it changes anything. Developers can create scoped API keys, register webhooks and connect assistants such as Claude or Cursor through MCP.
How it runs
How a pay period runs at a tech company
From the first remote-work request of the month to the payslip on an engineer's phone.
- 1
All month
Requests come in from the app
Engineers request remote days, leave and attendance corrections from web or mobile. Each request goes to the right approvers in order, and the employee is notified as it moves.
- 2
Week 3
Managers clear their queue
Team leads approve pending requests from one inbox. They can also ask the Nexa agent which requests are still waiting, and confirm the approvals it prepares.
- 3
Before cut-off
Expenses and pay changes are settled
Conference travel and equipment claims are approved, and reimbursements can be set to pay on the payslip. Raises go through approved pay revisions, with any arrears paid once.
- 4
Payroll day
Payroll runs from approved data
Nexa People builds a draft payslip for each person from attendance, leave and overtime. Finance reviews each line, holds anything that needs a second look and marks the run paid.
- 5
After payday
Payslips and reports go out
Employees view and download payslips in the mobile app. Payroll and headcount reports are emailed to finance as CSV files on a schedule, and journals can be mapped to your GL accounts and cost centres.
One platform
The parts of Nexa People technology teams use most
Attendance
Biometric, mobile and location-verified check-ins, judged against each person's shift and ready for payroll.
ExplorePerformance
Review cycles, ratings, KPIs and competencies that keep every team clear on what good looks like.
ExploreRecruitment
From approved requisition to signed offer, with AI screening and interviews when you add Nexa Recruiter.
ExploreLeave management
Leave types, balances and multi-level approvals that keep attendance and payroll in sync on their own.
ExplorePayroll
Configurable payroll that reads approved attendance, leave and overtime, and shows its working on every payslip.
ExploreNexa AI agent
An AI agent that works through your HR with your permissions, asks before it acts and keeps a record of everything.
ExploreIn depth
How HR software helps technology companies
Technology companies rarely have a simple attendance picture. Some engineers are in the office three days a week, some are fully remote, and a support team may run late shifts to cover other time zones. Most HR tools either ignore attendance for salaried staff or treat everyone like a factory floor. Nexa People sits between the two. Office days can be captured from the mobile app or a terminal, remote days are requested and approved like any other request, and shifts exist for the teams that need them. The result is an accurate record of who worked where, without monitoring anyone between punches.
Growth is the other constant. A product company can double its engineering team in a year, and every hire needs a requisition, a hiring panel, an offer and an onboarding plan. Nexa People runs that whole path, from a requisition approved against your headcount plan to a signed offer. With Nexa Recruiter, AI screens applicants against the role and runs first-round interviews by voice or text, so your senior engineers spend their interview hours on the candidates worth meeting. The hire then becomes an employee record, and the role's onboarding checklist takes over.
Engineers expect clear goals and fair reviews. Nexa People supports quarterly, half-yearly, annual and probation cycles, so you can match reviews to the way your teams plan their work. Each person can have KPIs with targets and weightings across financial, customer, internal process and learning perspectives, and a competency library keeps technical and leadership expectations written down. Reviews need a rating before they're finalised and stay on the employee's record. Training programs, with internal or external trainers and recorded completions, give managers a way to act on what a review surfaces.
Pay at a tech company is usually salaried but rarely static. Raises are agreed mid-cycle, people take unpaid leave between jobs, and conference trips create claims to reimburse. In Nexa People, salaries change only through an approved pay revision, and backdated increments are paid as arrears exactly once, even if a month is re-run. Approved reimbursements can be paid on the payslip, and payroll reads approved leave and attendance directly. If you run payroll in more than one currency, exchange rates and fiscal years are recorded alongside each payroll.
Tech teams also expect their tools to be scriptable. Nexa People has an API with read, write or full-access keys that expire on your schedule, webhooks with signed payloads, and MCP endpoints so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can work with the same permissions as the key's owner. Inside the product, the Nexa AI agent takes requests in plain language, such as approving a team's pending leave or importing new hires from a spreadsheet, and waits for your confirmation before it changes anything. Every run is saved to a log you can check later.
Nexa People is a strong fit for technology companies because it handles hybrid attendance with remote-work approvals, quarterly or half-yearly review cycles with KPIs, AI-assisted hiring through Nexa Recruiter and configurable payroll on one employee record. The best choice depends on how your teams work, so see it run with your own policies before you decide.
In Nexa People, employees raise a remote-work request for the days they're out of the office, and it goes through your approval chain of up to five levels. Office days are captured from the mobile app or a terminal. Location is only checked at the moment of a punch, and only for employees you've set restrictions for.
Yes. Nexa People supports quarterly, half-yearly, annual and probation cycles. The company is notified when a cycle opens and closes, reviews move from draft to submitted to finalised, and each one needs a rating to be finalised. You can choose a 1 to 5, 1 to 10 or 1 to 100 scale with your own labels.
Yes. Nexa Recruiter, the AI recruitment module that works with Nexa People, screens applicants against the role and runs first-round interviews by voice or text, in the candidate's own language. Your team gets a transcript, a structured summary and a score with the evidence behind it. The AI never decides who is hired; people do.
Nexa People keeps an onboarding checklist for each department or role, with an owner for every task, such as IT for laptop and repository access and HR for the contract. Each new hire's tasks sit on one board with due dates, documents move from pending to verified, and the new hire is notified as tasks are done.
Yes. Nexa People lets admins create API keys with read only, read and write, or full access, set to expire after 30, 90, 180 or 365 days and revocable at any time. You can also register webhooks with signed payloads and retries, and connect AI assistants through MCP endpoints.
Yes. Nexa People includes a help desk where questions become tickets with a category, priority and owner team, such as IT, HR or Finance, each with an SLA in hours. Tickets can be auto-assigned and escalated when the SLA is breached, and common answers are kept in a knowledge base.
In Nexa People, a salary changes only through an approved pay revision, never by editing the number directly. If the revision is backdated, the increment arrears are paid on the next payslip, and only once, even if a month is re-run. Each revision request can auto-approve or wait for sign-off.
Yes. Nexa People includes desk booking with a register of desks by location and floor. Choose hot desk, assigned or hybrid as your booking mode, cap how many days a booking can run, and release desks automatically when nobody checks in.
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