SmartHR Standard – Complete HR and Payroll Software for Growing Businesses in the UAE

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Built forGrowth. Crafted for Control . Trusted Across the UAE

SmartHR Standard is the ultimate cloud-based HR and payroll solution, designed for growing businesses and mid-sized enterprises across the UAE. Backed by over 18 years of expertise in Middle Eastern HR technology, SmartCity Systems presents SmartHR Standard — a powerful, scalable platform tailored to handle your expanding workforce and increasingly complex operations.

Whether you’re in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, or any other Emirate, SmartHR Standard enables you to automate everything from payroll to compliance while maintaining full control over your HR functions.

This comprehensive HR solution ensures:
Complete GCC labor law compliance
Advanced configuration options to meet your business needs
Multi-role access control for added security and flexibility

For businesses that require a high-performing HR platform to keep pace with growth, SmartHR Standard is your trusted solution. It’s not just about managing your team, it’s about empowering your business to scale efficiently and stay ahead.


Why Choose SmartHR Standard? The Complete Solution for Growing Businesses.

SmartHR Standard is designed to provide your business with the HR and payroll tools you need to manage a dynamic and expanding workforce. With advanced automation, compliance-ready features, and seamless integration, SmartHR Standard is the ideal solution for businesses across the UAE. Here’s why SmartHR Standard is the best choice for your growing organization:

Advanced HR and Payroll Automation

Streamline payroll processing, attendance, and leave management, freeing up time for strategic tasks.

Full Employee Lifecycle Management

Manage everything from recruitment to resignation, ensuring a smooth employee experience.

Detailed Shift, Leave, and Overtime Rules

Customize shift patterns, leave policies, and overtime calculations to suit your business needs.

Built-in Reports, Dashboards, and Data Export

Access insightful reports and track key HR metrics with real-time analytics.

Secure Based Cloud Hosting

Your data is hosted securely within the UAE, ensuring compliance with local regulations.

Monthly Subscription, No Lock-In Contract

Enjoy flexibility with affordable monthly plans, no long-term commitment required.

Designed for HR Teams, Finance Departments, and Compliance Officers

A comprehensive toolset designed to streamline operations for all key stakeholders in your organization.

Advanced HR and Payroll Automation
Streamline payroll processing, attendance, and leave management, freeing up time for strategic tasks.
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Manage everything from recruitment to resignation, ensuring a smooth employee experience.
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Customize shift patterns, leave policies, and overtime calculations to suit your business needs.
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Access insightful reports and track key HR metrics with real-time analytics.

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Your data is hosted securely within the UAE, ensuring compliance with local regulations.Streamline payroll processing, attendance, and leave management, freeing up time for strategic tasks.
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Enjoy flexibility with affordable monthly plans, no long-term commitment required.
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A comprehensive toolset designed to streamline operations for all key stakeholders in your organization.
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Enterprise-Grade Features in SmartHR Standard: Empowering Your HR Team.

SmartHR Standard offers a comprehensive suite of enterprise-grade features designed to streamline every aspect of employee management. From the first day of onboarding to the final day of employment, SmartHR Standard ensures seamless and efficient HR processes that scale with your business growth.

Complete Employee Lifecycle Management

Manage every stage of your employees' journey, from recruitment to resignation, ensuring smooth transitions and clear records.

Onboarding, Profile, Training, and Experience Tracking

Automate onboarding processes, manage employee profiles, and track training and development to enhance employee growth.

Resignation Workflows, Exit Feedback, and F&F Settlement

Handle resignation processes smoothly with automated workflows, collect exit feedback, and manage full and final settlement calculations.

Grade, Designation, and Position Management

Streamline role assignments and position management with clear definitions of grades and designations across your organization.

Organizational Hierarchy and Structure Definitions

Create and maintain an up-to-date organizational structure, ensuring clarity in reporting lines and roles.

Shift, Leave & Attendance Automation: Streamlining HR Operations

SmartHR Standard takes the complexity out of shift scheduling, leave management, and attendance tracking, offering automation tools that save your HR team valuable time and effort while ensuring accuracy and compliance.

Custom Shift Templates and Scheduling

Easily create and manage shift schedules with custom templates, allowing you to adapt to your workforce needs and streamline shift planning.

Detailed Leave Policies, Approvals, and Carry-forwards

Implement comprehensive leave policies with automatic leave approvals, carry-forward tracking, and seamless integration into payroll processes.

Leave Salary, Resume, Calendar, and Ticket Balance Tracking

Keep track of leave salary, accumulated leave days, resumes, holiday, calendars, and other balance details in one unified system.

Timesheet and Attendance Integration

Automatically integrate
attendance data with timesheets, ensuring accurate payroll processing and compliance with labor laws.

Custom Shift Templates and Scheduling

Easily create and manage shift schedules with custom templates, allowing you to adapt to your workforce needs and streamline shift planning.

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Implement comprehensive leave policies with automatic leave approvals, carry-forward tracking, and seamless integration into payroll processes.
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Keep track of leave salary, accumulated leave days, resumes, holiday calendars, and other balance details in one unified system.
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Automatically integrate attendance data with timesheets, ensuring accurate payroll processing and compliance with labor laws.
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Full Payroll Processing Engine: Precision, Control, and Compliance

Full Payroll Processing Engine: Precision, Control, and Compliance

SmartHR Standard’s advanced payroll engine ensures that your payroll process is accurate, efficient, and fully compliant with regional regulations. With powerful features that handle every aspect of payroll, you can confidently process employee salaries while maintaining control over complex payroll components.
SmartHR Standard’s advanced payroll engine ensures that your payroll process is accurate, efficient, and fully compliant with regional regulations. With powerful features that handle every aspect of payroll, you can confidently process employee salaries while maintaining control over complex payroll components.
Payroll Checklist and Pre-Finalization Controls
SmartHR Standard provides a comprehensive checklist before finalizing payroll, ensuring all necessary steps are completed and giving your team peace of mind.
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Easily configure pay periods, salary structures, and policies that align with your business needs and compliance requirements, providing a flexible payroll setup.
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Automate the calculation of overtime, allowances, and deductions, ensuring accurate payroll while reducing manual errors.
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Manage payroll in multiple currencies with automatic exchange rate tracking, ensuring your global workforce is paid correctly and on time.
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Effortlessly map payroll data to your general ledger (GL) and export journal vouchers (JVs) for seamless integration with your accounting system
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Payroll Checklist and Pre-Finalization Controls

SmartHR Standard provides a comprehensive checklist before finalizing payroll, ensuring all necessary steps are completed and giving your team peace of mind.

Pay Periods, Salary Structures, and Policy Configurations

Easily configure pay periods, salary structures, and policies that align with your business needs and compliance requirements, providing a flexible payroll setup

Overtime, Allowances, and Deductions

Automate the calculation of overtime, allowances, and deductions, ensuring accurate payroll while reducing manual errors.

Multi-Currency Payroll with Exchange Rate Tracking

Manage payroll in multiple currencies with automatic exchange rate tracking, ensuring your global workforce is paid correctly and on time.

GL Mapping and JV Export

Effortlessly map payroll data to your general ledger (GL) and export journal vouchers (JVs) for seamless integration with your accounting system.

Finance and Audit-Ready Reporting: Streamline Your Financial Oversight

SmartHR Standard offers robust reporting capabilities designed to meet the needs of finance and audit teams. From custom salary elements to comprehensive financial reporting, our solution ensures that your HR data is always ready for review, helping you maintain transparency, accuracy, and compliance.

Custom Salary Elements and Pay Formats

Tailor salary components and pay formats to match your company’s unique policies and compliance standards, ensuring precise calculations across departments and roles.

GL Reports, JV Reports, and Export to Finance Systems

Generate detailed General Ledger (GL) and Journal Voucher (JV) reports for seamless integration with your accounting systems, streamlining the flow of payroll information to your financial department.

Audit Logs, Document Notifications, and Policy Compliance

Maintain full audit trails with notifications for document updates, ensuring all HR activities are traceable and compliant with internal policies and regional regulations.

Admin Dashboard & Controls: Empower Your HR and Management Teams

SmartHR Standard’s Admin Dashboard and Control settings provide a powerful, user-friendly interface designed to manage and streamline your HR operations. Tailored to give your team full control, it supports advanced configurations for security, approval workflows, and user management.

Advanced User/Group Access Setup

Define and manage user permissions based on roles, ensuring that HR, finance, and executives have the right level of access to sensitive data and features within the system.

Custom Workflows and Conditional Approvals

Automate approval processes with customizable workflows, enabling conditional rules for leave requests, payroll approvals, and other key HR functions. This reduces delays and enhances efficiency.

Multi-Role Access for HR, Finance, and Executives

Simplify cross-department collaboration with role-based access control, ensuring that each department can manage its specific functions while maintaining a clear view of overall HR operations.

HR Policy Settings & Authentication Control

Easily configure HR policies, such as leave entitlements, and manage employee authentication methods, ensuring compliance and security across all your HR processes.

Integrated Modules for End-to-End HR: Streamline Every Aspect of Your Workforce Management

SmartHR Standard offers a comprehensive suite of integrated modules that cover every stage of the employee lifecycle, ensuring seamless management of HR processes. From recruitment to performance tracking and everything in between, our platform brings all the essential functions into one cohesive solution.

Travel and Air Ticket Claims

Effortlessly manage travel expenses with automated claims processing, ensuring smooth reimbursement for business-related travel and air ticket purchases

Asset Tracking and Expense Claims

Keep track of company assets assigned to employees, such as laptops or phones, while also managing employee expense claims with ease.

Loan and Advance Processing

Simplify loan and salary advance requests with automated approval workflows, ensuring quick processing and transparency.

Performance and Training Management

Manage employee performance reviews, training schedules, and certifications through our integrated performance management tools, supporting both development and growth.

Recruitment and Manpower Planning

Streamline recruitment processes with automated job postings, applicant tracking, and manpower planning to ensure you’re hiring the right talent at the right time.

Web API and Power BI Integration for Analytics

Unlock advanced insights and create customized HR reports with seamless integration of web APIs and Power BI for datadriven decision-making.

Who Should Use the SmartHR Standard?

SmartHR Standard is the perfect fit for businesses looking to scale their HR operations with ease, offering a powerful solution for companies across various industries. It’s designed to meet the needs of

As your workforce expands, SmartHR Standard ensures you can manage your HR operations smoothly with automation, compliance, and deep configuration options tailored to growing organizations.
If you operate in multiple locations across the UAE, SmartHR Standard consolidates your HR management in one platform, providing a centralized system for all your HR activities, no matter where your teams are located.
SmartHR Standard is built to support a variety of industries, offering specialized features to meet the specific needs of different sectors — whether it’s compliance management in healthcare, performance tracking in retail, or payroll processing in logistics.
If your HR team needs a comprehensive solution for automation, reporting, and regulatory compliance but doesn’t want the complexity and high costs of traditional ERP systems, SmartHR Standard offers the perfect balance of functionality and affordability.

Your HR Transformation Starts Here

With SmartHR Standard, you’re not just digitizing HR — you’re empowering your people, simplifying compliance, and gaining full operational clarity. And with monthly HR software subscriptions and free trial options, SmartHR Standard helps you scale on your terms.

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