HR software modules: HR processes from employee records to payroll

In short

Sora İK (the HR management software by Sora Yazılım Teknolojileri) groups its modules into eight categories: employee management, time and attendance, payroll and compensation, recruiting and talent, performance and development, employee experience, compliance and reporting, and platform and integrations. Today 15 modules are available; the rest, including KVKK Compliance Management, are coming soon. Every plan includes all available modules.

Employee Management

Employee records, org structure, onboarding and offboarding, self-service and documents in one place.

Employee Management category
  • Available

    Digital Employee Records

    Keeps each employee's identity, contact and job details, with pay history and documents, in one record accessed by permission.

  • Available

    Org Chart & Positions

    Defines departments and positions and shows reporting lines and employees as an org chart.

  • Available

    Onboarding & Offboarding

    Tracks onboarding and offboarding steps, such as collecting documents, opening accounts and SGK social security notices, with checklists.

  • Available

    Document & Contract Management

    Stores employment contracts and personnel documents on the employee card with versions, validity dates, access rights and read confirmation.

  • Coming soon

    Asset Assignment

    Tracks company assets such as laptops, phones and vehicles issued to employees, with handover and return records.

  • Coming soon

    Announcements

    Publishes announcements by company, branch or department and tracks audience and read status.

  • Coming soon

    Employee Requests

    Collects employee requests such as documents, advances or equipment through approval flows and tracks their status.

Time & Attendance

Leave, PDKS clock-in records and an attendance ledger with overtime items; shift scheduling, overtime calculation and approval coming soon.

Time & Attendance category
  • Available

    Leave Management

    Annual leave entitlement calculation designed around Turkish labor legislation, with requests, approvals and a team calendar.

  • Available

    Time & Attendance (PDKS)

    Collects clock-in and clock-out records and flags late arrivals, early departures and missing entries for the attendance ledger.

  • Available

    Attendance Ledger (Puantaj)

    Gathers daily attendance from leave and clock-in records into a monthly sheet; HR enters overtime, and the sheet downloads as CSV.

  • Coming soon

    Shift Scheduling

    Shift templates, weekly work calendars and team shift assignments, with approval for shift change requests.

  • Coming soon

    Overtime & Compensatory Time

    Tracks overtime requests and approvals and the working-time balance within the averaging (denkleştirme) period.

  • Coming soon

    Remote & Field Workforce

    Records start and end of work and task entries for remote and field employees from their mobile devices.

  • Coming soon

    Project Timesheets

    Logs time spent on projects and tasks and feeds project cost and resource utilization reports.

Payroll & Compensation

Payroll calculation; social security (SGK) e-Bildirge and MUHSGK outputs, severance, benefits, expenses and pay budgets coming soon.

Payroll & Compensation category
  • Available

    Payroll (Türkiye)

    Calculation infrastructure under Turkish legislation for gross-to-net pay, SGK premiums and tax from pay, hire/exit dates and period items.

  • Coming soon

    SGK e-Declaration & MUHSGK

    Prepares exportable payroll data for SGK social security e-declarations and the MUHSGK combined tax and premium return.

  • Coming soon

    Severance & Notice Pay

    Calculation infrastructure for severance (kıdem) and notice pay (ihbar), designed around Turkish law, from service and pay data.

  • Coming soon

    Advances, Deductions & Bonuses

    Records advances, deductions such as wage garnishments, extra payments and bonuses, and passes approved items to payroll.

  • Coming soon

    Expense Management

    Collects employee expenses with receipts, routes them through approval and prepares them for reimbursement.

  • Coming soon

    Benefits Administration

    Assigns benefits such as meal and transport allowances, health insurance and private pensions per employee for payroll.

  • Coming soon

    Compensation & Budgeting

    Plans salary bands, pay review cycles and the personnel cost budget, and routes raise proposals for approval.

  • Coming soon

    R&D / Technopark Payroll

    Payroll calculation with incentive items for R&D and technopark staff in Türkiye, plus tracking of periodic reports.

Recruiting & Talent

Hiring steps from job posts and a careers page to applicant tracking; interview scheduling and offer approval coming soon.

Recruiting & Talent category
  • Coming soon

    AI Resume Screening

    Summarizes and ranks applications against job criteria to support initial review; decisions stay with the hiring team.

Performance & Development

Reviews with goals, competencies and 360° feedback, plus training; 1:1 meetings, career and succession planning and recognition coming soon.

Performance & Development category
  • Available

    Performance Management

    Sets up review cycles with goal and competency assessments and multi-rater feedback; manages forms, scoring and results.

  • Coming soon

    Goals & 1:1s

    Tracks progress on individual and team goals and keeps agendas and notes for manager–employee one-on-ones.

  • Available

    Learning Management

    Tracks training, attendance and completion records, including renewal dates for time-limited courses such as OHS training.

  • Coming soon

    Competency & Career Planning

    Defines competency sets for positions, assesses employees' current levels and links career paths to development plans.

  • Coming soon

    Succession Planning

    Identifies potential successors and their readiness for critical positions and builds plans for vacancy risks.

  • Coming soon

    Feedback & Recognition

    Lets employees send timely feedback and recognition to peers and managers, with records available for reviews.

Employee Experience

Engagement and communication tools such as employee surveys, an HR help desk, events and a social wall, coming soon.

Employee Experience category
  • Coming soon

    Employee Surveys

    Builds and runs engagement, pulse, eNPS and exit surveys and reports results by department.

  • Coming soon

    HR Help Desk & Chatbot

    Logs employee questions as tickets for the HR team and offers a knowledge base and Q&A bot for common questions.

  • Coming soon

    Events & Social Wall

    Internal event announcements and sign-ups, plus a social wall for birthdays, work anniversaries and posts.

Compliance & Reporting

HR reporting and analytics; KVKK (Türkiye's data protection law) compliance, OHS, disciplinary records and statutory reports coming soon.

Compliance & Reporting category
  • Coming soon

    KVKK Compliance Management

    Data inventory, consent and request records and retention tracking help design processes in line with KVKK (Türkiye's data protection law).

  • Coming soon

    Occupational Health & Safety

    Tracks occupational health and safety training, periodic medical examinations, risk assessments and incident records.

  • Coming soon

    Disciplinary Records

    Records incident reports, requests for written defense and disciplinary decisions in date order with restricted access.

  • Available

    Reporting & People Analytics

    Reports indicators such as headcount, turnover, leave, absence and payroll cost; reports download as CSV.

  • Coming soon

    Statutory Reports

    Prepares data for İŞKUR (Turkish Employment Agency) reports and monitors employment quotas, such as for disabled staff.

Platform & Integrations

Leave approval workflow design, roles and permissions; API, mobile app and external system connections coming soon.

Platform & Integrations category
  • Available

    Roles, Permissions & Security

    Role-based access rights, company-wide two-factor authentication and an audit log showing who changed what and when.

  • Coming soon

    Notification Center

    Manages in-app and email notifications for pending approvals, upcoming dates and announcements in one place.

  • Coming soon

    Open API & Webhooks

    An API for authorized programmatic access to Sora İK data and webhooks that notify external systems of record changes.

  • Coming soon

    Mobile App

    Lets employees and managers handle self-service tasks such as leave requests, approvals, payslips and clock-ins by phone.

  • Coming soon

    AI HR Assistant

    Answers questions from data the user is authorized to see and drafts reports and texts for review.

  • Coming soon

    Travel & Per Diem

    Routes business travel requests for approval and passes transport, accommodation and per diem records to expenses.

  • Coming soon

    Document Generation

    Generates employee documents such as employment certificates and payslip copies from templates using record data.

What modules does HR software consist of?

HR (human resources) software consists of modules that bring connected processes, from employee records to payroll, together on the same data. In Sora İK, these modules are grouped into eight categories. For example, the time and attendance category covers leave management, clock-in and clock-out tracking with PDKS (Personel Devam Kontrol Sistemi, time and attendance tracking) and the attendance ledger (puantaj); the payroll and compensation category includes payroll and the SGK (Social Security Institution) declaration and MUHSGK (combined withholding tax and social security declaration) outputs coming soon; and the compliance and reporting category brings together HR reports and the compliance module coming soon for processes under KVKK (Türkiye's Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698).

Category Processes covered Examples of available modules
Employee Management Employee records, organization, onboarding and offboarding, documents Digital Employee Records, Employee & Manager Self-Service
Time & Attendance Leave, clock-in records, attendance ledger Leave Management, Time & Attendance (PDKS), Attendance Ledger (Puantaj)
Payroll & Compensation Pay calculation, statutory declaration outputs Payroll
Recruiting & Talent Job posts, applications, candidate evaluation Applicant Tracking & Careers Page
Performance & Development Goals, reviews, training Performance Management, Learning Management
Employee Experience Surveys, HR help desk, events All modules in this category are coming soon
Compliance & Reporting KVKK processes, HR reports Reporting & People Analytics; KVKK Compliance Management coming soon
Platform & Integrations Approval flows, roles, access security Workflow & Approval Designer, Roles, Permissions & Security

What do the "Available" and "Coming soon" badges mean?

The "Available" badge shows that a module can be used in Sora İK today, while the "Coming soon" badge shows that a module is not yet in the product and will be developed. The badge always reflects the product's current state; no release dates are given for modules coming soon.

Badge Meaning Where is it described?
Available The module can be used in the product today On its own module page
Coming soon The module is not yet in the product and will be developed; no release date is given Mostly as a separate section on the category page

Most modules coming soon do not have their own pages; each one is described on its category page, with what it will do and which problem it will solve. A module with its own page can also be "Coming soon": the KVKK Compliance Management page describes the module's planned scope. When a module becomes available, its badge changes to "Available" and, where needed, its own page is opened. Features not yet included in an available module are also marked "coming soon" on that module's page.

How do Sora İK modules connect to each other?

The modules share the same employee record; information entered in one module is used in the related modules without being entered again. In monthly payroll preparation, this connection works as follows today:

  1. The employee is added to employee records; the onboarding checklist runs on the same record.
  2. Approved leave comes from leave management, and clock-in and clock-out records come from the PDKS module.
  3. The attendance ledger derives each employee's daily status from these records; HR marks sick report days in the ledger and can download the period as a CSV file. Locking the period with manager and HR approval is also among the features coming soon.
  4. Payroll is calculated from gross to net according to the legislation, using the employee's pay and the additional payments and deductions for that period. The number of days is currently based on the hire and exit dates; transferring unpaid leave, absence and sick report days from the attendance ledger to payroll as missing days is coming soon.
  5. The CSV summary of the finalized payroll is used when preparing SGK and MUHSGK filings. Producing the official filing file is coming soon; filings are uploaded to the official systems by the user.

Which module should you start with?

The starting point is the process your team spends the most time on today. The table below matches common situations with available modules:

Current situation Suggested starting module
Personnel documents sit in paper folders or scattered files Digital Employee Records, Document & Contract Management
Leave balances are calculated by hand in a spreadsheet Leave Management
Clock-in times and the attendance ledger are kept separately Time & Attendance (PDKS), Attendance Ledger (Puantaj)
Collecting data before payroll takes days Attendance Ledger (Puantaj), Payroll
Applications get lost in email inboxes Applicant Tracking
Leave approvals run through emails and messages Workflow & Approval Designer
It is unclear who can see which employee data Roles, Permissions & Security
Preparing regular HR reports for management is hard Reporting & People Analytics

How are modules included in plans?

All available modules are included in every plan; there is no separate charge per module, and plans differ only by number of active employees. Plan user limits and purchase steps are explained on the pricing page, and how employee data is protected is explained on the security page. If you want to see a module applied to your own processes, you can request a demo, or ask for a quote for a corporate structure.

Frequently asked questions

Can modules be purchased separately?

No, Sora İK does not sell modules individually. All available modules are included in every plan, and plans differ only by number of active employees. So when you want to extend a process, you do not need to buy a separate module license; you use the module you need with the plan you have now. Plan limits are listed on the pricing page.

When does a module marked coming soon become available?

No release dates are given for modules coming soon; their order is set by product priorities and feedback from early users. When a module becomes available, its badge changes to "Available"; where needed, its own page is published and the section on its category page links to that page. If you need a specific module, you can let us know through the contact form.

Which module pages include a legislation note?

Pages for modules that rely on Türkiye-specific rules, such as leave management, payroll, onboarding and offboarding, and KVKK Compliance Management, include a separate legislation note. These notes do not cite article numbers or rates; they only link to official sources. We recommend having calculation results checked by your financial adviser or legal counsel.

Do we have to start using all modules at once?

No, you can roll out modules gradually as needed. For example, you can start with employee records and leave and bring in the attendance ledger and payroll later. Some modules use each other's data: the attendance ledger draws on leave and PDKS records. Payroll is currently calculated from the employee's pay and the items for the period; transferring attendance ledger and leave data to payroll is coming soon.

What can we do if no module covers the function we need?

We suggest first checking the sections on modules coming soon on the category pages; the function you need may fall within one of these modules. If it is not listed, you can select the general topic in the contact form and briefly describe your need. Requests are considered in product prioritization, but no date or commitment is given that a specific module or feature will be developed.

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