Every feature, in the order you'll use it.

Praxis follows an employee from the request to hire them to their final payslip. Here is everything it does at each stage.

Hire

Agree headcount before a role opens, then track every candidate.

Recruitment

Hiring requests approved by the department head, job postings tied to approved headcount, and a candidate pipeline with interviews.

HRDepartment heads
Recruitment
  • Requisitions go from draft to approved, and can be resubmitted after rejection
  • Kanban and list views from applied to offer
  • Interviews with a 1–5 rating and a recommendation
  • Open roles, active pipeline and average time to hire

Onboard

New hires arrive with their paperwork done.

Onboarding

Send a new hire one secure link. They complete their details, upload ID, sign policies and equipment agreements, and nominate a guarantor, without creating an account.

HRNew hiresGuarantors
Onboarding
  • Links expire after 14 days
  • Signatures stamped into each policy PDF and filed
  • Guarantor verification and signed indemnity
  • A checklist for HR, with completion tracked automatically

Manage

The day-to-day: who works here, where they are, and what they've signed.

Employee records and structure

One record per person, and your organisation's structure built from an industry template, with an interactive org chart.

HRManagers
Employee records
  • Import staff from an Excel template
  • BVN, NIN, TIN, pension PIN and bank numbers encrypted
  • Org chart with search, filters and PNG or PDF export

Attendance and holidays

Clock in and out, lateness against shift start, and a Nigerian public-holiday calendar that feeds payroll.

EmployeesManagersHR
Attendance
  • Overtime hours recorded at clock-out
  • Department heatmap and attendance-rate report
  • Absences and half-days reduce days paid

Leave

Leave requests checked against balances and approved in one or two steps, with balances that carry over at year end.

EmployeesManagersHR
Leave
  • Leave types by gender and employment type
  • Cancel, postpone or extend after approval
  • Email and in-app updates at every step

Documents, e-signature and policies

Generate letters and contracts, send them for signature, and track who has signed each company policy.

HREmployees
Documents and policies
  • Offer letters, contracts, NDAs and reference letters
  • Store files in Praxis, SharePoint or S3-compatible storage
  • Alerts for documents expiring within 30 days

Assets

A register of company equipment: who has what, the condition it was issued in, and its full history.

HREmployees
Assets and training
  • Automatic asset tags across 17 categories
  • Equipment agreement PDF for each assignment
  • Employees report issues or request equipment

Announcements and celebrations

Announcements targeted by department, position or person, delivered in-app and to Microsoft Teams.

HREveryone
  • Scheduled publishing and expiry
  • Daily birthday and work-anniversary card in Teams

Pay

Payroll, statutory deductions and the money staff borrow or claim.

Payroll

Monthly payroll with PAYE under the Nigeria Tax Act 2025, pension, NHF and NSITF, approved by the right people in order.

HRManaging directorFinanceEmployees
Payroll
  • Days paid adjusted for joiners, leavers, absences and unpaid leave
  • Bank payment file, PAYE schedule and PenCom upload
  • Branded payslips and an annual tax statement

Loans, salary advances and expenses

Staff loans within your policy, salary advances, and expense claims backed by receipts, each with its own approval chain.

EmployeesCredit officersManaging directorFinance
Loans and expenses
  • Loan repayments deducted through payroll
  • Agreement, approval letter and schedule as PDFs
  • Receipts filed to the employee's folder

Benefits

HMO and allowance plans with providers, premiums and expiry dates, and the employees enrolled on each.

HREmployees
Benefits
  • HR warned 7 days before a plan lapses

Develop

Set goals, review performance, and deal with problems fairly.

Performance

Quarterly KPIs, self-appraisals, review templates and improvement plans, with scores worked out for you.

ManagersHREmployees
Performance
  • Quarterly rating: 70% KPIs, 30% self-rated dimensions
  • Performance improvement plans with objectives and reviews
  • Staff of the Quarter awards

Learning and certifications

A course catalogue with mandatory training and due dates, plus certifications tracked to expiry.

HRManagersEmployees
Assets and training
  • Overdue mandatory training flagged on the dashboard

Employee relations

Complaints (anonymous if needed), investigations, disciplinary cases and suspensions, each with a clear record.

HRManagersEmployees
Employee relations
  • Investigations with interviews, notes and findings
  • Employees acknowledge or refuse disciplinary actions
  • Attendance violations log with escalation

Exit

People leave with their work handed over and their pay right.

Offboarding

Exit requests tracked through eight steps from notice to close-out, with a signed handover and an exit interview.

EmployeesHR
Offboarding
  • Handover signed by the leaver and countersigned
  • Asset return from the exit screen
  • Top reasons for leaving, from exit interviews
  • Final pay up to the last working day

Across the platform

What ties every stage together.

Employee self-service

Employees handle leave, payslips, loans, claims, documents and appraisals themselves, without emailing HR.

Employees
Self-service
  • Bank detail changes need the employee's password

Dashboards and reports

A dashboard for each role, and nine Excel reports covering headcount, payroll, remittances, attendance, leave and loans.

OwnersHRManagers
  • A needs-attention list: missing NHF, unsigned policies, expiring documents
  • PAYE, pension and NHF remittance reports

Administration and integrations

Run several related companies, create custom roles, choose approval chains, and connect Microsoft 365.

Administrators
  • Sign in with Microsoft, set per company
  • Email through Microsoft 365, posts to Teams, files in SharePoint
  • A searchable, exportable audit log

How Praxis protects your people's data

Two-factor sign-in, encrypted identifiers, role-based access and a full audit trail.

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