Dayflow HRMS

The problem

Onboarding lives in one spreadsheet, attendance in another, leave in an email thread, and payroll in a file only HR can open. HR needs a single view of all of it. Every employee needs a view of exactly one row.

What we built

We built it as a React and Express application on PostgreSQL hosted at Neon. Admin and HR users manage employees, attendance, leave decisions, and salary components. Employees keep a limited profile, check in and out, apply for leave, and read their own payroll. Role-based middleware guards each route, and login runs through a password check, an email OTP, and then a JWT session.

• Separate admin and employee dashboards with role-scoped routes
• Admin-created accounts with generated login IDs and a forced password change on first login
• Email OTP verification before a JWT session is issued
• Live check-in and check-out status with day-wise attendance records
• Leave workflow with balances, approver remarks, and sick-leave attachments
• Payroll views scoped by role, with salary components and attendance-aware payable days
• A documented REST API covering auth, profiles, attendance, leave, and payroll