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  3. Employee Self Service Portal | HR ESS Portal | Attendance, Payslip & Leave Portal v 19.0
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Employee Self Service Portal | HR ESS Portal | Attendance, Payslip & Leave Portal

by Odolution https://www.odolution.com/
Odoo

$ 150.87

v 19.0 Third Party
This module requires Odoo Enterprise Edition.
Apps purchases are linked to your Odoo account, please sign in or sign up first.
Availability
Odoo Online
Odoo.sh
On Premise
Odoo Apps Dependencies • Attendances (hr_attendance)
• Discuss (mail)
• Employees (hr)
• Expenses (hr_expense)
• Payroll (hr_payroll)
• Time Off (hr_holidays)
• Website (website)
• Invoicing (account)
• Calendar (calendar)
Lines of code 9639
Technical Name ess_portal
LicenseLGPL-3
Websitehttps://www.odolution.com/
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ESS Portal - Modern Employee Self-Service For Odoo

ESS Portal gives employees a polished self-service workspace for attendance, payslips, requests, approvals, and personal HR access while managers and HR teams keep visibility through approval queues, role-based access, and backend reporting.

One clean portal for daily employee operations, approvals, payroll visibility, and HR service requests.

Stop Managing Employee Service Requests Manually

Employees need a simple way to check attendance, submit requests, view confirmed payslips, and follow approvals without asking HR for every update. Managers need clean queues, secure visibility, and reliable records.

Scattered HR Requests

Time off, reimbursements, salary letters, and attendance corrections often move through chat, email, or manual notes instead of one structured workflow.

Weak Approval Visibility

Managers and HR teams need clear pending, approved, rejected, and cancelled request visibility without searching through unrelated records.

Generic Portal Experience

Default portal pages can feel too basic for employees who expect a modern, guided, mobile-friendly self-service experience.

ESS Portal solves all of this with employee self-service, configurable approvals, and manager and HR reporting.

Complete ESS Workflow Coverage

Built for organizations that want employee operations, approvals, payroll access, and HR service requests to stay organized inside Odoo.

Attendance And Workday Access

Employees can check in, check out, review attendance history, and request attendance corrections or missing checkout updates through the portal.

Requests And One-Level Approvals

Support time off, work from home, overtime, reimbursement, salary certificate, salary advance, and attendance-related request flows.

Payslip Vault And HR Documents

Employees can view and download confirmed payslips only, with filtered access and clean document-style cards.

Manager And Executive Visibility

Managers approve assigned requests from the portal while executive managers get high-level backend ESS overview cards and company request visibility.

Result: faster employee service, cleaner approval ownership, and stronger HR visibility from one Odoo module.

Built For These Teams

Employees

Submit requests, check attendance, view payslips, and track approval status from a modern ESS portal.

Managers

Review assigned approvals, monitor team activity, and keep employee service workflows moving.

HR And Executive Managers

Configure request types, manage access, review analytics, and keep company-wide ESS records visible.

Key Features of ESS Portal

Modern ESS Dashboard

Glass/frost-style portal dashboard with role-based modules, stats, quick status, and clean navigation.

Attendance Operations

Check in/out, attendance history, weekly patterns, correction requests, and missing checkout handling.

Guided Request Center

Employee-friendly request type selector, dynamic fields, validation, attachments, and review before submit.

Manager Approvals

Portal approval inbox with status filters, list/kanban options, approve/reject actions, and clean request detail pages.

Confirmed Payslip Vault

Employees see confirmed payroll documents only, with year/month filters and PDF download support.

Role-Based Access Control

Employee-specific module visibility, ESS groups, backend configuration, and secure portal record access.

What You Get With ESS Portal

  • + Employee dashboard for attendance, requests, payslips, and approvals
  • + Attendance check-in/check-out stored in Odoo HR Attendance
  • + Configurable ESS request types with portal visibility and required fields
  • + One-level approval flow with approver resolution and fallback support
  • + Reimbursement request integration with Odoo Expenses
  • + Confirmed payslip access only, with month/year filtering and download
  • + Manager approval portal with secure assigned-request visibility
  • + Backend graph, pivot, and executive overview dashboard
  • + Employee-specific feature access and portal user creation support
  • + 90 days free support included

Lightweight installation - install after HR, Attendance, Time Off, Payroll, Expenses, Portal, Website, Mail, and Web are available in the Odoo database.

Customization Services

Need something different? We're here to help!

Custom request types Multi-level approvals Document PDF generation Custom dashboards and reports Any other customization to fit your business

Affordable pricing tailored to your requirements. Contact us directly:

app.support@odolution.com WhatsApp: +923356928563

Need Help?

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  • Walkthrough
  • Configuration
  • Support
Feature Tour

ESS Portal Guided Walkthrough

Select a feature area below to view the real ESS Portal screenshots for that workflow.

  • Employee Workspace
  • Attendance
  • Requests
  • Payslips
  • Employee Details
  • Manager Desk
  • Manager Analytics
  • Backend Setup
  • Backend Requests
  • Executive Overview

Employee ESS Dashboard

Employees start from a modern workspace with attendance, requests, payslips, and available modules.

Employee ESS Dashboard

Role-Based Module Access

Only enabled ESS modules appear for the employee, keeping the workspace clean and secure.

Role-Based Module Access

Attendance Overview

Employees can review workday status, check-in/check-out state, and attendance indicators.

Attendance Overview

Attendance History

Attendance records, hours, and correction actions remain visible from one dedicated page.

Attendance History

Request Center

Employees choose the right request type from a guided menu instead of a generic form.

Request Center

Dynamic New Request Form

Request fields adapt to the selected request type, including dates, amount, attachments, and description where relevant.

Dynamic New Request Form

Review Before Submit

Employees review important details before sending a request to the assigned approver.

Review Before Submit

My Requests

Employees track submitted, approved, rejected, cancelled, and draft requests with clear status badges.

My Requests

Request Detail And Timeline

Each request includes the approver, date details, amount where applicable, and approval progress timeline.

Request Detail And Timeline

Confirmed Payslip Vault

Employees access only confirmed payroll documents with filters and download support.

Confirmed Payslip Vault

Your Details

Employee profile information and employment details are presented as a clean self-service view.

Your Details

Manager Workspace

Managers get a dedicated view for team-related ESS work and approval context.

Manager Workspace

Approval List View

Assigned approvals are shown in a practical list layout for high-volume review.

Approval List View

Approval Kanban View

Managers can switch to a visual card layout for approval scanning where useful.

Approval Kanban View

Team Members

Managers can inspect team members included in their ESS visibility.

Team Members

Team Attendance Analytics

Attendance analytics help managers understand team workday patterns.

Team Attendance Analytics

Team Absence Analytics

Absence indicators keep missing attendance and leave-related patterns visible.

Team Absence Analytics

Team Reimbursement Analytics

Managers can review reimbursement volume and related team request totals.

Team Reimbursement Analytics

Employee ESS Access

HR/admin users can create linked portal users and configure employee-specific module access.

Employee ESS Access

Request Type Configuration

Control enabled request types, portal visibility, attachments, required fields, and approval behavior.

Request Type Configuration

Approver Rules

Configure employee, department, global, and fallback approver rules for ESS requests.

Approver Rules

Backend ESS Requests

HR/admin and senior users can review ESS requests from backend list, kanban, graph, and pivot views.

Backend ESS Requests

Backend Request Detail

Backend users can inspect request metadata, linked records, comments, and approval state.

Backend Request Detail

Graph And Pivot Reporting

Backend reports aggregate request volume, status, amount, attendance, overtime, and reimbursements.

Graph And Pivot Reporting

Executive Overview Dashboard

A high-level no-drilldown dashboard gives executive managers an at-a-glance company ESS overview.

Executive Overview Dashboard

Company Requests

Executive managers can review company-wide request records while manager-only approvals stay controlled separately.

Company Requests

Simple Setup - Configure ESS Around Your HR Policy

Enable the module, create or review ESS request types, assign approver rules, create portal users for employees, and control module visibility per employee profile.

Optional Settings

  • Configure request types, portal visibility, attachments, and required fields
  • Assign employee, department, global, or HR fallback approvers
  • Create linked portal users and control employee-specific module access

Need Help? We have Got You Covered!

Contact Us
Still have questions? Don't hesitate to reach out via email at app.support@odolution.com Or via WhatsApp at +923356928563 . We are happy to help!
Support Ticket
For any issues you encounter while using our app, we offer free support for 90 days from the date of purchase, provided the issue is related to the app.
To get assistance, please visit www.odolution.com to create a support ticket.

FAQs

Can employees see only their own ESS records?
Yes. Portal access and record rules are designed so employees view their own attendance, requests, payslips, and dashboard data.
Can managers approve requests from the portal?
Yes. Managers can review and approve or reject requests assigned to them from the ESS portal approval area.
Are draft payslips visible to employees?
No. The payslip vault is designed to show confirmed payroll documents only.
Does reimbursement connect with Odoo Expenses?
Yes. Reimbursement requests can create linked expense records and continue through the configured approval flow.
Can access be limited per employee?
Yes. ESS module visibility can be controlled so a specific employee can see only the enabled portal features.

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