Human Resources
Odoo Employees: HR employee management software
Community + EnterpriseCentralize employee information
★★★★★4.9 on Clutch
Calgary, in-house team
Centralize employee information
Odoo Employees is the app that runs the employee directory and the foundation everything else in Odoo HR sits on. Each person on staff has a profile with their contact info, job title, department, manager, hire date, employment type, work schedule, emergency contact, and any documents you store on file.
Any business with employees on payroll uses it, whether the company is 10 people or 10,000. The Employees app is consumed by every other Odoo HR app: Time Off reads employee schedules, Payroll reads employment contracts, Recruitment converts candidates to employees, Performance reads job titles. You can test Odoo Employees free on the Odoo trial; pricing kicks in only if you install more than one Odoo app.
For Odoo's own product overview, see Odoo's product listing.
Adding an employee starts with the basic profile: name, work email, work phone, job title, department, direct manager. Each profile has tabs for the deeper data: Work Information (start date, work schedule, work location), HR Settings (employee number, employment type, related user account if they have an Odoo login), Personal Information (home address, emergency contact, nationality, birthday), and Documents (signed contracts, identification, certifications, anything that belongs in their HR file).
From there, the org chart visualizes the reporting structure: a CEO at the top, departments branching out, employees nested under managers. Restructures are made by editing the Manager field on each employee, and the chart updates to match. Departments have their own settings (department manager, default parent department, color on the chart).
Every other Odoo HR app reads from Employees as the source of truth. Time Off uses the work schedule to calculate accrual rates and remaining balances; Payroll (Enterprise) uses the contract to calculate gross pay; Recruitment converts a hired candidate into a new Employee with the offer letter attached; Appraisals (Enterprise) runs the performance review cycle against the employee list.
Calibre configures Odoo Employees for Alberta businesses: step by step, in writing.
Speak to an Implementation SpecialistSMBs whose data lives in QuickBooks, HubSpot Free, or Excel spreadsheets that were set up when the business was smaller. The team now spends hours building reports by hand and reconciling between tools every month-end.
Growing teams whose employee directory, payroll, and time-off tracking live in separate tools. The data overlap and reconciliation cost adds up every pay cycle.
Retail, manufacturing, mechanical, or professional services businesses with 10 to 200 employees running on a patchwork of point tools. The team wants one database for the whole company instead of Zapier holding it together.
Odoo Employees is the foundation that every other Odoo HR app reads from. Odoo Time Off reads the work schedule and contract to calculate accrual and remaining balances. Odoo Attendances tracks each employee's check-in and check-out times. Odoo Payroll reads the contract for gross pay and tax withholding. Odoo Recruitment converts a hired candidate into a new Employee entry with the offer letter attached. Odoo Appraisals runs the performance review cycle against the employee list. Odoo Expenses lets employees submit expense reports linked to their employee profile.
List-price comparison against the hr management tools Calibre most commonly migrates customers off. The deciding factor is usually integration, not the line-item price. Odoo Employees sits on the same database as every other Odoo app you install, so the data flows between modules without separate bridges.
| Tool | Per month (annual plan) | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Odoo Employees | CA$35.20/user/mo | All Odoo apps included, free 15-day trial |
| ADP Run | US$30/user/mo | HR Management only |
| Deel Engage | US$19/user/mo | HR Management only |
| BambooHR Advantage | US$8.75/user/mo | HR Management only |
| Rippling Core | US$8/user/mo | HR Management only |
Annual-commitment rate where published; monthly list rate otherwise. Sourced from vendor pricing pages, 2026-05. Plans and regions vary. Full cost calculator on the Odoo overview page.
Pricing source: Odoo's published Standard and Custom plans as of 2026-05. Calibre quotes in CAD; conversion from Odoo's local pricing in your region may vary.
Written, phase-by-phase quote before any code is written. Odoo Ready Partner, Calgary. In-house team, no offshore handoffs.
