NoorHR Is Growing. Here’s What’s Coming Next (and Why We Want Your Input)

Let’s be honest. Nobody gets excited about HR software.

What people do get excited about is going home on time at the end of the month. Not chasing a WPS file the bank rejected. Not finding out a visa expired last week. Not spending a whole afternoon working out one employee’s gratuity on a calculator.

That’s why we built NoorHR. And lately, more and more companies in Oman have been making the switch. So we thought it was a good time to share where we are, what we’re working on, and how you can help shape what comes next.

So, why are companies switching?

We ask almost every new customer the same question: “What made you finally move?”

The answers sound very familiar.

“Our payroll takes three days.”
“The WPS file keeps getting rejected and we don’t know why.”
“We only found out about the expired visa when the fine came.”
“Two people changed the same salary and nobody knows which one is right.”

If any of that sounds like your office, you’re not alone. Most of these problems come from the same place: HR spread across spreadsheets, WhatsApp chats, email threads and one person’s memory.

NoorHR puts it all in one place. Today that includes:

• Employee records and documents, with reminders before passports and visas expire
• Payroll, with the WPS SIF file generated for you
• Social Protection Fund contributions
• End of service gratuity, with the 2023 rule change already handled
• Multi-company setup, if you run more than one commercial registration
• A clear history of every change, so you always know who did what

And because we’re based in Muscat, we deal with the same Ministry rules, the same banks and the same deadlines you do.

The big one: biometric and face attendance

Here’s something we’ve been working on for a while.

Think about how attendance works in a lot of companies. Someone punches in on a machine. Someone else exports a report. Then a third person types it all into payroll. Every step is a chance for a mistake, and those mistakes show up on payslips.

So we’re bringing biometric and face recognition attendance into NoorHR. It’s already running at some customer sites, and we’re getting ready to roll it out to more businesses.

The idea is simple. An employee checks in, and that record lands in NoorHR on its own. No retyping. No end-of-month surprises.

We’ll put the full details on our website soon: how it works, which check-in options you’ll have, and how employee data is kept safe. We’d rather take a little extra time and get that right than rush it out.

More is on the way

Attendance is the big one, but it’s not the only update. Over the next few weeks we’ll be refreshing the NoorHR pages on our website, with clearer explanations of each feature and how it actually works day to day.

While you wait, these might come in handy:

• How end of service gratuity works in Oman
• Our free Oman gratuity calculator
• WPS in Oman explained: the SIF file and the 3 day rule

Now, over to you

This is the part we really care about.

A lot of what NoorHR does today started with a customer saying, “It would be great if it could…” We listened, we built it, and the product got better for everyone.

We want to keep doing that. So tell us:

• Is there a report your finance team keeps asking you for?
• Is there an approval that still happens on paper, or worse, on WhatsApp?
• Does your business have shifts, branches or rules that other HR software never seems to get right?

Whatever it is, we’d like to hear it. If it’s something many businesses need, it might end up in NoorHR.

And if you’re thinking about moving to NoorHR, here’s the good part. Talk to us before you start. We’ll go through how your team works and set things up to fit, instead of making you change the way you work to fit the software.

Drop us a message through our contact page or book a demo and bring your wish list. We read every message, and we’ll get back to you.

One last thing

If your HR still runs on spreadsheets and good luck, now’s a good time to take a look. You’ll see what NoorHR does today, and you’ll get a say in what it does tomorrow.

Take a look at NoorHR or book a free demo with our team in Muscat.