Welcome to PHPHR
PHPHR is a web-based Human Resource Management Software designed to streamline and automate end-to-end HR operations, including employee profiles, document management, work assignments, attendance, leave, payroll, performance evaluations, loans, reimbursements, asset management, and recruitment. The platform caters to organizations of all sizes across diverse industries such as IT & Software, Healthcare & Hospitals, Manufacturing, Construction & Real Estate, Education, Retail & E-commerce, Logistics & Transport, Banking & Finance, Hospitality, Government & NGOs, and Professional Services. With a scalable architecture and configurable modules, PHPHR aligns seamlessly with different HR workflows – whether managing shift-based employees, corporate staff, remote teams, or field workers. Its centralized system enables faster onboarding, improved workforce visibility, accurate attendance and payroll processing, and secure storage of sensitive HR data, empowering organizations to enhance productivity and maintain complete compliance in a single unified platform.
PHPHR is available in two deployment models – PHPHR Open-Source, a free basic self-hosted edition, and PHPHR Cloud, a fully managed advanced enterprise HRMS – empowering organizations to choose the deployment approach that best aligns with their hosting preferences, data governance policies, and long-term scalability goals.
PHPHR Cloud Software Demo Video
Why PHPHR Cloud Is the First Choice for Modern Organizations
PHPHR Cloud is trusted by businesses because it delivers secure, seamless, and remote-friendly HR automation without any server setup or IT maintenance. Accessible anytime and anywhere via web and mobile, it ensures fast onboarding, automatic updates, new feature rollouts, and 24×5 high-availability cloud performance. The platform significantly reduces manual HR tasks, payroll errors, compliance risks, and administrative workload, enabling smooth day-to-day HR operations for hybrid, remote, and multi-branch workforce environments. With enterprise-grade security at its core, PHPHR Cloud protects sensitive employee and payroll data through encrypted storage, multi-layer access control, backups, disaster recovery, and continuous system monitoring – making it ideal for organizations that prioritize data privacy and compliance.
Built to scale with business growth, PHPHR Cloud adapts effortlessly whether a company has 2 employees or 10,000. It supports distributed teams, multi-location operations, multiple shifts, and complex payroll structures — without any system reconfiguration or upgrades. Designed for every industry, PHPHR Cloud is used across IT, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, Construction, Logistics, Education, Finance, Government, Hospitality, NGOs, and Service-based companies, making it a future-ready HR solution for organizations of all sizes.
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If you are non-technical or do not have an experienced development team to add or maintain custom features, the Open-Source version may not be suitable. In such cases, the PHPHR Cloud version is strongly recommended, as it is fully ready-to-use with advanced modules, automatic updates, server management, and no technical development required — delivering a plug-and-play HR system with complete workflows out of the box for organizations looking to scale quickly and run HR operations smoothly without customization or coding efforts.
PHPHR Open-Source Edition - Free Open-Source HRMS (Self-Hosted)
PHPHR Open-Source is a free self-hosted edition designed for organizations that want to start HR automation with full control over their data and hosting environment. The software is installed on the company’s own server, allowing complete ownership of HR records, compliance, and internal security guidelines without reliance on third-party hosting. This approach provides all the key advantages of an open-source HRM and open-source employee management software, including transparency, long-term flexibility, and freedom from subscription-based limitations. You can easily download PHPHR Open-Source from the Download section in the top menu of our website and install it on your own server. Once installed, you have complete freedom to add, modify, and customize the system according to your business requirements or your client’s needs, without external restrictions.
The Open-Source version provides the essential HR foundation and gives technical teams the flexibility to extend or customize the system based on internal requirements and workflows. Since the infrastructure remains under the organization’s control, PHPHR Open-Source is ideal for companies that prefer an on-premise deployment model and have an in-house IT environment to manage their server and maintenance.
PHPHR Open-Source is best suited for organizations seeking a free, self-hosted HR solution with complete data control and the flexibility to customize the system as their needs evolve without vendor dependency.
Because the Open-Source edition supports core HR operations, it can be effectively used as a complete open-source employee management system within a secure self-hosted HR software environment. Organizations can manage, store, and control all HR and workforce data on their own server without relying on third-party cloud platforms or subscription-based HR tools. Moreover, if your business requires additional features beyond the default system, your internal or technical team can independently add, modify, or expand custom features based on your internal processes – giving you full flexibility to tailor the software to your exact workflow.
This customization freedom makes the solution extremely powerful, as it can support multiple HR modules such as open-source attendance tracking, open-source leave management, open-source payroll and HR operations, open-source performance management, as well as recruitment management, work assignment and task tracking, expense and reimbursement management, and a complete Employee Self-Service (ESS) portal for employees. These capabilities enable organizations to create a fully personalized and scalable HR system that aligns with approval hierarchies, business processes, and internal compliance needs.
With this approach, companies can seamlessly manage employee records, attendance, leave, payroll fundamentals, performance reviews, hiring processes, task assignments, expense claims, and employee self-service functions – all within their own private server infrastructure. This not only eliminates dependency on external vendors and paid cloud subscriptions but also ensures complete data ownership, privacy, security, scalability, and long-term independence, which are the core advantages businesses look for in an open-source HRMS.
PHPHR Open-Source is highly suitable for organizations, software development companies, web development agencies, SaaS companies, in-house development teams, developers, freelancers, technical professionals, programmers, and PHP developers who prefer a free, self-hosted HR solution with full customization capability and complete control over their data – along with the ability for a technical or development team to add additional advanced features whenever required.
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