Give employees instant access to payslips, attendance, leave, and personal details. All from one place. HR teams save time for strategic work.
An ESS portal is a web-based interface which allows the employee to access and view his own HR information on the portal. An employee can view his leave balances, payslip, or even update his own information through the portal.
Most of this stays invisible to leadership until HR is buried in requests that a portal could have handled itself.
Every payslip, leave balance, and personal-detail update is routed through HR, one email at a time.
Employees waiting days to find out if their leave was approved or their details were updated.
Updating bank details, addresses, and emergency contacts is going stagnant because updating them means chasing HR.
Sensitive employee data sitting in shared files, visible to more people than it should be.
From payslips to personal details, all from one place.
View, download, and track payslips instantly. No waiting for HR.
Real-time visibility of leave balance and attendance records.
Updating bank details, contact info, and ID proofs without HR back-and-forth.
Easily apply for leave and update missed check-ins in a few taps.
Get instant alerts of payroll, leave approvals, and other pending actions.
Everything accessible from a phone, anywhere, without IT delays.
Employees can access their own records; managers see what their role permits.
There are no separate systems to reconcile; every update flows through.
Give employees the power to manage their own personal and leave information. This reduces routine HR queries and manual follow-ups, builds trust, and improves transparency, while HR focuses on strategic priorities instead of routine requests.
Employees get 24/7 access to essential data, with complete security, intuitiveness, and anywhere availability, whatever the size of your team.
Secure credentials, accessible from any device.
Payslips, leave balances, and personal details are all in one place.
Applies for leave, updates details, or downloads a document.
Every update flows into HR and payroll; there is no manual step.
Self-service only works if everyone can actually access it on their phone, in their language, from wherever they're logging in from.
Available on Android and iOS, so employees aren't tied to a desk.
Employees use the portal in the language they're actually comfortable in.
No app install is needed; it works from any desktop or laptop browser.
Same portal, different views for employees, managers, and HR; see what's relevant to them.
An inbox can hold a payslip request. It can't tell an employee their leave balance at 11pm on a Sunday.
| HR Email & Manual Requests | TankhaPay ESS | |
|---|---|---|
| Payslip access | Email HR, wait for a reply | ✓ Instant, self-serve |
| Leave balance | Ask HR, wait for confirmation | ✓ Visible in real time |
| Personal details | Submit a form, wait for update | ✓ Employee updates directly |
| Access control | Whoever has the shared file | ✓ Role-based, per record |
| HR workload | One request at a time | ✓ Employees self-serve at scale |
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Page last updated: 27 July 2026
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