HR Module Overview
The HR module is ANTE's human-resources and payroll workspace. It covers everything from employee records and attendance logs to payroll processing, government-contribution reports, and hiring.
You reach it from the HR icon in the main sidebar. Opening it shows the HR sub-menu on the left and the Dashboard as the default landing screen.
How the HR Modules Fit Together
HR screens are not independent tools β each one feeds the next. Records you set up once are used by every pay run, attendance flows into payroll, and posted payroll feeds the reports, government returns, and accounting. Work through the stages below in order the first time; after that, a normal pay period repeats stages 4 to 7.
- Set up the rules (once, then when rules change)
Start with HR Settings, Payroll Group and Cut-Off Management (how often and for which periods people are paid), then Payroll Approvers, the Statutory Tables, Allowance and Deduction plans, Holidays, Service Incentive Leaves and Approval Configuration. Build working hours with Shift Management and combine shifts into weekly schedules. The full checklist is in Setting Up Payroll.
- Add the people
Employee Records (HRIS) is the hub: every employee record carries the payroll group, schedule, contract and rate, leave plans, allowances, deductions and government numbers that the later stages read. New hires come through Hiring or are added directly (see Onboard an Employee); Bank Accounts hold where they are paid, and Profile Change Requests bring employees' own edits back into the record.
- Plan who works when
Adjust day-by-day shifts in Individual and Team Scheduling on top of each employee's assigned schedule (see Manage Schedules).
- Capture attendance and requests
Punches arrive from Device Management terminals, face scans and Time Importation, and all land in Raw Logs. Employees file leave, overtime, official business and other requests through Filings; once approved they change the timesheet and leave balances.
- Compute the pay period
Payroll Time Keeping turns punches, schedules, holidays and approved filings into each cutoff's timesheet (check Overtime Exceptions first). Then open the cutoff in the Payroll Center and review, approve and post it on the Payroll Summary β the whole run is in Process Payroll.
- Pay and inform employees
Posted payroll produces payslips in the Payslip Center, bank files from the Payroll Summary, and the Payroll Journal that records the payroll in accounting (with Debit Notes for costs recharged to other companies).
- Report and remit
Use the Payroll Register and the HR and Payroll Reports for internal review, and the Government Contribution Reports and Monthly Remittance (1601-C) for what you pay the government each month.
- Pay outside the regular run
13th Month Pay releases what posted cutoffs accrued, Separation Pay settles leavers' final pay, and Disbursements handle off-cycle payouts such as incentives and fringe benefits.
- Close the year
The Annualization true-up settles each employee's yearly tax, then the Alphalist (1604-C) and BIR 2316 certificates are produced from the year's posted payroll.
Each HR screen has a Tutorial button in its header. It opens that screen's guide in a new tab; every guide ends with a How It Connects section listing what to set up first, where the screen's data comes from, and which screens use what it produces.
The HR Dashboard
The Dashboard is a customizable workspace built from draggable widgets. You can rearrange the widgets to suit how you work.
Summary counters at the top show:
- Pending Approvals (yours / company)
- Days Before Cut-off
- Pending Processing
- Leaves This Month
Available widgets:
- Manage Request β requests waiting for your action
- Action Center β tasks and items that need attention
- Attendance Conflicts β attendance records that need review
- Payroll Summary β an overview of payroll figures
- Announcements β company announcements
- Daily Attendance β who is in today
See the Dashboard guide for details.
HR Menu
The HR sub-menu is organized into the following sections.
Dashboard
The default landing screen described above.
Payroll
- Payroll Time Keeping β review employee time records used for payroll
- Overtime Exceptions β overtime that does not match filings or punches
- Payroll Center β process and compute salaries
- Payslip Center β review, distribute, and email employee payslips
Employees
Employee Records (HRIS), Regularization Due, Team Management, Bank Accounts and File Drive live here.
HRIS
The Human Resource Information System β employee profiles, contracts, leave, allowance, and deduction assignments. See the HRIS guide.
- Profile Change Requests β review and act on employee changes that need approval; open it from the Change requests button on Employee Records
Team Management
Organize employees into teams. See the Team Management guide.
File Drive
Shared file storage for the HR module. See the File Drive guide.
Filings
Employee request filings:
- Leave Filing
- Overtime Filing
- Official Business
- Certificate of Attendance
- Schedule Adjustment
- Rest Day Work Filing
Employees on an Auto Fill shift use Certificate of Attendance to record work on a holiday, since holidays are never auto-filled.
Each filing type is its own screen, and they all read the same way: a date range and status filters across the top, then one row per request showing who filed it, the dates it covers, whether it is paid, and where it stands.
Each screen's header carries an Export button next to its File β¦ button (for example, File Leave). Export downloads the current view as an Excel file β honoring whatever date range, status, branch, and search filters are applied β with full detail beyond what's on screen: Branch, Position, Department, Reason/Remarks, Reject Reason, Approved By, Approved At, Date Filed, and Attachment, plus fields specific to the filing type β leave mode, half-day times, and compensation for Leave; OT and ND hours and the overtime category (Early, Late or Break) for Overtime; the approved time window, hours and work shift for Rest Day Work; location for Official Business and Certificate of Attendance; shift details for Schedule Adjustment.
The export downloads up to 5,000 rows, newest first; if more match the current filters, a note inside the sheet says how many rows were left out, so narrow the date range to export the rest. Exporting a filing type needs the same access as opening its page.
An approved Rest Day Work filing that carries a time window also marks the employee's timesheet: a clock-alert icon appears next to Rest Day (or the shift label, when the filing covers an Extra Day instead of a rest day) on that day whenever any punched time falls outside the approved window β open the day to see the Outside Approved Window segments in the time breakdown.
Time & Attendance
- Time Importation β import attendance records from external sources (see the Time Importation guide)
- Raw Logs Browse β view raw attendance log entries
- Face Scan Logs β review every facial-recognition kiosk scan attempt (matched, rejected, or errored) and see why a scan resolved the way it did
- Device Management β register and manage biometric/attendance devices
Scheduling
- Individual Scheduling β assign schedules per employee
- Team Scheduling β assign schedules to a team
- Schedule Management β create and maintain work schedules; a searchable, non-paginated list shows each schedule's MondayβSunday shift strip, description, and total weekly hours
- Shift Management β define shift patterns; a searchable, non-paginated list shows each shift's type, description, and hours
Individual and Team Scheduling both show a week at a time as a grid β one row per employee, one column per day β so you can set or change the shift each person works on each day, then page forward to the next week.
Special Pay
- 13th Month Pay β release accrued 13th (and optional 14th) month pay in batches from any posted cutoffs, review release history, and manage manual payout records
- Separation Pay β manage separation benefits for employees
- Disbursements β off-payroll payments such as incentives
Reports
- Leave Balance Report
- The remaining balance is split into Carried Over and Current Year columns beside Leaves Balanceβ see Carried-Over Leave Credits.
- Leave Reports
- Deduction Reports
- One row per employee per deduction plan, with a Deduction Type column (the deduction's category-level configuration, e.g. "MP2 Savings") and a Sub Type column (the specific configuration the employee is enrolled in underneath it, e.g. "MP2") β matching how the same type/sub-type pair reads on the Deduction configuration screen. A plan on a top-level configuration with no sub-type shows that configuration as the Deduction Type and leaves Sub Type blank.
- An MP2 Account No. column shows the employee's Pag-IBIG MP2 Savings account number when one is on file, blank otherwise. Filtering the report to an MP2 deduction and exporting with this column turned on produces a sheet you can file directly as the MP2 line of the employer's Pag-IBIG MSRF remittance, since Pag-IBIG requires MP2 to be reported separately from regular Pag-IBIG (HDMF) contributions and keyed by its own account number. The column is opt-in on the Excel export β turn it on from the export's column picker.
- A Deducted This Period column shows what was actually deducted from the employee in the period you filter by. The plan's lifetime figures sit beside it, labelled Principal and Total Paid to Date, next to Remaining Balance.
- Allowance Reports
- Approval Applications
- 13th Month Pay β one row per employee per Year showing Basic Pay, Accrued to Date, Released, Balance, and Cutoffs Released (plus matching 14th-month columns once the 14th benefit is enabled). An Employee Status filter (Active, Resigned, or All) sits above the table and defaults to Active, so the report opens showing only currently-employed staff β the usual pay-from list for the year-end release. Resigned employees aren't removed from the system; switch the filter to Resigned or All to see them and their outstanding accrued balance. The Search Employee box only finds names among the rows the current status filter is showing, so a resigned employee won't be findable by name until you switch off Active; and Clear all resets the status filter back to Active rather than to no filter. The Excel export follows whatever status is selected on screen.
Click a row to open that employee's per-cutoff breakdown: every posted cutoff's base and accrued amount for the year, whether it's released or still in the balance, a frozen-vs-live Variance flag when a released cutoff's live accrual has since shifted, and the employee's full payment history β with an Export Excel button on the breakdown page.Note: a separated employee's accrued 13th month is released through Separation Pay's final pay release, not the year-end release run β don't pay a resigned employee from this report.
- Annualization β each employee's year-to-date gross income, taxable income, annualized tax, tax withheld, and a net Settlement figure (a refund owed or a balance still payable β whichever applies) for the selected Year, computed on the same BIR annual tax table used by the Annualization configuration. It uses the same taxable-income calculation as the Alphalist Report, so the two reports tie out. When the selected year still has payroll periods left to run, a banner above the table notes that the settlement figures are a projection rather than a final amount. Click a row to open that employee's Alphalist Breakdown β the same per-employee detail page the Alphalist Report opens β for the government-contribution deductions and the BIR bracket arithmetic behind the annualized tax, neither of which is shown on this table.
- Payroll Register
- Payroll Summary
- Employee Timesheet β one worksheet per employee, optionally filtered by branch. The exported spreadsheet marks leave, absence, and holiday days directly in the Time In / Out and Shift columns, and adds a Leave column with the leave type and pay treatment (e.g. Vacation Leave (With Pay)) plus a per-cutoff leave-day total β see Exporting to Excel on the Time Keeping page for the exact labels.
The reports share a common layout: pick a cutoff period at the top, narrow the result by branch, department, or employee, then read the table β with a totals row across the bottom and an Export button for the spreadsheet version.
Government & Compliance
- SSS Contributions
- PhilHealth Contributions
- Pag-IBIG Contributions
- Tax Withholding
- These four contribution reports are normally filled in automatically when a payroll cutoff is posted. If you open one for a cutoff that's already Posted and it comes up empty, a Generate Report button appears on the empty screen. Click it and the report data for that cutoff is calculated from the posted payroll's figures β one click fills in all four reports (SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, and Tax Withholding) for that cutoff, so you don't need to click it again on the other three pages. If the data turns out to already exist, you'll see a message saying so instead of the button doing anything β try adjusting the filters in that case. The button only appears for posted cutoffs and only needs the same access you already have to view the report.
- Monthly Remittance
- BIR 1603Q Fringe Benefit Tax
- Alphalist Report (1604-C) β the annual alphalist of employees, one row per employee for the selected Year. Its Export button downloads the official BIR submission workbook β Schedule 1 (Alphalist of Employees), Schedule 1 (Tax Reconciliation), and, for Minimum Wage Earners, Schedule 2 β with each employee's Reason of Separation filled in from their separation record (T, TR, R, or D) when they left partway through the year, and Substituted Filing marked Yes only when they worked for you the full Year, their annual tax due matches what was withheld exactly, and they have no previous-employer income recorded for the year (see below) β otherwise No, meaning they need to file their own BIR Form 1700. Click any row to open that employee's Alphalist Breakdown: an Employee panel (employee code, TIN, branch, BIR status code, employment period, monthly rate, employer, Year, and an MWE badge when the employee is a Minimum Wage Earner); four summary cards for Gross (Item 19), Non-Taxable (Item 38), Taxable (Item 52), and Tax Withheld (Item 26); and a Computation verified indicator listing six checks the page re-adds in your browser from the posted figures β Item 52 = Item 19 β Item 38, Item 38 sums to its lines, the 13th-month split adds up and respects the Other Benefits Pool, Item 26 = previous-employer withholding (when recorded) plus JanuaryβNovember plus December, and the totals tie to the posted cutoffs below. If any check doesn't reconcile, a warning banner appears above the statement and the check is flagged for review.
- Below the checks, a bar shows how Gross Compensation splits between Non-Taxable and Taxable pay (or, on the rare occasion exempt items exceed gross pay for the year, an error notice instead of the bar). The Annual Statement (BIR 1604-C / 2316) below reads in the order the figures are derived: Gross, Non-Taxable, then the 13th Month & Other Benefits Pool β with a gauge showing how much of the pool threshold is used by other allowances, how much of the 13th month pay the pool absorbed tax-free, how much of the pool is still unused, and any 13th month amount that overflowed into taxable pay β Taxable (with a chip confirming Item 52 = Item 19 β Item 38), Tax Reconciliation β the employee's Annual Tax Due is computed on the BIR annual tax table for the year, not simply assumed equal to what was withheld, so this section can show an Over-withheld tax (refund) line, a Tax still payable (under-withheld) line, or neither when the two already match β with a matching Refund, Payable, or Tax settled badge; when HR has recorded a previous employer for the year, a Previous Employer (RR 11-2018 consolidation) section shows what that record contributed β its taxable compensation joins the annual tax due, its tax withheld credits Item 26, and its 13th month and other benefits share the same Other Benefits Pool; and, only for Minimum Wage Earners, a Schedule 2 section. The Other Benefits Pool threshold used throughout is the company's configured value (see Other Benefits Pool Threshold in HR Settings), not a fixed amount. Below the statement, a Posted Payroll Cutoffs table lists one row per payroll cutoff that was posted for that employee during the year, with a totals row at the bottom that ties to the Annual Statement. An Export Excel button downloads a two-sheet workbook for that employee β Annual Statement and Per-Cutoff Detail. Going back returns you to the Alphalist list on the same Year you were viewing.
- BIR 2316 β one Certificate of Compensation Payment / Tax Withheld per employee for a selected year, built from the same figures as the Alphalist Report. Filter by Year and, optionally, search for one employee; the table shows each employee's code, name, TIN, gross compensation, total non-taxable, total taxable, and tax withheld, with a totals row across the bottom. Click PDF on a row to download that employee's certificate, or Download All Certificates in the header to get every employee in one PDF (one page each). The downloaded certificate is an exact replica of the official BIR Form No. 2316 (September 2021 ENCS) β the printed form's artwork, grid, and item numbers, with the employee's TIN, name, address, birth date, and contact number; the employer's registered details; Part III (the previous employer's identity and Items 22β23) when a previous employer is on record for the year, left blank otherwise; the Part IV-A income/tax summary and Part IV-B compensation breakdown; and a signature block filled into the official boxes β including the substituted-filing statement when the employee qualifies. Only employees with posted payroll for the selected year appear; if none is posted yet, the page shows an empty state instead of a blank certificate.
- Minimum Wage
Payroll Accounting
- Payroll Journal β turns a posted cutoff into a journal entry and posts it to the general ledger
- Debit Notes β recharge seconded employees' salary cost to related companies
Hiring
Recruitment pipeline:
- Dashboard β hiring overview
- Requisitions β open positions to fill
- Applicants β candidate records
- Interviews β scheduled interviews
- Offers β job offers
Payroll Setup
Set up the rules payroll and attendance run on:
- Payroll Group
- Cut-Off Management β configure payroll period schedules (Weekly, Semi-Monthly, Monthly) and processing days; a live Projected periods panel shows the exact dates a configuration produces, and editing an existing cutoff can re-shape periods that haven't been processed by payroll yet
- Payroll Approvers
- Allowance β manage allowance types (Taxable, Non-Taxable, Non-Taxable Net, and De Minimis). For a De Minimis allowance, entering a Regional Minimum Wage auto-computes the daily tax-exempt threshold β e.g. the Daily Meal Allowance (OT/Night/Graveyard) benefit computes its threshold at 30% of the regional minimum wage per day (RR 29-2025; it was 25% under the previous rule). Two further settings refine a type's category:
- Tax treatment (Taxable types only) β a Withhold this allowance as dropdown decides how the allowance is taxed. Regular compensation is taxed every cutoff together with basic pay; choose it for fixed allowances that are part of regular pay (post, transportation, hazard, license, director). Other benefit is counted against the β±90,000 "13th month and other benefits" ceiling and taxed only above it; choose it for incentives and one-off bonuses paid as allowances. New Taxable types default to Regular compensation; types that existed before this setting was added stay on Other benefit until you change them. Example: an allowance set to Regular compensation adds its full per-cutoff amount straight to that cutoff's taxable income, the same way basic pay does; the same allowance set to Other benefit adds nothing to taxable income while the annual ceiling still has room, and only the portion that spills over the ceiling becomes taxable.
- Contribution basis (Non-Taxable, Paid After Deductions types only) β tick Include in SSS basis, Include in PhilHealth basis or Include in Pag-IBIG basis to count the allowance as compensation for that agency while it stays out of gross pay and taxable income. SSS and PhilHealth add it on payroll groups whose basis is Gross Pay (Basic Pay and Basic Salary groups ignore every allowance); Pag-IBIG adds it to the monthly rate the bracket is looked up on, and an employee-level custom Pag-IBIG amount still takes precedence. Example: a family allowance with only the SSS and Pag-IBIG boxes ticked adds its per-cutoff amount on top of gross pay when computing the SSS basis and its monthly equivalent to the rate Pag-IBIG uses, while the PhilHealth basis, gross pay, and taxable income are unaffected β the allowance itself is still paid out after deductions either way.
- Absence reduction (on the add and edit allowance pages) β controls how monthly absence affects the allowance. Tick Exempt from absence reduction and the allowance ignores the bands and any pro-rating by absence, so ordinary absence never reduces it; it still stops when the month's absence reaches Stops at absence of (%) (default 100, a full-month leave or suspension). Absence is measured against chooses the denominator: Employee's own scheduled working days (the default, recommended β a compressed-workweek employee is judged against their own schedule) or Company working days in the month. The Absence bands table maps a range of monthly absence to the share of the allowance paid; each row has From (%), To (%) and Pays (%), with Add band, Remove and Reset to default. The suggested default is 0β49.9% pays 100%, 50β99.9% pays 50%, and 100% pays nothing. Bands must cover 0% to 100% with no gap and no overlap, each starting 0.1% above the previous one; a set that breaks this is flagged as you edit and refused on save. The bands apply to plans whose Computation Mode is Banded by Absence (see Managing Allowances). Example: with the default bands, an employee absent for 3 of 20 scheduled days (15%) in the month receives the full allowance, while one absent 10 of 20 days (50%) receives half of it.
- Deduction β manage employee deduction plans; LOAN-type deductions (HDMF/SSS loans) have an Active Plans, Completed Plans, and Inactive Plans tab
- Dispatch Treatment
- Annualization
- Fringe Benefit β fringe benefit tax setup
Statutory Tables
- Tax Table
- SSS
- Philhealth
- Pagibig
HR Setup
- Holidays
- Service Incentive Leaves β set up leave types and plans; monthly accrual credits stack on top of the annual renewal grant, and a Run renewals now action lets you process today's accruals/renewals immediately instead of waiting for the daily job
- Approval Configuration
- Employee Tags β tag and filter employees
- Settings β company-wide HR settings (Time Tracker, overtime/timekeeping rules, payroll thresholds, email notifications)
API
Integration and reference tools:
- API Documentation β reference for the device API
Note: Device Management is now under Time & Attendance.
Newer HR and Payroll Tools
These pages cover the newer HR and payroll tools. Each appears in your sidebar only if your role has access.
- Regularization Due β probationary employees nearing regularization
- Bank Accounts β date-effective employee bank accounts used by bank files
- Employee Tags β tag and filter employees
- Dispatch Treatment β how payroll treats employees on dispatch
- Allowance Attendance Rules β attendance-gated and per-unit allowances
- Biometric Devices β ZKTeco terminals that push punches into ANTE
- Overtime Exceptions β overtime that does not match filings or punches
- Disbursements β off-payroll payments such as incentives
- Perfect Attendance and PQD Incentives β perfect attendance and PQD incentives
- Fringe Benefit β fringe benefit tax setup
- BIR 1603Q β the quarterly fringe benefit tax return
- Payroll Journal β journal export per posted cutoff
- Recharge Debit Notes β inter-company recharge notes
- Salary Certificate β certificate of employment and compensation
Common Tasks
Notes
- π The sections you see depend on your assigned permissions. If a section listed above does not appear in your sidebar, your role does not have access to it β contact your administrator.
- βοΈ Configuration items (payroll groups, holidays, contribution tables, cut-offs, schedules) should be set up before running payroll so calculations use the correct rules.