What's in Release 1

Release 1 is the first release of Cadre: HR, time, performance and payroll with Nigerian statutory compliance, in one place, for employers and for recruitment and outsourcing agencies. This page lists what you can do, grouped by area.

Your organisation

• Employers and agencies. Cadre works for an organisation that employs its own staff and for an agency that places workers with clients or runs their payroll. See What is Cadre?
• Several roles per member. Owner, HR admin, payroll admin and payroll approver can be combined, and what each allows adds up. Managers need no role: having a direct report makes you one. See Roles and permissions.
• More than one organisation on one login. Switch between them from the top of the side menu, with your roles in each.
• Structure. Departments, locations, grades and job roles, and your organisation’s statutory registrations.
• Your brand. Your logo and an accent colour in Cadre and on its emails, and a letterhead for your documents. See Organisation and branding.
• Notifications by email and in the bell. The organisation chooses which it sends, and each member can switch off the informational ones for themselves. See Notifications.
• Integrations. Connect your own Slack, Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, or a webhook, for onboarding and offboarding steps. See Integrations.
• Subscription and billing. A 30-day free trial, plans with a number of active employees included, and invoices you can pay in the app. See Subscription and billing.
• Support access under your control. Cadre’s support team can look at your organisation only through a read-only session, as your owner allows, and every request it makes is listed for you. See Support access.
• The audit log. Who changed what, and when, for every record. See The audit log.

People

• Add an employee, with a Cadre login from the start if you want one. See Add an employee.
• Send invitations again. Resend one person’s invitation from their Login tab or Settings → Members, or every waiting invitation at once with Resend all pending. Pending invites in Settings → Members shows who hasn’t accepted yet. See Members and roles.
• Import employees in bulk from a template, with every error shown before anything is imported. See Import employees in bulk.
• Employee records with personal, bank and statutory details. Employees ask for changes to their bank account and identifiers, and HR approves them. See Employee records.
• Employment changes such as a new manager, job title, department or grade, from a date, with a full history. See Employment changes.
• The org chart, for everyone, showing names, job titles and departments. See Org chart.
• Offboarding and final payments, paid whole in the next payroll run. See Offboarding.
• Workflows for onboarding and offboarding, with tasks for the people involved. See Workflows.

Documents and e-signature

• Document templates from your own Word and PDF files, or from Cadre’s library, on your letterhead. See Templates.
• Built-in e-signature. Signers sign by a secure link with a code sent to their email, drawn or typed, one after another or several at once. See Sending for signature.
• Expiring documents. Alerts before a permit, certificate or other document expires. See Expiring documents.

Leave

• Leave types and policies, with accrual and your public holidays. See Leave types and policies.
• Requests and approvals, a team calendar and an Excel export. See Managing requests.
• Relief officers. A request names the colleague who covers while the person is away, chosen from their department first with who is free those days. The colleague accepts or declines from their Leave page; for annual and maternity leave, to start with, the request is approved once they accept, or with Approve anyway if they don’t answer in time. Each leave type sets whether one is required, optional or not asked. See Ask for leave, Covering for a colleague and Relief officers.
• Balances for everyone, and adjustments by HR. See Balances.

Time and attendance

• Work locations with a map, a site area and office networks. See Work locations.
• Clock in and out on a phone, with a location check if your organisation chooses one. See Clock in and out.
• Rosters and shifts. See Rosters and shifts.
• Timesheets with approval, and hours recorded per client at an agency. See Timesheets.
• Attendance and flags: punctuality month by month, and each late arrival, early departure, missed clock and absence to excuse or count, with the person’s own explanation. See Attendance and flags.

Performance

• Goals and KPIs. Employees draft their goals, managers approve them, and progress is updated through the cycle. See Goals and KPIs.
• Organisation and team targets that add up or average people’s KPIs, with each person’s share of the target and a Targets tab showing who carries each KPI, how they are doing, and how many KPIs are not shared out yet. See Roll up to organisation and team targets.
• One panel per KPI: How it adds up in plain words, with the rule that suits the KPI picked for you; People, with each person’s share, progress and where their goals stand, and Change share; and Add people. See The KPI’s panel.
• Automatic KPIs on organisation and team goals (3 October 2026): an attendance rate, client rating, leave days or placements KPI on an organisation or team goal now averages or adds up the figures of the people who carry it. The card says where its figures come from, for example From timesheets · averaged, and why there is no figure yet, for example No approved timesheets yet in Q4 2026. See Automatic KPIs on organisation and team goals.
• Weekly progress that cannot count twice (3 October 2026): the update form says what to enter for each KPI (this week’s figure, or the figure as it stands) and shows your total before and after; one update of your own per KPI each week (or fortnight, month or day), with the form opening the one you already made for changing; a check when a figure looks like your running total; and you can change or withdraw your own update until your manager confirms it. Weeks now run Monday to Sunday and months are calendar months. Managers see the period, the total before and after, and when an update was changed since it was sent. See Update your progress and Progress updates.
• Goals your organisation set stay as set (5 October 2026): goals and KPIs your manager, HR or a cascade put on your goals are marked Set by your organisation, with who to ask. Only they can change or remove them; your own goals stay yours. If your organisation’s goals already total 100%, your own goals weigh 0%. See Goals your organisation set and Who set a goal.
• Linking a KPI someone already has lists the same KPI only. Other KPIs in the same unit and direction appear behind Show other KPIs in the same unit, with a warning, and anyone who would count twice is pointed out before you link. See Link a KPI someone already has.
• Add people: put an organisation or team KPI on a whole department’s, a manager’s team’s or a client’s workers’ goals at once, in Draft for their managers to approve. An amount entered by hand warns that each person would get the whole target, and offers to share it out instead. See Add people.
• Make room on their scorecard: when Add people creates a goal that would take someone over 100%, Cadre scales their other goals down in proportion so everything totals 100%, or leaves them as they are if you choose. See Make room on their scorecard.
• New organisation and team KPIs add up or average from the start: amounts and counts are shared out and added up, rates averaged. HR can still choose to enter a figure by hand. See The rules.
• KPI forms that follow the KPI’s direction: worst and best labelled, hints for higher- or lower-is-better, a stretch of 0 allowed for lower-is-better, and how credit works shown as you type. See Targets, thresholds and stretch.
• Scoring and grades, for individuals and teams, with an editable grade scale and coaching or improvement plans that follow from a grade. See Scoring and grades.
• Calibration and the 9-box. See Calibration.
• Performance reviews: annual, mid-year, probation and 30-60-90 day reviews, with forms you build, self, manager, peer and upward feedback, and results released when you’re ready. See Review cycles.
• Check-ins: regular one-to-ones between managers and their reports, with shared notes, actions and private notes. See Check-ins.
• Kudos to thank colleagues, publicly or privately. See Kudos.
• Competencies and skills: a competency framework, role expectations and a skills matrix. See Competencies and skills.
• Writing assistant for review writers, if your organisation switches it on. See Writing assistant.

Payroll

• Pay set up per person from your pay components, with pay for part of a month worked out for joiners and leavers. See Set up pay.
• Payroll runs that are calculated, submitted, approved by a second person and locked, with a register that shows how every figure was calculated and a variance against the last run. See Run payroll.
• Parallel runs to compare Cadre with your current payroll before you switch. See Parallel run.
• Benefits in kind, valued for PAYE. See How payroll works.
• Adjustments to correct a locked run in a later one. See Adjustments.
• Payslips for every employee, on the web and on a phone. See Payslips.
• Pay salaries from a payroll wallet for each legal employer, checked by one person and released by another. See Paying salaries.
• Early pay and employee wallets, if your organisation offers them. See Earned wage access.

Statutory deductions

• PAYE, pension, NHF, NSITF and ITF, worked out by Cadre from current Nigerian law. See Statutory overview.
• Statutory schedules under each legal employer’s own registrations, and remittances recorded against their due dates. See Remittances.

Reports

• Headcount, joiners and leavers, leave liability, payroll cost and statutory liability, each exported to Excel and PDF. See The Reports group.
• The payroll register and journal, with your own account codes. See The payroll register and journal.

For agencies

• Clients and worker groups, each with its service model, legal employer and payroll operator. See Clients and worker groups.
• A payroll run for each client, with statutory schedules under the client’s registrations where the client is the legal employer. See Multi-client payroll.
• Seconded workers, redeployed between clients without a break in pay. See Seconded workers.
• Billing terms and client invoices, with VAT, credit notes and your own invoice numbering. See Billing terms and invoices.
• Placements and converting a seconded worker to a client’s own employee, each with its fee. See Placements.
• Reporting packs and profitability by client and service line. See Reporting packs and profitability.
• Client access: members who look after only some clients see only those clients. See Client access.
• Your clients’ own brand. A client you run payroll or HR administration for (service models B and C) can have its own logo, accent colour and letterhead on the documents and emails sent for its people. See Clients and worker groups.

For employees and managers

• Self-service for everyone: profile, payslips, leave, clocking in, goals, reviews, check-ins, kudos, skills and documents, on a laptop or a phone. See For employees.
• Managers decide for their own team: leave, timesheets, goals and more. See Roles and permissions.