Odoo HRMS — HR, Payroll & WPS Compliance for the UAE

Yes. WPS SIF generation ships inside Odoo's own UAE payroll localisation, and we configure it against your bank, your agent ID and your salary structure — including the basic-versus-allowance split, which matters because basic salary is the legal base for gratuity. SIF batches generate from confirmed payslips per period or per pay run, with the mandatory employer and employee payment details validated before export. We are precise about this: WPS is Odoo's, done properly. The gratuity engine, leave-salary automation, sick and maternity pay tiers, self-service portal and mobile app are ours.

Gratuity days are 21 per year for the first five years and 30 per year after that, priced at basic salary divided by 30, then capped at 24 months of basic. What makes it defensible is how service is counted: inclusive calendar days from the gratuity anchor date to the last working day, minus approved unpaid leave, with part-overlapping leave pro-rated. The anchor follows an explicit order — an employee's gratuity start date, then a visa-change date if the sponsorship transferred, then the hire date. Staff on a private visa settle at zero by design, and settlements below your configured minimum service threshold (one year by default) are blocked. This implements the current single model under Federal Decree-Law 33 of 2021: there is no limited-versus-unlimited contract split and no resignation reduction, because both were abolished in February 2022.

No, and this is usually the biggest cost surprise people expect and do not get. Only your HR, payroll and finance staff need a paid Odoo user. Everyone else — including line managers approving leave and expenses — uses the self-service portal and the mobile app on free Odoo portal accounts. That is what makes rolling out to 500 or 5,000 staff viable: you are not buying 500 licences to let people check a leave balance. Access is scoped by record rules so an employee sees only their own data, and a manager only their own team's.

Yes — a native iOS and Android app built in Flutter against a dedicated Odoo API, not a website in a wrapper. Employees clock in and out with a GPS location stamp, request leave against a live balance, open payslips with a month-on-month comparison, submit expenses with photographed receipts, apply for salary advances, request company assets, enrol on training, raise HR tickets, fill appraisal questionnaires as native forms, and acknowledge disciplinary notices with a signature drawn on screen. Line managers approve leave, requests and expenses from a tabbed inbox, with every governance rule still enforced server-side. Which modules appear is switched per company, so one build serves every entity and every phase of your rollout.

Straight answer, because this is worth knowing before a demo rather than after. Every official document your people sign or hand to a bank, embassy or the labour office prints in Arabic as well as English — disciplinary notices, all ten HR letter types, and custody handover receipts — with the Arabic fonts embedded so the PDF renders right-to-left correctly. The Odoo back office is fully Arabic-capable as standard. The self-service portal and mobile app interfaces are English today; a full Arabic interface with RTL layout is a scoped add-on we quote separately. In practice most UAE clients start with Arabic documents plus an English interface, because the documents are the part that has to hold up legally.

Yes, and there is no need to wait for January. Opening leave balances migrate as they stand. Gratuity service is pinned with an explicit start date per employee, so nobody loses accrued years in the move. Outstanding staff loans come across from a spreadsheet as remaining principal over remaining months, and the system rebuilds the instalment schedule from there. Then we run one complete payroll month on the new system in parallel with your existing process and reconcile the two line by line — you switch the old system off once the numbers match, not before.

Oakland implements Odoo on fixed-price, one-time packages — Mini AED 12,500 (1–3 users, financial core), Starter AED 30,000 (1–10 users), Business AED 70,000 (11–25 users) and Scale-up AED 150,000+ (26–60 users); larger or multi-country rollouts are scoped on request. Most HR and payroll rollouts land on Starter or Business depending on employee count, and the package covers WPS configuration, leave rules, gratuity formulas and team training. The Odoo licence is separate, billed by Odoo from USD 13.50 per user per month. Book a free scoping call and we'll confirm the package and a fixed quote within 48 hours.