Guided set-up in ten steps
Company details, locations, departments, designations, work week, holidays, people, sign-in, email and who does what, with a checklist that shows what's left.
dexta HubSign-in and set-upOne sign-in. One set-up. Eleven apps.
Everyone signs in once and opens their apps from the Hub. Departments, locations, holidays, people and access are set up once, and every app takes them from there.
Your Microsoft sign-in
Microsoft, Google Workspace or Okta single sign-on, Active Directory or Entra ID sync, and two-step sign-in you can make compulsory.
Access without a spreadsheet
Nine ready-made access profiles, groups filled by rules, a question-by-question “who does what” wizard, and approval chains for eleven kinds of request.
Privacy law built in
DPDP notice in English and any of the 22 scheduled languages (you add the translations), consent register, data requests, retention schedule and a breach register with the CERT-In and Board clocks.
Who uses it
What each person does in Hub.
Org admin
Sets up the company once: details, locations, departments, designations, holidays, the work week and people.
IT
Connects Microsoft, Google Workspace or Okta sign-in, syncs Active Directory or Entra ID, and can make two-step sign-in compulsory.
HR
Invites people or uploads the onboarding file, keeps the employee code format, and answers “who does what” once.
Everyone
Signs in once, opens their apps from the launcher, and sees their day on My Profile.
Works with
What Hub hands to the other apps, and gets back.
It shares one employee record with the rest of the suite. Each hand-off below happens inside Dexta, with no export.
Dexta TimeLocations, holiday calendars, the work week and the approval chains for leave.
Dexta PayCompany details, departments, approval chains and notices.
Dexta DeskThe work calendar the SLA clock runs on, and each requester's location, manager and employee code.
Dexta GrowthPeople, managers and designations, which become Growth's grades.- AllEvery appEvery app reads the Hub's people, managers, departments and access rules, sends its notices through the Hub's bell and email, and answers the Hub's privacy requests and company data export.
Everything in Dexta Hub
78 features that work today.
Listed from the product itself. Where a feature needs an account with an outside provider, it says so.
Sign-in and security
Password sign-in with strong-password rules
People sign in with work email and a password of at least 12 characters. Common passwords and the person's own email name are refused.
Forgot / reset password
People reset their own password by an emailed link.
Invitations
People are invited by email and pick their own password. Admins can resend, cancel or restore an invite, or give a temporary password.
Two-step sign-in (authenticator app)
A six-digit code from an authenticator app, plus ten single-use recovery codes.
Make two-step sign-in compulsory
The org admin can require two-step sign-in for the whole company, and can reset it for someone who lost their phone.
Sign out everywhere
Ends every session on every device. A password change does the same.
Single sign-on with Microsoft (or Okta / Google Workspace)Needs your Microsoft, Okta or Google sign-in
People sign in with their work account. New staff on the company's proved email domain get an account on first sign-in.
Prove you own your email domain
A DNS TXT record (or the operator's approval) proves the domain before single sign-on can create accounts.
Single-sign-on-only mode
Switches off password sign-in for everyone except one to five named break-glass admins.
Active Directory syncNeeds your Active Directory
Reads people from the office AD over LDAPS on a schedule. Adds, updates and switches people off, with a guard that stops mass switch-offs.
Give access by AD groupNeeds your Active Directory
Linked AD groups become access groups in the Hub. Membership follows AD.
Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft 365) syncNeeds your Microsoft 365 (Entra ID)
Reads people and groups from Microsoft 365 through Microsoft Graph (read only), with a preview before each sync.
Former-employee access
Leavers keep a read-only way in to their payslips and tax forms for a set number of days (400 by default), then lose access automatically.
Personal email for leavers
A leaver's personal email can be approved so password resets go there after they leave.
Revoke access
Shuts someone out of every app within about two minutes.
Launcher, home and profile
App launcher
Shows each person the apps their company has, and opens any app without a second sign-in.
Today card
The home page shows clock-in state, leave balances, the latest payslip and approvals waiting.
Notification bell
One bell for every app's notices, with mark-as-read.
My Profile
One profile page that pulls HR details plus summary tiles from Pay, Time, Cheer and Growth. People can edit their contact details and photo.
Company directory
Browse colleagues' profiles across the company.
Company branding
Company logo and colours on every app and every email.
Company set-up and org master data
Guided set-up checklist
A ten-step set-up (company, locations, departments, designations, work calendar, people, sign-in, email, who does what, two-step sign-in) the org admin can save, skip and come back to. The launcher shows progress.
Company legal details
Legal and trade name, 9 entity types (private limited, LLP, partnership, OPC, HUF and others), PAN, TAN, CIN and GSTIN checked as typed (GSTIN state code, PAN matches the entity type), financial-year start, time zone.
Locations
Head office, branch, factory and remote sites, kept once for every app.
Departments
Department tree, kept once for every app. Can merge the departments each app had before.
Designations
Titles with grade and level.
Work week
Working days, including Saturday patterns (every, alternate, 1st and 3rd, 2nd and 4th off).
Holiday calendars
Several holiday calendars (for example one per state), with public and restricted (optional) holidays.
Import master data from Excel
Template and upload for departments, designations, locations, holidays and people.
Org-wide audit log
Who changed what in set-up, people and sign-in, with a CSV export.
People, employee codes and onboarding
People list
Everyone with their code, department, manager, status and leaving date.
Bulk invite from Excel
Invite many people at once from a template.
Correct name or email
Fix a person's name or work email without losing their history.
Rehire
Brings a former employee back, with an undo.
Employee code format
Set the company's code format (prefix, separator, digits) with a live preview.
Code register, never reused
A register of every code ever given. Codes are never deleted or reused, and a rehire gets a new code.
Give codes to everyone / re-code everyone
Fills in missing codes, or moves everyone to a new format, with a preview.
Onboarding file (no AD needed)
Upload one Excel or CSV of employees (up to 20,000 rows, 17 columns). It is checked first, problems come back in a file, then it is imported. Re-uploading updates. Can mark leavers.
Paced welcome emails
Sends welcome or temporary-password emails in batches at a set pace.
Ask for mobile numbers
Asks people to add their mobile number at sign-in.
Access: groups, profiles and app roles
Access profiles
Nine ready-made profiles (Employee, Manager, HR, Recruiter, Payroll admin, Finance, IT, Leadership, Org admin) decide what each person can do in each app.
"Who does what" wizard
A question-by-question wizard to say who is HR, payroll, finance, IT and so on. One save, with a preview first.
Access groups with rules
Groups filled by hand, by CSV of emails, or by a rule (for example department = Finance). Shows the effect of any change before it is saved.
Per-person exceptions
Give or remove one app's role for one person on top of their profiles.
App roles console
Pick an app and set each person's role in it from one screen.
Managers approve without setup
Anyone with a direct report in the Hub gets the Manager profile automatically and can approve their team.
Approvals
Multi-level approval chains
Set the approval chain for 11 kinds of request (leave, attendance correction, overtime and comp-off, shift swap, expense claim, advance, loan, one-off payment, salary revision, profile change, letter). Steps can depend on days or amount. Every save is kept as a version.
Try a chain
Shows who would approve a request for a chosen person before going live.
Delegate approvals
Anyone can hand their approvals to a colleague for a date range, and cancel it.
Approvals waiting, on the home page
The Today card counts what waits for the person's approval in each app, with a link straight to it. Each app keeps its own approval queue; the Hub has no single cross-app inbox.
Notifications: email, phone, WhatsApp and SMS
Branded email for every app
One outbox sends every app's email with the company's logo, retrying for about three hours. Admins see failures and can resend.
Company's own mail server
Mail can go out from the company's own address, with a test email button.
Phone notifications (web push)
The bell's notices go to phones and PCs people allow. People choose which kinds.
WhatsApp and SMS alertsNeeds an MSG91, Gupshup or Twilio account
Short alerts (payslip ready, something to approve, leave update and others) for staff without work email. Only to people who opt in and confirm their number. No amounts, PAN or bank details are ever sent.
Quiet hours and usageNeeds an MSG91, Gupshup or Twilio account
No alerts between 21:00 and 08:00 India time by default (security codes still go). Shows a usage estimate.
Delivery reportsNeeds an MSG91, Gupshup or Twilio account
Records whether each WhatsApp or SMS was delivered.
Phone app
Install Dexta on the phone
Install from the browser on Android or iPhone, with no app store. Includes an offline page. Nothing personal is cached on the phone.
Privacy (DPDP Act 2023)
Privacy page for every person
Each person sees the privacy notice, their consent choices, their requests and complaints, and their nominee. Former employees keep it too.
Privacy notices in 23 languages
The notice can be published in English plus the 22 Eighth Schedule languages (the company supplies translations), with reminders to people who have not seen it.
Consent register
Purposes, each person's consent, and a CSV of consents.
Data requests and complaints
5 request types (see my data, correct, erase, nominee, complaint), worked as a numbered queue with notes, status, a legal-hold check and replies.
"Your data" download
Gathers a person's data from every app into one copy they can download.
Who looked at my record
Shows a person who viewed their record.
Erasure across the apps
After the privacy team decides, erases the person's data in each app.
Retention schedule and legal holds
Legal keep-periods for 9 record types, a due-for-erasure report, holds that stop erasure, and an optional automatic clean-up (off by default, dry run first).
Breach register
Logs an incident with its clocks (6 hours for CERT-In, 72 hours for the Data Protection Board's full report) and notifies the people affected.
Staff under 18
Flags minors and records a guardian's consent.
Nominee
A person can name a nominee to act for them.
Sub-processor list and processing terms
Dexta's list of the services it uses and where data is stored, shown on every Privacy page, plus processing terms.
Data export, migration and archive
Export all our data
One zip of the company's data from every app. A second admin approves it. The download link works once, and every download is logged.
Migration from greytHR or Zoho People
Dexta's team brings data across in steps: departments, locations, designations, holidays, employees, leave (types, opening balances, approved leave), payroll (components, structures, year to date, monthly salary and TDS, TDS challans, salary register), money owed (loans, arrears, unpaid claims, advances), tax declarations, documents, attendance and leave taken. Each step is checked first and comes with a problems file.
Saved column matchings
A matching saved for one greytHR customer is reused for the next.
Test payroll comparison
Runs a test payroll and compares it with the old system's figures.
Undo before go-live
Takes the migrated data back out of Pay, Time and HR, with a preview, until the company goes live.
Archive of old records
Old payslips and records from the previous system, brought into Dexta Pay as an archive.
Groups of companies
Company switcher
One person with seats in several group companies switches between them without signing out.
Group view and transfers
Group admins see the group's people, movements and dashboard, and transfer people between group companies.
Reports
People dashboard
Headcount now, monthly joiners and leavers, people on probation and breakdowns, with an audited Excel download. Also available group-wide.
In a demo
Moments worth seeing.
- The guided set-upTen steps with PAN and GSTIN checks, locations, holiday calendars, the employee code format and the onboarding file.
- Who does whatAnswer a few questions about who is HR, payroll, finance and IT, and one save sets their access in every app.
- An approval chain, tried firstBuild a two-level leave or expense chain, then try it on a person before it goes live.
- Privacy pagesThe DPDP notice, consents, data requests and the breach register with its CERT-In and Board clocks.
The rest of the suite
One employee record, eleven apps.
Try Dexta
See your own month in Dexta.
A 30-minute demo on a sample company: a week of timesheets approved, the payroll run, and the entries landing in the books.