---
title: "User guide"
description: "How to use People Matter — scheduling, timekeeping, leave, claims and payroll, step by step."
---

> Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://peoplematter.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# User guide

People Matter is an HR system for small clinics and SMEs. This guide explains what the
actions on each screen actually do — not just where the buttons are, but what happens to
the money, the leave and the roster after you press them.

## The daily loop

- [Clocking & timesheets](/en/docs/time/) — punching in and out, and how a day becomes "Final".
- [Overtime](/en/docs/overtime/) — from "Unclaimed overtime" to cash or comp time.
- [Leave & balances](/en/docs/leave/) — requesting, the live math, cancelling, and configuring types and policy.
- [Scheduling](/en/docs/scheduling/) — reading the board, declaring days you can't work or would rather not; planning and publishing for schedulers.
- [Tasks](/en/docs/tasks/) — your own **Tasks** and your branch's **Tasks**, and the difference between "seen" and "acknowledged".
- [Approvals](/en/docs/approvals/) — everything waiting on your decision, in one inbox.

## The money

- [Payroll](/en/docs/payroll/) — periods, payslips, the pool, running, claim-to-payment: the whole story.

## Communication

- [Messages](/en/docs/messaging/) — chat, forum and DMs: one system, three renderings.
- [Announcements](/en/docs/announcements/) — the words everyone must read, with a record that they did.

## Running the organization

- [People](/en/docs/people/) — invitations, assignments, per-person overrides.
- [Organization](/en/docs/organization/) — locations, departments, position permissions and the chart.
- [Approval policies](/en/docs/approval-policies/) — who approves what, in what order.
- [Account, notifications & activity](/en/docs/account/) — signing in, switching identities, notifications and the branch log.

## Help inside the app

Once signed in, the "?" in the top corner opens the help panel: it lists only the guides
relevant to **the screen you are on**, filtered to what **your permissions** let you do.
The content is this site — every page in the panel has a public URL you can paste to a
colleague, readable without signing in.

Source: https://peoplematter.app/en/docs/index.mdx