OrangeHRM

**OrangeHRM**
Developer(s)	OrangeHRM Inc.
Initial release	January 16, 2006 (0.1)
Stable release	5.5 (July 7, 2023; 9 months ago) [±]
Preview release	none [±]
Written in	PHP JavaScript
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	Multi-lingual
Type	Human resource management software
License(s)	GNU General Public License version v2.0
Website	OrangeHRM.com

OrangeHRM is a web-based open-source human resource management (HRM) application. The software comes in a fee-based hosted package (OrangeHRM Live) and a free community edition.

Product history

OrangeHRM began as a SourceForge project on January 2, 2006^[2], and the first public release of the open-source software arrived a few weeks later as version 0.1.^[1]. A steady stream of updates arrived in the following three years, slowly adding more modules to make it a more robust HR solution. In April 2009 the company joined forces with ROSS Canada to better provide support services to Canadians.^[3] In July 2010, a SaaS version of OrangeHRM was announced as "OrangeHRM Live."^[4]

Features

The main features of OrangeHRM include^[5]:

administrative module
personal information management system
holiday management module
time tracking module
employee self-service module
recruitment and applicant tracking module
performance tracking modules

Hardware/software requirements

Installations of the free open-source OrangeHRM application require:

Apache Server 1.3 or later
MySQL 5.0 or later
PHP 5.2.4 or later

Refer to the installation guide for more details.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Screenshots of OrangeHRM can be found on Softpedia.
Videos demoing OrangeHRM can be found on YouTube.
A demo of of OrangeHRM can be found on the site.

Training resources

Click2eLearn

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Click2eLearn is a privately owned company offering high-quality and low-cost web-based training and tutorials for primarily open-source software platforms. The company offers more than 110 tutorials on the open-source human resource management application OrangeHRM. Training plans begin at $33 per month.

Tutorials are broken down into 12 categories:

Free Part: Overview & Concepts - These free tutorials cover the basic facets of OrangeHRM.
Getting Started: Concepts and Tips - These related tutorials focus on the user interface of OrangeHRM.
Getting Started: Admin Module - These related tutorials focus on the admin interface of OrangeHRM and how to manage the program's many settings.
Operations: PIM Module - These tutorials explain the various factors involved in personal, employment, and qualification data management using OrangeHRM.
Operations: ESS Module - This section covers OrangeHRM's unique employee self-service module.
Operations: Leave Module - These tutorials explain the various aspect of OrangeHRM's holiday management module.
Operations: Time Module - This section covers OrangeHRM's time tracking module.
Operations: Benefits - These tutorials discuss how to manage payroll schedules and health savings plans in OrangeHRM.
Operations: Recruitment - The tutorials in this section discuss the various facets of recruitment and applicant tracking.
Operations: Reporting and Analysis - These tutorials focus on OrangeHRM's reporting features.
Data Interchange: Export and Import - These related tutorials explain OrangeHRM's collection of data importation and exportation methods.
Add-ons: Bug Tracker - The tutorial covers the bug tracking add-on for OrangeHRM.