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title: "HR Essentials: Employee training guide"
slug: "hr-essentials-employee-training-guide"
description: "Access Cintra People HR easily with Google, Microsoft, or Xero logins. Manage leave, clock in/out, and update your profile seamlessly."
updated: 2026-05-19T13:57:40Z
published: 2026-05-19T13:57:40Z
canonical: "help.cintra.co.uk/hr-essentials-employee-training-guide"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.cintra.co.uk/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# HR Essentials: Employee training guide

Available in:

**HR Essentials**

**HR Advanced**

### **Access**

Access Cintra People HR by going to [app.appogeehr.com](http://app.appogeehr.com). There are three ways to log in - Email address and Password, Google Workspace (G Suite) Log in or Office 365 Log in. Your details will be in your welcome email, or alternatively contact your administrator.

Once you're logged in, you'll be presented with the **Dashboard**, this shows your Leave Summary and a calendar of Who's off.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219987.png)

Your Leave will be shown in the **Year at a Glance** feature on the **Dashboard**.

- Approved Leave shows in **Green**
- Pending Leave shows in **Orange**
- Sickness shows in **Red**.

There's an allowances donut on the right, which shows you how much of your allowance is used up.

[](/hr/docs/hr-essentials-employee-training-guide#Top)

### **Company Docs**

This section shows **Company Documents** that are visible to you.

You may be asked to **read** and or **acknowledge** a document.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/image(181).png)

### **Leave**

If you go to your **Leave Overview**, you'll see the **Year at a Glance** calendar again as well as other options - **Requests, Allowances, Attachments and Team Calendar**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/image-1774521772173.png)

### **Clock In/Out**

The **Clock In / Out** section allows you to clock in at the beginning of the day, take breaks & clock out. This will automatically create a timesheet of your working hours. This can be useful for Payroll and monitoring productivity and help track timings throughout a certain period of time and help with managing of absence or lateness.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/image-1774521808930.png)

### **Location**

The **Location** feature allows you to mark where you plan on working. You can also see a calendar view of where your colleagues are working on any given day. The **Location Planner** can be used to monitor and configure attendance amounts for different working locations.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017220012.png)

### **Profile**

Along the top of most pages is your ribbon - this shows your photo, manager & team.

You can click on your profile picture to upload a new one.

If you click on **Profile,** you will be taken to the first section of your HR Profile. This is split into P**ersonal, Employment, Performance, Learning & Assets**.

Any of the fields that are white can be edited by you, and any fields that are grey have been configured to be read-only, these permissions are set up by your admin.

Some fields might be shown as a set of asterisks. Their contents can be viewed by clicking on the icon next to the field.

These are often used for sensitive information such as bank and salary information.

Where you enter the information yourself, remember to save your changes.

To the right, you will see a section called **Records**. You may be configured to upload your own to be stored on your profile. If you click the blue Records button, this will give you a different view and the opportunity to do a quick upload of records.

*![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/image-1774521882323.png)*

You can use the drag-and-drop feature to upload multiple files to the profiles if you want to attach further documentation relevant to the employee such as a right-to-work document or passport copy provided they are up to 5MB. For larger files, you can create and use the file upload dialogue to attach the required documentation to the employee profile

### **Checklists**

You may be assigned a **Checklist** to complete. This will be accessible from your **Notifications** or by going to **Checklists**.

Work through the items on your Checklist by ticking them off, you can optionally add comments.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/image-1774521917750.png)

Checklists can be used to help with gathering information relevant to the employee and can be used as a useful tool for helping to monitor certain tasks that have been done or information provided if needed by the organisation.