Otto HR for Small Business
HR without an HR department.
Otto HR replaces the spreadsheet-and-inbox stack with one simple tool — employee records, time off, payroll, and a portal that answers questions before they reach you.
10×
Faster than the spreadsheet stack
80%
Less HR busywork
30 days
Free trial, no credit card
Why small businesses
One tool instead of ten tabs.
No HR department required
Otto HR is simple enough for the owner or office manager to run — no admin training, no consultants.
Everything in one place
Employee records, documents, time off and payroll live together — not across spreadsheets and inbox threads.
Fewer questions to answer
Employees check their own leave balances and the handbook in the portal, so the questions stop arriving by email.
What's inside
Simple where it should be.
A clean employee file
Positions, documents, and history for every employee — the single source your spreadsheet was trying to be.
Selin Acar
Software Engineer
Department
Engineering
Start date
Mar 3, 2026
Manager
James Cole
Location
Istanbul
Requests, not email threads
Policies, balances and approvals in one flow; approved leave lands in payroll on its own.
Sarah Kim
Annual leave · Aug 4–8
Self-service for everyone
Employees request leave, read the handbook, and raise their own requests — without going through you.
Company overview
This monthHelp with the boring parts
Ask Otto drafts policies, imports your existing handbook from PDF, and answers from your HR data.
How many vacation days does Deniz have left?
Small business questions
Small teams that have outgrown spreadsheets but don't have a dedicated HR department — one person can run hiring, time off and payroll alongside their actual job.
Yes. Every plan starts with a free 30-day Pro trial, no credit card required. Paid tiers pick up as the team grows.
Yes. Employee records, documents and leave balances live in Otto HR, so the spreadsheet can be retired rather than maintained in parallel.
No. The portal is plain self-service — request leave, read the handbook, raise a request. Anything left over, Ask Otto answers from your own HR data.
Get started
Close the spreadsheet for good.
Start the free 30-day trial — no credit card — and move HR into one simple tool.