Jorani

What Jorani is

Jorani is a free, self-hosted system for managing employee leave and overtime requests. Employees can submit leave applications for approval or rejection, with email notifications at each stage. Managers can decide on collaborators’ leave and overtime requests. Organizations can set non-working days, holidays and weekends so the system calculates leave-request duration automatically. Leave calendars help show planned time away; some can provide an ICS feed for calendar applications such as Outlook and Thunderbird. Built-in reports include leave balances, and lists and most reports can be exported to Excel. Administrators can represent an organization through countries, branches, subsidiaries, departments and teams, then attach employees to those entities. Jorani is available under the GNU GPL v3 license, with source code on GitHub. It runs on a web server and requires PHP 5.3 or higher and a MySQL or MariaDB database. Its security measures include input filtering against XSS and SQL injection, encrypted session cookies and BCRYPT password hashing. Jorani says it stores data where installed and does not send it to third parties or collect usage statistics. Support questions are directed to its Google group forum.

Who it suits

Jorani suits organizations that want a self-hosted process for employee leave and overtime requests, with manager decisions and email notifications. It may also fit teams that need leave calendars, leave-balance reports and an organizational structure spanning departments or branches.

Limits

The free plan is listed as free. Carry-over leave calculations and sick-leave tracking are described as coming soon.

Getting started

1. Open the Jorani website.
2. Prepare an operating system with a web server, PHP 5.3 or higher, and MySQL or MariaDB.
3. Install Jorani on your own hosting environment.
4. Configure the organization structure and employee entities.
5. Set non-working days, holidays and weekends for leave calculations.
6. Direct support questions to the Jorani Google group forum.

Verdict

Choose Jorani if your organization can host its own leave and overtime management system and wants request approvals, leave calendars and reporting at no software charge. Look elsewhere if you need carry-over calculations or sick-leave tracking now, since the documentation describes those as coming soon.