How do HR teams keep an employee handbook up to date?

Keep the handbook as living pages in a wiki rather than as an exported PDF, and give one person edit rights per section. Version history then shows what changed and when, comments sit on the paragraph being questioned, and there is only ever one link to share. PDFs are for signing, not for policies people need to read weekly.

How should a growing company track leave requests and balances?

Use a leave system with request, approval and balance in one place, and connect it to attendance so the payroll cycle reads the same numbers. Requests approved in chat are the usual failure point, because the balance never gets written down. Tixio HR handles requests, approvals, balances and attendance together, and feeds the salary records at month end.

Does Tixio work for HR and People Ops teams?

Yes. Tixio HR covers attendance, leave management, contracts with version history, payroll and salary records, on and offboarding checklists, equipment, skills tracking, surveys and an organogram. Wiki holds the handbook and policies, Projects runs onboarding checklists, Chat carries announcements and Meetings handles interviews and 1:1s. It is not an applicant tracking system, so it starts at the offer stage.

Is Tixio HR included in the plan or is it a paid add on?

Tixio HR is a paid add on at 5 dollars per user per month, on top of your base plan. So a team on Tixio Team pays 9 dollars per user per month plus 5 dollars, or 6.30 plus 5 when billed yearly. Tixio CRM is a separate 5 dollar add on if you need it.

How much does Tixio cost for a 20 person team with HR?

About 280 dollars per month for 20 people on the Team plan with the HR add on, at 9 dollars plus 5 dollars per user per month. Billed yearly it drops to 11.30 per user, so roughly 226 dollars per month. Starter is 4 dollars per user if you need less than the full Team feature set.

Is Tixio a good alternative to Notion for an employee handbook?

Yes, and it goes further, because the handbook sits next to the employee records and onboarding tasks rather than in a separate document tool. Tixio Wiki gives you nested pages, real time co-editing, inline comments, templates, global search and page level permissions for sensitive sections such as compensation bands. See the Tixio vs Notion comparison for detail.

Can Tixio replace our shared drive for HR documents and contracts?

For HR documents, largely yes. Contracts live in Tixio HR with version history, so an amendment does not overwrite the original and you can show what the terms were on any date. Policies live in Wiki as pages instead of files. You will still keep a drive for signed originals and anything your auditor wants as a static file.

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Tixio for HR Ops | Handbook, onboarding and leave in one place

Q: How do you stop onboarding depending on one person remembering everything?

Turn onboarding into a reusable project template with owners and due dates on every step. The contract, the payroll form, the equipment order, systems access and the 30, 60 and 90 day check ins each become a task assigned to a named person. Anyone can then run a new hire's first week, including the person covering while HR is on leave.

Tixio gives HR and People Ops teams one workspace for the employee handbook, onboarding checklists, leave requests, contracts with version history and payroll records. Tixio HR is a 5 dollar add on.

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Written byUmana

PublishedJune 5, 2026

Tixio for HR Ops | Handbook, onboarding and leave in one place

Ask an HR team where the current employee handbook lives and you usually get three answers.

The signed policy PDF sits in a drive folder, the latest edits sit in someone's inbox, and the version people actually read is a two year old export pinned in a group chat.

People Ops runs on documents that expire. Offer letters, contracts, probation reviews, leave balances, payroll runs. When those live across five tools, somebody is always working from the wrong version.

Why HR operations break down

The handbook has no owner. Policies get edited in a doc, exported to PDF, emailed around, and then nobody can say which file is current.
Onboarding lives in one person's head. The laptop request, the payroll form, the buddy assignment and the 30 day check in are remembered rather than tracked, so a new hire's first week depends on who happens to be in the office.
Leave requests arrive as messages. Someone asks for three days off in a DM, a manager replies yes, and the balance never gets updated anywhere the payroll cycle can see it.
Contracts get overwritten. A salary change or a title change is saved over the old file, and six months later nobody can prove what the previous terms were.
Probation reviews slip. The 90 day mark passes quietly and the review happens in month five, when someone finally notices.
Announcements land in the wrong place. The new parental leave policy goes out in an email that half the team archives without reading.

What Tixio does for HR and People Ops

Tixio is one workspace instead of a stack. For People Ops the useful part is that the employee record, the handbook, the onboarding checklist and the announcement all sit in the same place, so a policy change and the tasks that implement it are one click apart.

Tixio HR: the employee record, leave and payroll

Tixio HR is the core module here and it is a paid add on at 5 dollars per user per month. It covers attendance and time tracking, leave management with approvals, contracts with version history, payroll and salary records, on and offboarding checklists, equipment, skills tracking, surveys and an organogram. Contract version history is the part HR teams notice first: the March contract and the July amendment both stay readable.

Tixio Wiki: a handbook that stays current

Wiki holds the employee handbook, the expense policy, the code of conduct and the remote work rules as nested pages rather than files. Editing is live, comments sit inline on the paragraph in question, and page level permissions keep compensation bands visible only to the people who should see them.

Tixio Projects: onboarding and offboarding as real checklists

Build one onboarding template in Projects with subtasks for the signed contract, the payroll form, the equipment order, systems access and the 30, 60 and 90 day check ins. Recurring tasks cover the annual review cycle and the monthly payroll close, so they arrive without anyone remembering them.

Chat: announcements that actually get read

Chat gives you channels for company wide announcements, DMs for the sensitive conversations, and threads so questions about the new leave policy stay attached to the policy. Scheduled messages mean the Monday timesheet reminder can be written on Friday.

Tixio Meetings: interviews, 1:1s and reviews

Meetings is native video with recording, AI transcription and summaries. Interview notes and action items sync straight to tasks, so a debrief turns into a decision instead of a document nobody reopens. The lobby is useful when you are letting external candidates in.

How an HR week runs in Tixio

Monday morning: open the HR dashboard, see who is out this week, and clear the leave requests that came in over the weekend.
Draft the offer letter for the accepted candidate, store it against the employee record in Tixio HR, and start the onboarding project from your template.
Run interviews in Tixio Meetings, let the transcript handle the notes, and turn the hiring manager's follow ups into assigned tasks.
Publish the updated remote work policy in Wiki, then post the change in the announcements channel with a link back to the page.
Wednesday: probation reviews. Pull the 90 day items from the onboarding project, run the 1:1, and record the outcome against the employee record.
Close the payroll cycle. Attendance and approved leave feed the salary records, and you export what your payroll provider needs.
Friday: work the offboarding checklist for the leaver. Equipment returned, access revoked, final contract version archived.

What you can stop paying for

A 25 person People Ops stack usually means an HRIS, a knowledge base, a project tool, a chat tool and a video tool. At common market rates that is roughly 8 dollars per employee for the HRIS, 10 for the knowledge base, 11 for projects, 8 for chat and 15 for video. Call it 40 to 50 dollars per user per month, plus the leave spreadsheet someone maintains for free until they resign.

Tixio Team is 9 dollars per user per month, or 6.30 billed yearly. Tixio HR adds 5 dollars on top. That is 14 dollars per user monthly, or 11.30 billed yearly. For 25 people, about 350 dollars a month against roughly 1,000 for the separate stack.

The invoice is not the real saving. The real saving is never again reconciling a leave balance in one tool against an onboarding task in another.

Who this is for

Tixio fits HR and People Ops teams in companies of roughly 10 to 250 people who run the whole employee lifecycle themselves and do not want five subscriptions to do it. It works well when HR sits close to operations and the same workspace is already used by everyone else.

This is probably not for you if you need a full applicant tracking system. Tixio HR does not post to job boards, parse CVs or run a scored candidate pipeline. It picks up at the offer stage. It is also not a payroll processor: it holds salary records, attendance and approved leave, and you still run the payment and the tax filing through your provider. And Tixio HR is an add on rather than part of the base plan, so budget the extra 5 dollars per user before you commit.

Getting started

Start with the handbook. Move your current policy documents into a Wiki space, set page permissions, and send every employee the link. That single move kills the question of which PDF is current, usually within a week.

Then add Tixio HR and import your people, contracts and leave balances. Every plan comes with 14 days of full access, free, no credit card required.