Accepting an offer — the atomic hire

What "atomic hire" means

When a candidate accepts your offer, clicking Accept offer on the offer detail page does all of this in one go:

1. Creates the employee record with their name, email, auto-generated employee number, start date and active status
2. Creates their first employment contract with the offer's terms (job title, department, manager, salary, hours, position)
3. Fills the linked position — it changes from "open" to "filled"
4. Applies the default onboarding template — creates the first-week checklist
5. Creates signature envelopes for any e-sign onboarding tasks (in draft — you'll send them when ready)
6. Notifies Finance — if you also use Blankitt Finance, the new employee appears in Settings > Team within a few seconds

It's all-or-nothing: if any step fails, the whole thing rolls back. No partial state.

Before clicking Accept

Quick sanity check:

• Offer details are correct — salary, start date, role, manager
• The job has a linked position — needed for the position-fill step
• The default onboarding template is configured — or you're OK with no template (just don't set a default if so)

What the candidate sees

Their status flips to Hired. They're no longer in the active pipeline.

What the new employee sees

Nothing immediately — they don't have a Blankitt account yet.

Once you click Send invite on their detail page, they get a magic-link email to set a password and access self-service. From then on they can see their profile, onboarding tasks, contract, payslips (after the first run) and so on.

See also

• Auto-applying an onboarding template
• How does HR integrate with Finance? — what flows across when you accept an offer