Why HR is Finance's source of truth

The problem we wanted to avoid

In a lot of businesses, the same employee exists in three different places: the HR system, the accounting software, and a spreadsheet someone keeps "for reporting". Salary changes, role changes and joiners get updated in one place and forgotten in another. Numbers drift. Reports stop matching reality.

We didn't want that.

How Blankitt handles it

Blankitt HR holds the master record for every employee. When you also use Blankitt Finance, Finance reads from that same record. There's no separate "employees" list to maintain in Finance.

• You add an employee in HR → they appear in Finance's Settings > Team
• You change their salary in HR → Finance's P&L projection updates
• You terminate them in HR → Finance stops counting their cost from the termination date

What this means in practice

• The "Add employee" button only lives in HR.
• The salary field is only editable in HR.
• The job-title field is only editable in HR.
• The department, manager and hours fields are only editable in HR.

If you're in Finance and need to change any of this, click the Manage in HR link and you'll be taken straight to the right page.

What if I only use Finance, not HR?

Then you don't see any of this. Finance still has a Team page; it's just maintained inside Finance because there's no HR to read from.

If you later add HR, we'll migrate your Finance employee list across so HR becomes the master — you'll get a confirmation prompt at the time.

Next

Chapter 2 covers exactly which fields flow between products and which stay HR-only.