Installation overview

This guide is for the person installing and maintaining Open Core HR. For everyday HR and employee tasks, start with the Welcome page.

Open Core HR is a self-hosted Laravel application supplied with source code. It needs a PHP application server and a database.

This guide accompanies version 1.0.0. The deployment recipes are checked against the repository configuration. Fresh installations on each named hosting platform have not yet been certified.

Installation sequence

1. Buy Open Core HR from CZ App Studio and download the release package.
2. Check requirements and hosting.
3. Prepare the source package, domain and database.
4. Follow the recipe for cPanel, Linux VPS, another platform or local development.
5. Configure and initialize the application.
6. Set up email and background services.
7. Complete the installation checklist.
8. Activate the installation from Settings → Modules → Activate product, then install the add-ons you own from the same page; see Licences and activation and Installing and managing add-ons.

Keep third-party licence notices with the installation. Your licence and support terms are those of your CZ App Studio purchase.