Frontelio review
A free-first HR and scheduling toolkit for frontline teams, with paid tiers for growing operations.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Frontelio brings employee administration and frontline workforce operations together for multi-site teams, particularly organizations in the UAE and GCC. Its feature set spans employee records and documents, leave, onboarding and offboarding, GPS attendance, shift scheduling, checklists, training and HR analytics. Employees have iOS and Android apps, while administrators can use the web console. That breadth makes it a fit for teams coordinating day-to-day work across locations; organizations chiefly seeking a dedicated payroll or performance-management system should compare alternatives around those needs.
The free plan covers scheduling and GPS clock-in, people records and documents, leave and attendance history, and a knowledge base with training; it does not require a credit card. According to the published plans, Basic starts at AED 99 per month and adds shift availability, surveys, announcements, hiring and payroll-ready exports. Starter is AED 199 monthly, adding a bilingual English and Arabic workspace, a manager logbook, course builder, off-site clock-in approvals, webhooks and SSO. Growth costs AED 299 per outlet per month and adds advanced and predictive scheduling plus an open-shifts marketplace. Enterprise lists unlimited people, locations and history, SAML 2.0 and OIDC SSO, custom integrations, a dedicated success manager and SLA. Annual billing is available; the listed plans also include a 14-day trial.
Its ecosystem is oriented toward workforce and site operations rather than payroll processing: integrations include CloudMePOS, WhatsApp, email, Kisi, Brivo, Salto and HID Origo, alongside REST API and webhooks. Security and access options expand by tier, from SSO on Starter to SAML 2.0 and OIDC on Enterprise; the listed compliance items include GDPR and SSO/SAML. Frontelio is a sensible choice for frontline operators that want scheduling, attendance and HR administration in one workflow, especially if Arabic support or location-based operations matter. Teams needing payroll execution or established performance-review functionality should assess other products; AI performance review is described as pilot-only.
Frontelio pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Free tier includes records, leave, training, scheduling and GPS clock-in
- Mobile apps pair GPS and selfie attendance with approval workflows
- Paid plans add payroll-ready exports, SSO and advanced scheduling
- Where it doesn't
- Payroll-ready exports are listed, but payroll itself is not a listed feature
- Growth is priced per outlet, which may complicate budgeting across sites
- Advanced capabilities such as SSO and predictive scheduling require paid tiers
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