Hiring your first employee and you have no HR department? Start with free offer letters and interview scorecards, stop handling leave over WhatsApp for $10, run the first 90 days for $14, keep every record in a $15 Excel database, upgrade to the full Notion employee-onboarding system for $49 — or take the 106-page HR guide for $59. Every price verified live.
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Before you buy. This page is employer→employee paperwork — hiring the person, employee onboarding, administering leave, keeping records. It is not the whole HR universe: the legal documents that protect you are on our Contracts & Legal page, payroll and bookkeeping are on our Accounting page, and freelancer→client onboarding (the 48 hours after the client says yes) lives on our Client Onboarding page. Every "onboarding" on this page means employee onboarding — new hires, not new clients.
About ratings. None of the six products below shows any ratings — not one. Don't read social proof into this page: it is "verified live and in stock," not a bestsellers list. Artifact detail (page counts, tab counts, template lists) does the selling.
Not legal advice. These are starting-point templates and guides, not legal counsel. Two picks brush up against compliance language — treat everything here as paperwork to adapt, and check local employment law before relying on any of it.
Prices. Prices are set by each seller on Gumroad and can change; prices below were served in USD on a US fetch and may localize for non-US readers.
The $0 HR department in a zip file: plug-and-play HR docs from a former CHRO — editable offer letters, a job description template, interview scorecards plus AI-generated interview questions, employee-onboarding and termination templates, ChatGPT prompts for writing HR docs, and a bonus performance review template. Word format. Position: start here, buy later. Honest framing: no ratings, and the "hire smarter, stay compliant" copy leans compliance-adjacent — these are starting-point documents, not legal advice, so adapt them to your local employment law. This is the free starter — the paid system upgrade from the same seller is step 5 below (a different product: we checked both pages, and the paid kit is a Notion system, not this pack re-skinned).
View on Gumroad →The day-to-day admin slot of the ladder: an editable Word/PDF leave request form covering sick, annual, compassionate, and personal leave, with completion instructions. Position: stop handling leave over WhatsApp. Honest framing: no ratings, and the page showed zero recorded sales — the thinnest traction signal on the ladder. Also a real jurisdiction flag: the product copy is written for Namibian HR practices and labor standards, not US-generic — the form fields work fine as a starting point, but adapt them to your local leave law before using them.
View on Gumroad →The first-90-days system for $14: a 5-tab Excel workbook — KPI dashboard, a 40+ task employee-onboarding checklist across five phases (pre-arrival → day 1 → week 1 → month 1 → months 2–3), a new-hire tracker, 30/60/90 goals, and instructions — plus a 30-page PDF guide with scripts, email templates, and best practices. Works in Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice. Honest framing: no ratings, and the Medium article the product surfaced through cites dramatic employee-retention statistics without sources — we don't repeat them as facts. Buy it for the 40+ task checklist and the five-phase structure, not the marketing numbers. Format/skill note: comfortable with spreadsheets.
View on Gumroad →Two ways to make employee onboarding and record-keeping run without you: a Windows Excel database that replaces the paper filing cabinet, or the Notion system that replaces remembering everything yourself. Both carry real setup bars — read the honest framing first.
Your HR filing cabinet, no SaaS subscription: an Excel VBA employee database with 31 employee fields, a 3-page userform for data entry, a digital filing cabinet for IDs, hiring paperwork, and medical clearances, webcam photo capture, a reports dashboard, and print/export with your company logo. Honest framing: no ratings, and the setup bar is real — this needs Windows desktop Excel with macros enabled; it does not work in Google Sheets, on a Mac, or in Excel web. Also note the "Form 201" naming suggests a Philippines-market origin — field labels may assume non-US paperwork, so expect to relabel fields for your jurisdiction.
View on Gumroad →Employee onboarding that doesn't depend on you remembering everything: a Notion-based system with 30/60/90 roadmaps for new hires, pre-written new-hire emails and Slack intros, a manager coaching guide, termination scripts, 20+ custom AI prompts, and downloadable Word/PDF assets. The paid upgrade path from step 1's free docs: docs → system. Same seller as the free pack — we verified both product pages at build time and they are distinct products with different artifact sets (free Word docs vs. a Notion system), not a re-skin — but we say that explicitly so this page never reads as a Kyle Roed ad. Honest framing: no ratings. Format/skill note: you need to be comfortable in Notion to get the value out of this.
View on Gumroad →The $59 HR manager in your pocket: a 106-page HR guide by an experienced HR manager covering hiring, employee onboarding, compliance, and employee management in plain non-legal language, with practical examples throughout — and it explicitly disclaims legal, tax, or professional advice itself, which is the honest framing we wish every compliance-adjacent product had. Honest framing: no ratings, and the seller is a numeric-handle store with a default avatar and no verification — the thinnest brand on the ladder. So the case for this pick is the artifact, not the seller: 106 pages of plain-language HR process, positioned as the anchor reference the other five kits orbit around.
View on Gumroad →NINE's free tier stays free because of pages like this one. Every product above was verified live with a visible price and picked for the one-tap hiring-to-people-ops ladder: free starter docs, a $10 leave form, a $14 employee-onboarding checklist, a $15 Excel employee database, a $49 Notion employee-onboarding system, and a $59 106-page HR guide — the ladder from "hire your first employee" to "run people ops like you have a department." Kept distinct from our Contracts & Legal page (attorney-drafted legal documents, not employer paperwork), our Accounting page (bookkeeping and payroll, not hiring), and our Client Onboarding page (freelancer→client onboarding — this page is strictly employee onboarding and employer paperwork). None of the six products shows any ratings, so this page is "verifiably live and in stock," not a bestsellers list. These are starting points, not legal counsel — check local employment law before relying on any of them. Nothing here can promise hires, retention, or results. Nothing here is a paid placement.