People asks for nothing before it can be switched on — it is one of the modules a company can adopt on day one. Its neighbours lean on it rather than the other way round:
- Time Tracking (Chapter 9) requires People: timesheets are written against employee records, and its approvals follow the supervisor named on each record.
- Your structure — the departments and branches an employee belongs to are the same ones your documents carry when the structure switches are on (Chapter 0). Departments themselves are set up in System Setup; §8.6 explains what they do to your numbers.
- Users are not employees. A user is a sign-in; an employee is a person on the register. The two are linked only if you link them (§8.4), and each exists happily without the other.
Opening employee records can be typed one by one or brought in with the rest of your opening data (§16.4).