Everything Dakila does, and everything it does not.
Grouped the way CSC PRIME-HRM groups human resource systems, because that is the vocabulary your office already uses. Each module says plainly whether it is in the product today or built when an agency engages. There is no third state and we publish no dates.
Personnel records
The 201 file, the Personal Data Sheet, and the funded-position structure the rest of government HR hangs off.
Personal Data Sheet
The PDS entered once, kept by HR, and never retyped. Every employee reads and prints their own.
In the product todayPlantilla and PSIPOP
Your funded positions as a real register — item number, salary grade, step, authorised salary, incumbent.
In the product todayCompetency profiles and the gap
The competency model the CSC prescribes, held against your funded positions and the people occupying them, with the gap between the two derived rather than asserted.
In the product today201 file and document requests
Employees request a Certificate of Employment or Service Record; HR fulfils it without opening a filing cabinet.
In the product todayRetirement horizon
Who is at or approaching retirement age, what each is owed in terminal leave, and what the pension would approximately be — one register, derived from records you already hold.
In the product todaySALN filing status
Who owes a statement this year and by when, tracked as filings recorded rather than as documents held.
In the product todayRecords retention and disposal eligibility
The National Archives disposition schedule held against your own record volumes, so you can see which years have served their period.
In the product today
Recruitment, Selection and Placement
From a vacant plantilla item through the hiring pipeline to a filled position and an onboarded employee.
Recruitment and onboarding
A vacant funded item through publication, a board deliberation and the hiring pipeline to a hired, onboarded employee.
In the product todayAppointments and personnel actions
The CSC appointment-type engine on both ORAOHRA axes, with the statutory clocks each type starts and the documents each one carries.
Built on engagement
Learning and Development
Training events, participation, and the results recorded against them.
Performance Management
The CSC Strategic Performance Management System and its rating cascade.
Rewards and Recognition
The PRAISE programme the CSC means by R&R, alongside the pay, statutory contributions, leave credits, annual filings and welfare provision an employee is actually owed.
PRAISE — awards, nominations and incentives
Your agency's PRAISE programme as a live register: the committee, the award catalogue, the nominations your staff file, and the conferrals recorded under it.
In the product todayGovernment payroll
A full monthly or semi-monthly cycle, with the contributions and allowances government actually pays.
In the product todayWellness activities
The agency wellness programme as a register: each activity, when and where it runs, and the named staff rostered onto it.
In the product todayLeave and the CSC leave card
Vacation and sick credits that accrue the way CSC says they accrue, on a cumulative ledger.
In the product todayNight-shift differential
Hours actually worked in the night window, priced at your agency's own rate, and landed in payroll as drafts a person still has to submit.
In the product todayBIR annual filings
The annual filings, generated from the payroll you already ran rather than rebuilt in a spreadsheet.
In the product todayStep increment and NOSI
Three-year step increments, gated on performance rating, with the notice and any retroactive differential.
Built on engagement
Daily operations
What every employee and approver touches on an ordinary Tuesday.
Attendance and daily time record
Check-in from a phone, a monthly calendar, and corrections that route for approval.
In the product todayEmployee self-service and approvals
The reason people open it: payslips, leave, claims and one approvals queue for managers.
In the product todayBiometric device integration
Your existing biometric terminals feeding attendance directly.
Built on engagement
On PRIME-HRM, since we have used its vocabulary throughout.
We organise the product around the four PRIME-HRM systems because it is the language your office thinks in, and because retrofitting that structure later would be disruptive. We do not, however, sell you a maturity level. CSC paused PRIME-HRM accreditation in 2025 for a program upgrade, so a promised advance to Silver or Gold this cycle has no live scoring behind it.
PRIME-HRM is the architecture here. It is not the urgency.
The vocabulary on this site
We write these pages in the language your HR office already uses, which means an ICT head or an agency head can hit a term cold. Every acronym this site uses is expanded below. Nothing here is a term we do not actually use.
- CSC
- Civil Service Commission
- The central personnel agency of the Philippine government. Sets the forms, the eligibility rules and the leave rules this product is built to.
- PDS / CS Form 212
- Personal Data Sheet
- The eight-section CSC form that is the foundation of every government personnel record. Four pages when printed.
- 201 file
- The employee's personnel file
- Named for its old records-management number. Holds appointments, service record, disclosures and supporting documents.
- SALN
- Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth
- The declaration a public official or employee owes on assuming a post, once a year after that, and on leaving. The product tracks who owes one and by when; the statement itself is filed with the agency and the Ombudsman.
- Plantilla
- The register of funded positions
- A position is a funded item with a number, a salary grade and a step — not a job title. Generic HR software gets this distinction wrong.
- PSIPOP
- Personal Services Itemization and Plantilla of Personnel
- The formal itemisation of those funded positions, filled and vacant, that an agency reports on.
- PRIME-HRM
- Program to Institutionalize Meritocracy and Excellence in Human Resource Management
- The CSC framework that groups HR into four systems. We use it as structure, never as a maturity promise.
- L&D
- Learning and Development
- One of the four PRIME-HRM systems: training events, participation and the results recorded against them.
- R&R
- Rewards and Recognition
- One of the four PRIME-HRM systems. In practice it is the agency's PRAISE programme, alongside pay, contributions and leave.
- PRAISE
- Program on Awards and Incentives for Service Excellence
- The agency awards programme the CSC requires: a committee, an award catalogue, nominations and the conferrals recorded under them.
- HRD fund
- Human resource development fund
- The training and development allocation the PRAISE standard reads its floor against.
- CBHRMS
- Competency-Based Human Resource Management System
- An agency's competency framework. The CSC does not approve one — no vendor can hand you an approved competency system.
- ORAOHRA
- Omnibus Rules on Appointments and Other Human Resource Actions
- The CSC rules governing every appointment type and personnel action.
- SPMS
- Strategic Performance Management System
- The CSC performance framework. The Commission prescribes two forms — the office OPCR and the individual IPCR — and no Division form, so a division is free text on the individual's own.
- OPCR
- Office Performance Commitment and Review
- The office-level SPMS form: the commitments an office rates itself against.
- IPCR
- Individual Performance Commitment and Review
- The individual's SPMS form, filed under the office's OPCR and rated output by output.
- PMT
- Performance Management Team
- The agency body that oversees SPMS calibration. Whether to recalibrate is its decision in a meeting, not arithmetic software performs.
- SSL
- Salary Standardization Law
- Sets the salary grade and step structure most of government is paid under. Chartered agencies outside it run their own compensation plan.
- SG
- Salary grade
- Where a funded item sits on the salary schedule. Each grade rises by steps, and pay is read from grade and step together.
- GOCC
- Government-owned or -controlled corporation
- A corporation the government owns or controls — one of the agency types the PRAISE standard sets a distinct committee composition for.
- NBC
- National Budget Circular
- The DBM issuance carrying the salary schedule that applies to your agency. Yours loads at onboarding; we ship none.
- NOSI
- Notice of Salary Increment
- The notice issued when an employee reaches a step increment, normally every three years and gated on performance.
- PERA
- Personnel Economic Relief Allowance
- A standard allowance line on a government payslip. Its absence is the tell that software was not built for government.
- VAWC
- Violence Against Women and Their Children
- Names the leave granted to victims under the law protecting them — one of the fourteen CSC leave types configured per agency.
- GSIS
- Government Service Insurance System
- The pension and insurance fund for government employees. The counterpart of SSS in the private sector.
- PhilHealth
- Philippine Health Insurance Corporation
- The national health insurer. The premium is a shared line on every government payslip.
- Pag-IBIG
- Home Development Mutual Fund
- The government housing fund. With GSIS and PhilHealth, one of the three statutory contributions on every slip.
- BIR
- Bureau of Internal Revenue
- Collects the withholding tax on compensation. The annual 2316 certificate and the 1604-C alphalist are its forms.
- TRAIN
- Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion
- The tax law whose withholding tables the payroll applies. Verified against the revenue regulation, never reproduced on this site.
- PBB
- Performance-Based Bonus
- The annual bonus tied to performance tiers. Its tier values are among the figures this site declines to publish.
- SSS
- Social Security System
- The private sector's pension and insurance fund. Government employees are under GSIS instead.
- DBM
- Department of Budget and Management
- Approves and funds the plantilla, and asks for filled-against-vacant reporting.
- NAP
- National Archives of the Philippines
- Issues the general records disposition schedule, and the only body that can authorise the disposal of a public record. Your agency's own approved schedule sits under its general one.
- COA
- Commission on Audit
- Audits government spending. The reason a cumulative leave ledger matters more than a remaining balance.
- HRIS
- Human resource information system
- The software category this product sits in: an agency's personnel records, transactions and filings in one system.
- HRMO
- Human Resource Management Officer
- The officer who runs HR in an agency, and the person this site is written for.