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POSH complaint tracker software that keeps every case confidential and on time.

Complaints under the POSH Act must be logged, investigated and closed within statutory timelines, and kept strictly confidential throughout. A spreadsheet cannot do that safely. Abscode gives your Internal Committee a private, time-bound workflow with an audit trail it can stand behind.

Sealed to the committee Statutory timelines tracked Tamper-evident audit trail
THE PROBLEM

Confidentiality and timeliness, the two things spreadsheets get wrong

POSH cases carry two obligations that ordinary tools handle badly: confidentiality and timeliness. A shared drive or email thread leaks, the wrong person sees a folder, a message is forwarded, and the confidentiality the law requires is gone. And with inquiries bound to statutory deadlines, a case that stalls in an inbox becomes a compliance failure as well as a human one.

Committees also have to produce records: the complaint, the statements gathered, the inquiry report, the final order, and evidence that timelines were met. Reconstructing that after the fact, from scattered files, is exactly what you do not want to be doing when it matters.

HOW IT WORKS IN ABSCODE

A confidential case, from complaint to closure

Each complaint is a confidential case that moves through clear stages, visible only to the committee.

STAGE 1 · LOGGED

Logged

The complaint is registered as a confidential case, sealed to the Internal Committee from the moment it is raised.

STAGE 2 · UNDER INQUIRY

Under inquiry

The committee attaches statements and evidence and records the inquiry, with reminders running against the statutory timeline.

STAGE 3 · ACTION

Action

The committee decides the outcome and records the order on the case.

STAGE 4 · CLOSED

Closed

The case is closed and moved to case records, retained and searchable only by those with rights.

Confidential by design

A POSH case is visible only to the committee members you assign. The rest of HR, and everyone else, cannot see the case, or even that it exists. Access is enforced at the case level, and every view and action is written to a tamper-evident log, so if anyone ever asks who saw what and when, you have the answer.

The annual POSH report, on schedule

The Act requires an annual report from the Internal Committee, and a yearly obligation is exactly the kind that is easy to forget until it is late. Abscode can schedule the annual POSH report as a recurring workflow, so it is raised on time each year, tracked to completion and recorded, drawing on the closed cases it needs to summarise.

WHAT IT KEEPS

Every record a POSH file needs, in one place

Each item is captured at the right point in the process and retained to your policy.

The complaint

The original complaint as filed, registered as the confidential case record.

Statements and evidence

Every statement gathered and item of evidence, attached to the case as the inquiry proceeds.

The inquiry report

The committee's inquiry report, held on the case for reference and reporting.

The final order

The decision and order that closes the inquiry, recorded against the case.

Case status and timeline

The stage and status at every point, with the dates that evidence the statutory timeline was met.

Configurable to your policy

Start from the default flow and adjust the stages, the committee membership and the timelines to match your organisation's policy, without code. See how configuration works →

WHY ABSCODE

Built for cases, not folders

The same record model, AI extraction and approval workflows that run the rest of your HR processes, shaped to a confidential case.

Records, not folders

Everything about a case lives in one record. You retrieve by what a document is about, the person, the case, the order, not by remembering which folder someone saved it in.

The system does the data entry

Abscode reads each document, extracts the fields that matter and verifies them against the document type. No manual typing, no transposed numbers, no misfiled paper.

Real approval workflows

Maker-checker, review and sign-off are built in, and every action is written to a complete audit trail you can hand to an auditor.

Pay for usage, not per user

Give your whole committee access. You pay for what you use, storage, activity and AI, not for a seat count that punishes you for growing.

One engine under every case

Abscode DMS is built on a document platform proven at massive scale, billions of records and millions of pages in production.

Built for the POSH Act

The tracker is built for the logging, inquiry and reporting obligations under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. It supports your compliance and readiness, and it is not a substitute for legal advice.

Give your Internal Committee a case file it can stand behind.

Start with the POSH template, or book a demo and we will walk your committee's process through Abscode.

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CONFIGURATION

How configuration works

Adjust stages, approvers, access groups and timelines to your policy, without code.

See how it works →
QUESTIONS?

Frequently asked

Who can see a POSH case?
Only the Internal Committee members you assign. Access is sealed at the case level, and the rest of the organisation cannot see the case exists. Every action is logged.
Does it track statutory timelines?
Yes. Each stage carries a service level with reminders, so inquiries stay within the required window and you can evidence that they did.
Is the audit trail tamper-evident?
Yes. Every view, note and status change is written to an immutable log, so the case history cannot be quietly altered.
Can we run it for a specific location or committee?
Yes. You can assign different committees and configure stages and timelines per your policy.
What happens when a case is closed?
It moves to confidential case records, retained, searchable by those with rights, and available for your annual reporting.