HR Software for companies who hire busy, hands-on workers

Yes. On the Team plan, your Sense HR site is ready in minutes, with sample data loaded and everything switched on. You can import all your staff from a spreadsheet in one go. There is nothing to configure before you start.

Yes. Sense HR covers everything an office HR team needs, including employee records, holidays and absence, documents and e-signatures, onboarding, performance reviews and reports. It also works for staff who don't sit at a desk, so it suits offices, sites or a mix of both.

No. Sense HR is built to include people who don't sit at a desk, but most of what it does is standard HR that every business needs. Office teams use the same records, holiday booking, documents and reports. Time clocks and hardware are extras you add only if you need them.

No. The Sense HR Team plan is fixed and ready to use, so there are no settings to work out. It is built for smaller, simpler HR needs and you can run it yourself. If you later want it to fit your own processes, you can move up to Elite and keep all your data.

On the Team plan, you sign up, import your staff and start using Sense HR straight away. There is no setup project. On Elite and Enterprise, a UK implementation specialist sets it up for you, and typical go-live is 2–4 weeks.

No. The Team plan comes ready to use, with standard screens and workflows already in place. Elite can be changed to fit how you work, and a Sense HR implementation specialist does that setup for you, so your team doesn't have to.

No. Sense HR runs in your web browser and on a mobile app, so there is nothing to install. The Sense Clock connects over mobile data, so it doesn't need wifi or IT setup either.

No. Hardware is optional. Staff can book holidays, see their documents and clock in on the Sense HR mobile app. You only need a Sense Clock if you want a wall-mounted clock on site.

Yes. On the Team plan, you import your staff from a spreadsheet in bulk, or add a few by hand. On Elite and Enterprise, the Sense HR UK implementation team moves your data from your current system for you, with no setup fee.

Yes. Sense HR offers a free 14-day trial of the Team plan, with no card needed. The trial covers Team features only, so if you want to see Elite or Enterprise tools, such as the AI agents, book a demo instead.

Sense HR starts from £2 per person per month on the Team plan, with a minimum of 10 employees, so a 10-person team pays £20 a month. There is no long-term contract. Elite and Enterprise are also priced per employee per month, and the Sense HR team quotes them for you, because the price depends on your company's size and setup.

The Sense HR Team plan covers everyday HR on fixed screens that are ready to use, so you can run it yourself. Elite adds custom fields and screens, timesheets, deeper reporting, workflow automation and the AI agents, so Sense HR fits the way you work. Enterprise adds custom workflows, an open API and a dedicated account manager for larger or more complex organisations.

Not for the Sense HR Team plan. You can start a free trial and sign up without speaking to anyone. For Elite and Enterprise, you talk to the Sense HR team first, because pricing and onboarding are tailored to your organisation.

Yes. The Sense HR Team plan is made for smaller businesses with simpler HR needs, and there is no long-term contract. As you grow, you can move to Elite or Enterprise for more configuration and the AI agents.

Sense HR includes employee records, documents and e-signatures, holidays and absence, onboarding, time and attendance, recruitment and a library of HR workflows. The Elite and Enterprise plans also include AI agents.

Yes. Sense HR handles holiday booking and entitlements, TOIL, sickness, fit notes, return-to-work steps and your own custom leave types.

Yes. You can store unlimited contracts, policies and letters in Sense HR, and see who has received and signed each one.

Sense HR onboarding includes onboarding workflows you can tailor, and a pre-boarding area where new starters can log in before their first day.

Yes. Sense HR is built to include people without a company laptop, a fixed desk or easy access to a phone. For example, staff can clock in on a wall-mounted Sense Clock instead of an app.

AMI (Agent Management Interface) is the AI assistant in Sense HR. You ask it something in plain English, and it passes the request to the specialist AI agent that can do the job, so you don't need to know which one to use.

No. AMI and the specialist AI agents are included on the Sense HR Elite and Enterprise plans, not on the Team plan.

Each Sense HR AI agent does one named job. For example, Quizzy screens and ranks job applicants, Counsel answers HR questions using your own policies, Payslip Sorter files bulk payslips to the right employee records, and Snappy turns a photo of a receipt into an expense claim.

Sense HR has more than 10 AI agents. They cover recruitment screening, sending documents, sorting payroll documents, expense claims, attendance checks, reporting and tasks, and AMI coordinates them all.

Yes, for decisions that matter. In Sense HR, Quizzy ranks candidates but the hiring manager decides, and Snappy prepares an expense claim but a person approves it. The agents take away repetitive admin, not human sign-off.

A chatbot answers questions. An AI agent, like the ones in Sense HR, can also do the next step, such as screening an application or filing a payslip, usually with a person checking the result.

The Sense Clock is a wall-mounted clock, made only for Sense HR, that staff use to clock in and out on site. It connects over mobile data instead of wifi, and sends attendance straight into Sense HR for timesheets and payroll.

No. The Sense Clock has a mobile connection built in, and the Sense HR team checks your site's signal before you buy, so there's no wifi setup or IT project.

Staff can clock in and out on the Sense HR mobile app, on a Sense Clock, or with biometric methods such as fingerprint. Each team or site can use the method that suits it, and they all feed the same system.

Yes. Sense HR checks timesheets and attendance for problems, such as missing hours or unusual patterns, before they reach payroll, so you can fix them before anyone is paid.

No. The Sense Clock works alongside the Sense HR mobile app. Each site or team can use whichever clocking method suits them, and everything goes into one system.

Yes. In Sense HR you can publish vacancies, track applications, screen and rank candidates, build shortlists and hire, all in one place.

Yes. Sense HR's Quizzy agent screens applications against your criteria and ranks the candidates. The hiring manager still makes the final decision.

Sense HR posts your vacancies to job boards such as Indeed, and to your own branded careers site.

Yes. Sense HR includes right-to-work checks at the offer stage of the recruitment pipeline.

The new starter moves straight from recruitment into Sense HR for onboarding, so nobody types their details in again.

Yes. Sense HR is UK-hosted, ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant.

No. Customer HR data is never used to train AI models.

Sense HR uses role-based permissions, so employees, managers and HR admins only see the data they need. The Elite and Enterprise plans add more detailed access controls for larger organisations.

Yes. Sense HR supports Microsoft and Google single sign-on, plus multi-factor authentication.

HR software stores employee records and handles HR tasks such as holiday booking, onboarding, document sign-off and payroll data, instead of spreadsheets, paper forms or email. Many HR systems, including Sense HR, also cover recruitment and use AI to take on admin.

Not by law. Many small businesses start using HR software once tracking staff by hand becomes slow or error-prone, often at around 10 to 20 employees. Businesses with staff who don't work at a desk often need it sooner, to keep records consistent for everyone.

The terms are often used to mean the same thing. An HRIS is strictly the core system of employee records, while HR software is broader and can include recruitment, time tracking and automation. Sense HR is HR software in that broader sense.

Most HR software is priced per employee or as a flat fee. Per-employee prices can rise quickly as you grow. A banded fee, like the Sense HR Team plan priced in blocks of 10 employees, only goes up when you move into the next band.

A clocking-in system records exactly when each employee starts and finishes work, using a device, an app or a scan, so hours reach payroll without anyone typing up timesheets. It makes sure pay matches the hours actually worked, especially across several sites or shifts. Sense HR includes clocking in on its mobile app and the Sense Clock.

Yes. AI agents, like the ones in Sense HR, can screen job applications, sort and file payroll documents, turn a receipt photo into an expense claim and flag attendance problems. They take on repetitive tasks, while people still make the final decisions.

They need HR tools that don't assume everyone has a laptop or sits at a desk, such as a physical clock-in device instead of an app only, and onboarding that doesn't depend on a computer. Sense HR works for office teams and for people who don't sit at a desk.