HR software for startups | Sense HR

HR for startups, in 5 minutes.

You've got 8 people, no HR person, and a payroll deadline. Sense HR Professional gives you everything you actually need — set up yourself, in your browser, between two coffees.

Professional — for startups.

Recommended — Professional · £2 per employee / month · Pay £24 a month for an 8-person team. No setup fee. No mandatory training. Self-serve from your laptop. Cancel any month if you outgrow us. Core HR — employee records, documents, org chart, mobile app · Holidays & absence with UK statutory leave (SSP, SMP, SPP) · AMI assistant for HR questions, included in the price · Data loader — import from a CSV, live in hours · Standard integrations — Sage, Xero, BrightPay, Slack, Teams, M365 · 14-day free trial — no credit card to start · Monthly rolling contract — cancel any month.

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If your startup looks like this, Professional is the fit.

Under 50 employees

Most startups on Professional sit between 5 and 50 people. We've seen 100+ run on it too.

Founder or ops-lead doing HR

There's no dedicated HR hire yet. You need the system to do the work, not need training to use.

Office-led, no clocking

Salaried team, hybrid working, no need for hardware clocks or shift scheduling — that's Elite territory.

From sign-up to live in a day.

Self-serve, no implementation call required. Most startups go live in their first afternoon.

1 · Sign up

Minute 0 — Work email, no credit card. You get a real Sense HR tenant in seconds.

2 · Import the team

Minute 10 — Drop a CSV of your team into the data loader. Records, holidays, balances — all populated.

3 · Invite

Hour 1 — Send mobile-app invites to the team. They're onboarded in 2 clicks.

4 · Live

Day 1 — Holidays approve via Slack, payslips flow to the app. You're done.

Common questions at this scale.

Do I need an HR person to run Sense HR?+

No. Professional is built for ops-leads, founders and finance leads running HR as part of their role. AMI handles most of the questions your team will ask. Everything else is self-serve via the training videos.

What if we hit 50 people and need more?+

Easy upgrade to Elite in two clicks. Data, settings and history carry across. Elite adds ATS, screen designer, automate library, AI agents and T&A — the things you start needing past 50 people.

Can we cancel if it doesn't fit?+

Yes. Professional is monthly rolling. Cancel any month, get your data out via the open API or a CSV export. No long contracts at the SMB tier.

Does Sense integrate with our payroll?+

Yes — natively with Sage, Xero and BrightPay. If you're on a different UK provider, the open API covers most setups. We don't lock you into our payroll partners.

How does the 14-day trial work?+

Sign up with your work email. You get a real Sense HR tenant for 14 days — not a demo sandbox. Use the data loader to bring your team in. Decide on day 14. No auto-conversion to paid.

HR for startups, in your browser, today.

14-day free trial. No credit card. From £2 per employee per month with HR, AI and the data loader included.

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