Employment Hero

RATING:

4.4

(206)

About Employment Hero

Employment Hero is a cloud-based human resource management (HRM) system for small and medium businesses on the up. The solution helps manage the entire employee lifecycle, with modules for recruitment, onboarding, payroll, time and attendance, people management and more. Employment Hero’s features include a suite of up-to-date policies written by employment experts and employee self-service functionality that allows employees to easily request leave, view payslips and timesheets and edit personal or banking information. In regard to recruiting, Employment Hero offers an Applicant Tracking System which can help you post your open role to popular job boards with a single click, easily schedule interviews and move applicants seamlessly through the recruitment process. ...

Employment Hero Pricing

Employment Hero offers 4 price plans: Free: $0 Standard: A$7 per employee/month Premium: A$10 per employee/month Platinum: $14 per employee/month Payroll Standard: A$4 per employee/month Payroll Premium: A$6 per employee/month Add payroll for an extra A$4 per employee/month or add rostering/time & attendance/modern award interpretation for A$2 per employee/month. Prices are in AUD.

Starting price: 

A$8.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

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Employment Hero Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for Employment Hero

1 - 5 of 206 Reviews

William

Financial Services, 51 - 200 employees

Used less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

Reviewed March 2022

Easy to use HR software

User Profile

Suzannah

Verified reviewer

Utilities, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2022

Feature packed software for a HR platform

PROS

I'm pretty pleased with it as a whole. With the HR platform, I can aggregate rules and processes for all staff and rest easy knowing that they comply with all applicable laws. It's an excellent payroll solution. The pay stubs are detailed, removing any uncertainty and ensuring that employees are satisfied. I have no hesitation in recommending the program to any SME entrepreneur looking to run their company more efficiently.

CONS

There are a lot of well-thought-out functions, and the major drawback is the time and expense of custom contracts and policies are likely to be an aspect of the past. The primary issue is that there's no one-click option to navigate back to the application form after seeing or emailing an agreement to a target; instead, you must do another search or switch to the browser.

Vendor Response

Hi Suzannah, Thanks for your review! It's wonderful to hear that you're getting so much value from the platform and that it's providing you with peace of mind in terms of compliance. We're always working to improve the platform, so I've passed on your valuable feedback about navigation to our team. Many thanks, Rosie

Replied September 2022

Ben

Education Management, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2020

Great product

It's been great and now that is in place we haven't looked back, however onboarding was a difficult process

PROS

HR coupled with Payroll covers many boxes that we have to deal with. User-friendly for our team members and the transparency creates confidence across the company. We like the adaptability of the development team and the improvements we've seen over the past two years. As a whole, it has produced efficiencies across the team for payroll & compliance that ahs been well worth the effort.

CONS

We implemented the system in mid-2018. We found at that time that creating payroll rules when you're outside of an award can be very challenging, especially when you have to learn how the categories affect each other and you're trying to mesh everything to existing agreements. The platform could do with information links for each step that detail the exact impact of changing each rule. Sometimes a change could create a cascade of unintended consequences (this may have changed). If we had to go back fix something now, we'd have to relearn why certain things were done.

Reasons for switching to Employment Hero

We moved from Xero for our payroll operations as the need for a complete payroll system was clear.

Vendor Response

Hi Ben, Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences with Employment Hero. Having been using the platform for almost two years, your feedback is great to see and we're glad to hear your employees find the platform easy to use. Improving transparency and efficiencies are great wins! Thank you also for your feedback regarding setting up your own payroll rules. You now have first-hand experience into how complicated the modern award system is - so many variables that affect one another! Your suggestion for warnings is great and I've passed it on to our product team. Have a lovely day, The Team at Employment Hero

Replied February 2020

Kim

Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

2

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed January 2021

Think twice.

If a seamless user experience and reliable software that's easy to use is important to you, do not choose Employment Hero. It has been working OK (just) since ironing out most of the problems but not work the time and money to get to this stage. The HR and Payroll software are clearly sold separately because the look and feel is different and you need to instruct managers to perform actions in one platform, despite being able to do it in another, causing confusion.

PROS

The ability for employees to update their own personal information. Contract templates are helpful for those who don't have an internal legal or large HR department.

CONS

The integration between the two products - HR and payroll is awful. They often don't communicate with each other seamlessly and you are required to learn by trial and error due to the poor deployment processes and cumbersome workflow regarding setup. Customer Service is helpful most of the time but you will be passed through numerous people who do not explain the fundamental use of all the features. Too much emphasis is on knowing the hundreds of pages of instructions and features. Timekeeping apps (Clock Me In/Workzone) are simply terrible.

Reasons for switching to Employment Hero

To have all HR, rostering and payroll in one place.

Vendor Response

Hi Kim, Thank your for your feedback. We're sorry to hear that your experience with Employment Hero hasn't been as seamless as we'd like it to be. We'll be reaching out directly to reach a resolution and hope that we can get things back on track. Thank you again, Anna from Employment Hero

Replied February 2021

Michelle

Automotive, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2023

The BEST HR and Payroll platform

We implemented the Platinum model and it comes with everything you need. We are purely a digital now - gone are the paper-based days of people records.

PROS

Employment Hero is the whole 'kitchen sink' and more. The ease at which you get things done is impressive.

CONS

On the Organisation Employee List, 'pending' employees are shown. It would be ideal if you could choose whether the candidate is 'pending' or 'active' because some of our recruitment is highly confidential.

Reason for choosing Employment Hero

Customer Service. I asked for the pricing of the different models and received it straight away.

Vendor Response

Hi Michelle, Thanks so much for your kind words! It's wonderful to hear that Employment Hero has completely digitised your HR and admin processes. Your support means the world to us. Many thanks, Rosie

Replied May 2023