Employment Hero

Employment Hero publishes a UK rate card rather than quoting privately: HR Essentials is £4/emp/mo and HR Engage is £7 per user per month. It enforces a 10-user minimum, so a team of 10 or fewer pays £40/mo regardless of actual headcount, and the bill only climbs once you pass 10 employees. The two upper tiers, HR Elite and Unlimited, publish no price and are sold through sales.

Yes. Employment Hero includes native UK PAYE payroll, and pension auto-enrolment is handled within that same payroll engine. This means HR records, leave, and payroll calculations sit in one system rather than needing a separate payroll integration, which is a meaningful advantage for UK SMBs that want a single vendor for both.

No. Employment Hero was founded in Sydney and is now widely used by UK employers. It has built a genuinely native UK PAYE payroll engine and dedicated UK employment law coverage rather than simply localising the product it started with. UK employment law support and right to work checks are both rated as supported, and GDPR compliance is confirmed.

Employment Hero includes a native AI layer called Hero AI, with a recruitment-focused feature called SmartMatch built into the platform. Connecting Employment Hero to external AI agents or automation platforms currently runs through third-party tools such as Zapier rather than a first-party MCP integration.

Employment Hero connects natively with Xero, QuickBooks, and Sage, covering the main accounting platforms used by UK small businesses. Combined with native UK payroll, this gives a reasonably complete data chain from HR record through payroll run to the books, without a third-party integration layer in between.

Yes. Employment Hero's target market is described as growing UK SMBs that want HR and native payroll combined, and it does not require a long-term contract. For a UK business that wants to avoid running separate HR and payroll systems, Employment Hero's combination of the two in one product is the main selling point.