HR Software for small businesses

HR software built for small businesses that need to stay compliant, save time, and support their teams.

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Human Resource Software for Small Business Made Simple

When you're a small business, time is precious. You can't afford to waste it on HR admin - you've got to focus on looking after your people, encouraging their development, and achieving your goals.

Breathe takes care of HR for you, letting you manage, pay, and track the development of your people – all from one app with our incredible HR software for small business.

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Breathe's HR software interface showing the holiday calendar with 2 HR pop ups showing 'Leave to approve' and 'Coming up in the next 7 days'
Breathe's HR software interface showing the employee dashboard with an overview of leave, sickness, one-to-ones, objectives, documents and more.

Simple, secure, and hassle-free

It takes just moments to get up and running with Breathe. Simply upload your existing HR data and rest in the knowledge that it's safe and secure in our encrypted servers.

This data – alongside empowering staff self-service features – can be accessed from any device, streamlining your entire HR process. 

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What our customers say about Breathe

‘An awesome HR system’

I love the simplicity of the system.

When we joined in 2013, breatheHR stood out as offering everything a HR department could need, all in one space; since then it has only grown and become even better.

An Administrator Small Business Employee

‘Great system for managing employee holidays - fewer bits of paper too!’

A great first step to using an HR System. Although Breathe HR has lots of really helpful information about how to use the system, everything is fairly intuitive anyway. We are a smallish business with less than 50 staff and very happy with what it provides. Cost effective too. 

Trusted Customer

‘East-to-use, awesome software’

The software is simple and just what we needed in the business, highlights have to be the holiday bookings and calendar and absence reporting.

Alex Small Business Owner
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People Management
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Centralise employee data in an HR database

If you can get online, you can access your HR and personnel data – easily and securely.

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Manage documents

All company and employee documents are securely stored and instantly accessible in our document management software.
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Manage tasks

Automatically generated tasks and email reminders keep you on track with our task management system.
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Self serve your employees

Our self serve software has flexible line manager and employee permissions that simplify your day and encourage team autonomy.
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Manage performance

Promote professional growth, set achievable goals, and recognise good work with our performance management system.
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Manage time

Our time management software enables you to spend your precious time more effectively without weighing the team down with extra processes.
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Upload & update records fast

Amending employee records needn’t be time consuming.
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Manage payroll

Waste less time on payroll admin and export data in a flash with our payroll management software.
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Plan staff holiday

It's simple, our staff holiday booking system has a central holiday calendar, employee self service, and a clear holiday allowance display.
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Manage absence

Easily monitor absence with the manager dashboard, central calendar, and reports functionality in our absence management software.
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Manage sickness

Understand why and when your team members are off ill and be proactive in spotting negative trends.
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Generate HR reports

Spot the trends that really matter with custom reports that show only the information you need in our HR reporting software.
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Integrate easily

Keep your systems coordinated, no matter what other software tools you currently use.

Optional modules

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Track applicants

From start to finish, recruitment is simplified with our user-friendly applicant tracking system.
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Track expenses

Easily manage and track employee expense claims and generate reports to help calculate budgets.
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Online training

Educate and upskill your team with training courses covering GDPR, information security, discrimination and much more.
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Rota management

Simple rota software to help streamline your rota management process and keep everyone in the loop.

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Frequently asked questions

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The HR software built for your business

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