SenseHR - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Sense HR is UK-built HR software for companies that employ busy, hands-on workers: the people on the shop floor, in the warehouse, on the road, on site or on shift, who don’t sit at desks, don’t have a company laptop and sometimes can’t use a phone at work. It brings HR admin, recruitment and time and attendance into one system, so the office, the factory and the field all run on the same records. More than 1,000 UK companies use Sense HR across manufacturing, warehouse and logistics, care, retail, hospitality, construction, cleaning and facilities, security and field service.

Core HR

Keep every employee record, contract and document in one place, with custom fields, templates and e-signatures. Onboarding runs from pre-boarding through day one to day 90, with a welcome lounge for new starters. Holidays and absence handle booking and approval routing, entitlements, pro-rata, TOIL, carry-over and custom leave types, plus sickness, fit notes, return-to-work interviews, absence heatmaps and automatic Bradford Factor scores. Performance tools cover probation, appraisals, 360 feedback and 1-to-1s with reminders. Custom reports, screens and role-based permissions let you shape the system around how your business works.

Recruitment (ATS)

Publish vacancies to job boards such as Indeed and to your own branded careers site, manage pipelines, rank and shortlist candidates, send offers and run right-to-work checks through TrustID. When someone is hired, they move straight into Sense HR as a new starter, with no re-keying.

Time and attendance

Set work patterns for individuals or teams, including part-time, nights and split shifts. Staff clock in through the Sense Clock wall terminal, the mobile app, face or fingerprint recognition, an ID tap or Sense AutoClock. Each hour is checked against zones and location, with rules for breaks, lateness and overtime, and flags for late arrivals and no-shows. Approved hours go to payroll, so you pay for the hours really worked.

Workforce safety

For people working alone or on large sites, Sense supports lone worker safety, SOS and hard fall alerts through the wearable Sense Badge, and live fire and evacuation roll calls.

Workflows and automation

A library of 100+ ready-made workflows covers new starters, leavers, probation reviews, holiday requests, fit notes, return to work, training and right-to-work expiry reminders, absence triggers and missed clock-ins. A no-code Workflow Builder lets you create your own.

AI assistant and agents

AMI is the built-in AI assistant. Ask in plain English and AMI answers directly or hands the job to a specialist agent. Agents screen and rank applicants, flag attendance issues such as missing clock-ins and unusual overtime, file bulk payslips and P60s against the right employee, turn receipt photos into expense claims, build reports, chase tasks, send documents and give 24/7 HR guidance based on your own policies and UK employment law. Agents prepare the work and a person makes the decision. Customer HR data is never used to train AI models.

Integrations

Sense HR connects natively with Sage, Xero and BrightPay payroll, and offers 50+ pre-built connectors, including Microsoft 365, Google and Outlook calendars, Slack, Microsoft Teams, TrustID and rota tools. An open API with webhooks, plus Zapier, Make and n8n, covers everything else. Microsoft and Google SSO and MFA keep sign-in secure.

Self-service for every worker

Employees can request holidays, check shifts, clock in, complete forms and training, and take part in reviews from a phone, laptop, shared kiosk or badge, so the whole workforce is included, not just the office.

Security, support and setup

Sense HR is ISO 27001 certified, hosted in UK data centres that comply with GDPR, and backed by UK-based support. Typical go-live takes 2 to 4 weeks, and plans are priced by company size, from small teams to large, multi-site organisations.