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Last updated: January 2026

hireful overview

What is hireful?

hireful is a UK-based Applicant Tracking System (ATS) designed for businesses on a budget—especially those with small HR teams or standalone HR professionals. We simplify recruitment with smart features and expert support to help you hire smarter, faster, and fairer:

- Forever free diversity tools: Available on all plans, our D&I features include anonymised applicant data, enhanced diversity data capturing, diversity benchmarking and ratio dashboards, disability-confident application highlighting, an accessibility suite (AccessiBe), and careers site translation tools to support inclusive hiring.

- Right-to-work verifications: Automate compliance checks with TrustID integration to ensure you meet immigration requirements effortlessly.

- Insights dashboards: Monitor forgotten applicants, assess and compare agency performance, and analyse post-interview metrics to refine your hiring strategy.

- Custom careers site: Stand out with a tailored platform that reflects your employer brand.

- Onboarding portal: Simplify and personalise onboarding with a customisable, branded hub for HR teams and new hires. Assign workflows, track task completion in real-time, and deliver a seamless onboarding experience.

- Recruitment success programme: Unlock your recruitment performance with customised training modules, delivered by an expert team equipped to help you achieve your hiring goals.

- UK-based support team: Get expert, responsive help whenever you need it, with fast response times and dedicated support that you can count on.

hireful is perfect for businesses with limited resources, particularly those with small HR teams or standalone HR professionals.

Whether you’re a start-up, charity, or growing company, hireful helps businesses on a budget overcome recruitment challenges and streamline their hiring process.

With all-inclusive tools for diversity, compliance, and talent management, you can hire smarter and fairer without the extra cost. Our responsive, friendly UK-based support team ensures you're always supported throughout your recruitment journey.

Key benefits of using hireful

- Forever free diversity tools: Available on all plans, our D&I features include anonymised applicant data, enhanced diversity data capturing, diversity benchmarking and ratio dashboards, disability-confident application highlighting, an accessibility suite (AccessiBe), and careers site translation tools to support inclusive hiring.

- Right-to-work verifications: Automate compliance checks with TrustID integration to ensure you meet immigration requirements effortlessly.

- Insights dashboards: Monitor forgotten applicants, assess and compare agency performance, and analyse post-interview metrics to refine your hiring strategy.

- Custom careers site: Stand out with a tailored platform that reflects your employer brand.

- Onboarding portal: Simplify and personalise onboarding with a customisable, branded hub for HR teams and new hires. Assign workflows, track task completion in real-time, and deliver a seamless onboarding experience.

- Recruitment success programme: Unlock your recruitment performance with customised training modules, delivered by an expert team equipped to help you achieve your hiring goals.

- UK-based support team: Get expert, responsive help whenever you need it, with fast response times and dedicated support that you can count on.

Starting price

2450flat rate /
per year

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hireful’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

hireful reviews

Overall rating

4.6

/5

47

Positive reviews

96

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9.17/10
Rating distribution

5

4

3

2

1

33

12

1

0

1

Pros
“From the very start it has been easy to use, the team are very helpful and friendly. Free webinars which have been very informative.”
LP

Lynne P.

HR Manager

“We have a brilliant [sensitive content hidden. Its easy to use , candidates love it and its transformed our recruitment process.”
SW

Sarah W.

HR and Recruitment Manager

“Great customer support and quick responses to requests for help or changes. Easy Web ATS has definitely improved our recruitment process and candidate experience.”
JW

Jeremy W.

Human Resources Lead

Cons
“We also seem to have continuing issues with a time lag in the feed to the Indeed job board, although I suspect this is more a challenge for Indeed than it is for Hireful.”
LF

Laurence F.

People Business Partner

“Extremely frustrating, the system itself and the staff.”

Verified reviewer

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“I struggled a little with the interview booking part of the system but that was more user error than anything.”
RB

Robert B.

Director

Who uses hireful?

Based on 47 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Nonprofit Organization Management
Financial Services
Hospital & Health Care
Human Resources
Others

Use cases

Recruiting
Applicant Tracking
Job Board

hireful's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from hireful users:

Job posting
Applicant tracking
Application management
Resume search
Communication management
Candidate tracking

All hireful features

Features rating:

Workflow management
Interview scheduling
Email templates
Customizable templates
Reporting & statistics
Candidate profiles
Candidate management
Job management
Interview management
Resume storage
Third-Party integrations
Calendar management
Resume database
Resume parsing
Talent pool
Searchable database
Onboarding
Pipeline management
Process/Workflow automation
Tagging
Real-Time reporting
Recruiting firms
Referral tracking
Social recruiting
Reminders
Social media integration
Reporting/Analytics
Search/Filter
Scoring
Activity dashboard
Activity tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Approval workflow
Assessment management
Background screening
Candidate sourcing
Careers page
Collaboration tools
Commenting/Notes
Compliance management
Compliance tracking
Customizable branding
Customizable reports
Data import/export
Discount management
Email management
For small businesses
Full text search
GDPR compliance
Job board

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hireful pricing

Value for money rating:

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
Free trial
Subscription

Go

2,450

Per year

Features included:

  • Publish to indeed / job centre etc.
  • Bespoke application form
  • Indeed easy apply
  • Publish to additional uk job boards
  • Careers page or RSS feed
  • Post to social media
  • Hiring manager portal
  • Recruitment agency portal
  • Job alerts
  • Candidate location and commute on Google Maps
  • SSO integration
  • Bespoke recruitment workflow
  • Candidate search
  • Advanced candidate search
  • MI reports
  • Recruitment skills centre
  • Accessibility suite for recruiters & hiring managers
  • Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
  • Job and candidate search
  • CV and application form anonymisation
  • Disability confident application highlighting
  • Applicant diversity benchmarking
  • Diversity dashboard
  • Disability confident scheme compliance
  • Enhanced diversity data capture
  • Technical support - phone and email
  • System training

Grow

6,125

Per year

Features included:

  • All the features in the Go plan
  • Internal recruitment module
  • Self service interviews
  • Applicant scoring
  • Microsoft Teams integration
  • Microsoft Outlook interview availability checker (coming soon)
  • Disability confident application highlighting
  • Recruitment success - 1 module per year
  • Technical support - live chat
  • Customer success support

Pro

7,355

Per year

Features included:

  • All features in Go and Grow
  • Up to 10 application forms
  • Vacancy approval module
  • Automatic talent pooling
  • Delayed auto emails
  • Recruitment success - 2 modules per year
  • Bespoke reports
  • Bespoke dashboards
  • Custom fields
  • Onsite system training

Hero

9,840

Per year

Features included:

  • All features in Go, Grow & Pro
  • Recruitment success - unlimited access
  • Recruitment audit
  • Candidate surveys
  • 'Candidate experience for hiring managers' workshop
  • Early access to new features
  • Multi-page bespoke careers site
  • Accessibility suite for candidate facing pages
  • HRIS integration
  • Digital RTW Checks
  • Document Signing

User opinions about hireful price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of hireful's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“From the very start it has been easy to use, the team are very helpful and friendly. Free webinars which have been very informative.”
LP

Lynne P.

HR Manager

“We have a brilliant [sensitive content hidden. Its easy to use , candidates love it and its transformed our recruitment process.”
SW

Sarah W.

HR and Recruitment Manager

hireful integrations (34)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 47 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as hireful integrations and how users feel about them.

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Breathe

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

Integration rating: 3.0 (1)

Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

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IRIS Cascade

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

hireful support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Knowledge Base
Phone Support
Email/Help Desk
Chat

Training options

Webinars
Videos
Live Online
In Person
Documentation

hireful FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does hireful offer?

hireful has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: £2450.00/year
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. Who are the typical users of hireful?

hireful has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Small Business


Q. What languages does hireful support?

hireful supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does hireful offer an API?

No, hireful does not have an API available.


Q. What other apps does hireful integrate with?

hireful integrates with the following applications:
LinkedIn Jobs, Access PeopleHR, Microsoft Outlook, HealthBoxHR, Activ People HR, HiBob, Fourth, Indeed for Employers, iTrent, UKG Pro, Factorial, Gmail, Cezanne HR, Personio, ELMO Software, Namely, Twitter/X, Ovivio, Payfit, BambooHR, Youmanage, Staffology HR, StaffSavvy, Glassdoor, Meta for Business, Bamboo, Ciphr, Google Meet, Humaans, Webonboarding, Google Maps, Breathe, IRIS Cascade, Myhrtoolkit


Q. What level of support does hireful offer?

hireful offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Email/Help Desk, Chat

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