You want your new hires settled and confident from day one, but who’s settling you? That’s what our onboarding software for small businesses is here for.
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Whether you’re a founder, C-Suite or supervising operations, you’re probably the last person to know about choosing your first onboarding software.
But you care about saving time, being efficient and building a credible business, and that’s where Charlie comes in. We handle everything a small business onboarding software should handle, including:
One-click onboarding: employees submit their own details, no chasing required
Self-service system: new hires set themselves up, so you don’t have to
Legally-compliant hiring: full peace of mind with paperwork
Streamlined workflows: a repeatable process that saves you hours every week
End-to-end onboarding: a seamless onboarding from offer letter to first day
Synced databases: all your employee records updated automatically
Manually onboarding each new hire makes your life hard and your processes difficult to scale.
We automate the repetitive tasks that typically take hours: from creating checklists, sending reminders, updating records. Set it up once and never think about it again.
When you’re managing onboarding – often without a dedicated HR team – it’s easy to get caught up in the stress of juggling budgets and winning over stakeholders rather than the excitement.
Charlie has been working with small businesses for a decade, from very small businesses paying as little as £5 per month to growing teams.
Our software is designed for small teams who want real value, transparent pricing, discounts on key services through Charlie Marketplace and free Perks – not an enterprise bill.
You want your new hires, whether it’s a junior or your new CFO, to feel welcome and in professional hands when they start off.
Manual onboarding spreadsheets, long email chains or disconnected docs aren’t a good look, Charlie gives them a smooth onboarding experience so they can hit the ground running.
James Gill, CEO at GoSquared
While your head is in multiple places, we give you everything you need in one place: one software that handles the onboarding admin, compliance and paperwork for you. With Charlie, new hires don’t mean new headaches. Every single one gets the same exciting first day.
Charlie has changed how small teams work and grow, making their HR effortless.
Centralised information: Employee information, documents, and tasks stay in one place instead of lying scattered across shared folders, inboxes, and personal notes.
Visible progress: You can easily see which parts of the onboarding process are complete, what’s still outstanding, and who owns each task.
A more consistent experience: Each new starter gets the same quality process, regardless of which manager they join.
Elliot Brooks, Co-Founder & Director at Thriva
Chasing docs across email chains
Keeping track of spreadsheets and folders
Forgetting steps in the daily chaos
Completing necessary time-consuming admin
Stressing about GDPR and privacy compliance
Feeling worried your onboarding doesn’t look the part
Every document uploaded and tracked
All employee data stored and searchable
Checklists to keep you and your team accountable
Automated admin that takes care of itself
Built-in compliance, handled for you
New hires impressed with the process, ready to be productive
You’ve invested the time to recruit, interview and hire in a crowded job market, so it’s time to invest in a workflow that makes onboarding your new hires as easy and slick as possible.
Don’t just take it from us, but join 3,000+ teams across the UK using our small businesses onboarding software.
We’ve made it so there are only 4 steps between your new hire signing that contract and contributing to your business.
Step 1: You add a new employee to Charlie
Step 2: They receive an invitation, along with an automatically assigned checklist
Step 3: Team members submit their details themselves
Step 4: You track their onboarding progress all in one place
Employee onboarding software is a digital tool that automates and manages the process of bringing new hires into your business – from sending documents and collecting details to tracking progress and staying compliant.
Onboarding software for small businesses is ideal for implementing automated workflows that get new hires up and running faster. It frees up founders and operations managers to focus on the parts of onboarding that matter most – legally and logistically.
Yes, onboarding software is absolutely worth it for small teams – especially if you are short on time, new to HR and want to come across as a credible employer to every new hire. You want them to appreciate your efficiency and focus on hitting the ground running in their new role.
Small business onboarding software saves time by replacing the repetitive and manual admin that is hard to scale and typically falls on founders and operations managers. With Charlie, teams save hours of admin with every hire.
Yes – with the right software, there’s no need to chase new hires for documents, send repetitive emails or manually update spreadsheets. Onboarding software like Charlie replaces all of that with a single, automated workflow that’s consistent and legally compliant every time.
Charlie is designed to be simple to set up, even if you have no HR background. You build your customised onboarding flow once, and Charlie takes care of every new employee from there. No technical expertise required. And if you’d like a walkthrough before you commit, we’re happy to show you around via a free demo.
The best onboarding software for small businesses should handle the admin and workflows that come with every new hire, while helping you build a stable reputation as an employer. That means automated task management, self-serve onboarding, legal compliance, secure document collection and a single place to store and track all your employee data.
Charlie is built for the UK market and is fully GDPR compliant. Charlie has a designated Data Protection Officer, and accountability and privacy are principles designed into both the software and its policies.
Most onboarding software isn’t free, but it doesn’t have to come with an enterprise price tag. Charlie is priced specifically for small businesses, and you can see exactly what’s included and how much it costs via a free demo with our team.
The cost of onboarding software varies depending on the size of your team and the features you need. Charlie starts from £5 per month, built especially for teams of under 30, with transparent pricing, no hidden costs and a 7-day free trial.
Charlie stands out as one of the most affordable onboarding software options available for small businesses. Unlike enterprise HR systems, it’s designed specifically for small teams – so you’re never paying for features you won’t touch.
Charlie is used by 3,000+ teams across the UK because it’s designed specifically for small businesses. It’s intuitive, all-in-one and priced in a way that actually makes sense for teams of under 30.
The sooner you set up your onboarding workflows, the more consistent the experience will be for every new hire that follows – whether you’re bringing on your first junior employee or a senior hire who expects a slick, credible process from day one.
If you’re managing onboarding manually, the admin overhead only grows with every new joiner. Getting set up with Charlie before things get complicated means you’re not scrambling to look the part – you already do. And once you’re set up, you just need to focus on the rest of the onboarding best practices.
Yes – Charlie’s small business onboarding software is designed specifically for founders, operations managers and small teams of fewer than 30 people who handle HR alongside everything else. It automates the admin, compliance and workflows so you don’t need an HR specialist to run your onboarding process.
Even if you hire once or twice a year – or even less regularly – onboarding software is worth it. A process you can rely on matters every time. And the less you hire, the more likely you are to forget the admin steps between hires. That’s why Charlie keeps everything in one place so you never forget your workflow.
With Charlie, the admin side of onboarding can be completed in a matter of hours rather than days. Once your customised workflows are set up, new hires receive everything they need automatically and can complete their own details without you having to chase.
