BrightHR vs Employment Hero
Are you wondering if Employment Hero or BrightHR is right for your business?
Well, if you’re looking for an HR solution that delivers real support, UK compliance, and practical tools you’ll actually use day-to-day, BrightHR is the one to beat.
Stay compliant, solve problems fast, and free up your time to focus on what matters—your people.
Join 120,000+ global businesses that choose BrightHR over other providers
Join 120,000+ global businesses that choose BrightHR over other providers
How do BrightHR & Employment Hero Compare?
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Cloud-based HR software | ||
24/7 experienced employment law advice line | ||
Learning Management System with digestible e-learning courses | ||
Free online marketplace with unlimited business advertising | ||
Employee perks | ||
Instant AI question & answer tool for HR, H&S and Payroll | ||
HR document library and easy document sharing | ||
Redundancy Workflows | ||
Advice logs | ||
Recruitment screening tools | ||
HR Insurance (optional add-on) |
*Comparison against the Core package plus 24/7 HR advice, document templates, and optional insurance.
Try BrightHR and feel the difference
Discover how BrightHR can help you manage your people, policies, problems and more—all in one place.
An end-to-end HR solution
Managing your people shouldn’t mean juggling multiple systems. With our all-in-one cloud-based platform, you get HR, payroll and health & safety software that work together seamlessly— so you can focus on your people, not paperwork.
What's more BrightHR is designed to help you overcome your challenges, adapt and succeed with the support of a professional team. Available when you need them!
- Stay on top of HR
- Simply payroll
- Prioritise safety
- One login, zero hassle
- Work smarter not harder
Unlimited 24/7 employment law advice
When tricky situations pop up, it helps to have expert HR advice on hand—day or night. With unlimited access to qualified HR advisors, you’ll never second-guess a decision again.
Support whenever you need it:
- Call us 24/7 for expert advice on any HR or legal issue
- Get guidance that keeps you on the right side of employment law
- Handle disputes, grievances, and disciplinaries with confidence
- Speak to real human advisors, not chatbots or call scripts
Expert HR documents, ready when you are
Need a policy, template, or guide without starting from scratch? Our HR document library gives you instant access to expertly written resources that are fully customisable—and if you need something bespoke, our HR experts can do that too.
- Download policies, contracts and letters in minutes
- Every document is created by HR pros and kept up to date with the latest legislation
- Tailor each template to suit your business needs
- Get the right documents in place without the legal guesswork
Need something unique? Our HR experts can create bespoke documents just for you. Get the right words every time.
Built for every industry, designed for your business
Whether you’re on a building site, in a busy ward, running a school, our platform is built to flex around your world. No matter the sector, we make people management simple—because it’s shaped by the people who use it.
Created with your challenges in mind. Discover how our HR platform helps you manage your people—wherever you work, and however you work.
The BrightHR app for HR on the go
The BrightHR app is hihgly rated across both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store! With a 4.8 and 4.6 rating.
When compared to Employment Hero, users enjoy the continuous software updates they get with BrightHR and the access they have to a wide range of their HR tools with the tap of a button.
Go beyond HR with employee benefits and staff perks
Improve employee experience and company culture by offering staff exclusive perks and discounts.
With the Bright Exchange online marketplace and staff perks platform, not only can you boost your company's advertising but your staff win too!
Unlike Employment Hero, Bright Exchange provides BrightHR clients the chance to get in front of over 1MILLION users with business advertising opportunities.
Make the right choice with a switch guarantee
For peace peace of mind and a seamless transition, we offer our 3-step process for switching.
Convinced and ready to switch to BrightHR from Employment Hero?
Our switch specialists will support you with our switch guarantee. Complete with live data migration support and 8 second response times.
Switching to smart HR has never been easier.
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