Bram Kanstein (@bramk)

CharlieHR - The HR software for small and medium sized businesses.

Charlie is an online HR software for SME's. We believe that building a business is hard, so running one shouldn't be. When you’re working hard to bring your ideas to life, your first priority should be your team, not your admin. We created CharlieHR to solve the challenges that we faced while starting our own businesses.

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Richard Mabey
Beautiful product - we've used Charlie at Juro.io since we started and loved every minute. What next for you guys?
Rob O'Donovan
@rmabey Thanks Richard - we love you guys too! Next up is richer functionality on our existing feature set, a focus on ensuring the product is seamless whatever country you're based in, and more tools for founders and HR folks to really help them understand and look after their people. Excited to show you guys 😃
Matt Buckland
We use CharlieHR at Lyst and moved to it from another platform that cost the business upwards of $1000 a month. Not only does Charlie have the same features but they are better implemented and more reliable than the competitors. We use Charlie for on-boarding, holiday and absence management and a data store for employee information - it does all of these things excellently. There's a horrible trent in HR technology to try and "do all of the things" which results in badly implemented features copied from existing software. Charlie represents a major step away from the normal style of HRIS and towards a contemporary, user centric approach - when was the last time you heard people say they enjoyed interacting with HR software? CharlieHR has done that for us and is totally deserving of it's success.
Rob O'Donovan
@elsatanico Thanks Matt! Thrilled and humbled by your comments... you can be sure we'll do our absolute best to continue to live up to them 🤗
Gareth K Thomas
I've been using this for a while and I'm very keen to switch over to them for my businesses. The product is great, and the team are very keen to listen to users. They seem genuinely interested in solving real problems, which sounds simple but is actually quite refreshing! Best of luck to you all. Great to see you on PH.
Tom Carrington Smith
@garethkthomas Thanks Gareth! If you need a hand switching just drop us an email - team@charliehr.com 👊
Parker Woodward
Does this work for US companies?
Tom Carrington Smith
@parkerwoodward Hi Parker, we have some fun stuff in the pipeline.... Want to email me directly and I can tell more - tom@charliehr.com
Dhruv Agrawal

We rate trust higher than anything. It doesn't take much to run a few servers for small startups using some basic features. It isn't like they were taking feature requests from free customers and that's okay. But, for companies it is an additional effort to move the data out to any other open source or free software. Wouldn't have opted for it if it was mentioned earlier that they take promises lightly.

Pros:

It has basic functionality that is required for a startup

Cons:

Went back on their words of keeping it free, forcing people to pay now. Having invested a lot of effort on it, it's a very bad experience

Rob O'Donovan
Hi Dhruv. I appreciate your frustration and I'm really sorry this has affected you. We made a mistake, and decided that the most important thing was to accept that and do whatever is required to build the best software for our customers, even if some of them have to pay for it. Let me know if I can help with anything. I'm on rob@charliehr.com
Sarah Maya Rainford

I have used Charlie for 3 years now and it's brilliant. It's great to have everything all in one place and streamline our agency's HR. Great customer service team always taking on our feedback!

Pros:

Easy to use, great functionality and customer support

Cons:

n/a

Rob O'Donovan
Thanks Sarah! Please let us know if we can ever help 😃
Erez Agami ארז אגמי

I have been using it for the last few months and it has been a lot easier to use and helpful than previous HR software i've used.

It can help you get to know people in different teams, book holiday, sick days etc.

I really like the look and feel as well, feels friendly not overly corporate!

Pros:

Really user friendly, looks slick!

Cons:

Can't see any!

Rob O'Donovan
Thanks Erez! Please let us know if we can ever help 😃
Paddy Smith

Found it really helpful for reviewing, tracking and submitting holidays for large teams, and Slack integrations help me understand who is working and where. Also super helpful for storing docs like handbooks and internal processes.

Pros:

Super easy to navigate, v helpful for keeping track of team members.

Cons:

Not really had any.

Rob O'Donovan
Thanks Paddy! Please let us know if we can ever help 😃
Sam Telford

I've been using CharlieHR for around 9 months now and find in invaluable.

Pros:

Really easy to use and navigate, really good value for money, responds quickly to any questions you may have.

Cons:

Can't really think of any!

Rob O'Donovan
Thanks Sam! Please let us know if we can ever help 😃
Chris Underdown
Woop woop! I've been using CharlieHR for sometime, I'm surprised it hasn't already been hunted to be honest. Great product 😊
Rob O'Donovan
@chrisunderdown Cheers Chris, much appreciated and glad you like the product! 👌