People management, made simple.
The whole of HR in one platform. Less time on admin, more time looking after your people.
Everything your HR team needs, in one place.
Capabilities grouped the way an HR week actually runs — the everyday admin, the people development, the compliance you have to evidence, and the pay that follows from all of it.
The admin that eats your week, handled.
The records, requests and first days every employer has to get right — kept current without anyone chasing a spreadsheet.
- Employee records
- Contracts, personal details, documents, job-title history and salary history — one current record per person, rather than a folder and three spreadsheets.
- Leave & absence
- Staff book their own time off. HR and managers can log leave after the fact too — including sick leave with no end date yet, pushed out as it becomes clear.
- Onboarding
- A repeatable checklist that carries a new joiner from offer to first day — tasks, documents and introductions, always in the same order.
From company strategy down to one person's year.
Objectives that connect the boardroom to the individual, and an appraisal that arrives at a rating by arithmetic rather than instinct.
- Strategy that reaches the front line
- Set company pillars, break them into headline objectives, then department objectives — and individual goals roll their progress back up automatically.
- Appraisals that score themselves
- Every objective is scored 0–5 by the department manager, and the overall rating and performance band are calculated from those scores — then signed off.
- Quarterly reviews
- Structured check-ins against live objectives through the year, so a problem surfaces in month three rather than month eleven.
- A cycle that fits your year
- Set the month your appraisal cycle starts and the quarterly review points follow automatically, three months apart — April by default, or whenever your year actually begins.
Evidence you're compliant — not just a promise.
The things an inspector, an auditor or a tribunal will ask you to show, recorded as they happen rather than reconstructed afterwards.
- Policies people have actually read
- Version and publish each policy, then set a comprehension quiz — drafted for you from the policy itself. A tick box proves someone clicked; a quiz they had to pass proves they read it.
- Training & renewals
- Mandatory courses and certifications tracked per person, with renewals visible before they lapse instead of after.
- Reporting you can hand over
- Leave, performance bands, training and policy sign-off across the organisation — every report automatically scoped so a line manager only ever sees their own people.
| Course | Completed | Issues | Missing | Compliance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safeguarding Adults | 42 | 0 | 0 | 100% |
| Fire Safety | 39 | 2 | 1 | 93% |
| Manual Handling | 41 | 1 | 0 | 98% |
| Medication Awareness | 36 | 3 | 3 | 86% |
Absence, claims and pay that reconcile themselves.
The chain most HR tools drop halfway — from someone going off sick to the right figure landing on the payroll run.
- Return-to-work interviews
- Sick leave ending prompts a return-to-work interview, and the pay decision made in it — SSP, unpaid, or split between the two — becomes a payroll adjustment, with HR review before a manager's choice reaches payroll.
- Expense & mileage claims
- Mileage with MileIQ reports attached, plus overtime, call-out and phone cover — submitted by staff, approved with a comment, totalled by pay period.
- Payroll data & adjustments
- Salary, tax code, pension contributions and bank details per employee, plus the month's adjustments and approved claims — exported as a summary your payroll provider can work straight from.
Made for the people who keep an SME running.
Agora HR is shaped around the pressures HR teams and owners actually face — staying compliant, supporting staff and keeping the day-to-day running smoothly.
Built for the UK SME
Shaped around how an SME actually runs — no enterprise bloat, no modules you'll never switch on, no implementation project before anyone can book a day off.
One system instead of five
Records, objectives, policy, claims and payroll data share the same place, so nothing has to be re-keyed between tools — and nothing quietly disagrees with itself.
Evidence on the day you're asked
Acknowledgements, scores, renewals and approvals are recorded as they happen, each with a name and a date against it. Producing evidence becomes a search, not a reconstruction.
Security you can stand behind
Role-based access down to department level, automatic session timeout and a clear approval trail — the right people see the right things, and nothing sits open on a shared screen.
Everyone gets their own Agora.
The same system looks different depending on who signs in. Your team handles its own requests and records; HR keeps the full picture. Nobody has to wade through menus that were never meant for them.
What your team sees
Ten things they can do for themselves — book leave, read a policy, submit a claim, check their objectives — without emailing HR to ask.
What HR and admins see
The whole organisation: every record, approval, report and setting — with line managers automatically scoped to just their own people.
The right people. The right records. Nothing left open.
Security is woven through every record, role and session — not bolted on at the end.
Role-based access
From employee to line manager, department manager, HR and admin — every report, record and approval is scoped to what that role, and that department, is allowed to see.
Automatic session timeout
Idle sessions close themselves, with a 60-second warning first — so nothing sensitive sits open on a shared or hot-desk machine.
GDPR-aligned by design
Records, retention and access logs structured around UK data protection expectations, with a name and a date against every approval.
See Agora HR in action.
Book a personalised walkthrough with our team. We'll shape it around your team, your workflows and the things you'd most like to simplify.
No obligation. We'll never share your details.