Small business onboarding software has four jobs and a trial should test each on one real hire. Chase every line of the checklist to the person who owns it, with a date. Get the contract and the handbook signed online and hold the signed versions against the hire. Record what the hire was trained on and by whom. Book the thirty-day review before day one ends. The onboarding checklist on this site prints the lines, free and without an account; the onboarding software guide covers the category; prices are cited below.
Chase
The checklist's lines assigned and chased until done, visible to the owner as done or overdue. Without the chase the software is a list. On the trial, assign a line to someone who is away and see whether anyone is told; that is the chase, and it is the feature that gets a hire's paperwork done.
Sign and hold
The employee contract tool and the employee handbook template on this site print the documents; the software signs and keeps them with the date. The handbook acknowledgment is the one to check on the trial.
Record and book
Training recorded against the hire; the review booked with the reminder set; the review template on this site prints the form. The training record is what an insurer asks for after an incident, and the booked review is what stops the first month drifting into the third.
The price
From the vendors' own pricing pages, cited below: Homebase lists its Essentials plan at $30 per location per month billed monthly or $24 billed annually, with unlimited employees, and a Basic plan at $0 for one location with up to 10 employees; BambooHR starts at $10 per employee per month for Core and $17 for Pro; Deputy's Core plan is $6.50 per user per month. HeadcountDesk Pro is $24 per month per location.
Questions people ask about small business onboarding software
What size of business needs this?
One where a hire's paperwork has been found missing once; the free tools cover the rest.
Can it onboard contractors too?
The lines differ; the timesheet invoice tool on this site is the contractor's document.
Is the checklist free?
Yes, without an account.