
BrightHR
★★★★★ 4.8 · 100 Reviews
What is BrightHR?
Transform your people management with the market-leading HR software system, BrightHR. Our HR software solution is ideal for small businesses, major corporations, and all enterprises in between. Utilise our cloud based HR system to effortlessly manage your staff holidays, overtime, sickness, and lateness in a simple click! BrightHR is a digital HR manager assisting companies with all aspects of people management. The software is easy to navigate, combining payroll and human resources in one convenient package. We also offer our customers access to BrightAdvice, a direct line to a team of qualified employment law experts who provide advice that’s clear, practical, and jargon-free. Additionally, the platform includes a library of HR document templates that will help your company perfect their policies with health and safety in mind. BrightHR also provides end-to-end management support, from the initial talent search with our Turbo Talent Navigator, to helping manage employees and handling difficult decisions, such as dismissals. Your staff will have access to BrightHR’s Employee Assistance Programme: a helpline and live-chat function where employees can speal to experienced in-house counsellors. With our 24/7, 365 EAP, you can raise your retention rates, lower staff burnout and strengthen your employee relationship management. In addition to these award-winning people management features, we also offer a health & safety software. BrightSafe helps ensure compliance with regulations. Users can create and manage risk assessments, record any accidents in the workplace, carry out investigations and access a range of CPD and RoSPA accredited e-learning courses. A further feature of our HR software system is Bright Exchange: a platform where you can benefit from free advertising to an audience of 1 million consumers and offer your staff discounts to boost staff engagement and morale.
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BrightHR Reviews (100)
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Review Summary
Generated using AI from real user reviews
BrightHR receives overwhelmingly positive feedback, with users consistently praising the platform's ease of use and the quality of onboarding support. The system is seen as a significant step up from paper-based processes, with particular appreciation for how it streamlines holiday tracking, absence management, and staff data organisation. Employees find the portal intuitive to navigate, and employers value the time savings it brings to HR administration.
The support team features prominently in reviews, with individual staff members—especially Simon, Matthew R, Hannah, and others—singled out for patient, thorough guidance during setup and ongoing use. Users repeatedly mention feeling initially apprehensive about software but becoming confident through clear explanation and accessible training. The BLIP clocking-in and expense features receive positive mentions where adopted.
The only consistent mild criticism is that learning the staff setup process takes some adjustment, though this is presented as a minor trade-off rather than a serious drawback. A handful of reviews are brief or tentative, with users noting they are still early in implementation and cautious about full recommendations. One reviewer noted uncertainty about pricing. Overall, satisfaction is high, driven equally by the product's straightforward design and the responsiveness of the support team.
★★★★★
Friday, November 8, 2019
“The company offer a great service with quick respond if…”
The company offer a great service with quick respond if you have any questions.
★★★★★
Friday, November 8, 2019
“Samantha Tunney called me and talked me through my initial…”
Samantha Tunney called me and talked me through my initial set up on Bright HR. I am a total Luddite when it comes to technology so wasn't looking forward to it! But she was extremely helpful and very patient. I'm now an expert! Thank you.
★★★★★
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
“The call today with instruction of use by Adekeji was…”
The call today with instruction of use by Adekeji was very clear and easy to use. Adekeji was knowledgeable and was able to answer all my questions. I feel secure using BrightHR after his instruction today.
★★★★★
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
“The customer services is second to none, very knowledgeable customer…”
The customer services is second to none, very knowledgeable customer support team. Self explanatory software with ease of use and user friendly.
★★★★★
Monday, November 4, 2019
“Great piece of software that's a huge help to our…”
Great piece of software that's a huge help to our business. Alex MacRae on the helpdesk was an absolute star helping me to set it up too.
★★★★★
Monday, November 4, 2019
“Easy-to-use and intuitive software, more so than hronline which we…”
Easy-to-use and intuitive software, more so than hronline which we previously used. There are a few improvements that could be made, for example existing working time patterns can't be edited so you have to create a new one each time there is a change to someone's hours, and there are missing fields in staff profiles which were previously available with hronline, hence the 4 out of 5 rating for Features. However, there are some great new features not previously available with hronline, such as teams, and the ability to choose whether you want to share docs that you've uploaded with the employee. The training from Alex was excellent and Customer Service is always very responsive.
★★★★★
Thursday, October 31, 2019
“The helpdesk did a great job talking me through the…”
The helpdesk did a great job talking me through the setup. Thanks Sam Tunney. Looking forward to using BrightHR to its full potential.
★★★★★
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
“Nice and simple software to use. Alex helped talk me…”
Nice and simple software to use. Alex helped talk me through it and was so easy to set up.
★★★★★
Monday, October 28, 2019
“This is a nice versatile system. Enabling you to store…”
This is a nice versatile system. Enabling you to store all of your staff HR data in one place. You are able to upload documents and choose whether to keep them internal only by hiding them from the staff App. The holiday system if you have workers on variable hours could do with some extra work as it only shows holiday in hours, which for us we prefer in days, but that is just personal preference. We use wheniwork as a rota software, and if the rota software could match that for Bright HR with a built in Holiday Calculator to be autonomous I would rate this application as 5 star. It is very good that said, and the only star taken off is purely for how our business works, however I feel that there are alot of other business that this would help.
★★★★★
Monday, October 28, 2019

