Best HRIS Systems For Small Businesses

Looking for the best HRIS systems for small businesses is worth separating from looking for an HR platform, because the two solve different problems.

An HRIS is the system of record. Who works here, on what terms, what leave they have, what documents exist, and what any of that looked like on a date in the past. That is the part you carry obligations about.

A platform adds recruitment, performance, learning and engagement on top. Useful later, and each module adds configuration and maintenance that a small team has to absorb.

At small scale, buying the record system properly and adding modules only when a real need appears is usually the better order. The record is the one part you cannot reconstruct afterwards.

The Fair Work Ombudsman covers what records must contain. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s HRIS system and employee management system.