Workforce Management Software For Small Business

Workforce management software for small business manages recruitment, onboarding, compliance, learning and performance for your team, beside the payroll and rostering apps you already use. Sentrient gives an owner or office manager one place to see who is set up, what is due next and what is still outstanding. Hiring itself is covered on our small business applicant tracking page.

Yes. Sentrient is built for Australian and New Zealand organisations, with Australian compliance courses, local support and records set up around Australian employment and work health and safety obligations. Small teams use it for employees and casuals alike, and it works beside Australian payroll and rostering apps rather than replacing them.

Most small businesses run accounting and payroll software such as Xero or MYOB and sometimes a rostering app, and Sentrient sits beside them rather than replacing them. Contracts, policies and certificates usually sit in email and folders, and that is the gap Sentrient fills. Our guide to what workforce management software does and our comparison of WFM software and an HRIS explain the difference.

Sentrient does not build rosters, interpret awards, run payroll or issue pay slips. It manages recruitment, onboarding, compliance, learning and performance beside those tools. Our HR page for small businesses covers HR records and policies in more depth, and our small business learning page covers course delivery.

Every employer must meet the National Employment Standards, keep employee records and give pay slips, alongside the award or agreement that applies. The Fair Work Ombudsman says pay slips must be given within 1 working day of pay day, which stays with your payroll software, not Sentrient. Sentrient does not interpret awards, and your business remains responsible for every obligation.

Yes, and many small businesses start there. Fair Work publishes free templates and letters for employing staff, record-keeping and probation. Sentrient does not replace them. It gives you one place to send contracts for signing, collect details, track who has acknowledged what and remind you when something is due, so templates do not get lost in email.

Yes. New starters complete their details, banking and superannuation, work eligibility, licence uploads and policy acknowledgements online before they start, usually on their phone. Fair Work says every new employee must receive the Fair Work Information Statement, and casuals the casual statement too, so you can issue both and record that they were given.

Yes. Sentrient stores licences, first aid certificates, police checks and other credentials as compliance records with expiry dates, and automated notifications remind staff and owners before they lapse. A dashboard shows what is due across the whole team, so no one works with an expired ticket because a spreadsheet was not updated. Those records live in our document management software for small business.

Staff request leave in Sentrient, the owner or manager approves or declines it, and staff calendars show leave and key dates for the whole team. Leave integrates with Xero and MYOB, so approved leave is not keyed in twice. Your rostering app still decides who covers each shift.

Yes. Staff can complete online timesheets, managers review and approve hours, and attendance can be tracked by location. Timesheet data exports to your payroll system for processing. Sentrient does not calculate award rates, penalty rates or overtime, so pay calculation stays with your payroll software.

Yes. Sentrient is designed to sit beside the accounting, payroll and rostering apps small businesses already use, not to replace them. It holds the people and compliance records those tools do not, integrates leave with Xero and MYOB, and exports timesheet data for payroll, so each system keeps its own job.

Publish policies such as code of conduct, bullying and harassment, work health and safety, and privacy, then track who has read and acknowledged each version. The Australian Human Rights Commission explains the positive duty every employer carries to prevent workplace sexual harassment, and your business remains responsible for meeting it.

Small businesses often start with Sentrient’s work health and safety training, sexual harassment training and workplace bullying training, with refreshers set on a cycle. For course delivery, assessments and custom modules, see our LMS for small business.

Staff record incidents, near misses and hazards through Sentrient’s incident reporting tools, on a phone or computer, and the owner sees every report in one place. Pulse surveys add a quick read on how safe and supported staff feel, and your business remains responsible for managing the risks that reports raise.

Share announcements, message staff, recognise good work, post photo albums and run feedback surveys. Part-time and casual staff get the same updates as everyone else, and owners can see how the team responds without calling a meeting every time something changes.

Set business objectives, write position descriptions for each role and agree goals with each person. Dashboards and workflows remind the owner or manager when reviews are due, and ongoing performance conversations are recorded, so a review happens on time and each person’s history is in one place.

Yes. Dashboards and ready-made reports show onboarding status, licence and certificate records, training completion and upcoming expiries by team, location or role. Owners see everything, managers see their own staff, and access levels keep each person to the information their role needs.

Give casual and seasonal staff the inductions, policies and training relevant to their role, with their records kept alongside permanent employees’. Sentrient records who has completed what and when, so an owner can see before a busy period whether a new casual is set up and ready to start.

No. Staff can complete onboarding, upload licences, acknowledge policies, request leave, submit timesheets and finish courses on a phone or tablet. Owners can approve requests and check the team’s status on mobile too, which suits businesses where no one sits at a desk all day.

Sentrient keeps onboarding records, contracts, licences, policy acknowledgements, training completions and incident reports with names and dates, ready to export. The Fair Work Ombudsman’s record-keeping guidance says time and wages records must be kept for 7 years, and those stay in your payroll system, not in Sentrient.

Sentrient combines recruitment, onboarding, compliance, learning and performance in one platform, with pre-built Australian compliance courses and local support. It works beside your payroll and rostering apps instead of asking you to replace them. Our guide to workplace compliance for small and medium businesses covers the compliance side.

More than 1,000 Australian organisations use Sentrient, including law firm Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick, Community Action Gympie and Kids First Australia. Read how Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick uses Sentrient to roll out compliance training quickly across its people.

Pricing depends on your number of staff and the modules you use, so Sentrient prepares a tailored proposal after a short conversation about your business. There are no figures on this page because two businesses of the same size can need quite different set-ups.

Book a free 20-minute demo and a Sentrient specialist will walk through recruitment, onboarding, policies, compliance and reporting using examples that match your team and roles. You will see how it sits beside your current payroll and rostering apps before you decide.