Simple, honest, per active employee
Prices are per user, per month, ex-VAT. A “user” is an active employee, preboarding and departed records don’t bill. Save two months by paying annually.
- People, org & roles
- Employee lifecycle
- Leave & calendars
- Hub (intranet)
- Documents
- Support tickets — standard (2 business days)
- Audit trail & tenant isolation
- Everything in Core
- Access module & reviews
- Vault (shared credentials)
- Custom fields
- Letter templates & PDFs
- Asset register
- Custom domain & branding
- Priority support (1 business day)
What you’d pay
Drag to your team size, the minimum and the £3,000 cap are shown as they kick in.
Small-team floor
Core bills the £29 floor up to 9 users; Premium the £79 floor up to 15. Beyond that you pay per user.
£3,000/month cap
You never pay more than £3,000/mo, up to 1,000 employees. Beyond 1,000, you move to enterprise terms (below).
Annual = 2 months free
Pay annually and get two months on us, ten months’ price for twelve months’ service.
Worked examples (net, ex-VAT)
| Tenant | Tier | Users | Calculation | Monthly net |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micro startup | Core | 5 | 5 × £2.97 = £14.85 → floor | £29.00 |
| Small team | Core | 25 | 25 × £2.97 | £74.25 |
| Growing SME | Premium | 50 | 50 × £4.97 | £248.50 |
| Mid-market | Premium | 200 | 200 × £4.97 | £994.00 |
| Large (cap binds) | Premium | 604 | 604 × £4.97 = £3,001.88 → cap | £3,000.00 |
| 1,000+ | Enterprise | 1,000+ | enterprise by conversation | bespoke |
How Staffory compares
Where most people-ops tools stop at HR, Staffory also governs system access, the differentiator below. Prices are per employee per month excluding VAT and reflect each vendor’s published entry tier (verified Aug 2026). They change often, so please verify on their own sites. Trademarks belong to their owners. See a full comparison.
| Capability | Staffory | PeopleHR | BrightHR | Breathe | CharlieHR | Rippling |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price (per employee / month) | from £2.97Premium from £4.97 | from ~£5 | from ~£5 | from ~£4 | from ~£5 | from ~£7 |
| Leave & calendars | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intranet hub / notices | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | add-on | ✓ | ✓ |
| Document library + acknowledgements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| System access management (catalogue, requests)† | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Access reviews (recertification)† | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | add-on |
| Shared-credentials vault (encrypted, step-up)† | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
† Access governance (system access requests, recertification reviews, an encrypted shared-credentials vault) is native to Staffory Premium. Competitors may cover parts of this via paid add-ons or third-party integrations. “add-on” marks where that is typical.
Detailed comparisons: Staffory vs PeopleHR · Staffory vs BrightHR · Staffory vs Breathe · Staffory vs CharlieHR · Staffory vs Rippling
Enterprise, by conversation
The £3,000 cap covers you up to 1,000 employees. Beyond that, teams move to bespoke enterprise terms, volume, SLAs, data-residency and procurement. Talk to us.
About VAT
All prices exclude VAT, which is added where applicable (once Staffory is VAT-registered). We won’t bake it into the headline and quietly shrink what you get.