Rota, time clock, holidays, payslips, HR — with AI that drafts your rota, reads your payslips, and knows UK employment law.
£19/site/month. No per-user trap.
Built for UK shift-based businesses
I'm Scott — I run two Amazon delivery depots, three Shell forecourts, and 130+ shift workers across them. I tried Connecteam, Deputy and the rest. They were either too expensive, missing UK essentials (HMRC Starter Checklists, Right to Work expiry, payslip delivery), or designed for offices in California.
So I built WorkHive for me — then realised every other UK SME owner was getting the same raw deal. Every feature exists because I needed it on Monday morning. No fluff, no upsell hubs, no per-seat trap.
Used daily at SJC Distributions & SJC Fuel Services.
Honest pricing. UK-first compliance. Built by someone who runs his own depots and petrol stations.
Pricing comparison based on Connecteam Advanced Plan (50 staff, billed annually) and Deputy Premium (50 staff, billed monthly), as published on each vendor's website May 2026. Feature presence verified against each vendor's public documentation.
Managers run the operation from the dashboard. Staff get a no-training mobile app.
No competitor has this stack. AI doesn't replace your managers, it gives every site one.
"Build next week's rota" → AI drafts it in 10 seconds from past 4 weeks + holidays + contracted hours. You review and publish.
Describe a form ("daily till handover"), AI builds it. Staff submit photos, AI cross-checks vs typed numbers, flags fraud or missing receipts.
Knows UK employment law + ACAS Code. Drafts disciplinary letters, return-to-work scripts, probation reviews — referenced to your actual staff.
Upload PDF → AI auto-extracts gross / net / tax / NI / hours. No data entry, no typos.
Daily anomaly scan — late patterns, ghost shifts, sickness on same weekday, no-shows, hours mismatch. Surfaced before payroll runs.
Floating ✨ help button on every page. "How do I cancel a holiday?" / "Where do I see no-shows?" — instant click-by-click answers.
No upselling you onto a "Communications hub" or a "Skills hub". One subscription, the lot.
Drag-and-drop builder. Week, day, month views. Open shifts staff can claim. Conflict detection. WTR-compliant — flags 48h breaches automatically.
Mobile clock-in with GPS. Geofenced to your site. Works offline (queues and syncs). Manager approval flow for over/under hours.
Live balance per employee. Request & approve workflow. Statutory minimum check. Carry-over rules. Bank holiday handling.
Upload PDFs from your existing payroll software. Allocate to staff. Each employee sees only their own. Encrypted storage, audit logged.
Guided digital Starter Checklist. Auto-selects tax code from Statement A/B/C. Right to Work upload. Document expiry alerts.
1:1 messages. Site & department channels. Threaded replies (Connecteam still doesn't have these). Mandatory-ack policy announcements.
One price. Drops automatically as you grow. No tiers, no upsells, no per-user surprises. 30-day free trial, no card required.
Most customers — 1 forecourt, 3 cafés, 8 cleaning sites. Each site at £19.
Multi-site operators — pricing drops automatically from the 11th site.
No card needed for trial · Cancel anytime · No minimum term · Need 50+ sites or SSO? Talk to us about Enterprise.
Quick maths vs Connecteam Advanced + Deputy Premium. Slide to your numbers.
Connecteam: Advanced plan, billed annually. Deputy: Premium plan. Pricing as published May 2026. Your actual cost may vary.
A breach with bank details and NI numbers is reportable to the ICO within 72 hours. We take it seriously.
Supabase London region (eu-west-2). Never leaves UK soil.
Bank details & NI numbers encrypted with separate key.
Database enforces who sees what — staff can't query others' data.
Mandatory 2-factor auth on Manager, HR & Owner roles.
Every sensitive action logged. Append-only, can't be tampered with.
Point-in-time recovery to any second in last 7 days.
Built to UK GDPR principles. DPA available on request. ICO registration in progress.
UK gov-backed certification — assessment underway.
Most teams are running on day one. Add your sites, import staff (CSV or manual), build a rota for the week. The mobile app is live for staff as soon as you invite them — no admin training needed.
Yes. We don't replace your payroll — we deliver the payslips. Upload PDFs from Xero, Sage, BrightPay, QuickBooks, anything. Each staff member sees only their own. Direct API integrations with Xero and BrightPay are on the roadmap.
One flat £19/month — unlimited staff, every feature included. No tiers, no upsells.
Connecteam is built for the US market and bolts UK on later. Pricing balloons above 30 users. They charge for three separate "hubs". They don't deliver UK payslips, don't do HMRC Starter Checklists, don't track Right to Work expiry without paying for a separate hub. We do all of it for less.
Yes. Set up a tablet at your site as a clock-in kiosk. Staff tap their photo and enter a 4-digit PIN. Works without anyone needing a personal device.
WorkHive flags WTR risks automatically — when a driver approaches the 48-hour weekly average, when they don't have 11 hours between shifts, when a 6-hour shift has no break logged. Compliance gold dust if you ever face a tribunal.
Try WorkHive free for 30 days. Move your team across in an afternoon. Save thousands a year.
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