HR Software for Retail
In such a fast-paced and highly competitive sector like retail, equipping HR with the right digital tools is no longer a choice, but a strategic imperative.
The right integrated HR and payroll software will help you attract, retain and develop the best people whilst making operational efficiencies and contributing to overall business success.
With an unrivalled breadth and depth of retail workforce management solutions spanning the entire employee lifecycle, we help you master your HR challenges.
Our HR software for retail is trusted by more than 800 wholesale and retail business of all sizes across the UK and Ireland
HR and payroll software to meet retail challenges
We understand that the HR challenges for retail businesses can vary by company size. So, whether your challenges involve worker shortages, attrition rates, scheduling visibility, spiralling costs or employee engagement, our flexible HR software for retail is uniquely tailored to the needs of your business, and its people.
Attract and recruit customer-focussed people
Our flexible HR software for retail includes applicant tracking tools to proactively source the most suitable candidates, promote your jobs more attractively, automate candidate communicates and interview, screen and hire your applicants.
"We’ve automated numerous labour-intensive tasks and created a seamless and streamlined process."
- Guy Corbett, Director of Business Improvement, Livv Housing Group. Read more.
Prioritise onboarding
Our HR software helps retailers develop a fast, consistent and welcoming onboarding experience for new employees with pre-hire communication tools, onboarding checklists and mandatory training schedules that helps shorten time-to-productivity and reduces attrition rates.
"It’s now so simple to add new starter employee records. We know with other systems that it can take ages to learn and hours to sort out, but that isn’t the case with Access PeopleXD."
- Cate Holmes, HR Business Partner, David Ross Education Trust. Read more.
Manage complex rosters
Our retail workforce management software gives employees more control of their schedules, with the ability to view and swap shifts and request annual leave with a self-service app, whilst managers can more efficiently optimise their workforce with rostering tools that ensure the right people are in the right place, at the right time. And with real-time views of planned and actual costs vs budget, you can more efficiently manage rostering costs.
"A task that took six hours to write a roster now takes less than 60 minutes. Holiday requests and shift swaps are automated, taking no management time. It’s not very often we get the chance to hand back five hours to every senior manager every week."
- Tom Manning, Operations Project Manager, Cineworld. Read more.
Develop your culture
Access offers a range of integrated tools, tailored to your people and your goals; from on-demand pay, employee engagement and benefits software, mental health and wellbeing training courses and financial wellbeing advice to help you build a healthy culture.
"The Access People team are brilliant at demystifying the stigma of sensitive topics in the workplace, such as returning to work after a bereavement. They don’t shy away from sensitive topics which is extremely valuable."
- Laura Eaton, eLearning & Development Consultant, RAC. Read more.
Recognise, reward and engage
With mobile, self-service functionality and internal communication tools, our HR software for retail ensures people have only the information they need, where and when they need it; meaning you can remove burdensome tasks, maximise people performance and engage staff in the flow of work.
And, with our employee engagement software offering flexible and meaningful employee benefits, instant discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, awards, reward and recognition and internal communication tools, you can build a more engaging and fulfilling culture.
"I have been given feedback on how informative and fun the platform is and how bespoke to us it feels. Staff love the great deals and are excited about using the platform to make use of the great offers and discounts."
- Megan Carter, Head of HR, Blenheim Pye. Read more.
Improve training and development opportunities
With our flexible online training software, you can optimise output and empower staff with access to the right combination of skill-building opportunities, from managed learning, personalised learning and self-directed learning, as well employee performance and development tools.
"The mobile app allows us to provide our new starters with the support and training that they need to be able to do their jobs. We have seen the number of staff leaving within the first six months decreasing because we can now offer them a positive learning experience within their induction and throughout their time here."
- Beth Coombes, Learning and Development Lead, Hamberley Care Homes. Read more.
Make data-driven decisions
All Access HR solutions come with integrated analytics tools so you can get access to a range of pre-made reports or customise the views you need to see.
"We have a large HR team that look after employees throughout their lifecycle and they have seen vastly increased efficiencies in operational tasks since using Access PeopleXD."
- Sonya Nevin, HR Data & Technology Manager, Permanent TSB. Read more.
Reduce payroll errors and support financial wellbeing
With our integrated payroll software for retail, traditional payroll processes are automated, leaving little room for error. With our on-demand pay app EarlyPay and outsourced payroll service that is 99.9% accurate at first run, you can support financial wellbeing, facilitate frictionless pay, improve retention and ensure staff are paid on time, every time.
"This app has saved my life recently, being able to access my wages before payday is a great help. I’m so glad that my company are part of this."
- Apple App Store Review. Read more.
Some of our retail customers
Find out how Day Lewis Pharmacy are using our HR software to develop their talent management, boost employee engagement and reduce administration tasks.
Discover how M&Co achieved record-breaking 10-day speed to value with our HR solution.
Find out how Charles Tyrwhitt, the UK's leading men's shirts retailer, saved valuable time and resources and enhanced their employee experience with our joined-up HR software for retail.
Our retail workforce management software helps:
- Improve rostering visibility to save costs and drive efficiencies
- Facilitate frictionless pay so people are paid right and on time, every time
- Attract, recruit and onboard the best customer-focussed people
- Improve retention and productivity with employee engagement tools
- Support employee wellbeing for a happier and more motivated workforce
- Stay on top of regulatory changes and industry-specific regulations
- Use data and analytics for clearer insights to support strategic forecasting
What our customers say
With Access, we had the core HR software, payroll, learning management system, recruitment, EarlyPay…so everything you’d need from an HR information system in one place and that makes it super easy for a line manager to find what they need where they need it and also means we can get data far more easily and in depth.
A task that took six hours to write a roster now takes less than 60 minutes. Holiday requests and shift swaps are automated, taking no management time. It's not very often we get the chance to hand back five hours to every senior manager every week.
The ability to centralise a number of siloed systems had a profound impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of our HR team - especially as a multinational conglomerate.
We've automated numerous labour-intensive tasks and created a seamless and streamlined process.
It's now so simple to add new starter employee records. We know with other systems that it can take ages to learn and hours to sort out, but that isn’t the case with Access PeopleXD.
The Access People team are brilliant at demystifying the stigma of sensitive topics in the workplace, such as returning to work after a bereavement. They don't shy away from sensitive topics which is extremely valuable.
I have been given feedback on how informative and fun the platform is and how bespoke to us it feels. Staff love the great deals and are excited about using the platform to make use of the great offers and discounts.
The mobile app allows us to provide our new starters with the support and training that they need to be able to do their jobs. We have seen the number of staff leaving within the first six months decreasing because we can now offer them a positive learning experience within their induction and throughout their time here.
We have a large HR team that look after employees throughout their lifecycle and they have seen vastly increased efficiencies in operational tasks since using Access PeopleXD.
