Migrate your Grove HR data
UK-built all-in-one HRIS for 10–250 employee businesses, with leave management, onboarding, recruitment, and compliance tools bundled together.
In its favor
Why people choose Grove HR
The signal that keeps Grove HR on the shortlist. Sourced from G2, Capterra, and customer scoping calls.
Affordable per-employee pricing starting at £2.40/month makes it accessible for small UK businesses wanting a full HR suite without enterprise costs.
Purpose-built around UK employment law compliance including Bradford Factor calculations and statutory pay tools.
All-in-one platform consolidating leave, onboarding, recruitment, performance, and analytics eliminates the need for multiple disconnected tools.
Automated onboarding and offboarding checklists reduce manual HR work when a new hire joins or a team member departs.
Positive reviews highlight responsive support that returns answers within a timely manner, reducing friction during live HR operations.
Smaller integration marketplace compared to established players limits connectivity to payroll providers and third-party tools.
Newer platform with a shorter track record means some teams outgrow capabilities as they scale beyond 250 employees.
Lack of a documented public API makes it difficult to build custom automations or extract data programmatically for migration projects.
Some users report the platform works well for both small and large companies but lacks depth in advanced features like complex org structures.
Reasons to switch
Why people leave Grove HR
The recurring reasons buyers give for replacing Grove HR. Presented as facts, not knocks.
Platform scorecard
Strengths, weaknesses, and where Grove HR fits
Grades across six dimensions, plus a SWOT-style view of where the platform shines and where it falls short.
SWOT — strengths, weaknesses, and use-case fit
Strengths
Weaknesses
Where it works
Where it struggles
Pricing tiers
Grove HR pricing overview
Grove HR uses a per-employee, per-month pricing model with annual billing. The entry-level Starter plan starts at approximately £2.40 per employee per month, with higher tiers adding recruitment, performance management, API access, and enterprise support. No credit card is required to start, and discounts are available for usage-based and seat-based commitments.
Starter
Tier 1 of 4
From £2.40/employee/month
What's included
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What gets migrated
Grove HR object support
Object-by-object support for Grove HR migrations. Per-pair details surface during scoping.
Employees
Fully supportedEmployee is the central record in Grove HR. It stores contact details, job role, start date, employment status, and links to documents (contracts, payslips). We export the full employee profile including custom properties as a flat record and remap any manager/owner references to the destination.
Leave/Time Off
Fully supportedGrove tracks leave entitlements per employee with balances updated by approved requests. We extract leave type configurations (annual, sick, parental) and historical request records, preserving approval status and balances at cutover date.
Onboarding/Offboarding
Mapping requiredOnboarding is driven by automated checklists with task assignments and completion states. Offboarding has its own checklist variant. We map checklist items to a destination task structure; any incomplete items are flagged for manual completion after migration.
Recruitment/Candidates
Mapping requiredGrove includes a career site builder, CV storage, and a drag-and-drop hiring pipeline. Candidate records, applications, and pipeline stage history are exportable. Stage names vary by organisation so we map them to standard deal stages in the destination.
Performance Reviews
Fully supportedPerformance review cycles contain structured rating fields and reviewer assignments per employee. We export completed review records with scores, comments, and reviewer metadata. Draft or in-progress cycles are flagged separately.
Goals
Fully supportedGoals are linked to employees with progress tracking and due dates. We export goal records including current status, owner, and any linked key results. Orphaned goals without an active owner are noted.
Time & Attendance
Mapping requiredTime attendance data links to payroll calculations. Clock-in/out events, timesheets, and overtime flags are exportable. Where attendance data is used to compute salary, we export raw timesheet records for recalculation in the destination payroll.
Documents (Contracts, Payslips)
Mapping requiredEmployee documents are stored as binary attachments linked to each employee record. We export these as-is as separate file assets with a reference back to the owning employee. Customers should confirm document retention requirements for payslips in the destination system.
Training Records
Fully supportedTraining modules and employee completion records are stored per employee. We export training assignment, completion status, and scores. Training course content is out of scope but enrollment records transfer.
Company/Organisation
Mapping requiredGrove stores company-level settings, departments, and locations. We map departments to the destination org chart structure. Custom company properties are extracted as key-value pairs and mapped to equivalent destination fields.
Custom Fields
Mapping requiredCustom fields can be defined on employee and other objects. We detect all custom field definitions during scoping and export values alongside standard fields. Destination mapping depends on whether the target system supports equivalent custom field names and types.
| Object | Support | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Employees | Fully supported | Employee is the central record in Grove HR. It stores contact details, job role, start date, employment status, and links to documents (contracts, payslips). We export the full employee profile including custom properties as a flat record and remap any manager/owner references to the destination. |
| Leave/Time Off | Fully supported | Grove tracks leave entitlements per employee with balances updated by approved requests. We extract leave type configurations (annual, sick, parental) and historical request records, preserving approval status and balances at cutover date. |
| Onboarding/Offboarding | Mapping required | Onboarding is driven by automated checklists with task assignments and completion states. Offboarding has its own checklist variant. We map checklist items to a destination task structure; any incomplete items are flagged for manual completion after migration. |
| Recruitment/Candidates | Mapping required | Grove includes a career site builder, CV storage, and a drag-and-drop hiring pipeline. Candidate records, applications, and pipeline stage history are exportable. Stage names vary by organisation so we map them to standard deal stages in the destination. |
| Performance Reviews | Fully supported | Performance review cycles contain structured rating fields and reviewer assignments per employee. We export completed review records with scores, comments, and reviewer metadata. Draft or in-progress cycles are flagged separately. |
| Goals | Fully supported | Goals are linked to employees with progress tracking and due dates. We export goal records including current status, owner, and any linked key results. Orphaned goals without an active owner are noted. |
| Time & Attendance | Mapping required | Time attendance data links to payroll calculations. Clock-in/out events, timesheets, and overtime flags are exportable. Where attendance data is used to compute salary, we export raw timesheet records for recalculation in the destination payroll. |
| Documents (Contracts, Payslips) | Mapping required | Employee documents are stored as binary attachments linked to each employee record. We export these as-is as separate file assets with a reference back to the owning employee. Customers should confirm document retention requirements for payslips in the destination system. |
| Training Records | Fully supported | Training modules and employee completion records are stored per employee. We export training assignment, completion status, and scores. Training course content is out of scope but enrollment records transfer. |
| Company/Organisation | Mapping required | Grove stores company-level settings, departments, and locations. We map departments to the destination org chart structure. Custom company properties are extracted as key-value pairs and mapped to equivalent destination fields. |
| Custom Fields | Mapping required | Custom fields can be defined on employee and other objects. We detect all custom field definitions during scoping and export values alongside standard fields. Destination mapping depends on whether the target system supports equivalent custom field names and types. |
Gotchas
What to watch for in Grove HR migrations
Issues we've hit on past Grove HR migrations, tagged by severity. FlitStack AI handles every one — surfacing them up front because buyer engineering teams want to know.
No public API documentation means migrations are file-based
Leave balance accuracy at cutover requires manual verification
Onboarding and offboarding checklists are template-bound
Payslip and contract documents export as binary blobs
| Severity | Issue |
|---|---|
| High | No public API documentation means migrations are file-based |
| Medium | Leave balance accuracy at cutover requires manual verification |
| Medium | Onboarding and offboarding checklists are template-bound |
| Low | Payslip and contract documents export as binary blobs |
Leaving Grove HR?
Where Grove HR customers move next
5 destinations Grove HR can migrate to.
How a Grove HR migration works
Four steps, Grove HR-specific
Connect
Not publicly documented into Grove HR. Scopes limited to read-only on the data we move.
Map
We translate Grove HR-specific structures (custom fields, objects, value lists) to the destination's model.
Sample
Test with a 50–200 record subset to validate Grove HR quirks before production.
Migrate
Full migration with Grove HR rate-limit handling. Rollback available throughout.
FAQ
Grove HR migration FAQ
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