HRMS

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.

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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

Comprehensive 40+ tool HR suite covering core HR needs in a single platform without third-party integrations.UK employment law compliance built in from the start, including statutory pay calculators and Bradford Factor.Automated onboarding and offboarding checklists reduce manual HR administrative overhead.Affordable per-employee pricing model accessible to small and medium businesses.Leave management with automated workflows, real-time balance tracking, and team calendar visibility.

Weaknesses

No documented public API or rate limits publicly available, limiting programmatic data extraction.Smaller third-party integration marketplace compared to BambooHR and other established HRIS platforms.Relatively new platform founded in 2018 with a shorter track record than competitors.Limited bulk export tooling means manual or supported migration may be required.No mobile app mentioned in available documentation, limiting employee self-service on mobile devices.

Where it works

UK-based SMBs with 10–250 employees seeking an all-in-one HRIS to replace multiple disconnected tools without paying enterprise licensing fees.Small UK businesses that need employment law compliance built in from the start, including Bradford Factor calculations and statutory pay calculators.Teams with straightforward, linear HR workflows that can rely on Grove's automated onboarding and offboarding checklists without custom automation requirements.Growing UK companies with simple organizational structures that do not require complex hierarchies or multi-entity management capabilities.Organizations operating exclusively within UK employment regulations who do not need multi-jurisdiction compliance features.

Where it struggles

Mid-to-large organizations with 250+ employees that begin to outgrow the platform's feature depth and require complex organizational structures.Companies that depend on programmatic data extraction, custom automations, or integrations requiring a documented public API with published rate limits.Businesses needing deep third-party integrations with payroll providers, accounting software, or enterprise tools that are absent from Grove's smaller marketplace.Global companies or UK businesses with remote international employees requiring multi-jurisdiction employment law compliance beyond UK regulations.Organizations that require mobile employee self-service capabilities, as no mobile app is documented for employee-facing interactions.

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

Core HR and employee database managementLeave management with automated workflowsEmployee onboarding checklistsBasic reporting and analyticsEmail support

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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 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.

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

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

Answers to the questions buyers ask most during Grove HR migration scoping. Not seeing yours? Book a call.

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Most Grove HR migrations under 1M records finish in 48–72 hours end-to-end. Larger orgs with custom objects or buyer-side security review typically take 5–7 days.

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