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Sage People: an all-in-one HCM and Payroll solution

Boost productivity with AI-powered Sage People, an integrated HCM and Payroll solution for global businesses with 500+ employees. Eliminate HR admin, deliver insights, and manage people processes easily.  

Built on the Salesforce platform, Sage People is highly configurable to fit your unique business needs. 
Sage is trusted by over 2 million customers worldwide

Make business flow and let your people thrive

Get the flexibility your workforce needs, without compromise

Deliver actionable AI-powered insights

Create flexible, personalised employee experiences

Reduce HR admin and drive automation

Tools designed for modern, multi-national workforces

Product capabilities that empower HR teams

Global cloud HCM solution

Get the flexibility to tailor HR policies and processes for each region. Meet local requirements while maintaining consistency and control.

  • Connect global, multi-lingual teams, supporting 22 languages. 
  • Bring your culture and purpose to life with configurable branding and personalised experiences. 
  • Implement global HR policies while allowing for regional localisations. 

AI-powered HR and people analytics

Stay ahead with intelligent insights. Anticipate scenarios, identify trends, and uncover hidden opportunities. 

  • Clear, dynamic dashboards make data easy to visualise and understand.
  • Turn complex data into strategic business decisions with AI-powered insights
  • Quickly uncover patterns and trends automatically with advanced statistical analysis that scans your existing reports.
  • Schedule reports to run automatically with, custom, meaningful information. 

Powered by AI and secured by the Salesforce Einstein Trust Layer for enterprise-grade data protection and compliance. 

Payroll

Take complexity out of payroll with smart, simple, and seriously fast software. Designed to scale effortlessly and keep you compliant every step of the way. 

  • Run and process thousands of payslips in minutes with our bulk payroll engine.
  • Reduce errors and ensure compliance with AI-automated checks and validations.
  • Perfect for businesses of any size, ranging from 250 to 20,000 employees.  
  • Connect your existing payroll provider or unify HR and payroll in one platform for seamless integration. 
  • Integrated UK and Ireland Sage People Payroll solutions connect your HR and payroll processes with ease.

Performance and people management

Manage your  workforce from one global system. Deliver exceptional employee experiences, personalised communications, and drive high performance.

  • Adapt processes and workflows to fit your business needs that HR teams can set up independently.
  • Create personalised employee experiences that boost engagement and retention. 
  • Keep everyone informed and connected with built-in communication tools.  
  • Set goals, track progress, and develop talent with intuitive performance management tools.  
  • Built on the trusted Salesforce platform, ensuring enterprise-grade security, scalability, and reliability. 

Attendance and leave

Give employees and managers the freedom and flexibility to manage leave and absences.

  • Book and approve absences in the flow of work using MS Teams.
  • Empower employees to schedule and track absences using the self-service portal and automatically notify them when requests are approved. 
  • Keep an eye on costs, time, and attendance data with powerful reporting. 

Talent acquisition

Attract, engage, and onboard the best candidates quickly and efficiently. Deliver an exceptional experience from application to day one. 

  • Impress candidates with branded hiring experiences and a frictionless application process. 
  • Use AI-powered algorithms to match candidates to roles quickly, eliminating bias.
  • Save time with automated candidate and resume screening for faster shortlisting. 
  • Maintain and manage candidate pipelines for proactive recruitment.
  • Enable virtual team-meets and pre-onboarding via online portal. Get new candidates set up quickly.

Lifelong learning and wellbeing

Drive engagement, skills development and wellbeing with Uptime’s microlearning experience, available through Sage People.  

  • Employees can read, watch or listen with 5-minute multi-modal learning.
  • AI-powered recommendations for personalised employee experiences. 
  • Access to 20,000+ expert-created content pieces in 24 languages 

Extended capabilities

With Sage People, you get more than simplified HR and powerful people insights. Nurture talent, inspire employee engagement, and build a vibrant culture with a flexible cloud HR platform.

Performance & talent management

Create a vibrant company culture that supports a high-performing, happy, and engaged workforce.

Employee recognition and compensation

Manage your people strategy in a seamless, fair, and flexible way to retain your best people and show them how much they’re valued.

Workforce experience management

Deliver exceptional experiences your team will cherish, fostering a vibrant culture while supporting flexible ways of working.

Take your business to the next level with Sage People

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  • Get personalised advice and a tailored recommendation
  • Access a recording to share with your team

FAQ

Pricing for Sage People is dependent on the number of employees, functionality and configuration required and other factors.

There are no hidden costs and never will be. To discuss pricing options, please fill in our demo form and we’ll be in touch by phone within 24 hours.

Sage People is ideal for mid-sized global or multi-locational organisations in service or knowledge-based industries. The solution enables multinational organisations to transform the way that they attract, manage, engage, and retain people, wherever they are.

Sage People is highly configurable and can be tailored to your organisation’s unique requirements. Built to adapt to complex business requirements, Sage People enables you to effectively manage your people across multiple sites and countries, currencies, languages and local legislations.

Get in touch today and our experienced team will discuss your needs and see if Sage People is a good fit. If it’s not for you, we provide other people-management and HR software, and we’ll make sure you find the best solution fit for your exact needs.

Sage HR is ideal for smaller businesses with fewer than 250 employees who want to get up and running with their HR solution quickly. Sage People is ideal for growing multinational organisations with 250 to 5000 employees with more complex HR requirements and looking to focus on strategic HR initiatives across their business.

Both are designed to be long-lasting systems that can grow and adapt to your business needs as they evolve. Both solutions provide you with the fundamentals to effectively manage your people, including a single source of truth for your people data, employee self-service portal, absence management and performance reviews tools, detailed reporting, and more.

The implementation time for Sage People depends on the complexity of the organisation's HR processes, the number of employees, and the level of customisation required.

Users can continue to work normally during the installation of Sage People.

Your implementation will be managed by a dedicated Project Manager and your team trained by Sage People specialists with extensive real-world business experience.

We take the time to fully scope your requirements and conduct training in a collaborative workshop environment. When you're ready, our team will help you migrate your data to Sage People at a pace that suits you.

Yes, Sage People can be integrated with the  existing applications in your business. Acting as your single source of truth for all HR and people data, integrating Sage People to your existing systems allows you to reap efficiencies across your business and deliver stand-out employee experiences.

Since Sage People is a cloud-based solution, there are no system requirements for installing software or hardware.

Built on the enterprise grade Salesforce platform, Sage People is a secure and robust system that is always on and accessible from anywhere, on any device.

Sage People does not come with a free trial. However, you can book an in-depth personalised demo.

For a shorter overview you can take a product tour. The product tour gives you a video overview of the key features and benefits of Sage People through the eyes of a new hire, an employee and a HR system administrator.

Our dedicated and experienced Customers for Life team makes Sage People much more than just a HR and People system. Our team are committed to providing excellent customer support by sharing the latest HR insights, knowledge, and resources.

Support tickets: Within the Sage People Community, customers can open support tickets using the Sage Assistant, and track case progress.

You will also get 24/7 access to the following support resources:

  • Our online community: Ask questions, share product ideas, and solve issues with Sage customers, employees, and product experts.
  • Instructor-led courses and e-learning: We have hundreds of training courses designed for multiple experience levels and job roles. Get certified and earn badges that show your expertise and build up your resume.
  • Knowledge Base: A library of resources, Sage Knowledge Base gives you access to the same support articles and product documentation our experts use.
  • Help Center: Online configuration guides, release information, and roadmap essentials.
 

Hear what our customers have to say about Sage People

Don't just take our word for it. Here is how we are helping over 400,000 employees thrive in the workplace.

"Sage People gives us access to business data in ways we never had before."

Helen
HR Manager, Purmo Group Ltd

“Sage People allows us to customise so much in terms of the workflows and processes we can automate, making our lives so much easier.”

Amalie
Head of People Data and Analytics, Trustpilot

“Sage People has really played into our strategy to make our employees more flexible and agile in terms of where, where, and how they can work.”

Gaynor
HR and Programs Manager, Channel Four

“Sage People has helped us with the visibility of our employee data, and it’s created a single source of truth.”

Eleanor
HR Business Partner, CRU

"Sage People is the heart of our employee data and crucial to our master data strategy."

Anthony
Director of Infrastructure and Operations, Tenth Revolution Group

"The simplicity of the system, along with its cost effectiveness, both massively contribute to the ROI of Sage People."

Dina
Chief Information Officer, Gett Taxi

"We're raising the game of HR. We're moving away from being reactional, to being more laser-focused on the business and delivering real business outcomes - not just operating HR as a service"

Lee
Head of Service and Delivery, Shawbrook Bank

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