blu::hr
Your people, properly managed
Holidays, absence, expenses and documents in one place.
Holiday in a spreadsheet, absence in an email chain, receipts in a shoebox and certificates nobody can find. blu::hr replaces all of it with one system your staff run themselves — built around UK statutory rules rather than adapted to them.
One fixed price
£250
per month + VAT
- Unlimited staff
- No annual contract
- UK statutory rules built in
The problem
Stop running HR out of spreadsheets and inboxes
Most teams outgrow the spreadsheet long before they can justify enterprise HR software. blu::hr is the bit in between.
How most small businesses do it today:
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Holiday in a spreadsheet. Balances go stale, part-timers end up on the wrong entitlement, and two people book the same week.
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Absence buried in email. No reliable record of who was off and when, no certification trail, and no way to see a pattern forming.
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Expenses on paper. Receipts photographed and forgotten, mileage worked out by hand, and no clear trail of who approved what.
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Documents scattered. Contracts, right-to-work checks and certificates sitting in personal drives, with expiry dates nobody is watching.
What blu::hr does instead:
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Entitlement calculated, not typed. 5.6 weeks by default, pro-rated automatically for part-time hours and for anyone joining or leaving mid-year, with carry-over added on top.
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Bank holidays that look after themselves. Synced every week from gov.uk for England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, so the calendar stays right without anyone maintaining it.
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Half days, properly. Any date can be booked as a morning or an afternoon, and non-consecutive dates go on a single request.
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Clashes caught at the point of booking. Overlapping dates are refused outright, and staff can't overdraw their balance — while HR keeps an override for when there's a reason to.
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Sickness with an evidence trail. Self-certification, fit note uploads, return-to-work records, and a Bradford Factor score calculated over a rolling twelve months.
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Expiry dates that chase you. Right-to-work and document expiries surface on the dashboard and in a daily digest, while there is still time to act.
What's included
Everything the day-to-day actually needs
One module covering the admin that otherwise spreads itself across a dozen spreadsheets and a shared inbox.
Leave & holiday
Entitlement, booking and approval with per-date half days and carry-over. Leave years can run on the calendar, from April, or from each employee's own start date.
Team calendar
Month, week and day views colour-coded by leave type, with bank holidays marked and pending requests shown distinctly from approved ones.
Absence & sickness
Open-ended and half-day absences, self-certification, fit note uploads, return-to-work recording, Bradford Factor triggers and an SSP waiting-period check.
Expenses & mileage
Receipt-backed expense claims and postcode-to-postcode mileage priced on banded rates, through a submit, approve and mark-as-paid workflow.
Staff & company documents
Per-employee documents with expiry tracking and control over what staff can see, plus company policies with read-and-acknowledge tracking.
Employee self-service
Staff book their own leave, report absence, submit claims, check their balance and acknowledge policies — so HR stops being the bottleneck.
Why blu::hr
Built for how UK small businesses actually work
The statutory detail is in the product rather than in your head, and the things that need chasing chase themselves.
Built for UK rules
5.6 weeks statutory leave, gov.uk bank holidays for all three regions, and an SSP waiting-period assessment — not an overseas product with a UK setting.
Absence patterns you can see
Bradford Factor scored over a rolling year against a trigger you set, surfaced on the dashboard rather than buried in a report nobody runs.
Self-service that genuinely reduces work
Employees handle their own bookings and claims, and line managers see their team's pending items on their own dashboard.
Nothing quietly forgotten
A daily digest to HR covering documents expiring, right-to-work expiring, and any approval left sitting too long.
A full audit trail
Every status change records who did it, when, and any note they left, with the whole history kept against the record.
One price, unlimited staff
The same monthly price whatever your headcount, so growing the team never grows the bill.
Everything your people need, one price
One fixed monthly price for the whole organisation. No per-employee licensing, so headcount growth never changes what you pay.
- Unlimited staff
- No annual contract
- Leave, absence & calendar
- Expenses & mileage
- Documents & policy sign-off
- Dedicated UK support
Price excludes VAT. blu::hr manages leave, absence, claims and records — it is not a payroll system and does not pay them.
Ready to see blu::hr in action?
Book a free demo today and we'll walk you through it against your own team, not a canned example.
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