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Landing Platform vs CharlieHR: small-team HR, and the rest
CharlieHR makes HR simple for small teams: onboarding, time off, reviews and records, priced by team size. Landing does that people work too, and adds timesheets, a rota, projects, sales and invoicing on the same record.
Landing suits you if
- Your small team also runs projects, clients and invoices
- You want timesheets and leave on one calendar
- You want one tool as the team grows, not another to add
Where simple HR stops.
CharlieHR handles the people admin. The rest of the business is somewhere else.
People, not work
It knows who is off, not what they are working on or which client the week went to.
Growth costs extra
Hiring and HR advice come as paid add-ons on top of the plan.
Tools pile up
Time tracking, projects, CRM and invoicing each need another subscription as you grow.
Landing Platform vs CharlieHR, line by line.
Landing covers the same people basics and carries them into time, projects and money.
| Feature | Landing Platform |  CharlieHR |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Builders for the people who run it every day; everyone else is a Member, at £4 to £9 a month | By team-size bracket |
| Records and org chart | One record per person: role, manager, contract, documents and emergency contacts, with an org chart that draws itselfCore | Included |
| Time off | Balances, carryover, bank holidays and part-time patterns per person, approved in one click from the email, and approved leave lands on the timesheet by itselfCore | Included, approved from email and synced to calendars |
| Reviews, progression and pay | Reviews, goals and pay bands, and progression plans that apply the promotion and pay rise when every goal is metGrowth | Reviews with 360 feedback and templates |
| Contracts and e-signature | Offer letters and policies sent, signed and filed against the personCore | Self-serve onboarding with document collection |
| Timesheets | Filled overnight from each person's Outlook calendar, with approvals and reminders that go out on their ownCore | Not in its listed plans |
| Shift rota and clock-in | Rota per branch with open shifts, swaps, kiosk PIN clock-in and UK Working Time checks, including the 17-week averageCore | Not in its listed plans |
| Projects and capacity | Boards, Gantt, capacity and workloads, using each person's own working weekCore | Not included |
| CRM, quotes and invoices | Contacts, deals, quotes with e-signature, and invoices from hours, milestones or retainersCore | Not included |
| Hours to profit | Real salaries cost every hour worked, so margin per client, project and person is read off the pageGrowth | Not included |
Plan tags show where a feature starts on Landing: Core, Growth or Scale. CharlieHR details reflect its publicly available plans as of 2026; check current details on its own site.
What it costs, side by side.
CharlieHR charges a monthly price per team-size bracket, with add-ons for hiring and HR advice. Landing charges Builders for the few who run it, and Members for everyone else.
CharlieHR, as it lists it
How CharlieHR is sold, as its public pages describe it.
Figures as listed on their site, September 2026, ex VAT. And still to buy separately: time tracking, projects, a CRM and invoicing.
a month on Landing, billed yearly, ex VAT
Includes HR records, leave, reviews, e-signature, timesheets from Outlook, a shift rota, projects, CRM and invoicing.
Work out your own priceExample team: two people who run the business day to day, eighteen who book leave, log time and approve. No marketing contacts. Credits for AI, SMS and lookups come from a shared pool each Builder adds to.
Switching is our job, not yours.
We move you over one tool a month, against success criteria we agree with you up front. You don't pay until we prove each one is ready.
We map your team's tools
CharlieHR plus whatever tracks time, projects and clients. We agree what "ready" means first.
We move CharlieHR across
We move your data as part of the switch: people, balances and documents, checked before anyone books leave.
You sign it off
Billing starts only once it meets the criteria you set. Then we move the next tool, one a month.
But we're a small team.
Fair. Here are the questions small teams ask us most.
Is Landing too much for a team of twenty?
You only use what you need. People, leave and timesheets work on day one, and projects, CRM and invoicing are there when you want them, already on the same records.
Can new starters sign their contract in Landing?
Yes. Offer letters and policies are sent, signed in the browser and filed against the person, with no separate signing tool.
Does leave show up anywhere useful?
Yes. Approved leave appears on the timesheet by itself, and the project plan shows the gap before it bites.
What does a team member cost?
Anyone who books leave, logs time and approves is a Member, from £4 a month. Guests are free.
Logging hours for clients?
Get the free timesheet template and track time against clients and projects.
“We were running PR, social scheduling and the rest of our marketing across half a dozen tools that never talked. Now we plan, schedule and measure from a single screen.”
Start small, and keep the one tool as you grow.
Thirty minutes on how your team works today, with your price worked out on the call.