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Retail HRIS with staff at its core

With changing customer expectations and high-paced environments, your people are what set you apart. ELMO helps you engage, develop and retain your teams so they can deliver exceptional customer experiences.

How does ELMO help retail businesses?

Retail never stops and neither do its people.

Forever replacing staff?

Streamline recruitment and onboarding to get new hires job-ready sooner. Deliver a great first-day experience that helps people stay longer.

Constant compliance concerns?

Track training, policy acknowledgements and certifications automatically. Stay audit-ready with real-time visibility across your entire workforce.

Endless manual HR tasks?

Simplify workflows with integrated HR and payroll. Eliminate double handling, reduce errors and get time back for the work that drives performance.

Disengaged staff?

Keep communication open and culture strong with mobile-friendly access to learning, updates and feedback, connecting every employee to your brand and purpose.

Solutions for your unique challenges

A unified employee system of record

Explore HR Core
The heart of your hospitality workforce. Centralise employee data, automate admin and give managers real-time visibility across every site and shift.
Layer ELMO’s AI-powered natural language insights engine to inform workforce decisions in real time, no spreadsheets or data analysts required.
Explore HR Core

Find and hire the right talent fast

Explore Recruitment
Hire fast and efficiently. Post jobs, screen candidates and send offers in one place to build reliable, service-ready teams.
Use gen-AI to write descriptions, automate posting to multiple job boards, centralise candidate data, and generate offer letters in one workflow.
Explore Recruitment

Make first impressions count

Explore Onboarding
Get new hires ready before day one. Digitise forms, inductions and policy sign-offs for a consistent start every time.
Deliver a smooth and professional onboarding experience while keeping new hires engaged and gaining momentum.
Explore Onboarding

Find your payroll fit

Explore Payroll
Get matced to the right payroll with a curated network of best-in-breed payroll to suit your business.
One system so your people processes and payroll data can work together with less manual re-keying and reconciliation
Explore Payroll

LMS that builds capability

Explore Learning
Manage compliance, product knowledge and service training in one hub with automated reminders and timely tracking.
Build courses in-house with quizzes, interactive elements and more, or tap into our library of 400+ ready-made courses.
Explore Learning

Performance that powers results

Explore Performance Management
Support growth and fairness across your teams. Standardise reviews, align individual goals with organisational outcomes and recognise contribution with transparent, data-driven performance decisions.
Monitor progress and set alerts to automate tracking and reminders, and gain insight into employee performance, productivity, and progress.
Explore Performance Management

Close capability gaps

Explore Workforce Design
Develop capability frameworks and identify skills gaps in minutes, not months.
Generate frameworks for emerging skills, benchmark current capabilities and develop personalised learning pathways.
Explore Workforce Design

Don’t just take our word for it

““One of our main sources of pain before ELMO was paper management and dealing with historical records, in addition to using separate systems for payroll, candidate management and onboarding.”
Emma Cross
Good Drinks
“We’re a growing business so we wanted to create a people platform that would help us grow the capability of our people, but was also scalable into different geographic locations.”
Amanda Tye
SilverChef Rentals
“When you’re looking for a paper employee record from 2007 in a manila folder, you know you need to do something differently.”
Caterina Davis
BridgeClimb
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Find the answers you’re looking for

ELMO streamlines recruitment with job board integrations and onboarding automation, allowing you to ramp up staffing quickly during peak trading periods like holidays or end-of-financial-year sales. AI-assisted tools help create job ads faster and screen candidates more efficiently.

Yes. ELMO Performance enables regular check-ins, structured reviews and goal alignment across large, distributed retail teams. It simplifies the appraisal process so managers can focus on developing their staff, while aligning individual goals with broader organisational objectives.

Yes. ELMO’s Learning Management System is accessible on any device via the ELMOHR mobile app. This means frontline retail employees can complete mandatory compliance training and professional development modules on the go — without needing to leave the shop floor for a desktop computer.

ELMO HR Core digitises and automates HR operations with configurable employee self-service, built-in analytics and dashboards. Employees can maintain their own personal data, submit leave requests and access payslips – significantly reducing the volume of routine admin queries hitting your HR team.

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