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HR Solutions for Retail

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.

ELMO HR Solutions for Retail

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.

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
People & Sustainability Manager, Good Drinks
Good Drinks’ story
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
Head of People and Culture at SilverChef Rentals
SilverChef Rentals’ story
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
Payroll & People Experience Coordinator, BridgeClimb
BridgeClimb’s story
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Solutions for your unique challenges

The foundation of retail people management. Centralise employee data, automate manual tasks and give managers real-time visibility across every store, team and shift.

Hire great people, fast. Streamline approvals, contracts and candidate communication to secure the right talent quickly – even during seasonal peaks.

Make every first day count. Digitise forms, policies and training so new hires hit the ground running and feel part of your team and brand from day one.

Confidence in every pay run. Connect payroll with HR to manage complex rosters, pay types and awards in one secure platform, ensuring accuracy, compliance and consistency every time.

Keep your workforce skilled and consistent. Manage compliance, product knowledge and service training in one hub with automated reminders and timely tracking.

Build engagement that lasts. Align store and head office goals, recognise achievements and use performance insights to reduce turnover and develop future leaders.

Ready to build a stronger retail workforce?

See how ELMO helps retailers simplify HR, engage teams and reduce turnover.

Join 2,000+ ANZ organisations who trust ELMO to cut HR admin, keep them compliant and manage the entire employee lifecycle with confidence.

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’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.

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.

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.