Boilerplate vs HollyHR

Boilerplate provides portals and reusable checklists for document requests, onboarding, and recurring paperwork. A checklist can combine digital forms, fillable PDFs, file uploads, e-signatures, and assigned tasks. Its dashboard tracks whether items are open, closed, returned for updates, or ready for review, alongside due dates and expirations. Due dates can trigger email reminders to recipients with overdue items. Users can personalize and prefill PDFs, collect e-signatures, and verify signed documents using an encrypted hash. Administrators choose how long files and data remain on the service; files are automatically removed afterward. The application is web-based, so clients need not download an app; users can upload files from a desktop or capture them with a mobile device. Listed live integrations include AWS S3, Box, Egnyte, Google, Lever, Microsoft 365, and Salesforce. Boilerplate describes AES-256 encryption, optional client-side encryption, key shredding, multi-factor authentication, firewalls, monitoring, and third-party penetration testing. Its security page says files are hosted on AWS servers in the United States and lists HIPAA compliance safeguards. Pricing is available on request.

HollyHR is core HR software for small UK teams, bringing people records, working patterns, leave, documents, starter processes and reports together. Teams can manage leave requests and approvals, balances, sickness records and UK public holidays, with a shared Who’s Away calendar. Reusable onboarding packs create individual journeys with due dates and owners; private files, right-to-work evidence and policy acknowledgements stay with employee records. Built-in headcount, turnover and time-off reports export as CSV or PDF. Organisation export includes CSV data, available uploaded files and a manifest. HollyHR connects with services including Zapier, Make, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Claude, Google Calendar, Outlook and Xero Payroll UK, with differing capabilities and availability. Approved leave can be sent to Xero after employees and leave types are matched, but salary, tax, bank, pay-run and employee-creation data do not sync. API reads and signed webhooks are available on every plan; creating records through the API or integrations requires Standard and System Admin permission. A free plan covers up to 10 active employees; Standard starts at £2/user/mo. The service runs on web and through an API.