Free for teams under US $5M

Free HR software for small teams in the US and Canada

CloverHR keeps everything about your people in one place: records, time off, timesheets, hiring, onboarding, benefits, pay, performance and reports. It runs on your own server, and you can deploy it free on StackBlaze in one click.

Deploy CloverHR free on StackBlaze See the code on GitHub

No credit card. A setup wizard creates your account on first visit.

The CloverHR home page for an HR admin: requests waiting for approval, time off balances, company news, who is out, and new people

One clickDeploys with its own Postgres database
Your serverYour data stays in your deployment
English and FrenchEach person picks a language
USD and CADRules for every state and province

Everything an HR team needs, in plain words

CloverHR is built around people. Each person's profile holds everything about them, changes are dated and kept, and requests are sent, then approved or denied. A new workspace works on day one; settings only change the defaults.

Employee records

One profile per person with personal, job, pay, emergency contacts, documents and assets.

Job, status and pay history by effective date
Custom fields, custom tables and calculated fields
Org chart, directory and change requests

Time off and holidays

Vacation, sick and leave policies that accrue on their own, with balances people can trust.

Accruals, carry-over and caps by level
Holiday lists for each state and province
Who's out calendar and calendar feeds

Timesheets and time tracking

Hours by day, project and task, with overtime worked out from the rules where each person works.

Clock in from the phone or a shared kiosk
Overtime and double time by state and province
Shift differentials and project rates

Scheduling and breaks

Shifts, open shifts and swaps, with meal and rest breaks checked against local law.

Work schedules and shift templates
Break premiums where the law requires them
Adherence against the schedule

Hiring

Openings, candidates, interviews and offers in one pipeline your hiring managers can share.

Careers page with application questions
Job board feeds and Google for Jobs markup
Offer letters signed in the app

Onboarding and offboarding

New-hire packets, checklists and welcome messages, so day one starts ready.

Tax forms and Form I-9 tracking
E-signatures for documents and policies
Tasks for HR, IT and managers

Benefits

Plans, coverage levels, costs and enrolment, with eligibility from benefit groups.

Pre-tax and post-tax deductions for payroll
Percent-of-pay costs and plan limits
Dated group changes and enrolment windows

Compensation

Pay bands, benchmarks and planning cycles, with managers' recommendations rolled into a budget.

Compa-ratio against pay bands
Merit, bonus and equity worksheets
Total rewards statements

Performance and growth

Reviews, feedback and goals, with training records and employee satisfaction surveys.

Self and manager assessments, and feedback
Goals with milestones and alignment
Training due dates and certificates

Reports and payroll export

Standard reports, a report builder, and an export your payroll software can read.

Headcount, turnover, time off and hours
Saved and shared reports, with PDF and CSV export
Payroll codes on departments and locations

Announcements and inbox

Company news with acknowledgements, and one inbox for everything waiting on each person.

Birthdays, anniversaries and new people
Email alerts on the changes you choose
Approvals in one or more steps

Security and access

Access levels down to each field, so people see only what their role allows.

Two-step sign-in and passkeys
Single sign-on with SAML or OpenID Connect
Encrypted bank and identity numbers, full audit log

See every feature in detail

A calm, clear place to run HR

White pages, plain words and sensible defaults. Admins get the full picture; employees get just their own profile.

People and profiles

Find anyone in the directory, open their profile, and change a field in place. Every change is kept with who made it and when, and job, status and pay changes take effect on the date you choose.

Field-level history and corrections with a reason
Managers see their team; HR sees everyone
Import people from a spreadsheet

The CloverHR people directory with names, job titles, departments and locations

Time off that adds up

Set policies once and balances accrue on their own. People request time off from their phone; managers see the balance and who else is out before they approve.

Policies by location, department or person
Approvals in one or several steps
Opening balances imported from your old system

CloverHR time off requests with dates, types, amounts and approval status

Hiring without the spreadsheet

Post an opening to your careers page and job boards, move candidates through each stage, schedule interviews, and send an offer to sign. A hired candidate becomes an employee with their details already filled in.

Questions per opening and candidate sources
Shared notes and ratings for the hiring team
New-hire packet sent on acceptance

CloverHR job openings with candidate counts by stage

Reports you can act on

Start from a standard report or build your own from any field you are allowed to see. Save it, share it, or export it to a spreadsheet or PDF.

Group, filter and add up any column
Each row checked against the reader's access
A payroll export for every pay period

The CloverHR reports page listing standard and saved reports

Made for phones, too

An employee who manages no one sees only their own profile, My info, with no menus to learn. They request time off, clock in, sign documents and update their details from their phone.

A real phone layout on every page
Notices for anything waiting on them
English or French, as each person prefers

Built for the United States and Canada

Each location carries a country and a state or province. That one setting drives the rules people work under, so you do not have to look them up.

Holidays

Statutory and common holidays for each state and province, with holiday lists you can aim at locations, departments, divisions or job titles.

Overtime and breaks

Daily and weekly overtime, double time where it applies, such as California, and meal and rest break rules, each with its source.

Forms and ID numbers

Form I-9 sections and deadlines, W-4 and TD1 forms, and Social Security and Social Insurance numbers kept encrypted.

USD and CAD

Money is kept to the cent in US or Canadian dollars, with exchange rates for reports that span both countries.

English and Canadian French

The whole app, its emails and its help pages come in both languages. Each person picks theirs, or follows the company's.

Several companies

Legal entities with their own employer numbers, pay schedules and pay groups, for teams that hire on both sides of the border.

Up and running in a few minutes

StackBlaze hosts CloverHR for you from its template: the app, a Postgres database, email and a secure address. There is nothing to install and nothing to fill in first.

Click deploy

Sign in to StackBlaze, or create a free account, and deploy the CloverHR template.
StackBlaze sets it up

It creates the app and its database, generates the secret keys, and runs the database setup on first start.
Create your account

Open your app's address. A setup wizard asks for your name, email and password, and offers two-step sign-in.

Deploy CloverHR free on StackBlaze

StackBlaze's free plan is for trying things out: its services sleep after 15 minutes without visits and wake on the next one. For everyday use, pick a paid StackBlaze plan so CloverHR stays on and its reminders and accruals run on time.

Free for small and mid-sized organizations

CloverHR is published by StackBlaze Inc. under the Business Source License 1.1. The source code is open to read, and most teams pay nothing for the software.

Who you are	What you may do
Total finances under US $5M a year	Use CloverHR in production at no cost.
Anyone, any size	Develop, test, evaluate and learn with it at no cost.
Hosting it for clients	Free when each client is under the limit. A hosted service for larger clients needs a commercial licence.
At or above US $5M	Ask StackBlaze Inc. for a commercial licence.
Four years after a release	That version becomes available under the GNU General Public License, version 3.

"Total finances" is the largest of your revenue, budget or funding in the last 12 months, counting affiliates. The licence text has the exact terms.

Questions

Is CloverHR really free?

Yes, for organizations whose total finances (revenue, budget or funding) were under US $5 million in the last 12 months. Testing and evaluation are free for everyone. Larger organizations, and hosting providers serving them, need a commercial licence from StackBlaze Inc.

How do I deploy CloverHR?

Click Deploy free on StackBlaze. StackBlaze creates the app and its Postgres database from the CloverHR template. Open the app's address and a setup wizard creates your owner account. There is nothing to configure beforehand.

Does CloverHR run payroll?

No. CloverHR keeps pay, hours, time off and benefit deductions, and exports them for the payroll or accounting software you already use. Pay runs stay in that software.

Does CloverHR work in Canada and in French?

Yes. Locations carry a country and a state or province, which drive holidays, overtime and break rules, ID numbers and tax forms. Money is kept in USD or CAD, and every person can use the app in English or Canadian French.

Where is our employee data stored?

On your own deployment: your CloverHR app and your own Postgres database. Bank and identity numbers are encrypted, and private fields such as pay are shown only to HR and the person they belong to.

Is CloverHR open source?

CloverHR is source-available under the Business Source License 1.1. The full source code is on GitHub. Each version becomes available under the GNU General Public License, version 3, four years after it is first published.

Can I run CloverHR somewhere other than StackBlaze?

Yes. CloverHR is published as a Docker image and runs on any server with Postgres 16. StackBlaze is the quickest way to start because it sets up the app, its database and email for you.

Can employees use CloverHR on their phones?

Yes. Every page has a real phone layout. Employees request time off, clock in, sign documents and update their details from their phone.

Can I move from spreadsheets or another HR system?

Yes. You can import people, opening time off balances and hours from CSV files, and connect other software through the API and webhooks.

Give your people a better HR system today

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