HR Software for Retail: Manage People and Compliance Across Every Store
                     HR  SOFTWARE  FOR  SM ALL  BUS INESSES
Small Team,
Big Obligations
How Australian small businesses onboard, train and 
keep records straight without an HR department
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What we'll cover
SIX PARTS,  ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTES
01 Obligations that don't scale Who this is built for 02 down
The shape of Australian small business Fair Work, records, dismissal, safety
03 What getting it wrong costs 04 Six jobs it takes off your desk
Enforcement in plain numbers From hiring to reviews
05 The platform, module by 06 Proof and the next stepmodule
Plus the AI assistant Who uses it and how to start
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Nearly every Australian employer is a 
small one
SHARE OF ALL AUSTRALIAN BUSINESSES,  JUNE 2025
Small, 0 to 19 staff
2,656,469 businesses
Medium, 20 to 199 staff
67,857 businesses
Large, 200+ staff
97.3% 5,322 businesses
small business
Of 2.73 million businesses trading in Australia, 
all but about 73,000 employ fewer than 20 
people. Most of them run HR with no HR team.
ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, published by ASBFEO, August 2025 www.sentrient.com.au
Most employers have fewer than five staff
AUSTRALIAN BUSINESSES BY NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
200+ staff 0.2% 34%
of businesses employ staff, and most 
of those have fewer than five
20 to 199 staff 2.5%
5 to 19 staff 9% 15
staff is the line where unfair 
dismissal rules change for you
1 to 4 staff 25%
A business with nine people still 
owes every employee the same 
Non-employing 64%
paperwork as one with nine 
hundred.
ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, published by ASBFEO, August 2025 www.sentrient.com.au
The obligations don't scale down
FOUR DUTIES THAT APPLY FROM YOUR FIRST EMPLOYEE
Fair Work Information 
Seven years of records
Statement
Every new employee gets one before they start or Pay, hours, leave, super and agreements, kept for 
soon after. Casuals get the casual version as well. seven years and produced when asked.
Small Business Fair Dismissal 
Work health and safety duties
Code
Under 15 staff, follow the code and keep the Consult, train, record and act on incidents. The 
evidence, or an unfair dismissal claim gets hard duty is the same as a business ten times your 
to defend. size.
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What getting it wrong costs
FAIR WORK OMBUDSMAN RECOVERIES,  BY F INANCIAL YEAR
$473 
million $23.7m
in court penalties in 2024 to 2025, the 
$358 highest on record
million
743
infringement notices for record keeping 
and pay slip breaches
249,000+
workers back-paid in a single year
2023 to 2024 2024 to 2025
Fair Work Ombudsman annual reports, 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025 www.sentrient.com.au
PART  TWO
Inside Sentrient
One system for hiring, onboarding, training, policies, records and 
reviews
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Six jobs it takes off your desk
BUILT FOR OWNERS AND MANAGERS WHO DO HR ON TOP OF THEIR DAY JOB
Hire without the admin Onboard starters in minutes
Post the role, track applicants and keep Contracts, policies and forms go out as one 
every note in one place. pack and come back signed.
Keep a small team connected Stay on top of compliance
Announcements and a community wall Licences, policies and incidents tracked with 
everyone can see, including field staff. reminders before they lapse.
Train staff without a trainer Run reviews that happen
Australian compliance courses sit ready to Goals, check-ins and prompts that chase 
assign, no course writing needed. themselves instead of you.
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The platform, module by module
TURN ON WHAT YOU NEED NOW AND ADD THE REST LATER
Recruitment and Announcements and Time and attendance
onboarding community wall
Job ads, applicants, offers and a One place for news, shout-outs Timesheets, leave and absence 
starter pack that completes itself. and the things that get lost in patterns you can actually see.
email.
Performance and goals Compliance and safety AI-powered HR 
assistance
Short reviews, clear goals and Licence reminders, policy sign-off, Spots what is overdue and tells the 
check-ins on a schedule. incident reports and course right person about it.
records.
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End to end across the employee lifecycle
NINE AREAS,  ONE RECORD FOR EACH PERSON
01 02 03
Onboarding and 
Recruitment management Learning and development
offboarding
04 05 06
Compliance, risk and People and employee 
Performance and goals
safety records
07 08 09
Timesheets and 
Documents and forms Checklists and tasks
attendance
Each stage writes to the same employee file, so an audit request is a search, not a hunt.
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Compliance training, ready to assign
COURSES WRITTEN FOR AUSTRALIAN WORKPLACES,  NO COURSE BUILDING REQUIRED
Sexual harassment 
Work health and safety
prevention
Bullying and harassment Privacy Set it once, it repeats
Annual refreshers reassign themselves 
Equal employment and chase the people who have not 
Cyber security
opportunity finished.
Social media Also tracked
Licences and certificates with expiry 
reminders
Policy sign-off, with who has read what
Incident reports and the actions taken
Sentrient covers HR, training and compliance records. It does not run payroll, 
rostering, award interpretation, Single Touch Payroll or super.
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The AI assistant watches the gaps
QUIET PROMPTS INSTEAD OF ANOTHER DASHBOARD TO CHECK
Overdue training Unread policies
Flags who has not finished and nudges them, Shows which policies are still waiting on a 
then tells you if it stalls. signature.
Absence insights Review reminders
Surfaces leave patterns worth a quiet Tells managers a check-in is due before the 
conversation. quarter closes.
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Trusted across Australia and New Zealand
WHAT THE NUMBERS LOOK LIKE TODAY
2 
1,000+ 150,000+
million+
businesses across every 
staff supported across Australia hours saved every year
industry sector
Organisations using Sentrient include
Engineers Australia Jesuit Social Services Housing Trust Carinya Society Community Action Gympie
St Patrick's Community Support Centre Grampians Community Health Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick
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Works with the tools you already pay for
RECORDS STAY IN STEP WITHOUT DOUBLE ENTRY
Payroll and accounting Single sign-on Wider HR and CRM
Xero Microsoft Entra ID Salesforce
MYOB Okta BambooHR
KeyPay Cornerstone
Employee details flow through, so 
Staff sign in with the account they Where these are already in place, 
you are not retyping names and 
already use every morning. Sentrient sits alongside them.
start dates.
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Why small businesses pick Sentrient
SIX REASONS THAT SHOW UP IN THE FIRST MONTH
Save HR time Streamline operations Lift productivity
Hours of chasing turn into a few One place for records, not four Managers spend time on people, 
clicks. spreadsheets. not paperwork.
Make smart decisions Integrate easily Get real support
Reporting you can read without a Fits the payroll and sign-in you A team that helps you set it up 
data analyst. already run. and keeps answering.
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Built for the way Australian industries 
work
SAME OBLIGATIONS,  VERY DIFFERENT WORKING DAYS
Care homes Churches Schools Restaurants
Construction Contractors Charities Organised and reliable, and 
it helps the organisation 
Recruitment agencies Healthcare Hospitality stay compliant and up to 
date.
Professional services Not for profits
Alicia Harvey
People and Culture Advisor
Rosters, shift workers, volunteers, multiple sites and seasonal starters all 
sit in the same system, with records kept per site. Summarised from the customer's comments on 
sentrient.com.au
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NEXT  STEP
Book a 20-minute demo
Bring your trickiest HR job. We will show you how it runs in 
Sentrient, with your own starters, courses and policies in mind.
01 02 03
Pick your starting 
See it on your own setup Go live with support
modules
Begin with onboarding or 
A short walkthrough, no slides Set-up help and a team on call
compliance
Request your free demo
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