BambooHR is the HR platform that most small and mid-sized teams encounter first when they outgrow spreadsheets.
Per-employee pricingCloudFree trial
Best Onboarding Software for Remote Teams
Onboarding software for companies hiring people who start from home, compared on laptop and account provisioning, chat-based delivery, manager nudges and total cost per hire.
What this audience should prioritize
A remote new hire's first day depends on things arriving before they log in: a configured laptop, working accounts and a manager who has blocked time. Nobody can walk over to fix a gap, so onboarding software for remote teams has to coordinate IT and managers as tightly as it handles forms.
Rippling ties HR to IT, so a hire can trigger device and app setup from the same record. The core platform is estimated at $8 per employee per month plus a $35 to $40 monthly base, and IT Cloud is custom-priced. The flip side is setup time of 4 to 10 weeks, and a misconfigured trigger can fire actions across HR, IT and finance at once.
Zavvy delivers onboarding, training and reviews through Slack or Microsoft Teams and targets remote-first companies with 50 to 500 employees. It started at $4 per user before Deel bought it in 2023, so standalone availability needs checking. Enboarder coordinates managers and buddies with nudges, but at an estimated $10,000 to $40,000 a year it fits companies hiring more than 100 people annually.
Shortlist candidates for Remote Teams
Rippling is the HR platform that refused to stay in its lane.
Modular pricingCloud
Gusto is the payroll platform that most small businesses encounter first when they realize they need more than a spreadsheet and a quarterly trip to the accountant.
Per-employee pricingCloudFree trial
Deel is a global hiring platform covering employer of record, contractor payments, global payroll, US PEO and a free HRIS for smaller teams.
Per-employee pricingCloudFree trial
HiBob, marketed as 'Bob', is the HR platform that mid-market companies choose when they want something more modern than BambooHR but less enterprise than Workday.
Custom quoteCloud
Enboarder is not an HRIS that happens to include onboarding.
Custom quoteCloud
Click Boarding is an onboarding platform built from the ground up for compliance.
Custom quoteCloud
Trainual turns company SOPs, policies and role responsibilities into training playbooks for small and mid-sized businesses.
Tiered pricingCloudFree trial
Process Street runs repeatable checklists, approvals and forms with conditional logic, keeping an audit trail of who approved what and when.
Tiered pricingCloudFree trial
ClearCompany is a talent management suite for mid-sized companies, combining an ATS, onboarding, performance reviews and engagement surveys.
Custom quoteCloud
Sapling is onboarding, offboarding and people-data software for mid-market companies, owned by Kallidus since 2022 and sold by quote.
Custom quoteCloud
Talmundo is a dedicated onboarding platform that covers the full lifecycle of employee transitions, pre-boarding, onboarding, re-boarding (for internal moves and role changes), and offboarding.
Custom quoteCloud
Zavvy is an employee enablement platform that combines onboarding journeys, training delivery, performance reviews, and career development frameworks in a single tool designed for remote-first and distributed teams.
Per-user pricingCloud
Frequently asked questions
Does remote onboarding software handle laptop setup?
Most tools only assign the task to IT. Rippling goes further by linking HR records to device and app management through IT Cloud, which is priced separately. Workflow tools such as Process Street can hold the checklist but do not provision anything.