Questions people ask before they sign up
Straight answers. If yours is not here, email info@site-lynx.co.uk and a person replies. No sales call, we promise.
Price and trial
How much does Work-Lynx cost?
£2.50 a month for the business plus £1 a month for each employee. Ten staff is £12.50 a month. Fifty is £52.50. No tiers, no per-module bolt-ons, no setup fee. No VAT is added: the price shown is the whole bill. What you see on the pricing page is the bill.
Is there a free trial?
Fourteen days with everything switched on, no card needed to start. If you add a card during the trial to carry on, you are not charged until the fourteen days are up.
Do I have to sit through a demo or a sales call?
No. There are none, which is part of why it costs a fraction of Connecteam, RotaCloud and BrightHR. Sign up, put your people in, see for yourself.
Why is it so cheap compared with the others?
Their price has to cover a sales team, an account manager and a support desk. Ours does not. We pointed AI at HR admin and passed the saving on. That is the whole trick. Comparative prices on this site are the competitors' own published rates.
Is there a contract?
No. Pay monthly, cancel any time from the billing page, and access runs to the end of the month you have paid for. No notice period and no exit fee.
What you get
What is included?
All of it, on every plan: GPS clock-in with a live map, rotas with shift swaps, timesheets that fill themselves, annual leave, sick leave and TOIL (time off in lieu), payslips and expenses, a training matrix with expiry alerts, onboarding, reviews, announcements, an org chart, 49 preloaded policies and Ask an employment question.
What are the preloaded policies?
49 HR policies written for the UK: health and safety, data protection, disciplinary and grievance, sick leave, annual leave, whistleblowing, flexible working, lone working and the rest. Put your name on them, publish, and staff acknowledge on their phones. Each one has its own page under HR policies.
Is the employment-question answer legal advice?
No. It is a UK employment-law assistant that knows the ACAS codes, statutory sick pay, holiday entitlement, TUPE, notice periods and the usual position on most questions, and it drafts letters, contracts and policies for you to check. For anything that could end at a tribunal, take proper advice. Guidance, not legal advice.
How does GPS clock in stop people covering for each other?
Everyone uses their own phone to clock in inside a geofence you draw around the workplace, and the time and location are recorded. There is no terminal for a mate to tap. No signal? It is captured on the phone and syncs when it reconnects.
How do the hours get into payroll?
Timesheets build themselves from clock-ins against the rota, with breaks and overtime applied from rules you set once. Approve the week and export it as a file your payroll run accepts.
Staff, phones and leaving
Do my staff need to download anything?
They get their own mobile view for clock-in, rota, annual leave requests, payslips and policy acknowledgements. It runs in the phone browser and can be installed as an app from there. Nobody needs a company phone.
Is it only for construction?
No. We started out building for construction firms, but today's customers include care homes, coffee shops, gyms, charities, security firms and trades businesses: anyone with hourly or shift staff.
Is my data safe, and what happens if I leave?
Your data is yours. Export your people, timesheets and leave as spreadsheets at any time, and if you cancel, take what you need before the month ends. We do not hold it hostage.
Who built it?
Site Lynx Group Ltd, in the UK, selling into the UK and beyond. Built by a commercial manager running a real payroll of tradespeople who was tired of paying per seat for software that still needed a spreadsheet. Email info@site-lynx.co.uk and a person answers.