By industry · Recruiting and staffing

Candidates, placements and the contractor pay run, without a handover between products.

Recruiting software stops at the placement, and then the money problem starts. WorkBOS runs the candidate pipeline, the placement and the contractor pay register in one workspace, and the pay run posts to real books.

Free for up to 5 seats · no card required

What usually goes wrong

01

The candidate system and the client CRM are separate, so a placement is entered twice.

02

Contractor pay is a monthly spreadsheet that becomes a manual journal entry.

03

Margin per placement is known roughly, and late.

What you get, by name

Every capability below is enforced on the server, not a demo screenshot. Anything that needs a paid plan says so on the card rather than leaving you to find out at checkout.

Candidate pipeline
Job postings, applications, interviews and offer letters as tracked records with the whole history attached.
Client CRM in the same workspace
Leads, deals, companies and contacts, so a client and a candidate are not in different products.
A contractor pay registerPro and up
Pay runs and payslips posting journal entries to the ledger. Gross from salary or hours with deductions typed by an admin: no statutory tax calculation, no filings and no direct deposit, so it sits alongside your payroll provider rather than replacing it.
Invoicing and recurring billingPro and up
Bill the client from the same workspace the placement lives in, with recurring schedules for ongoing contracts.
Sequences and templates
Candidate and client outreach with merge fields that refuse to send half filled.
Approve-first AI agents
An approve-first AI Chief of Staff that proposes the work and waits for a person to say yes. Every action it takes runs through the same permission checks a human would hit, is recorded against the person who approved it, and can be rolled back in one click. The full append-only audit log you can read back and export is an Enterprise capability.

Your first week

  1. 1

    Bring in candidates and open roles, and set your pipeline stages.

  2. 2

    Run one placement end to end, from application to invoice.

  3. 3

    Run one pay period in parallel and compare the journal entries with your current process.

What you are probably weighing this against

Each comparison opens by saying where the other product is the better choice, because that is the half of a comparison worth reading.

Questions recruiters ask

Does it file contractor taxes?

No. It is a pay register: it computes gross, applies deductions an admin types, produces payslips and posts to the ledger. Statutory tax, filings and direct deposit stay with your provider or your accountant.

Can I see margin per placement?

The invoice and the pay run post to the same general ledger and can be tagged to the same company, so the margin comes out of the books rather than a reconciliation.

Can clients see their own pipeline?

A branded client portal shows each client the projects, files, invoices and approvals that are theirs, and nothing else, with isolation enforced in the database.

Set it up the way recruiters actually work.

Start free for up to five seats, or let the Business Architect lay out the whole workspace from a short conversation and show you the blueprint before anything is created.

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