SEATS, BRACKETS, AND WHAT A TEAM GETS THAT ONE RECRUITER DOES NOT.
WHAT A SEAT BUYS
Everything your team needs, in one place.
- One team. One pipeline. One picture of what is happening.ATS Engine is designed to make the recruitment operation easier to seeRead more →
- The engine does not assume a country.ATS Engine ships starter document sets for eight UK regulated sectorsRead more →
- Built so your pricing scales with your recruitment desk.Add seats as your team grows and pay less per userRead more →
MOVING THE DESK OVER
From individuals to one recruitment desk.
- Stop working as individuals. Start working as one recruitment desk.Invite by seat · Grow without rethinking the productRead more →
- Your candidates. Moved across for nothing.Every desk already has a database - a CRM export, a folder of CVs, a spreadsheet three people maintainRead more →
- If your sector checks paperwork, so does the deskHealthcare, education, early years, construction, energy and offshore, driving and logisticsRead more →
RUNNING THE DESK
Designed for how real recruitment desks work.
- A permanent role is filled once. A shift is filled every day.The compliance half above is only useful to a temp desk if the desk itself works the way a temp desk works. A temporary vacancy is not oneRead more →
- Your recruitment desk is only as strong as the visibility your team shares.Choose the seat tier that fits today, then grow into the next tier as your operationRead more →
- Team Pricing QuestionsRead more →
One team. One pipeline. One picture of what is happening.
ATS Engine is designed to make the recruitment operation easier to see and easier to manage. Instead of every person maintaining their own version of the process, your team can work from the same recruitment picture.
The same pipeline, on everybody’s screen.
Not one recruiter’s spreadsheet emailed round on a Friday. Every consultant sees the same candidates at the same stages, with the same compliance status against each — so the question “where did that one get to?” has an answer that does not involve interrupting somebody.
Recruiters stay aligned
Keep candidate and vacancy activity visible across the desk.
Hiring managers stay informed
Reduce the need to chase updates and reconstruct progress.
Admins keep control
Manage seats and the recruitment workspace as the team grows.
Growth gets cheaper per user
Your rate drops from £25 to £22.50 and then £20 as you move through the published tiers.
£25 /user/month
You and up to four colleagues. Everything in the Recruiter plan, shared across your whole team.
Start with 1–5£22.50 /user/month
Building out a proper desk. Same board, same pipeline, everyone sees the same picture.
Choose Growing£20 /user/month
A full floor of recruiters, hiring managers and admins, all on one account.
Choose EstablishedBespoke
Not sure how many seats you need? Tell us where you're headed and we'll work out the right option.
Talk to UsThe engine does not assume a country.
ATS Engine ships starter document sets for eight UK regulated sectors because that is where it was built. None of them is wired in. A desk placing into US healthcare builds I-9, state licensure and its own credential list exactly the way a UK desk builds DBS — same fields, same expiry and re-check behaviour, same thirty-day task, different paperwork.
Your document list, not ours
You create each document type, name it, mark it mandatory, set how many are required and set how often it must be re-checked. Adding one takes a minute and no involvement from us, so the regime you work to is the one you enter — not the one we shipped.
Priced to match how you pay
Seats are billed in pounds sterling through PayPal wherever the team sits. Where the switch above offers US dollars, that is a genuine second rate — not a converted figure.
One desk, wherever it is
Your organisation is isolated from every other one on the platform, and the account owner can export the whole desk at any time. There is no regional edition to choose between and no migration if the team moves.
Built so your pricing scales with your recruitment desk.
Add seats as your team grows and pay less per user. Same features. More value.
- Lower per-user rate
- Same great features
- Built for growth
vs starter rate
£135/month total
- 6 user seats
- Full platform access
- Team collaboration
- Reassign a seat at no extra cost
vs starter rate
£225/month total
- 10 user seats
- Full platform access
- Team collaboration
- Reassign a seat at no extra cost
vs starter rate
£220/month total
- 11 user seats
- Full platform access
- Team collaboration
- Reassign a seat at no extra cost
vs starter rate
£400/month total
- 20 user seats
- Full platform access
- Team collaboration
- Reassign a seat at no extra cost
Illustrative monthly totals are calculated from the published per-user rates and assume every seat is billed at that tier’s rate.
No long contracts · Add seats at any time · Reassign a seat at no extra cost
Try the whole desk before you count seats. Fourteen days, no card.
Start free — 14 days →Stop working as individuals. Start working as one recruitment desk.
Invite by seat
Add recruiters, hiring managers and admins according to the size of your team.
Grow without rethinking the product
The per-user price reduces at the 6-seat and 11-seat tiers.
Candidates don’t count
The team pricing model is for people using the recruitment workspace.
Your candidates. Moved across for nothing.
Every desk already has a database - a CRM export, a folder of CVs, a spreadsheet three people maintain. Moving it is the reason most agencies never change system. So we move it for you, free of charge, before you have paid for anything.
Whatever you are leaving, we take the export.
A CRM export, a folder of CVs, a spreadsheet three people maintain, a dump from the system you are giving notice to. It comes back as a working desk rather than an archive, and it costs nothing.
We do the migration, not you
Send the export from whatever you use now - CSV, a folder of CVs, an old ATS dump - and we map it into your ATS Engine and hand it back as a working desk. No charge, no per-record fee, and no evenings spent retyping people you already know.
They earn their keep on day one
A migrated candidate is a live record the moment it lands. The CV is read, the skills are indexed, and the person is scored against every role on your desk. Your existing database starts producing shortlists before a single invitation goes out.
Invite them when it suits you
Nobody is emailed because you migrated them. A candidate only hears from ATS Engine when you invite them - and the invitation is into your organisation, not onto a shared platform. By then you already know which of your roles they fit.
It is your data, and it stays your data.
Your candidates, your notes, your history - held in your organisation’s ATS Engine, where no other agency can search them, see them, or know they exist. Your account owner can export the whole desk from Settings at any time: every record as a CSV, every CV as the original file, in one zip. We move it in for free. You can move it out the same way.
If your sector checks paperwork, so does the desk
Healthcare, education, early years, construction, energy and offshore, driving and logistics, financial services and security-cleared work each have a credential regime, and none of them is the same. ATS Engine ships a starting set for all eight, and every one of them is yours to edit.
Different clients ask for different paperwork.
Each client carries its own list of required documents, and a candidate is checked against the list of the client they are actually being submitted to — not one blanket set for the whole agency. Every type holds its own expiry, its own re-check cadence, and whether that expiry may raise a task at all.
Your document list, not ours
Add “Paediatric First Aid” in a minute — no release, no waiting on us. Pick a sector to start from, then change whatever does not fit.
Different clients, different paperwork
One client insists on enhanced DBS and two written references; another does not. Each client carries its own list, so your consultants do not have to remember whose is whose.
Counts that are enforced
Two proofs of address. Two references. Set as a rule the system checks, rather than something a busy consultant is trusted to remember.
Re-checks, not just expiry dates
A DBS Update Service status is re-confirmed on a cadence; it does not simply run out. So is an offshore medical. Both are handled as what they are.
References chased without you
The request goes out, the referee answers on a form, the reply lands on the candidate’s record. Outstanding ones are chased on their own.
Thirty days’ notice, automatically
An expiry raises a task against the recruiter responsible before it lapses — not on a spreadsheet somebody has to remember to open.
The part a standalone compliance register cannot do
It tells you a document is missing. It cannot tell you at the moment it matters, because it does not know a submission is happening. Here the compliance record sits beside the candidate, the role and the client — so when a consultant sends somebody out, the check runs against that client’s requirements, right then, and says what is outstanding before it goes.
Six of the eight checks a health or education audit walks through follow the published NHS Employment Check Standards; education has its equivalent in safer recruitment. A separate starter set built to US federal standards — Form I‑9, work‑authorization tracking, the FMCSA Driver Qualification File and more — is available too, for desks placing into the United States. Either way, the starter sets are a place to begin and are yours to edit — they are not a statement of what the law requires of you.
Try the whole desk before you count seats. Fourteen days, no card.
Start free — 14 days →A permanent role is filled once. A shift is filled every day.
The compliance half above is only useful to a temp desk if the desk itself works the way a temp desk works. A temporary vacancy is not one role — it is a pattern of shifts, each covered or not covered on its own day, and each with a different person on it.
Book from the list, and they come off the list.
Ask who is free on Tuesday night and get a list you can ring. Book somebody from it and they are gone from it — so the consultant at the next desk does not phone a person who is already working, which is the single most common way a shared temp desk embarrasses itself in front of a client.
Who can work Tuesday night
Candidates record the days and shifts they are available for. Ask the question and get a list — not a spreadsheet somebody updated on Friday.
Booked means booked
Booking somebody onto a shift takes them off the free list. That is the point, not a side effect: it is what stops a second consultant ringing a person who is already out.
Nobody in two places at once
A clash is refused and the message says what they are already on. Somebody who offered the whole day is working the whole day, so an early shift blocks the night too.
Your words for your shifts
Early, late, night, long day, AM, PM, days, rotation. No two of these sectors call them the same thing, so the product does not choose one sector’s vocabulary for everybody.
Places, not shifts
One shift asking for three nurses is three places. A shift with one of three filled is not half done, and the coverage figure says so.
Patterns write real dates
“Monday to Friday for six weeks” is entered once and becomes thirty actual shifts. Cancel one Tuesday and you cancel that Tuesday — not the pattern.
Both halves, or neither is much use
A compliance register that does not know who is working cannot tell you the person you just booked is missing the DBS this client requires. An availability board that does not know what the client asks for cannot either. In ATS Engine the compliance record sits beside the candidate, the role and the client — and the desk that books the shift is the same desk.
Your recruitment desk is only as strong as the visibility your team shares.
Choose the seat tier that fits today, then grow into the next tier as your operation expands. ATS Engine keeps the recruitment workspace at the centre of the process.
Team Pricing Questions
If I add a sixth person, do all six drop to £22.50?
Yes. The bracket applies to every seat, not just the new one — six seats is six at £22.50, not five at £25 plus one at the lower rate. Crossing into a bracket makes the whole desk cheaper per head, which is the entire point of the brackets, and the subscription is revised immediately rather than at the next renewal.
What happens the moment I hit the seat limit?
Nothing blocks. Inviting the person who crosses a bracket raises the limit and revises the billing in the same step — there is no upgrade to shop for first and nobody to email for permission. You find out you changed bracket because the price per seat went down.
What counts as a seat?
Only people using the recruitment workspace — recruiters, hiring managers and admins. That is the whole list.
Do candidates or jobseekers count towards my seats?
No, however many you have. A job seeker with their own account is on their own plan and never touches your seat count — and we do not charge you for bringing your existing candidate database in either. Migration in is free: an old vendor charging you to leave is their business model, not ours.
Someone has left. Can I reuse their seat?
Yes — remove them and the seat is free for the next person, at no extra cost. If the team shrinks far enough to drop a bracket, email us and we will revise the subscription; that one is deliberately not automatic, so a desk that dips for a fortnight does not lose seats it is about to need again.
What is the 21+ tier, and why is there no price on it?
Because we would be guessing. Above twenty seats the shape of the desk matters more than the headcount — how many sectors, how many clients, whether it is one office or six. Tell us the organisation size and how many ATS Engine users you need and we will work out the right option. It is never auto-quoted and never auto-billed.
Can I try it with the team before paying for seats?
Yes. The recruiter demo account at the foot of this page is the real application with real data in it — no sign-up, no card, and you can show it round the office. Every screenshot on this page was taken from it.
What happens to our data if we stop?
The account owner can export the entire organisation from inside the product at any time: one CSV per table, a manifest recording exactly what was written, and every document in its original file. It is a feature, not a favour, and it works the same whether you are staying or leaving.
£25 a seat a month. One placement covers that seat for years.
A five-person desk is £125 a month — and not one of the candidates those five people carry is charged for.
That is the comparison worth making, because every other line on a recruitment P&L grows with the work. Job boards charge by advert. CV databases charge by search. Software priced per candidate turns a growing bench into a growing bill. This one is priced per recruiter and gets cheaper per head as you add them. If it saves each person twenty minutes a day — and the compliance chase alone is twenty minutes — the seat has paid for itself before the end of the first week.
- Recruiters take a seat. Candidates never doCarry four hundred people on the bench and pay for the recruiters working them, not the people on it.
- The rate falls as the desk grows£25, then £22.50, then £20 a seat. Published brackets you can read here, not a number you have to ask for.
- Seats you control, billed monthlyAn admin adds and removes seats; nobody waits on us to do it, and the bill follows the seat count from the day it changes.
Fourteen days free before you pay anything, and no card to start — and each seat gets its own fortnight from the day that person joins, not what is left of somebody else’s. Subscribe when it has earned it, and cancel in PayPal whenever you like.
The value is not another login. It is a shared recruitment operation.
When recruiters, hiring managers and admins work from connected information, the team can spend less time chasing updates and more time moving candidates through the process.
Stop working as individuals. Start working as one recruitment desk.
Fourteen days of the whole desk, no card, nothing to cancel. On day fifteen everything you built stays in it.