Contact Sales
Human Resources

The Access Group enhances talent acquisition capabilities after reaching agreement to acquire Eploy

The Access Group, a provider of business management software to mid-market organisations in Europe, the USA and Asia Pacific, today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Eploy, subject to regulatory approval. Eploy will be part of Access People solutions portfolio.

Posted 27/06/2025

Access People serves small, growing and medium-to-large businesses with HR solutions across multiple industries. The acquisition of Eploy adds full end-to-end Applicant Tracking System capabilities, further complementing Access Group's HR and Payroll portfolio, which includes payroll, workforce management, employee engagement, learning management solutions, and talent acquisition capabilities.

Founded in 1998, Eploy is a specialist talent acquisition platform that transforms recruitment processes, candidate management and hiring workflows for organisations across diverse industry sectors. Eploy has established a strong customer base spanning mid-market to enterprise organisations, with an average customer size of 2,900 employees.

Based in the UK, Eploy is built by recruitment experts for recruitment professionals. It streamlines talent acquisition and enables unlimited users to collaborate throughout the hiring process.

Committed to delivering measurable results, Eploy's platform combines advanced analytics, automation and intuitive design that are accessible across all devices. This ensures that hiring teams stay connected and informed throughout recruitment campaigns. Eploy's features include applicant tracking, candidate sourcing, interview management, onboarding, compliance tools, advanced dashboards and analytics and employee referral programmes.

The platform is trusted by organisations seeking to achieve better hiring outcomes, increased efficiency and demonstrable ROI, helping streamline recruitment processes while maintaining regulatory compliance and supporting diversity initiatives.

Charles Butterworth, Managing Director of Access People, commented: "Eploy represents an exceptional addition to our Access People ecosystem. The proven expertise and innovation demonstrated by the Eploy team, combined with their platform, create opportunities for delivering enhanced hire-to-retire solutions. We are thrilled to welcome Eploy into our Access People portfolio."

Chris Bogh, Eploy Founder and CEO, commented: "Joining The Access Group represents an exciting new chapter for Eploy. We have been impressed by their customer-centric approach and dedication to product excellence. We are excited to join a team where we can accelerate our vision, enhance our customer experience and contribute to a larger mission of empowering businesses through technology."

Charles Butterworth concluded, "This strategic agreement reinforces our commitment to providing quality people management solutions and supports our international growth strategy. We look forward to welcoming Eploy customers, partners and employees into The Access Group family."

 

About Eploy

Eploy is a cloud-based recruitment platform for modern in-house recruitment teams. Eploy combines Applicant Tracking, Recruitment CRM, Talent Pool Engagement, Onboarding and Analytics into a unified web-based platform that integrates seamlessly with your careers site to provide an excellent experience for recruiters, candidates and hiring managers.

Finding and recruiting candidates who are the perfect fit for your roles is always challenging. Fortunately, Eploy’s recruitment software makes it much easier. Eploy is designed to help you convince and convert both passive and active candidates. It’s a complete Recruitment CRM for Candidate Relationship Management. So, you’ll have all the tools you need to nurture your talent relationships and make successful hires, every time. Eploy also includes an Email and SMS marketing suite – so you can craft and send compelling campaigns that promote your employer brand and measure your engagement with your ideal talent.

Eploy is designed-engineered to work on all devices and add value to every stage of the recruitment journey. Eploy is designed to automate and simplify recruitment processes to help you attract, engage, recruit and onboard candidates quickly. As Eploy is also your full talent engagement platform you can manage your relationships with candidates, departments and hiring managers better. With a high degree of measurability, you can track and analyse your recruitment performance, quality, costs and timescales accurately.

Our cloud-based recruitment platform is reinforced with mentoring and cross-sector expertise, so you get the training and support you need.

 

About The Access Group 

The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered business management software providers. It provides solutions that empower more than 160,000 small and mid-sized organisations in commercial and non-profit sectors across Europe, USA and APAC, giving every employee the freedom to do more of what's important. Its innovative cloud solutions and integrated AI software experience across multiple Access products transform how business technology is used. Access employs approx. 9,000 people, continuously driving product innovation and customer service excellence.

For more information, visit www.theaccessgroup.com or follow us @TheAccessGroup