ChiefOnboarding is a free, self-hosted, open-source employee onboarding platform with deep Slack integration. Compare its pricing plans and key features.
ChiefOnboarding is a free and open-source employee onboarding platform founded by Stan Triepels in 2016. New hires can complete onboarding entirely through Slack or a standalone web portal, both with full feature access, and the software can be self-hosted or deployed via the project's managed hosting option.
Licensed under AGPLv3, ChiefOnboarding gives HR and IT teams full control over onboarding data and workflows, positioning it as an alternative to closed SaaS onboarding platforms for organizations that want to self-host or customize the codebase.
Employers build preboarding pages to welcome new hires before their start date, and use sequences to drip-feed onboarding tasks over time or trigger them based on prior task completion. Automated account provisioning integrates with tools like Slack, Google Workspace, Asana, and GitHub to create new-hire accounts automatically.
A built-in knowledge base and course system helps new hires ramp up at their own pace, and badges/gamification features are included to keep engagement high during the first weeks. The interface is available in eight languages, supporting multi-region onboarding programs.
ChiefOnboarding offers a Free plan at €0/month for self-hosting with community support through GitHub issues, aimed at teams with their own IT capacity. The Support plan costs €249/month, billed annually and excluding VAT, and adds priority email support with typical response times under two hours while remaining self-hosted.
Both plans keep data on the customer's own infrastructure; ChiefOnboarding also offers a managed hosting option outside the self-hosted pricing above for organizations that don't want to run their own servers.
Yes, ChiefOnboarding has a free, self-hosted plan with community support. A paid Support plan at €249/month adds priority email support.
Yes, new hires can complete the entire onboarding process through Slack, with full feature parity to the web portal.
Yes, ChiefOnboarding is open source under the AGPLv3 license, and the code is available on GitHub.
Yes, it can automatically provision accounts in tools like Slack, Google Workspace, Asana, and GitHub as part of the onboarding sequence.
ChiefOnboarding's interface supports English, Dutch, Portuguese, German, Turkish, French, Spanish, and Japanese.