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The best Avature alternative for flexibility and ease of use

Avature bends to almost any process, but getting there can be a steep learning curve. Pinpoint gives you that same enterprise-grade flexibility with a user interface that recruiters and hiring managers find easy to use. Most importantly, configuration is made easy, giving your team the ability to adapt and evolve your own platform over time.

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Best fit
Global enterprises, mid-market organizations, and high-volume recruitment teams that value strong user adoption, require significant platform flexibility, and value AI and automation.
Large global enterprises that weight extreme configurability and a broad talent-acquisition and talent-management suite heavily.
Ease of use
An interface designed for ease of use that drives strong adoption across recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates. Rated 4.8 on G2 with a "Best Ease of Use" badge on Capterra.
Highly configurable. Some customers report that getting the best out of it can require considerable ramp-up and hands-on administration.
Ability to evolve configuration over time
Users can adjust their own configuration (automation, workflows, forms, templates, reporting, and more) easily at any time, with or without help from Pinpoint's team.
Deeply configurable. Some customers report that new configuration, integrations, or reports can mean raising a request and waiting on an enhancement queue.
Multi-stream hiring
One flexible platform for complex requirements across corporate, frontline, high-volume, early-career, and experienced hiring, across regions and brands, in a single instance.
A broad suite spanning talent acquisition and talent management; strong for complex global TA, with configurability rather than out-of-the-box simplicity the acknowledged trade-off.
All-in-one pre-hire breadth
One of few ATSs to include native background checks, one-way video interviews, reference checks, and interview transcription within the pre-hire suite (Plan, Attract, Engage, Select, Onboard).
Broad suite across talent acquisition and talent management; some capabilities Pinpoint delivers natively (background checks, video interviewing, reference checks, transcription) are typically delivered through a third-party integration.
Support
Named Customer Success Manager plus access to Technical Account Management, with human support answering in under two minutes on average.
Global technical support through the Avature Customer Portal, with dedicated account management once in production and support in five languages.
Switching and data migration
An assisted, planned migration. You keep your data and choose what comes across, with no hiring freeze required.
Consultant-led migration from legacy systems, with over a decade of experience moving data from platforms like Taleo, Kenexa, and SuccessFactors.
UK roots and global reach
UK-founded with a global team running enterprise hiring for organizations recruiting in 160+ countries.
London-headquartered with a dense global footprint (164 countries, 32 languages, six continents).
AI approach and governance
AI is opt-in, transparent, and human-supervised; your data is never used to train external models, and the approach is backed by ISO 42001 alongside ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II.
AI Connect, Copilot, Agent Builder, and agentic automation, with a strong security-compliance posture (ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP Authorized).

Why Pinpoint is a strong Avature alternative for TA teams being asked to do more with less

Adoption across your whole hiring team
Pinpoint is designed to be intuitive for recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates. That matters more than ever today, because when the whole team works in the system, your data is complete and accurate, which makes it easier to use automation and AI to drive efficiencies safely at scale.
A platform that evolves with you
Implementation isn't one-and-done. As the market, your organization, and Pinpoint's product change, the platform keeps pace, with ongoing support from Pinpoint's team. Every configuration option (workflow, automation, report, template, form) is yours to change whenever you like, with or without help. Pinpoint's designed to make evolving your platform easy.
More of hiring, in one platform
Pinpoint brings more of the pre-hire process together natively: background checks, one-way video, reference checks, transcription, SMS, recruitment CRM, complex interview scheduling, careers website, and so on. The result is broader native capability, so there are fewer systems to learn, fewer handoffs, and a full picture of hiring inside the ATS, which makes reporting, automation, and AI easier to scale while keeping the candidate experience personal.

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The top reasons TA teams choose Pinpoint when looking for an Avature alternative

A broad all-in-one pre-hire platform
Powerful, native new-hire onboarding
Flexibility and control, in your hands
A strong foundation for AI
A candidate experience that converts
Service and partnership that lasts past go-live

A broad all-in-one pre-hire platform

Pinpoint covers the full pre-hire process in one system: Plan, Attract, Engage, Select, Onboard. It is one of few ATSs to include native background checks, one-way video interviews, reference checks, and interview transcription within the suite. Fewer tools to license, integrate, and maintain, and one clean dataset instead of a dozen.

Powerful, native new-hire onboarding

Onboarding lives in the same platform as the rest of hiring, so offers flow into pre-boarding and day one without a handoff to a separate tool. One record, one experience, and continuity from application through to a new hire's first week.

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Flexibility and control, in your hands

Pinpoint is deeply configurable, and the control stays with you. Adjust workflows, automations, forms, templates, and reporting yourself, whenever you need, with or without support from the Pinpoint team. Each part of the organization gets a setup that fits how it hires, while consistency and compliance hold across all of it.

Building a custom hiring workflow and stages in Pinpoint, the flexible, configurable applicant tracking system teams control themselves

A strong foundation for AI

Pinpoint isn't just another ATS with AI. Pinpoint has invested heavily in creating the conditions under which automation and AI deliver: an experience the whole organization adopts, resulting in a completely accurate picture of what's happening stored in the system. That's the data foundation that AI needs to deliver outcomes tailored to your organization.

A candidate experience that converts

A fully customizable careers-site that your team can edit, a candidate-facing chatbot to support career discovery, an application process optimized for conversion, and powerful automations that keep candidates up to date by email and SMS as their application progresses.

A candidate browsing Pinpoint's branded careers site with an AI assistant and text updates, the candidate experience built for multi-stream hiring
Service and partnership that lasts past go-live

A named Customer Success Manager, access to Technical Account Management, and human support that answers in under two minutes on average. Implementation is where the partnership starts, not where the attention stops.

A Pinpoint customer's onboarding journey from discovery to ongoing support, the service and partnership behind the platform
Pinpoint capabilities

Where Pinpoint wins

Multi-stream hiring across industries

One platform for global corporate, frontline, high-volume, early-career, and experienced hiring, adapting to how each team works without a separate tool for each.

Native pre-hire capabilities

Background checks, one-way video, reference checks, and transcription built in, so more of hiring runs in the ATS instead of across integrations.

Reporting and configuration your team runs itself

Build the reports you need and adjust your setup yourself, whenever your process changes. The control stays in your hands.

Multi-brand, single instance

Separate careers pages, candidate experiences, and workflows per brand in one instance, with reporting and candidate CRM joined up centrally, whether you hire under one brand or many.

Switching from Avature to Pinpoint

Move from Avature without the disruption. Here's how it works, and what comes with you.
How your move works
A planned, assisted migration led by Pinpoint's implementation team. We map your data and processes and keep you hiring throughout. No hiring freeze required.
What comes with you is your choice
You keep your data: candidates, history, and records. You decide what we migrate and what stays behind, so you start on Pinpoint with the information your team actually needs.
More of your hiring runs natively
Once you are live, more of the process consolidates into one platform: background checks, video, references, transcription, and onboarding, instead of a set of integrations to manage.
Support through the move and after
A named CSM and the implementation team stay with you through go-live and beyond, so the change lands with the team and keeps delivering after launch.
“I've never had this level of service with any other system I've worked with in the past.”
Craig Senecal
Senior Director of Employee Experience, New York Public Library
Hospitality

65%  

reduction in time to hire

Streamlined

casting day coordination

Increased

candidate communication

“With these new tools, we’ve set a good foundation to scale our hiring while maintaining our culture and delivering a really great candidate and employee experience.”
Michael Easton
Head of Employee Value Proposition, citizenM
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Nonprofit

Strengthened

candidate engagement

Increased

candidate trust

Reduced

reliance on paid ads

“Pinpoint has completely changed how we work. We're more efficient, more consistent, and better equipped to give every candidate a great experience.”
Emma Bishop
Resourcing Manager, Blue Cross
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Professional Services

Lower

risk of candidates stalling

Improved

visibility for TA leaders and stakeholders

3,500

employees supported in the states

“I just love that I can manage everything and every role in one place without having to jump between systems.”
Liz Mellor
Head of Talent Acquisition for North America, Davies Group
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Retail

Centralized

visibility on all candidates

100+

locations supported

Strengthened

hiring manager adoption

“It’s been really lovely using Pinpoint to align things a bit more. Across the board now, all of our candidates are getting a more similar experience, and the communication they’re getting is much stronger.”
Adam Barnes
UK&I Retailer, Lush
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G2
4.8
Capterra
4.8
SSR
4.8

Avature alternative FAQ

The best Avature alternative depends on what you need, but teams that want Avature's flexibility without the learning curve often land on Pinpoint. Pinpoint pairs enterprise-grade flexibility with an experience recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates adopt, which keeps data complete and makes AI and automation dependable.
Both are capable, enterprise-ready platforms with global customers. The differences: Pinpoint is built for ease of use that drives adoption, gives teams easy self-serve control over configuration and reporting, and brings more of pre-hire together natively. Avature offers a broader suite that extends into talent management, and deep configurability, with the trade-off that it takes longer to master.
Companies usually look because they are being asked to do more with the same or smaller team and budget. They want to use AI and automation to improve efficiency, and need a platform the whole organization finds easy to use without a steep learning curve. Some teams also report wanting more self-serve control over configuration.
Avature's suite extends further into talent management (performance and learning) inside one system, which is useful for organizations where that work isn't handled by the HR system of record. Its talent-CRM and sourcing depth are first-class for pipeline-led recruiting, and its configurability is genuinely extensive for teams that want the system to bend to an exact process.
Pinpoint typically costs less to run by consolidating recruitment tools, and lets your team make configuration and reporting changes themselves rather than raising requests and waiting for (sometimes expensive) changes. It pairs flexibility with an ease of use that drives adoption, and backs it with a named CSM, fast human support, and a platform that is evolving rapidly.
Yes. Pinpoint is built for multi-stream hiring: corporate, frontline, high-volume, early-career, and experienced hiring in one flexible platform, across regions and brands in a single instance. Each team gets a process that fits how it hires, while reporting, CRM, and compliance stay consistent across the organization.
Switching is a planned, assisted migration led by Pinpoint's implementation team, and it does not require a hiring freeze. We map your data and processes, move you across in stages, and stay with you through go-live, so the change lands with your team rather than disrupting live hiring.
Yes. You keep your data when you move to Pinpoint. You choose what comes across and what stays behind, so you start on Pinpoint with the information your team needs and none of the clutter you would rather leave behind.
No. You do not need a hiring freeze to switch. Pinpoint runs the migration in planned stages alongside your live hiring, so recruiting keeps moving while your data and processes move across, with the implementation team supporting the transition throughout.
Avature is a highly configurable enterprise talent-acquisition and talent-management suite, used mainly by large global organizations for sourcing, recruiting, and related HR processes like onboarding and internal mobility. It is known for deep configurability, a broad suite of tools, and a learning curve that comes with that breadth.
Avature is a capable, enterprise-grade ATS, particularly for large organizations that want the system to bend to an exact process and have time to configure it. Whether it is the right ATS depends on your team: buyers who prioritize fast adoption, self-serve reporting, and quick time-to-value often prefer a platform that is easier to run day to day.
Avature does not publish pricing; it is quoted per organization based on modules, users, and services, with no free tier or trial. Pinpoint is also quote-based, but consolidating background checks, video, references, and transcription into one platform typically lowers total cost by reducing the tools you license, integrate, and maintain.
Avature is both: it began as a talent CRM and grew into a full ATS plus talent-management suite, so its heritage is sourcing-led. Some teams find the CRM-first design a strength for pipeline building, and others want more ATS-first ergonomics. Pinpoint is built ATS-first for multi-stream hiring, with sourcing and CRM capability inside it.