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Leisha S.
Telecommunications, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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CakeHR is a wonderful and handy tool for a small business to keep employee information stored. It integrates with Google Calendar, Slack, and a few others so it is great for us.
It's a great and handy system to keep tracking of employee demographic information, emergency contacts, time off accruals, etc.
We couldn't upload employee files without multiple people having access to them. Some files were pretty sensitive so we had to remove them.
Thank you for your review, Leisha! Please use permission levels for file management on CakeHR! :)
Les C.
Real Estate, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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We purchased this product primarily to control our staff vacations. It has worked out exceedingly well.
Very graphic and easy to use.
It doesn't show starting balance at beginning of the calendar year.
Hi Les, Many thanks for your review. I'm going to set up a call and make sure your policies are set up correctly. There shouldn't be a reason for having no time off accrued unless you're accruing monthly or bi-weekly!
EBIN E.
Human Resources, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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We can now manage our employee details in a single click and though a dedicated mobile app.
Cake HR is the best tool to manage the employees and their day to day data. We use Cake HR to get employee attendance and to have their pay slips ready at the time of salary dispersal. HR application that has all the needy features can be seen only on Cake HR. The most impressive feature we have seen and used is the automatic salary form generation so that we don't want to manually create the salary form to be filled by the employee.
The salary slip generation is a bit slow and takes a lot of time on mobile app, please have a look on it.
Tea K.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I have at least three years of experience with this software. I know it is easy to use and very easy for me. This helps me to fulfill my duties quickly. I see a lot of employee's data.I love it
This software helps me and my employees easily manage vacation and sickness.I can easily write down the hours of late employee.
I like that it is integrated with a slick.
Max A.
Real Estate, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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i´m happy :)
easy to use for all employees troughtout all applications
price could always be better and the org chart has limitations!
Dear Max, We are very happy to receive your positive feedback :) Would you mind to give us some more details on what additional features you would like to see added to existing org. chart? Our system has evolved to be intuitive and user-friendly as a result of close collaboration with our clients, therefore please get in touch with us as your recommendations would be greatly appreciated! With thanks, Viktorija
Laura D.
Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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We have created a very close relationship of collaboration with Cake HR. The flexibility and adaptability to listen to our needs, make custom adaptations to the tool, etc has been of great value.
In the past the festive day calendars where difficult to handle, to manual. I think now this has improves.
Craig M.
Furniture,
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Staff are happy that they can book request their holidays at any time and have almost instant approval in many cases.
Clean and user-friendly layout with amazingly helpful people behind the scenes. Lee, in particular, is incredibly helpful.
The only thing would be the lack of calendar view holiday on mobile app. We have an ever growing young workforce who book their holidays on the app but they are unable to see if other workmates have already booked time off.
Hi Craig! Many thanks for your review and we have loved supporting you throughout implementation and beyond. Right now, we're developing the calendar view for mobile which is really exciting. I'll let you know once it has been released!
Damilola M.
Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used other for 1-2 years
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CakeHR software design is simple and user friendly, the tool is very useful for organization set up it helps to know who is off duty and reason they're off duty. Their well designed mobile app makes the software more easier to use. Their customer support response rate is great.
Uploading document can not be segmented to some specific member of the team, the document will be sent to the whole team, unless the document is uploaded individually and this can be so stressful to do. CakeHR needs to improve their service feature in order to perform advanced functions.
Hello Damilola, Thanks for leaving a review, and mentioning our support team, they always try to go above and beyond! A solution to the mentioned issue is just a few clicks away, please contact me directly so I can give you more details. I will make sure the process of adding documents will be less stressful for you :) With thanks, Viktorija
Andreas B.
Used daily for 6-12 months
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We get all the information fast and secure in to one system from our employees. No need to look in different places or having a risk of loosing papers or receipts when someone had an expense to report.
Intuitive and very easy to use. Give managers and employees quickly a very good overview. It can automate many task. We use is to plan ahead and also follow up, for onboarding and now also for expenses.
The one thing we are missing is that we like to be able to set employment status in %, and have a start date for the change and also be able to get a rapport that show these changes. BUT since we haven't brought this to their attention yet it's on us.
Sarath R.
Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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CakeHR app easy track maintenance college,school and employees details and easy to set up Convenient dashboard
Easy to understand and good features mobiles app is available Overall it is good compare to other tools
Thank you, Sarath, for your positive and encouraging feedback :) Best regards, Viktorija
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Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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It's a simple and to use product that does one thing and does it well.
There are few things are a bit more cumbersome than they should be. It's a basic system, not too many advanced features.
Hi :) Thank you for taking the time to write about your experience. As we are constantly improving already existing features, as well as, working on new ones, it would be great if we can take our conversation further, so I not only can introduce you to possibilities that probably were missed out, but also take this opportunity to understand more of what you would like to see, as based on received feedback, we're frequently improving UI, UX and CakeHR features. Let's schedule a quick call and discuss your ideas further! With thanks, Viktorija
alexandre B.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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The time off functionality is reliable and well built. I don't find that there is many product updates, which would be nice, but the value for money overall is good, and I would recommend.
Easy to use Provide a good snapshot of the company's activity Allow the essentials to happen
The actual visual interface It misses, in my opinion, some more ''Fancy'' features that would be nice to have
Hi Alexandre, thank you for your feedback, this is much appreciated! We release new product updates each week, you can check them out from your CakeHR dashboard. I would love to schedule a quick call with you or discuss your ideas further - let's stay in touch :) Thanks Ilona
Xolani Z.
Music, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Great software for payments
Sage is a great software, you get to capture and manage your payments very well and organized
On Accpac when posting payments, you get those errors batches and you have to repost and its time consuming
Laily A.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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CakeHR help me to making management challenges more manageable and easy to tracking the employee.
Simple and easy to use, have a good user interface and complete features to manage HR system. We can customized the features based on company needs. If I have a question about the feature, the team has a quick response.
I have using cakeHR for more than 6 months, so far there not found difficulty.
Dear Laily, We are very pleased to hear you find CakeHR beneficial for your company! I would like to ensure you that we will continue to improve and offer the best quality services we possibly can :) With thanks, Viktorija
Yannick G.
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Perfect App for company who love to safe time with administrative procédures. Easy to manage TimeOff when many employees are abroad. We are a company of around 30 pers.
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Many thanks, Yannick! CakeHR is perfect for companies with an in-house team and for those with remote workers! It connects you all together and makes the company more transparent and efficient.
Shoaib S.
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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I initially started out looking for only leave management, but since using CakeHR i've used it for Scheduling Trainings, Generating Custom Company Reports, Managing and tracking Assets and many more. The leave management solution by itself is loaded with features and can be custom tailored as per your needs. Love it!
Very User friendly, and its highly customizable. The support is always there to help you either through live chat or you can book a call. They always come back with an answer. Its always improving with users putting in their input and if the feedback makes sense, it gets integrated for everyone to benefit.
Due to high volume of feedback, you might have to wait until an issue gets resolved. But what matters is that they do resolve it.
Dear Shoaib, Reading this review made my day! :) I'm glad that we've been able to add value to your company.
Josefina V.
Used daily for 1-2 years
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This tool allows to register employees in a database and optimize the vacation time and days of absence from work. It notifies you if an employee needs a free day or your vacation, very easy to use, good interface
In the time that we have used it, it has given us many benefits in the part of human resources, therefore I have no complaints until now that something is going wrong, we like it
Janis R.
Nonprofit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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My biggest pain as CEO was to manage vacation and time-off requests by employees in an old fashioned parper, email, chat form. Now I just get a notification from Cake, that somebody wants to take time off and I just click confirm. Time saver, big time!
I want to still try out the new conditional tasks feature in Cake. Previously assigning tasks for employee onboarding was a bit messy.
Michael V.
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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I like the ease of use and the range of information that is supplied in the reports. The fact that the employee can customise when they will receive their questionnaire is also very helpful.
I think that the software can be used by employees as a venting room. Often negative comments are made for the sake of making a negative comment, and once we reply to assess where we can help, the employee hides and does not engage further. I think there should be more encouragement within the answers to suggest solutions to resolve issues rather than just vent about them.
Hi Michael, Officevibe is a great tool but it is not CakeHR :D That being said, we're releasing our very own Performance and Survey module for CakeHR customers in a matter of months! I'm really excited to introduce this to you.
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Financial Services, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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For a smaller business this is definitely a life saver.
CakeHR is really easy to use, has key features and the support is amazing. Booking time off is simple and we can keep track of all leaves to make sure no gaps occur. It's worth every penny- a really financially comfortable software for smaller companies, that usually have less useful options.
A few improvements based on our experience: changing file names would be a great addition, a reminder function that can be customized, more options for data to be included for each employee.
Martti T.
Internet, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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User Interface looks really nice, includes many features and functionality wise is a real improvement when compared to our earlier software, modifications for our company needs are really helpful.
There were some set up issues , but nothing we couldn't overcome. Also, it was a little bit tough to implement correct way of calculating holidays, as the country in which we operate has different way of calculating holidays.
Hi Martti! Yes, Finland has some weird and wonderful laws but I'm really glad that with the help of your team, we were able to provide you with our solution!
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Computer Software, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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It is ideal to have it be able to sync up with our slack account to be in communication with who is out in the global company. such a great tool!
I like the ease of search through the software, the design that is easy to pick up and function through the site.
I do not like how it shows up that I have to approve my own time- seems like there is a lack of separation between my account and myself as an admin
PATRICIA R.
Real Estate, 11-50 employees
Used other for 2+ years
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Please with overall experience. We know who is present or absent at all times
Constantly upgrading to meet customer needs. Challenges we experienced 6 years ago have been satisfactorily rectified. A plus that employees can start the process by submitting their requests for the administrator to approve or otherwise..
Navigation is a bit cumbersome for a first time user. Satisfied overall
Dear Patricia, Thank you very much for your review! We can promise that we won't stop and will keep striving to deliver better functionality and value. With thanks, Viktorija
Fabio M.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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easy to use, clear, good capabilities of customization, cheap
absence of renewable monthly policies, limited configuration for carryovers
Hello Fabio, thanks so much for leaving the feedback :) I would love to have a further chat with you to review your policy settings as well as customising carryovers. I am confident we are able to find a best solution for your Leave Management requirements :) Thanks Ilona
Unathi V.
Food Production, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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This system made a huge difference in our Establishment, we cut down on using lots of Employee documents.
This software is user friendly & easily accessible.