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Arvid O.
Aviation & Aerospace, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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Great for international companies. Easy on the eyes and multiple features. Adding time off is quick and pulling up information is fast.
Would be nice to have sub departments that you can sort with. Maybe additional filters? Also the ability to have Euro and North America Calendars separate for users.
Thanks Arvid! Employees can be allocated into Locations and this can be filtered in the Company Calendar. Even employees within one team can have multiple locations - such as remove workers for development or support. I'll make sure you're set up so you can see the right and relevant information at hand!
Peter H.
Used daily for less than 6 months
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We have been with cake for several months. We were initially with Tribe HR. We moved to join Cake as we were attracted to the slick and intuitive interface and the integration with our calendar. As well as the intuitive billing interface. So far all of this has been on point and it has been a big upgrade for us.
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Thank you, Peter! We believe that companies are always looking to improve the way they deal with the day to day tasks and employee management which is why we believe in constantly improving CakeHR. I'm glad that we've been able to add value to your company from day one!
Sana H.
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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The tracking of days off, and the calendar which is visible to all associates
That it is still simplistic in its use, and cannot be used as the only HR device for the company (payroll, expenses, time off)
Dear Sana, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us! I would love to take our conversation further and hear more about your suggestions, where you think we are right now and what, in your opinion, is still missing. As a result of close collaboration with our clients, our system gets more advanced and intuitive, therefore your recommendations would be greatly appreciated. With thanks, Viktorija
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Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Our overall experience with CakeHR has be brilliant, when we run into any issues or questions there support team quickly answer our queries, with a solution.
A great user interface, which is very easy to use and has allowed us to roll CakeHR out to all our staff without any issues or lots of questions.
There is a lack of documentation for admins however Cake's support team is very attentive and answer any questions quickly. I would like to see CakeHr's roadmap for future development, which will show if any of our suggestions have been planned in.
Monica T.
Translation and Localization, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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Exactly as expected.
Everything is as expected and works in the way it is suppose to.
Nothing to say here. I did not see any cons in the time I used it
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Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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We started using this when it was cakeHR, and it was great and pretty well supported. Cost effective, pretty solid features for a small team.
After sage bought it, prices went up and support vanished. Tried cancelling for months, never received confirmation. The only place a Sage human would respond is on Twitter.
Bhakti K.
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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Well managed HR operations for the team. Visibility of the org changes. Visibility of the employee plans.
Very simple to use. Intuitive workflows and change the hierarchy. Setting the org is pretty simple. I can perform all the company HR operations.
It gives a weird login issue sometimes. When i login, even after many days, it gives me a session error and asks me to re-login.
Thanks Bhakti for your honest review! Sorry that there has been a hiccup with the login page. If it persists, just reach out to support and we'll gladly see what is happening there.
Jon C.
Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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No more bloody written bits of paper asking for time off.
Great support, quick and responsive. Features are easy to use and there is a lot of customisable options available. Easy to manage users, book time off and from what I understand there are lots of features coming soon.
Could do with a little more integration and could do with some extra options around file storage and online documents.
Hi Jon! This year, we're going to be working massively on integrations with many great solutions available. It is planned for Q2 so I'll keep you updated on that!
Sirivisa C.
Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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organise our team paperwork and onboard new members as well as track employee information as well as GENERAL schedules in one central location
The UI is great and the work flow of the platform is intuitive. The customer support has been awesome as well.
It's really just lacking in some features we need but the features that do work, work well. Becuase we are still reliant on our current platform to serve our needs. We don't get as much use out of Cake.Hr as I feel like we could. We were told new features will be released in late August early September so we're waiting for those to determine whether or not we work Cake.Hr into a permanent part of our business processes.
Hi Siri, I must admit that we have been slow to release the latest modules and features but that is because we have been making them into something so much more. We're JUST about to release them so I'm going to get in touch with you and make sure you're making the most out of your subscription with us.
Paolo M.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
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We were looking for a absence management software that could be integrated with our mobile solution "coresuite" and SAP Business One. We found in cake.hr a good compromise in term of easyness to use, quick setup and API
- quick setup - easyness to use - API support - fast support
- some functionalities are limited and could be extended
Hi Paolo! We are super glad that you have made the most of CakeHR by using our API. How CakeHR functions and what features we have are being revamped right now and new and improved features and capabilities will be yours soon! We are very much looking forward to that - stay tuned in the coming weeks! You will get a notification day by day when something new occurs.
Lexi P.
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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I like that it is very easy to request PTO and to set up multiple policies for employees.
It was a little confusing at times during set-up, we operate in fractions of days and sometimes it is hard to get people to understand how that can be entered into the system.
Dear Lexi, Thank you for your positive comments! Just a kind reminder, even though your onboarding process is almost completed, we are here for you! Do not hesitate to contact us anytime you have a question or feel unsure about any of the features :) With thanks, Viktorija
Ruben B.
Management Consulting, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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it´s been excellent, I literally use CAKE every day and always discover new functions to have a better operation
CAKE is a very easygoing tool dynamic and friendly nos only with the administrators but with the rest of employees. Also, the costumer service is amazing, they will always be available to help and even receive all recommendations we give them by call or the CAKE chat.
Probably I would say the big data, sometimes is difficult to load the data when is a lot of it and you have to ask for help
Chris M.
Marketing and Advertising,
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We have found Cake HR and easy to use system.
Easy functionality Easy for staff to request Hols
Line Management layers for holiday authorisation, but this is being developed
Hey Chris, thanks for reviewing! As you know, we are developing multi-layered approval for time off requests and this will be rolled out within a month or so. Thanks for your constant feedback because without it, we would not be able to develop further towards meeting your needs! We are proud to be able to work towards them.
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Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Cake HR is a fantastic system but I would love to see a performance management module that could include the setting and measurement of KPAs and KPIs.
Leave management module works really well
Would love to see a performance management module that could include the setting and measurement of KPAs and KPIs.
I have to keep hush hush... ah, forget it! I cannot wait to show everybody the full-blown Performance module for CakeHR. Scheduling 1-to-1 meetings for appraisal, goal (OKR & KPI) tracking, development goals, 360 reviews and surveys! It will be the biggest release since CakeHR began! Remember, keep it hush hush ;)
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Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for 1-2 years
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Ease to set up and get started. Billing process is easy too.
Navigation for admin is poor. Org chart is not user friendly.
Hi there, Thank you for taking your time to leave the review! :) This is such a shame that you are finding the Settings navigation inconvenient, since we have built it and continue to improve following our customer feedback and suggestions. Our Org Chart section is primarily designed as a live tool to arrange and update reporting lines by drag&drop, and for the same reason indeed creates limitation for copying and printing, but this hasn't been reported as an issue by other customers. If you have ideas how we can improve this particular or other section, please use our message bot to suggest a feature or get in touch with our Customer Support team directly ;) Thanks Ilona
Ade R.
Hospitality, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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Easy of use and implementation in the workplace
Nothing to report that I do not like about it
Kriss B.
Internet, 1-10 employees
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I've tried multiple SaaS based HR solutions over the years and was delighted to find Cake HR, it's quick and easy to get setup, it has a great UI and is good value.
Great customer support and assistance with Queries and suggestions.
Only one minor complaint is that I'm not a fan of the wood effect background on the dashboard.
Thanks for the review Kriss! Actually now we're in rebranding / redesigning process, so I can assure you "sushi board" will soon be gone :)
Meisam G.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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Great to use . Nice user interface
Easy to use . Lots of feature . Great support . Everybody Can use.
Can say anything bad abort it. It forfills my needs
Austin S.
Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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CakeHR has been a lifesaver for our organization. Prior to CakeHR we we trying to keep track of all of our human resources information in various places and in various systems that weren't able to manage that information. CakeHR allows us to have clarity and function well without the need to hire an employee to cover this post. Great platform, easy to use, and has served us well. Thank you, and keep up the great work!
Ease of use. The interface is great. Cost is fair.
I don't have any complaints!
Thank you, Austin! We love serving the church and I'm super glad to see that you're feeling great about CakeHR.
Kristina R.
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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Easy UI. Availability in several languages. Sync with Slack works fine.
It has some bad translations in German e.g. Sometimes the holidays from other dep. are available and sometimes only for our own department.
Dear Kristina, Thank you very much for your feedback and for bringing this to our attention! I'll be in contact with your company representatives to get some more details on translation and mentioned issues with public holidays. In case it is the actual technical issue, we will solve it asap. With thanks, Viktorija
Lupe G.
Telecommunications, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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I am able to access all my personnel information in one place.
I like that you can easily access all our HR information all in once place. I've been able to add custom fields to really mold CakeHR to be what we need it to be.
The mobile app. It's only capability is minor directory information and PTO. I'd like to get full CakeHR functions from the app.
Hi Lupe! We're constantly improving the mobile app because we believe that we're more on-the-go than ever before! Most, if not all, features of CakeHR will be available on mobile
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Human Resources, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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For me as a user, it's not the easiest tool to use, but I guess for our HR department it gives a lot of value.
Once you learn it, it's quite easy to use. You can track your time, see when your colleagues are on holidays, see the organization chart and send requests for holidays.
It's not very intuitive. Once you track your time you can't correct it, so you have to cancel tracking and write the hours from scratch.
Filippo Z.
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for 1-2 years
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Easy way to approve pending request. Calendar to see when the people are away.
It is often quite difficult to easily get the information I need, I mean, in an intuitive way. For example where to find a requested permission and decline it. The overall UI seems quite basic and bootstrap style. I'd like to have a way to automatically integrate it with a payroll italian system to automatically adjust the available permissions/holidays of each employee.
Dear Filippo, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us! Let's set a quick call and go through settings once again, I am sure we will be able to find the best solution to generate required information :) With thanks, Viktorija
Mindy H.
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We are a small non-profit and were sick of the time-consuming task of tracking time off in-house. I stumbled across CakeHR through a web search and immediately was interested. The interface is so user-friendly, easy to use, and intuitive. The cost is extremely reasonable, and I must say the customer service has been fantastic. Lee spent over 30 minutes working with me on one issue to customize the service for our needs! CakeHR is constantly taking in customer feedback and releases new updates and functionality every Thursday and Friday. A wonderful product, thank you!
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Mindy! Thanks! I was really happy with was that we resolved the issues of settings your policies with our dynamic settings despite US States having crazy laws for time off. And, despite staying in the office later, my dinner was warm and girlfriend happy :D Glad you are with us!
Christin c.
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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Clean layout, ease of use adding new employees is easy editing errors is a breeze Employees like to know exactly how many days they have remaining and dont have to ask me as often
Sometimes its difficult as a manager to navigate through all the different functionalities available.