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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.29/10

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Pros and cons

The ease of use, their help center has lots of great information, webinars, templates, I like the templates they offer.
Great, fast and very easy to use when you have zoho apps suite. My employees love it because of modern user interface and the functionality it provides - the most loved is leave management.
The best in class features like integration with mail and all other apps are remarkably good and the user interface is also very accessible.
The mobile version is somewhat glitchy and does not work as well as it does on the desktop. There are moments when it would crash.
I was so disappointed after buying the product because after receiving an email to say that a training will be scheduled, no one initiated contact with me after that for almost a week.
Almost each time i try to check in or check out i have to make sure the action is done because many time it's fail and there is no feedback or error displayed. The performance need improves.
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Andrew M.

Nonprofit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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Too many customizable options make it clunky

Reviewed 2 years ago

When starting off using Zoho People and contacting customer support, I had thought they were a very small start-up company. I was very surprised later to find out that Zoho is a really big company that has a lot of other tools, which made it even more disappointing that their People tool was not as great as what I had hoped.

Pros

We only use Zoho to do time off/leave management. It's pretty straightforward for time off/leave management and the basic plan makes it very affordable to just do this one thing.

Cons

There are so many options to customize things that it was overwhelming and make it hard to set things up. We had wanted to do use it for performance management and timesheets, but we weren't able to set it up in a way that was helpful for us even with the customizations and contacting customer support. Customer support also wasn't as helpful/responsive as I would have hoped.

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Krunal A.

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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HR stress reliever

Reviewed 2 years ago

I think very good management tool we discover and give too much direct access for count eave and it also give birthday information also so we can do party!, side a joke this is truly awesome product for company

Pros

We find that we need to track every member leave track indivisibly and after that we heard about zoho then we find that zoho give too much functionality about how team manage and its also track team leave and information also , so we transfer this and this is truly awesome product i think because it is stress reviler for HR also due to have all information in hand

Cons

Till now we not found any difficulty and not found any issue, i don't want to head down in this

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Education Management, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Economical tool for employee lifecycle management

Reviewed 2 years ago

I have used Zoho while we were in transformational phase and wanted go select the best option. It is a very good tool to be used in small organisations, user friendly and economical.

Pros

Zoho is very economical software as compared to other softwares. It is a complete solution to manage employees life cycle right from hiring till retire/termination.

Cons

This is a good software and I would suggest that the company should invest in creating a better support team. The support provided is slow as compared to others.

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Muteeba N.

Outsourcing/Offshoring, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Feedback for Zoho People

Reviewed 2 years ago

Overall the product is good, I didn't find any major issues.

Pros

Zoho People is the complete package for performance management, attendance, leave tracking systems, and generating reports for each and every feature available in the organization.1. You can track and check whether your leave balance is correct.2. You can easily fill forms for reimbursements like internet and attach the proof as well.3. It shows you complete details of your organization and the team...

Cons

The only con that I find in this software is that sometimes when you click on check-out, you are still logged in (Maybe because of a technical glitch) and then you have to send your attendance for regularization.Rest everything is good.

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Ambika D.

Staffing and Recruiting, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Excellent HR Platform For Performance Management

Reviewed 2 years ago

I mostly use it to manage and track leaves, announcements and leaves calendar.

Pros

The best thing is that we can track employee records from onboarding to exit. It is easy to use and allows me to access employees personal information whenever needed. Its features like time tracking, custom rules for leaves, and approval settings are excellent.

Cons

There is a need for automation, currently, there is more manual work. Check-in and check-out reminder feature is missing.

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Kiran S.

Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Easy to Use HRMS tool

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

1. Mobile application availability. 2. Simple and easy to use. 3. Gain complete transparency over the workforce in the organization.

Cons

1. Speed of the Mobile app needs an improvement. 2. UI could get better. 3. Customer support could improve their turnaround time.

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Harshita S.

Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Zoho People

Reviewed 3 years ago

This product is good for every employee special if they are working at home. they can easily see their reports, time-tracking, leave applications, etc. make their attendance.

Pros

It is easy to use and easy-to-understand product for someone who is using it for the first time. we can see the time-tracking, leave applications, reports, dashboards, etc. make the attendance for people who are working at home.

Cons

sometimes this product wants to highly network connectivity which Is not possible all the time. and sometimes it is hung.

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Roneil B.

Outsourcing/Offshoring, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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The most reliable and accurate time tracking tool that I've used so far.

Reviewed 3 years ago

My overall experience in using Zoho people for the past year has been good. I hope that it continue to be reliable and efficient all the way.

Pros

Zoho people is very simple and easy to use. The GUI is very understandable and also the customer support for this tool is phenomenal. They are very hands-on when there are some errors or even questions regarding the tool. Keep it up!

Cons

The only thing that needs improvement for this tool is sometimes the loading time is taking too long or sometimes it crashes. But other than that, this tool is perfect.

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Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Best Online HR platform, Tracks leaves, working hours, and employee performance.

Reviewed 3 years ago

The overall experience is great with Zoho, haven't used such software before this, so this feels amazing

Pros

It is easy to use. The UI of the software is amazing. It has a bunch of extraordinary features all in one place.

Cons

The Announcement feature seems to be underdeveloped, as it looks simple & has a delay after publishing the announcement.

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Abrar K.

Market Research, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Perfect application to keep track of the employees and their performances.

Reviewed 3 years ago

Overall this is one of the best application to track all the happenings in your company. We use this in our company to check the employees growth and their performances. We can check each employee's attendance and their leaves which is very good.

Pros

The dashboard is very good and we can customize it using various templates available. The HR can keep track of the in-time and out-time of the employees, can check the time they spent on completing a task or an event. We can use this application on any device which is very helpful.

Cons

The mobile application is a bit outdated and lags a lot. The user interface is a bit confusing, especially for the administrator and can be improved. More templates can be added and more customisation options needed for the dashboard.

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James P.

Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Affordable Human Resource and workforce system

Reviewed 4 years ago

Its prety easy to work with hence very short trainning period.

Pros

It is very easy to use and keeps our employee database very easily updated. It has almost a fiully employee cycle from employment do dismissal/resignation.

Cons

Does not have ontergration with Zoho Payrol if you are not in the USA or India hence requirring expenditure in a third party payrol solution.

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Neha P.

Human Resources, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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All in one reporting and lerning tool

Reviewed 4 years ago

Overall experience is good. I do get notifications once my request is approved by my manager. I have access to all my company process, news, updates and policy on a single interface through this software.

Pros

Its highly secured as it need a otp to login into the accounts. The training manuals and learning database could be created so that the employees get the access to these information with ease.

Cons

I found the interface bit confusing. It could be modified a bit created it more user friendly. Getting tbe list of holidays within the calender was bit difficult and took my time to find it.

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Jean-Marie R.

Nonprofit Organization Management, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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zoho People

Reviewed 4 years ago

Less paper work , centralized all the leaves we have in the company . The workflow in the approvals is amazing . As for the employees experience , no more back and forth emails asking how many days left they for vacation , the dashboard can help them track the remaining days and all the records of their previous leaves.

Pros

The software has everything related to Leave types used in an organisation. Forms can be customized to our needs and even the creation of new forms is very easy and has helped our HR department save time /emails and paper work.

Cons

The main issue we faced with this software is the API limitation that has a maximum of 200 record per request. But other than that its perfect.

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Luis Daniel R.

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Best app for your employees

Reviewed 5 years ago

Non intrusive, robust and easy to use hr tool.

Pros

This app is great for companies that don't have a clock in/out system, a file repository per each employee for HR documents and a company calendar with events or things that will be done in the company per employee. It's a valuable resource since it also provides geolocation limits so you can check where your employees are clocking in and out and securely host important documents like tax forms for your employees. You can also use it to tabulate the work hours an employee has made for the week or month and export it for you to use with any payroll programs. You can also keep track of personal days, vacation days and sick days. This is basically the best suit for managing employees. It has a mobile app as well! So you can clock in and out or view your documents on the go.

Cons

The mobile app can be a little buggy sometimes, they patch it a lot. But the geolocation feature, it's a little buggy since they've done improvements, because in the past you could spoof the location by faking the GPS coordinates, but now you cannot do that since it does some work with the IP Addresses to triangulate where you are, but sometimes it gets the location of the ISP and not from where you are, so sometimes you will have problems checking in and out.

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Prajakta K.

51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Great HRMS tool for startups

Reviewed 6 years ago

Overall good tool to start your HR functions getting automated for small companies.For larger size companies, this won't be suitable for the end to end HR needs.

Pros

Zoho People is very user-friendly for the organization who is willing to automate their HR processes for the first time. Onboarding team of Zoho People provides a great 1 to 1 support to make end user comfortable with the functionalities of the software Flexible tool to match your organization's HR processes Covers most of the aspects of HR except payroll

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Post onboarding of the tool, facing challenges with the support team as every time new engineer will get assigned to you No function available for recruitment management so it won't solve your hiring purpose

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Telecommunications, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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Good tool for HR

Reviewed 6 years ago

Overall it is a solid piece of software when viewed as a component of the whole Zoho suite. But as a stand alone product it does not deliver all the functionally you hope for.

Pros

The ability to add new modules and options and create customized sections really makes it easy to organize the entire program to best suit your needs.

Cons

Some of the customized sections and lists have limited mobility and usage when you try and analyze or work with the data you've entered. Some more options that allow further analysis of data (as in other zoho programs) would be nice.

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Accounting, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Good Employee details setup

Reviewed 6 years ago

Has helped the business manage the employee details better

Pros

Features it has like an option of saving company policy documents, making announcements to employees

Cons

Zoho people does not have a payroll feature yet

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Anil J.

Automotive, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Time saving destination for HR management.

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

It is a good employee and company management tool. It helps to centralize all the data and make it available to different members of the team. This is very useful for all the workers to be on the same page. It has time tracking features which are useful to track the amount of time a particular project takes. The employees can update their strategies to work better in accordance with the inbuilt instant feedback system. A regular attendance tracking system is also present. This can help to maintain an accurate record of the absentees.

Cons

It is difficult to use for a small-scale company. The higher versions provide just the same features as the basic versions. Customer service is very slow in responding.

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Banking, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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VERSATILE AND HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

It is the kind of software that after some time, can complement your work-style and adjusts to your needs. It is highly customizable and versatile for any users. Employee management and Time Tracking is highly recommended, it is better than any other software with similar features.

Cons

The mobile version is somewhat glitchy and does not work as well as it does on the desktop. There are moments when it would crash.

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Sasa C.

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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HR helper and organizer

Reviewed 6 years ago

Saved us a lot of time and manual work when it comes to people related HR operations. In the moment where our growth expanded, Zoho People simplified and automated bunch of things we tracked internally in some other tools.

Pros

Feature-set that we use complements our HR needs. Zoho People simplifies the most of the people organization, vacation and holiday tracking, leave and remote work management.

Cons

User experience could be improved, but recently they introduced new UI which I am checking atm, so hopefully this will be better.

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Nivin J.

Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Helps to enable intra business communication for your business enterprise.

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

Enables great collaboration and effective communication between employees. You can easily track the allocated tasks. The communication is quite quick thereby reducing the waiting time. It uses several channels like emails, chats, calls, and reminders, to get you connected with your team. you can check out the calendars and schedule events. The free version is rich in features, like you can add unlimited members and custom applications.

Cons

The task management module could include more features. It is quite difficult to set up the application. The application does not allow easy navigation.

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Matt T.

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Good but not great

Reviewed 7 years ago

Created a Time system easier than using the time clock.And keeps all the hours in one organized area. For the cost, it seems to be a decent value.

Pros

Helpful for the cost. It has most the tools needed to have employees clock in and out. It gets the job done.

Cons

There are many bugs with this software. First, the latency with the check in/out button, and the errors on the phone app is not actually clocking in and out when you know you specifically did. happened with every one of my employees including myself. it has time sheets, also included in Zoho projects, and for some reason, they do not integrate. They are both Zoho!!! lastly and most important. Attendance hour report, used at the end of the pay day does not give me the correct time. I have audited these report and they are always a few minutes off. it seems like they have seconds included when it only shows hours and minutes. I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS IS COMPLIANT TO U.S. REGULATION!!!

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Anudeep M.

Market Research, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Biometric is far better than Zoho. It is at the entrance so I don't forget to checkin.

Reviewed 7 years ago

None.

Pros

I can't recall any feature that I like the most. And, why do you need 100 characters worth of positive feedback?

Cons

1. The check in and check out process. I forget to check in and check out, which I think is basic human tendency. You could eliminate that by automatically checking in when I connect to my office's wifi network. You could at least display a notification to checkin. 2. Notifications could also be used to remind me to regularize if my attendance for the previous day is not fulfilled as per my company's minimum 9 hrs. You could at least display an option to regularize when we click on the day which is marked absent/half day in the 'attendance -> views' screen itself (there's a lot of space to add a button). This way, there's no need to go to another page and select the date to regularize.

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chew l.

Real Estate, 11-50 employees

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This software apps is very interesting.

Reviewed 7 years ago

Easy to keep tracking staffs record

Pros

Having relevant data immediately available makes decision-making easy. Good quality hr software allows for a number of relevant areas to be updated simultaneously and can ensure that remember to input useful and important information on all aspects of human resources. Manual record keeping is very time consuming because all related records have to be up dated by hand. Using software to record information...

Cons

Very difficult and hard to understand the formatting, do setting or customize what feature that we want.

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Coleen C.

Management Consulting, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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Decent product; Poor customer support

Reviewed 7 years ago
Pros

Nice functionalities, such as intuitive leave calculation by employee start date, forms customization, and field-level permission. Having a mobile app is also very convenient.

Cons

Having a chat functionality for customer support is a great idea and being able to leave offline messages for support to get back to is also good. However, in general, customer support is very bad: 1. Very slow response time. I was so disappointed after buying the product because after receiving an email to say that a training will be scheduled, no one initiated contact with me after that for almost...