Recensioni su Calamari

Great value for money, solid software

Commenti: Overall, I love it, easy to use, great value for money, awesome

Aspetti positivi:

I like everything - it's easy to use, works as intended

Aspetti negativi:

I have nothing negative to say about Calamari

Alternative considerate: Google Sheets e Microsoft Excel

Perché passare a Calamari: Great support, great value for money, no brainer purchase

A Comprehensive HR Management Software for Easier People Management

Commenti: Overall, Calamari is a comprehensive HR management software that makes people management easier. It allows tracking and planning all types of absences and supports companies with offices in multiple countries and locations. While the interface could use some improvement, it is a great tool for managing HR tasks.

Aspetti positivi:

Calamari is an excellent HR management software that makes people management easier. It allows tracking and planning all types of absences and supports companies with offices in multiple countries and locations. The app is integrated with popular project management tools and also supports role-based security.

Aspetti negativi:

The interface of Calamari is a bit confusing and the navigation is a bit clunky, making it hard to use for new users. Additionally, the user experience could be improved with more customization options.

FK Calamari Review

Commenti: For a leave management system it is ok.

Aspetti positivi:

That it provides an application and it is easier for our employees to log in.

Aspetti negativi:

The manuals/guides/videos are not as explanatory as they need to be. Maybe some screenshots would help the users and the administrator. Also, the set up was not as easy as we thought and the support we had from Calamari was very limited and many times the answers of our questions were not helpfull or off topic.

Good system, great customer service, just missing a few features

Commenti: Overall I am happy with the product and I think for the price it is OK.Once overtime features and better admin controls are implemented I will give this 5* all round.It's so close to being amazing!

Aspetti positivi:

It's very easy to useThe app and web version have a very modern feel unlike s a lot of the other HR systems out there.The admin and set up process are very easy and intuitive, and even our technophobe employees had no issues with signing up and getting used to it.The customer service team is friendly and always quick to reply with any questions or issues we have.The whole system is very fast and processes all tasks very quickly.There's a very good selection of clocking methods: QR scanner, mobile app, website, iBeacon, API.They have one of the most advanced and open API protocols I've seen from all my tests and being a high tech firm I was keen to have this option to facilitate any implementation in the future.

Aspetti negativi:

Although the product is nice it does feel like it's behind competitors in some aspects.I get the feeling the development team is too small and I'd certainly like more action on the features we have requested.There are a few translation mistakes we have spotted but they never affected usability.The team management isn't as dynamic as expected.Admin features are missing (seeing acitvity logs to see what users changed what data at what time/date etc), and I would like more control and settings available on some parts too.Some of the exported reports seem to have been coded by different people because the table headers and names are not consistent throughout, again only a small problem, but this probably wouldn't happen with a bigger firm.Overall the main downside is that these features missing and little errors now and again make me feel like we are beta-testing the product for them, but paying market rate for the privilege.

Alternative considerate: Blip, Jibble e BrightHR

Perché scegliere Calamari: We were on a legacy system full of bugs and glitches literally all the time, payroll was taking hours and hours every month and it was losing track of holidays and absences

Perché passare a Calamari: They were either too expensive because they included HR packages we don't want, or they were American (date format, "vacation" instead of "holiday" etc), or had a slow clunky UI, or didn't handle our night shift clockings well.

Excellent, low-cost solution for Non-profits!

Commenti: By switching our leave management and time tracking to Calamari, we have greatly reduced the amount of administrative hours spent on tracking PTOs and ensuring staff are working an appropriate amount of hours. The Slack integration has also been a huge bonus - staff don't need to log in to yet another app and instead can manage time off and clocking in/out right from the Slack app that they already use all day long.

Aspetti positivi:

Calamari has an easy to use, simple user design that was easy for our team to switch to. The support team is always very helpful in onboarding our organization and answering any questions to date. My favourite part is the Slack integration; my team uses Slack for daily communication, so having the ability to do practically anything you needed for time tracking and leave management within Slack has been extremely convenient.

Aspetti negativi:

One feature that I think may be lacking is the work schedules. As office workers a team's schedule is usually pretty similar from week-to-week, however, we offer flexible work schedules that have varied number of hours or days that are worked every other week. Calamari currently doesn't have the ability to customize work schedules to this level, which has led our operations team to have to put in more hours than we would have liked in setting up work schedules to properly reflect scheduled number of hours. I would also think this would be a major downfall for any organization that schedules shifts for their employees.

Alternative considerate: AttendanceBot, Jibble e BambooHR

Perché scegliere Calamari: To save valuable administrative time and reduce the chance of human error in paid time off calculations for staff.

Software precedente: Jibble e Microsoft Excel

Perché passare a Calamari: Calamari had a more user-friendly design, offered both time tracking and leave management (which most other programs did not), offered non-profit pricing, and had an extremely easy to use Slack integration.

Leave Tracking Platform That Checks All of the Boxes

Aspetti positivi:

Calamari is an outstanding tool for leave tracking. In the 2+ years our company has used Calamari, we have heard nothing but positive feedback from employees and managers. The approval flow and seamless integration with Slack have significantly reduced the approval time for requests. Calendar and notification functionality keeps stakeholders informed of employee availability. Complex accrual rules are easy to configure and the Calamari customer service team is always at the ready to assist when needed. It's a top not platform that gets the exact job done that we need. I recently provided feedback that we hoped the reporting tool could include archived employees so we export historical data on time off trends. Calamari took this feedback and was able to implement a new solution that recently went live. I appreciate them listening to us and building a solution!

Aspetti negativi:

The .csv importer can be a little finicky. Rarely am I able to complete an upload task without needing support from the Calamari team. The good news, however, is that they are immediately responsive and help me troubleshoot the error. If this could be resolved it would help me rely less on their customer support team, but it's a minor annoyance.

Alternative considerate: PurelyHR

Perché scegliere Calamari: We pivoted to a new time tracking software that did not include any leave tracking capabilities so needed to find an alternative solution.

Software precedente: NetSuite OpenAir

Perché passare a Calamari: Calamari was the only platform we found that only provided leave management. Every other alternative came with so many other bells and whistles that we didn't need. The simplicity of Calamari was one of the deciding factors in its favor.

Perfect and easy to use tool

Commenti: I'm using Calamari since 4 years (in my previous jobs and current company). I didn't have any problems or troubles while using it. Calamari helps are improved our workflow, especially with the calendar which we can see easily how many people will be absent in the next days. Also, I feel we can care a little bit of environment by using on-line tool and not to print any leave request etc. That's also important for us to using the tool which doesn't impact negative on our planet.

Aspetti positivi:

- Calamari is really easy to use, even if employee didn't use similiar tools before, - It's easy to integrate - Working very good, it's clear and intuitive - The support helps me with setting-up everything, they care about users, - The app is also easy to use.

Aspetti negativi:

I don't see any cons, I'm using Calamari since 4 years and that's why I've chosen Calamari to use again in my current company.

Alternative considerate: Timesheets.com

Perché scegliere Calamari: In overvall, my experience with Calamari was better - it's easier to use and more perspicuous than Timesheets.

Software precedente: Timesheets.com

Perché passare a Calamari: In overvall, my experience with Calamari was better - it's easier to use and more perspicuous than Timesheets. The second reasons is easy to integrate, to add new people and also it's available in Polish language.

Calamari - weird name, great product

Commenti: Very positive experience and once set up, we have been able to use the system reliably with no help needed from support

Aspetti positivi:

Very simple to deploy with a transparent pricing structure

Aspetti negativi:

In reality, nothing. The product is easy to customize and adapt for specific use

Tech support amazing

Aspetti positivi:

The support team is fast, competent and very friendly. They support you in any way possible and also have videos of training. Platform is fairly easy to use, once you understand the mechanism it is a real timesaver.

Aspetti negativi:

Basically all is simple and understandable, nothing to comment so far

Calamari good

Commenti: Holidays tracking

Aspetti positivi:

Can create more leavespaid or unpaid holidaysEmployees can easily see their entitlement

Aspetti negativi:

I like everything about calamari. It is very user friendly

Good but Not Great

Commenti: We moved from paper forms to online. Calamari has a nice visual to it, and seemed to me to be intuitive to use. Set up was mediocre; I think it could be easier but also in testing other products, it's not the worst. We chose to use just the time off portion and not the clock in/out option. This does mean, however, that the time accrued for PTO is not accurate, and while I have told my staff that the accurate accounting is on each paystub, they are frustrated by that.
Additionally, while I feel the system is really self-explanatory, people seem to have trouble with requesting partial days, changing the type of PTO requested (vacation, sick, etc), and requesting multiple days at once.
The customer service is good; they are happy to answer questions you may have.
I decided to look into their clock in/clock out option, to streamline three products that we use, but I did not like the options of a mobile app, web app, or beacons. I didn't like that the beacons did not take into account lunch breaks. I could set a lunch break for everyone, but then if they took 45 minutes instead of an hour, or 1hr5min, it doesn't take that into account.

Aspetti positivi:

I wanted a product that fit in our budget, that could keep track of time off requests online. I was tired of paper floating everywhere! Calamari fit that bill.

Aspetti negativi:

There is no way to edit your time off request. If you make a mistake, the entire request has to be deleted, then the manager has to approve the cancellation, then you can resubmit the request. It's a lot of steps.

Alternative considerate: uAttend, QuickBooks Time, BambooHR e Clockify

Perché passare a Calamari: Cost

Almost invisible and very flexible absences tracking tool

Commenti: It takes a while to set up Calamari properly but after you do (and you can always reach out to their support and receive answers and detailed instructions in short time) it works on its own and you just invite new people as they join the team. We have switched from our previousOn a daily basis, I almost don't notice we use Calamari because no one reaches out to me with any issues or questions on how to use it.

Aspetti positivi:

- thanks to Calamari shared calendars being easily added to GCal we can automatically see any planned absences in the team (holidays, remote work, business trips, sick leave etc) directly in our GCals (previously we had to keep a separate shared team GCal for these and add absences manually) - everyone is able to check their current entitlement anytime with just a couple of clicks and request their time off on the go - no need to send emails to multiple people in the company to request time off and have it registered (this was solved with a customised approval flow) - appointing the substitute can be done at the stage of requesting time off - you can send all notifications to Slack and track status of your request from there - multiple, customisable approval flows and absence types - customised holiday calendars which can be linked to individual users or teams (very helpful especially in Germany) - no need to track the absences manually: it takes a couple of clicks to generate absence reports and requests required for payroll - very responsive and competent support

Aspetti negativi:

I only wish that we used Calamari on the company level. With other team being first to register for it, we can't fully integrate with GSuite and it takes up to 24 hours for the Calamari shared calendar to sync with GCal.

Leave Management Tracking

Commenti: Great SAAS that is available for a great cost. We didn't need anything super powerful. We actually have the same functionality for free with our ADP software, but pay for Calamari because it is easier from a management perspective.

Aspetti positivi:

The software is very flexible with regards to being able to track a variety of leave methods. We have different people at different levels of the company who get various entitlements and Calamari was able to handle it all. We also are able to track our business travel of our sales managers through the system which is helpful too.

Aspetti negativi:

The app is fairly easy, but the user interface could be a bit easier for users who are not as computer savvy. It could be a little more clear on what time they have less what time is scheduled for their net time leftover.

Alternative considerate: Zoho Recruit, BambooHR e Freshteam

Perché passare a Calamari: Cost

Calamari is a great and user-friendly time management product

Commenti: Overtime has been much easier to check with Calamari then with the system we used before. It takes less time to implement and gives every manager the possibility to monitor their teams. Users are quite happy with the system: easy to add and validate absences. The many possibilities to add the time in the clock in module, using or not the app, makes it very adaptable to every user.

Aspetti positivi:

it is easy to adapt to any situation, easy to modify and very easy to use. The implementation of the software might take quite long at the beginning, but once it's working, it takes less than 5 min to add new users, adapt their activity rate or week types. The leave module is very practical, especially because anyone can check the absence/presence of all team members. The integration with Outlook and Microsoft Office is a great advantage.

Aspetti negativi:

The only thing that could be improved is to add the possibility to set up a date when there is a change of activity rate or week type for an employee.

Excellent, efficient software for small teams and businesses

Aspetti positivi:

Especially for a smaller business, the level of visibility it gives us over everyone's leave / absences and the benefit we gain from being able to plan around this. Not to mention integration into Slack and Outlook Calendar which really just helps to elevate Calamari as a great cloud solution for our needs.

Aspetti negativi:

When we switched our financial year away from the calendar year, it took us a little while to get our head around how to set that up in Calamari, but we reached out for customer support and they guided us through the process. It's fiddly but the support team are on hand to help with any enquiries.

absence management and clock in/clock out were never so easy

Commenti: Super easy leave management and clock in/clock out (using beacon).

Aspetti positivi:

It's a new way of absence & leave management. You can plan and track all types of vacation, paid time off, sickness and you can do it without old, annoying paper forms. You'r always few mouse clicks from your dreamed vacations ;) Another wery importand feature is clock in/clock out - it's super easy to use especially with bluetooth beacons support. Place a token in your office reception and install/configure calamari app on our phone. That's all! You can forget about clockin in/out ever again. It will by done automaticaly when you enter/leave your offiice. If you don't want to use beacons or when you'r work from home you can still clock in/out "manual" from mobile app. It's worth to mention that calamari has super helpfull customer service.

Aspetti negativi:

Beacon support for Android phone still need some fine-tunning compareing to iOS version. Except that - it's just perfect!

Opinion

Commenti: Electronic leave requests and online time registration can help you manage your business and startup on a daily basis.

Aspetti positivi:

- The company saves on office space;- Employees save money and travel time;- Remote work is seen as an advantage; - the company has employees all over the world and can use the best specialists

Aspetti negativi:

- With distributed teams, there is a greater risk of misunderstandings- It is not possible to build a company culture in the office, as, for example, Google

irreplaceable!

Commenti: I recommend Calamari to anyone looking for a simple and effective time management tool. I'm waiting for a more extensive HR doc module, the ATS would be a dream! :) Kudos to the customer service team, they are quick and very helpful!

Aspetti positivi:

It's how easy it is to use. Incredibly improves the work in the team and between the managers. We fell in love with slack integration, we are now up to date!

Aspetti negativi:

Sometimes some functions are not intuitive, or seem trivial and are not implemented, such as the ability to copy hours in a timesheet on a desktop app.

Alternative considerate: Jira e tomHRM

The best customer support and user friendly software

Commenti: 10/10

Aspetti positivi:

Definitely the customer support is something that stands out. Excellent communication, and they always make it work. Even at the tasks that we would be able to figure out ourselves. I have never experienced it anywhere else.

Aspetti negativi:

I would love to have more features. Currently there is a new module - Core HR but it still has the very basics. It is amazing software, if only the basic information needs to be stored and managed.

Easy to use

Aspetti positivi:

We like that we modify easily how leave accruals are earned as well as the time tracking and leave management.

Aspetti negativi:

Editing a timesheet is a pain and takes a lot of time.

Alternative considerate: AttendanceBot

Perché passare a Calamari: It was a lot easier to use and cost cheaper.

The best tool for the absence management

Commenti: Thanks to Calamari, managing absences and holidays of all the employees in two offices, in two different countries is now fairly simple and efficient. Each office may have its own rules and holidays and yet, thanks to the shared calendar and employee catalogue, we have a full transparency of whom, when and why has a day off.

Aspetti positivi:

- Simple and yet powerful management of absences (approving holidays through Slack is such a time saver) - Extended setup possibilities for the absence types (accrual rules) - Possibility of configuring everything, including holidays calendars, types of absences, contracts and approval processes - Slack and google calendar integrations - Great customer care and fast feedback, our issues with Slack integration were solved pretty fast

Aspetti negativi:

- The look and feel of the web app is a bit outdated (but it's simple and clean which is good) - UX is a bit clunky from time to time (especially when you have multiple accrual rules to work with under one absence type)

Brief after 6 months of use

Commenti: Not that good, but not bad.....I see it as product which is developing, so will wait to see till end of the year are there any improvements.

Aspetti positivi:

Useful product with lot of integrations and useful features. Simple and clean without crowded features icons etc.

Aspetti negativi:

USABILITY! As a person who use various web applications on daily basis for decades, I find not that intuitive position of some buttons and especially on large screens my "pointer travel time" to reach click button is long. Also, just by adding some minor improvements usability can be better. Proposals: - implement possibility that user choose font (or change font, it might be personal taste, but existing one is so 2010) - number of records per one listing / page. I am currently running small company ~20users and I frequently need to change pages to load more results for list of employees lets say. maybe somewhere in settings you can allow admin to select number or rows per page. - maybe replace tabbed navigation with accordeon, sometimes is useful to see multiple values from different tabs selected and at the end - creating accrual rules its complete nightmare, your support team (kudos to [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]) saved you for leaving this product. He really set up everything for me.....but.....user should be able to do it by himself, right? so...very very hard to set it up

Solid product for the price great customer support

Commenti: Overall extremely useful for the money and your support function [sensitive content hidden] is amazing

Aspetti positivi:

Love how it integrates with slack, very user friendly and like all the videos available

Aspetti negativi:

When you need to make an amendment sometimes it’s not so intuitive, like amending staff working schedule part way through year, then it requires customer support. I think just a few more FAQ videos would avoid this.

Amazing app! Extremely recommend

Commenti: Amazing experience. Calamari fits perfectly to what we need.

Aspetti positivi:

The system is easy to use and track information. All tools are user friendly and the team also likes to use the clock in / clock-out system.

Aspetti negativi:

I would like to integrate Calamari with G suit details. We use G suit for the calendar and would be great to have the birthdays and annual leaves flagged to the Google Calendar

Get thing done easy and cheep

Commenti: It is easy to use and has all the features my company needs. Also is cheap compared to others

Aspetti positivi:

The easy to manage employees vacation requests and to track time. Have a mobile app that help do some task on the go.

Aspetti negativi:

It is missing a MacOS and Windows app. For most of the task the web app is enough but it will be great to have a mac/windows app that is faster and can include some extra features such as:- Push notification- Task bar icon that you can see the time tracking status and also ability to start and stop time directly from the task bar. So, you don't need to open the web app just to start the time or to check if you have already started or not. Since I am a developer myself, I have done a small extension that will show an icon on the task bar that indicates if I have started the timer or not. Also, you can start, pause, resume and stop timer from there.