Calamari Erfahrungen

Kasa Beauty Trade GmbH

Kommentare: Alles in einem Programm als komplette Übersicht ist super

Vorteile:

Support sehr freundlich und Kompetent und einfacher Aufbau

Nachteile:

Man kann nicht 2 verschiedene Wochenschichten einstellenUnsere Friseure arbeiten in 2 Wochenschichten

A powerful solution to get rid of paperwork!

Kommentare: Do you remember the days when all of your employees had to give you paper requests to go on vacations? I don't! Calamari is lovely, and we got rid of all the silly paperwork we had to do back in the past!

Vorteile:

- Really helpful regarding compliance. You don't have to remember about all those required by the labour law requests. You have them all inside one app! - Gives you plenty of customization options. We added a few custom made types of leave like Anniversary Vacay Days. It was super easy to configure. - Great integrations with Google calendar and slack. You can see all the most important information, not login in. - All in one virtual place! No more checking paper to verify PTOs!

Nachteile:

I can't think of any! Calamari changed my life :)

10/10 user friendly and customer service

Kommentare: 10/10 customer service is extremely helpful and prompt in their responses. [sensitive content hidden] was very helpful with all my questions for adding time clock and getting it configured correctly. The support articles she shared with me were really easy to understand. Configuring everything hasn't taken much time out of my day. Top notch.

Vorteile:

App for staff and setup for admin are both very intuitive and easy to use. We have used the time off feature for 4 years now and it is simple and exactly what we need. We just added the time clock feature to streamline tracking our hourly employees and weekly summaries for payroll.

Nachteile:

I don't have any issues at all, which is amazing for an online tool.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Day Off, QuickBooks Desktop und monday.com

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Calamari: Reasonable pricing, ease of use and quick setup, simple features which is what we needed at the time, room for growth to more complex features as needed.

FK Calamari Review

Kommentare: For a leave management system it is ok.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: HR Partner

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Calamari: The cost.

A Great People Management Solution

Vorteile:

I like the online HR features It simplifies workforce management It comes with helpful time tracking features and makes scheduling easy too.

Nachteile:

Calamari has all features. No malfunctioning witnessed.

Great Customer Servcie

Kommentare: Our overall experience is fantastic. [sensitive content hidden] is great!

Vorteile:

[sensitive content hidden]! She is amazing. From the first time I inquired about Calamari through to two years later. She is so responsive and helpful with any question or assistance we may need. The system is so user friendly. Our entire team really enjoys the platform.

Nachteile:

N/A. Honestly, it is cost effective, user friendly, and integrates with Microsoft Office. There are NO cons!

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Slack

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Calamari: We ultimately chose Calamari over other platforms because of [sensitive content hidden]. She followed up and was thorough and patience through our decision-making time.

Calamari Review

Vorteile:

This is the easiest software there is for my employees, who often struggled with more complicated ones. Also my favourite part is the ease of contact with customer service who are very fast, helpful and friendly and always solve my problems even when it's something specific for my organisation.

Nachteile:

I have no negatives here. I can see that things that might be done a bit better (but don't disturb daily work) are developed and introduced to make everything better :)

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: BambooHR

Warum Calamari gewählt wurde: Zoho was the least intuitive soft I've ever seen and and their customer service was really really bad.

Zuvor genutzte Software: Zoho CRM

Simple and easy to use!

Kommentare: Love it! What an absolute time saver for keeping track of employee time off. The customer support is phenomenal, and they continue to help set up and answer questions in a timely manner.

Vorteile:

Ease of employees logging in their vacation and sick time. Visibility to all on one calendar. Less administrative burden on keeping track of time off. And there is a mobile app that helps our salespeople who are on the road see who is off in the office.

Nachteile:

The calendar view could show a bit more detail on the absence up front. As of now you have to "hover" over the individual to see if they are off the entire day or just taking a couple of hours off.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Time Tracker

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Calamari: Excellent demo and easy platform. It was a breeze working with our onboarding rep at Calamari, and they continue to support anything that comes up along the way.

Great value for money, solid software

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

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

I have nothing negative to say about Calamari

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Google Sheets und Microsoft Excel

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Calamari: Great support, great value for money, no brainer purchase

Everting you can look for in one app

Kommentare: The setup process is very easy and they are helpful every step of the way

Vorteile:

I like that it considers all the flexibility options. You can control and change anything. Also the customer support has been super! i have dealt with one person from start to the end (her name is Ewelina) and she has been a superstar in the transition and always available. Also the mobile app is amazing

Nachteile:

Nothing comes to mind. I am very happy thus far.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: edays

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Calamari: Trial option, and flexibility in the settings

Great HR software as well as the support, that are always with you to help.

Kommentare: Overall great experience, bravo!

Vorteile:

Excellent support, easy handling with Calamari

Nachteile:

We would like to have the possibility to export the review but in the color of each leave event (vacation, sick days each different color..) so we can visualize it through the review for each employee per month. It would help us with the salary accounting process.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: BambooHR

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Calamari: Better price, and great support from the first moment.

Clock and Leave Management

Vorteile:

We use mainly the time tracking and leave management features, and it works well.

Nachteile:

I would like to have a feature to evaluate work performance for employees.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Factorial

Warum Calamari gewählt wurde: Factorial does not work with small companies.

Zuvor genutzte Software: Factorial

Good but Not Great

Kommentare: 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.

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: uAttend, QuickBooks Time, BambooHR und Clockify

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Calamari: Cost

Almost invisible and very flexible absences tracking tool

Kommentare: 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.

Vorteile:

- 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

Nachteile:

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

Kommentare: 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.

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Zoho Recruit, BambooHR und Freshteam

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Calamari: Cost

Calamari is a great and user-friendly time management product

Kommentare: 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.

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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 HR Management tool

Kommentare: On the few occasions that we have required support or assistance they have been extremely attentive both through the live chat feature and over emails. We've received 5 star service at every turn. Our thanks go to their team for being so responsive.

Vorteile:

We use Calamari for a range of HR activities. The most useful features that we use on a daily basis include: 1. Absence Requests: Employees are able to request paid time off / vacations / unpaid leave etc in a formal and structured manner. The approval process is easy to calibrate and set up for managers. Provides an easy process where documentation can be added to support requests (such as medical leave notes). 2. Calendar feature: When payroll exceptions need to be considered, the calendar feature is an easy way to make any adjustments that need to be made. It also enables you to plan for staggering of vacations for employees inside the same department. 3. Employees: Easy to create a database of all employees where information from starting dates, salary etc. can be recorded and quickly accessed. 4. Reports: Functional and and easy to prepare using this feature.

Nachteile:

As far as the requirements of our business go, Calamari offers all the necessary features (and additional ones) that we need. We have no complaints regarding the software that have come up in the time we have been using it.

Excellent, efficient software for small teams and businesses

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

Great product and really simple to use

Kommentare: Calamari was simple to implement and use. All features have been welcomed by our company and we look forward to seeing new modules added in the furture.

Vorteile:

The product has allowed us to bring our clocking in system alongside our Holiday requests, it gives us a better overview of which staff are working and when. The timesheet feature allows us to easily work out hours worked at the end of each month so that payroll becomes much easier to control. Having the ability to export to excel makes reporting simpler and less time consuming.

Nachteile:

We would like to be able to set up shift patterns for staff on a rolling basis. Some staff members will work different shifts each week so rather than a project A or B we would like to see multiple shift patterns to click on to clock in and email notifications to be sent to management should staff members be late or not attend a shift.

Good software but expensive for us

Kommentare: It is an excellent software that does what it says. For us and for every company that does not have budget for many SaaS, the price is too expensive. As responsible for the IT internal services, we probably will change the software in the next year for a cheaper one because we are an ONG Foundation and we cannot afford it. For the rest of SaaS we use to have specific budget agreements for non-profit or educational institutions.

Vorteile:

usability the software is mature enough

Nachteile:

I would say that the price is our worst handicap By other hands, I would like to have more functionalities like HR (contacts, payrolls, etc) management.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: absence.io, Replicon, OrangeHRM und Toggl Track

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Calamari: Easy of use, sync with G Suite, check-in.

The best customer support and user friendly software

Kommentare: 10/10

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

Lightweight and easy to deploy

Kommentare: It has saved me and my team a lot of time and confusion! This is the best solution by far that we have found.

Vorteile:

It was simple to on-board the team to this software and it has been smooth to operate since.

Nachteile:

The UI is difficult to navigate at times and there were several issues in our initial set-up.

Calamari perfect for our company's needs

Vorteile:

Very easy to use and it's user friendly. Perfect software for our company esp. to keep track of both PTO and PSL requests. It was very easy to learn on how to use this and easy to set up.

Nachteile:

It doesn't integrate with ADP for PSL leave so I have to update the PSL hours manually every month.

Brief after 6 months of use

Kommentare: 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.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

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

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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.