PurelyHR reviews

Purely HR is easy to use. It allows us to quickly and easily submit and approve time off requests as well as access time off documentation and reporting.

I manage several employees and It can be difficult to toggle between my personal profile and the profile of my employees.

The most useful to me is the calendar view and the year end reports. I also like being able to color code days according to type. It was easy to set up. We don't use all of the tools available, but I haven't taken the time to really understand them.

It is difficult for users to reset their password and to reactivate a user. It does not let users request the current or previous day. Again, that is probably a setting that I just need to look through. The program is probably more robust than we need, but it works for our purposes.

great price. good policy flexibility. attractive platform. user friendly for those on desktop computer.

There needs to be an app!!!!! The website is not very mobile friendly. The whole point is to encourage our employees to use the system but that is very difficult without an app. Most of our employees do not have desktops but rather mobile devices.

This was a godsend to our company as everyone uses Excel spreadsheets to record absence. This system was easy to use, shows your accrual holidays, when a holiday is coming up and most importantly makes it easy for managers to approve.

You can customise this but that can take time as you would want to adapt this to your HR system aswell.

Easy to set up new users; easy to administer policies; very user friendly for employees to request/approve time off requiests

Would like to see more flexibility and range of reporting options; translate accrued benefits into dollar value for financial accruals

Fairly easy interface for users to put in their time off requests

Can’t talk w anyone, have to email. The menu structure for different functions is not terribly intuitive for the administrator. The knowledge base in help is not good

Very attractive interface, both from the employee and supervisor perspective. Eliminates the paper work and sign-offs we were using before, information is easy to use for payroll and helps managers have an idea of their staffing levels.

Initial set up was a bit clumsy, particularly when dealing with unusual accrual rules. We should have implemented over the Christmas break, doing the transfer during regular work is a bit like chasing a moving target.

PurelyHR is straight-forward. It's nice to explore and see who in your organization has taken time off. It definitely gets straight to the point in my time-off requests and how many days I have to take off in each category. My favorite feature is the prediction feature. As a new full-time employee, I have to wait to use my vacation days. So, I can see in the future how many days I'll be able to take off, and plan accordingly.

It can be very "nosy" with the whole feature of seeing who is taking off on what days, but on the other hand, can be very useful in terms of finding out who is in the office when you need a project to be completed by them. Other than that, I believe it's a solid HR software.

Easy to use and to book time off and keep track of vacation and sick days.

Simple software, not a ton of features available. It does exactly and only what it is designed to do

Easy to implement; Easy to use; Currently using only the time off module. It is great for managers and employees to use; Time off calendar links to Google Calendar (with some special configuration); Staff report is easy to customize.

Customer service is exceptional!

Creating sub depts does not seem to be possible; Would be nice if we could export the Org Chart into a nice powerpoint style chart or at least a pdf. Would be great if it can integrate/have links with an existing payroll provider in Canada. For example, Ceridian & Nethris. This would be great for things like updating time taken and employee personal information like address. This is more of a suggestion for future updates for PurelHR.

It was very easy to set up. Employees find it easy to use. Bring a manager, I like the custom reminders.

I like pretty much everything. If I could change anything it would be that the employee number prints on the emails.

It is very helpful that you can set up different business rules in the software to help keep track of things like holidays, shifts an department.

Our shift hours vary and it was more difficult to set up those special shifts in the Time-Off module. We found a work around though.

It's incredibly intuitive to use particularly for the administrator who needs to navigate a more deeper into the program for reports and set up.

The rebranding Octopus arm character is incredibly juvenile no matter how smiley it is - makes the program look like a joke. It's supposed to be a trusted reliable support for employee data.

The price is right, we use it strictly for PTO tracking, and it works fine for that. The price is very reasonable.

I don't things are intuitive. It would be nice to be able to run reports and select multiple people, don't think that functionality is there.

Ease of use! My employees knew how to pick it up right off the bat. They have access to their time reports which is super helpful to me!

Looks very nice and is looking nicer and nicer as time goes on. The system is easy to use and learn for staff and the administrative side of things is easy (once learnt) and offers a range of options to facilitate your HR requirements.

Pricing is also acceptable for the time it saves in other areas. Unfortunately we still use slips of paper as well to sign off leave .

The reporting needs work and booking leave also. Customisation for international users. For Example - we do not call it Vacation but rather Leave so calling it Vacation can be confusing at first.

The ability to change descriptions would be good. This goes for clocking in and out as well. I don't want to have to select what type of work I am doing if all work is the same. Rather than it noting 'No Job Code' we can change it. Just for aesthetics and ease of reading.

Also booking the vacation, the delays in changing it from single to multiple days. Why not have the system figure that out from the days you select? Click one day, one day. Drag to multiple, multiple...

Easy to use automated system. Customer service is excellent.

I had a hard time setting up the accruals.

User friendly, and very easy to set up. Purely support is wonderful

Not sure if we have a dislike yet. We have had the system for a little over a month and so far we really like it.