Bindle

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Vacation & PTO tracking software for growing teams.

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Leslie
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Bindle does exactly what it says it does and does it well

Reviewed on 2020/06/15

Very positive. Bindle saves me so much time tracking, approving, and reporting time off and has...

Very positive. Bindle saves me so much time tracking, approving, and reporting time off and has eliminated all discrepancies. It was the perfect solution as we did not want or need additional HR functionality. The branding does a good job of communicating the overall feel of the site. It was easy to set up and pass over to the team to book and track their own time off and gave managers easy oversite. Customer service was wonderful with the few questions I did have.

Pros

Bindle was easy to set up, while still having all the options I needed for my team. It saves me so much time tracking vacation form my team and everyone can track their own balances which saves time and conflict at the end of the year.

Cons

Specifically, when looking to add a new company-wide holiday the Action buttons were out of the screen and I didn't scroll past 2021 and 2022 to look for the ADD NEW EVENT. So I added a company-wide vacation day which I then had to undo (one by one) until I got support and created what I really intended.

Response from Bindle Software

Thanks for your very thoughtful review. We're glad Bindle's saving you so much time.

Gary
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  • Industry: Import & Export
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Leave Management made easy

Reviewed on 2021/01/18

For us this has solved the age old issue of lots of spreadsheets, keeping them up to date, not...

For us this has solved the age old issue of lots of spreadsheets, keeping them up to date, not having records matched, not recalling when someone is due for leave, no consistency amongst forms etc etc. And in addition, for the company to assess entitlements and encourage staff to take leave and reduce the accounting liability.

Pros

We were able to switch from multiple spreadsheets to an all in one location. We couldn't even manage & accrue leave this simply with MYOB, in particular allowing staff access to view their entitlements, and simply apply and have their leave approved. The extra features such as Time in Lieu and long service accrual are great as well. Also very good support, our requests were answered promptly and even some suggestions integrated.

Cons

Only minor issues - No direct method for external HR Management without a sub. Has a roundabout way of doing reports (cant view online). A lot of clicking to get to detail for employees - i.e. needs a one page view summary. Could use a leave cash out request form. Can't do groups for section Admins - have to assign per user.

Jennifer
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  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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Better functionality regarding time off - half, quarter, etc

Reviewed on 2017/10/23

Pros

Allows you to see all in the company that are taking off on the dashboard, which helps with project scheduling.

Cons

Not friendly/flexible based on hours/timing. Make the calendar more flexible, longer range. Hard if you click "out" and then go back.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Jennifer - Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts on Bindle with us.

However, we're not really sure what you mean regarding some of the "Cons" you've mentioned. We'll get the Support Team to reach out to find out more.

Hopefully we can make Bindle better for you.

Thanks again Jennifer!

Nick
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

My Review

Reviewed on 2020/02/11

Very positive and would've been perfect if do away with some of the negatives like controls...

Very positive and would've been perfect if do away with some of the negatives like controls mentioned above

Pros

Ease of use, ease of setup and maintenance

Cons

Controls missing. Not allowing closing off of past periods, not allowing some form of prevention on negative leave balance. This should be an option for customers to decide and not based on Bindle's your philosophy about leave. The name Bindle along with the logos does not tell what this software does and don't really look professional despite it being a great piece of software.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Nick,

Thanks for your review and kind words.

Bindle does allow you to prevent people making bookings which would give them a negative balance.

If however the booking in question is in the past, we do allow it to go forward for approval.

Our thinking is that bookings in the past have already happened. Preventing them being recorded in Bindle would be more annoying to more users than allowing the approver to decide.

I am interested in your comment about closing of past periods. We are currently working on changes how we display balances which we think will make things much clearer.

If you have time to reply with how you would like closing past periods to work, that would be very helpful.

Thanks again for your review and constructive feedback.

Howard

Cindy
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  • Industry: Legal Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Bindle Has Saved Me Time!

Reviewed on 2021/08/20

Bindle has been nothing but a good experience.

Bindle has been nothing but a good experience.

Pros

Bindle is very easy to use. Employees like it because they can check on their PTO days without going through the Office Manager.

Cons

There is nothing I have found that I do not like about Bindle. It is a great Paid Time Off tracking system.

Janet
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  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

This app is perfect for our small school. It totally reduced the need for paper forms.

Reviewed on 2018/05/23

Efficiency. Reduction of time needed to keep up with paper forms. The wall chart allows for all...

Efficiency. Reduction of time needed to keep up with paper forms. The wall chart allows for all employees to see who is off and when.

Pros

Very, very easy to use. The app is easy to navigate and aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Our employees who are not as computer literate have no problem using this app.

Cons

There are no cons at this time. This app truly fits our need. In fact when we first started we needed an earlier start time to the day (since we are a school, we start at 7:30) to make the hours work for us well and Bindle's customer service was quick to meet our need by adding the earlier start time.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Janet - Glad to hear things are going so well and that we were able to accommodate your earlier start times. Terrific!

Kieran
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Bindle review

Reviewed on 2019/06/12

It is tracking our time off and holidays in an easy to find and update package. After the initial...

It is tracking our time off and holidays in an easy to find and update package. After the initial setup the only thing we need to do to maintain it is to remember to add our time off when necessary.
We're just a small team, so we don't use this for resource management, but rather just a place to store everyone's time off and holidays owed.

Pros

Auto adjusts balances for time off and holidays

Cons

As part of the onboarding i would have rather been presented with a calendar to manually select/enter the time off and start dates and let bindle calculate the starting balances, rather than having to work out the starting balances and enter it. Or importing an excel or google calendar would have been nice too.
I still find some of the terminology confusing and could be written more colloquially, and sick leave is called personal leave, which doesn't strike me as the same thing.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Kieran,

Thanks for your feedback. Glad to hear you are getting good value out of Bindle.

We do allow (in fact encourage) people to send us their data in Excel add allow us to bulk upload it. It seems like we might not be making this clear enough. If youv'e got more people to add then get in touch - we'd love to help.

The term Personal Leave seems to be in more common use than Sick Leave now, but if you prefer Sick Leave you can change the name in the Admin section.

Joseph
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  • Industry: Wholesale
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

I have been very satisfied using this program both as a user and administrator.

Reviewed on 2018/01/23

Pros

The program is easy to use and encompasses a number of features that we wanted. We like the ability of recording half days, a feature a process not easily accomplished in our old program.

Cons

I would like only the current years requests and time off to show in the program. I would also like to be able to customize our Holiday schedule without having to contact customer support.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Joseph - Thanks for your glowing review of Bindle. It means a great deal to us.

It sounds like you like lots of things about Bindle, without seeing too many negatives.

We're always improving Bindle and we are taking steps to really simplify the process of updating your company calendars.

We'll keep you informed. Thanks again Joseph!

Lawrence
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Massive Time Savings

Reviewed on 2019/10/11

Pros

Easy to set up and use. Very intuitive for both admins and employees.

Cons

I would love it even more if there was an app.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Lawrence

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and leaving us a review. We really appreciate it.

Great to hear Bindle is easy to set up and very intuitive. We try really hard to design it that way. It isn't easy for sure. Sounds like Bindle is saving some of your precious time as well. Nice.

An app is in the works and is on the list somewhere... Ah yes, I see it in there!

Peter
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  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great way to keep track of leave

Reviewed on 2020/08/08

Perfect for our needs

Perfect for our needs

Pros

We moved to in-house payroll but the system had no self-service leave function. Bindle provided a simple, comprehensive and cost effective solution to implement and use. It only takes a few seconds to apply for or approve leave.

Cons

Although it works fine from a phone browser, would be better to have an app.

Irene
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Fantastic & easy to use!

Reviewed on 2019/07/17

This tool has been fantastic! I would recommend to small-medium sized businesses.
The customer...

This tool has been fantastic! I would recommend to small-medium sized businesses.
The customer support I have received from the Bindle team is quick and very helpful also. They ask and LISTEN to feedback. Thanks Bindle Team! :)

Pros

Bindle is a very simple, intuitive platform to use. We are a start-up business of now 30 employees across 3 different business groups. This system is quite generic so it allows us to customise it to what we require for each business and across various countries including Australia, US and Netherlands.
Fun, casual user feel and look.

Cons

Tracking Time Off In Lieu can be difficult to manage.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Irene. Wow. Thanks for the kind words. It means a lot to us!

Todd
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  • Industry: Broadcast Media
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

My file cabinet is clean

Reviewed on 2019/03/05

Having a fast efficient way to track vacation days has been a BIG time saver for us. No more paper...

Having a fast efficient way to track vacation days has been a BIG time saver for us. No more paper copies or lost requests.

Pros

There are no more paper vacation requests cluttering up my file cabinet since the start of the new year! Its a great, quick way to handle vacation requests.

Cons

I would like to see a month by month calendar instead of the way it is broken down right now. It's not bad but would be nice to log on and see a calendar page of the current month. You have to set up and utilize a separate software to notify other staff if an employee is going to be gone. It would be convenient once the vacation day is approved to have a mass email go out alerting other employees of what staff member will be gone and when.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Todd,

Thanks for your kind words. Did you know there is an option in Bindle to CC all leave approvals to any email address you like. Maybe this will provide the alert to all employees you are looking for?

If you need any help just email us at [email protected].

Thanks again.

Howard

Donnalynn
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  • Industry: Industrial Automation
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great solution for small business

Reviewed on 2020/06/05

Pros

Bindle is super easy to setup and have running to track all employee vacation or personal leave requests. We easily integrated a time in lieu option for ourselves.
Bindle is affordable for a small business and beats tracking in excel any day !

Cons

Currently there is only 1 administrator type. It would be ideal if each department manager could have admin privileges for just their employees.

Heather
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  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Individuals are more accountable, info is more accurate, processing payroll is much more...

Reviewed on 2018/06/11

Efficient time off management for team of about 15 people in a busy office.

Efficient time off management for team of about 15 people in a busy office.

Pros

Having a centralised place for all staff leave requests which is more efficient, reduces human error, saves paper and time. Clear summary on Wallchart which can be viewed in Outlook alongside other calendars.

Cons

Hours can't be customised as required. Need 15 minute intervals, eg. to show that a staff member is out of office for the day on personal or annual leave, but does 45 minutes work from home.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Heather - Thanks for taking the time to review Bindle! Sounds like using Bindle is making quite a positive difference at Gresely Abas. We're looking at making time-off intervals more granular. We'll keep you informed.

Lori
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  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great attendance software for the money

Reviewed on 2019/05/06

By using Bindle, we have cut down on the amount of paper use in our attendance process. It also...

By using Bindle, we have cut down on the amount of paper use in our attendance process. It also saves time for both requesting time off and approving it.

Pros

This product is easy to administer and use. The app is great to use as well. We have just been using it since the beginning of the year and I have only heard positive things from our employees.

Cons

The one thing that I don't like is switching between days and hours when looking at balances & bookings. We have one type of PTO that is by the day and another that is by the hour. It would be nice to be able to use different timing by the category.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Lori,

Thanks for your kind words.

We've noted your point about displaying hours or days for different types of leave and have added it to our list of features for future consideration.

thanks again

Howard

Kelly
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

excellent software. easy to use and not overdone with bells and whistles.

Reviewed on 2018/03/28

helps track PTO which is exactly what i needed it to do.

helps track PTO which is exactly what i needed it to do.

Pros

i've reached out to customer support twice and received thorough, quick feedback. very responsive and that is much appreciated.

Cons

i wish the calendar functionality had an actual calendar so you could see the date on a month view.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Kelly - Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Bindle!

Glad to hear the customer support you've received has been up to scratch.

We're working on some little improvements to the calendar functionality to make it quite a bit better. We'll keep you informed.

Martha
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  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Very intuitive software

Reviewed on 2017/06/27

Pros

I find it easy to use and understand. This is significant as I am not particularly a 'techie' type. I particularly like being able to see the organization's calendar before I approve a vacation, which helps in making a decision.

Cons

It would be great to have this interface with Outlook calendar. When I approved vacation time it would be nice to have this show up on Outlook. I still have to do this manually in order to keep track of when people in my department will be gone.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Martha - Thanks for the 5 star review!

So it turns out you can already see Bindle bookings in Outlook!

All you need to do is log in to Bindle, go to the Wallchart, and click on the link at the very bottom called "View the Wallchart in your own calendar". Presto! Now Outlook will automatically contain all your Bindle bookings. Here's a blog article all about it.... https://www.bindle.io/blog/calendar-feed

Thanks again!

Matt
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great Simple Leave Tracking

Reviewed on 2018/11/25

Pros

Simple and quick to use. Features a good amount of customisation options without being too complex

Cons

It would be good to have more customisable reports, or more feature-rich APIs so we can create our own reports and integrations.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Matt! Thanks for the great review.

As you might be aware, we're working hard on improving Bindle all the time. A more feature-rich API and more customizable reports are definitely on our lovely list of things to do!

Sastry
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  • Industry: Biotechnology
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

When we signed up for trial, we were hesitant but their support is excellent! Worth every...

Reviewed on 2017/07/01

We don't have to track the time off of employees. The software does it for us.

We don't have to track the time off of employees. The software does it for us.

Pros

Bindle is easy to use and the customer support is great. We liked the features and functionality of the application.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Sastry - Thanks so much for your great review of Bindle. We take a lot of pride in our customer support so it's great to hear of your good experience with it. Looking forward to working with you and Xtal BioStructures for a long time to come.

Roger
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  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Easy and clear to work with.

Reviewed on 2018/01/23

Pros

I really like that the paid time off dates automatically appear on my Outlook calendar. I also like the ability to leave a note or reason with my determination. I also like that multiple requests are shown as a group and letting each employee know their PTO balance.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Roger - Thanks so much for taking time out of your day to review Bindle. We really appreciate it!

Jay
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  • Industry: Religious Institutions
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Good software to organize employee's time off

Reviewed on 2019/05/07

Pros

Bindle is relatively easy to use. It has given our organization the ability to store all employee days off in one place that is accessible by both the users and managers. We like it!

Cons

Since i'm not a software guru, i don't have any significant comments about the software. I'm sure there are features that could be modified or added, but nothing critical that i can identify at this time.

Response from Bindle Software

Thanks for your positive feedback. We hope you continue to enjoy using Bindle.

Debbie
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

We are very happy with Bindle PTO tracking!

Reviewed on 2017/12/15

Huge time saver, we were able to get off a paper based, manual system. Employees love it.

Huge time saver, we were able to get off a paper based, manual system. Employees love it.

Pros

Easy to set up and use; the customer service is extremely responsive and helpful; and our employees love it!

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Debbie - Thanks for the glowing review! We really love hearing that we're doing things right!

Justin
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great basic product for our needs

Reviewed on 2019/04/01

So far we have loved it.

So far we have loved it.

Pros

Easy to use no matter what level of the organization is using it.

Cons

Not sure about how robust it could become once our org grows. Integration?

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Justin,

Thanks for the great review and feedback.

We're always looking for ways too improve Bindle. Please drop [email protected] a line and let us know what sort of integrations you would find most useful.

thanks again

Howard

Helen
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  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Beautiful user focussed design

Reviewed on 2017/06/20

Pros

The design is simple and user friendly. It is easy for our staff to use. It is very aesthetically pleasing.

Cons

It would be great if it would integrate with the payroll system I use. If it could tell me a leave balance up to the minute that would be good too "0.78 days of leave earned."

I work with a lot of older staff, and someone using a lot of sick leave at the moment, they are finding it a bit tricky to use.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Helen - Thanks for your great review of Bindle! Howard will be chuffed you think Bindle is "very aesthetically pleasing". ¿

Leanne
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easy to use for a lot of staff members

Reviewed on 2016/05/31

the only bad thing is the time that is taken for an employee's holidays to be approved or denied....

the only bad thing is the time that is taken for an employee's holidays to be approved or denied. This leaves us with sometimes no time to purchase cheaper flights and or holidays.

Response from Bindle Software

Hi Leanne - Thanks so much for taking the time to review Bindle. It sounds like you find it easy enough to use. It looks like we'll have to somehow bribe your manager into approving your leave requests in a more timely manner! :) - Damien