Timetastic

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Simple & elegant staff leave planner. Beautiful mobile app.

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Sarah
Sarah
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  • Industry: Architecture & Planning
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Vacation and Leave-Planning Made Simple

Reviewed on 2018/09/19

I would love to comment about Timetastic's customer service, but I have never had to use it. The...

I would love to comment about Timetastic's customer service, but I have never had to use it. The program has very few glitches, provides vacation and leave information flawlessly, and meets my organizations leave management needs beyond what I hoped. I highly recommend this program.

Pros

My company used to have four different managers who received time off requests, but the managers did not always communicate the leave schedule with the rest of the organization. Chaos ensued. With Timetastic, those same four managers still receive their time off requests, but once approved, the leave is scheduled and there for the whole organization to see. I especially appreciate the feature allowing each employee to have a designated approval person within the organization, rather than defaulting to Timetastic admin. My employees also love having consistent, easy access to their vacation time information. Employees are able to see, understand, and access their vacation time, making it easier for them to use.

Cons

The settings feature is a bit confusing, but Timetastic continually heard and responded to improvement requests, making items like local holidays perfectly customizable. My one consistent criticism is that it sometimes takes a day for leave requests to sync with Google calendar, but that is a minor drawback considering the benefits of the program.

Karen
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Its definitely worth having

Reviewed on 2024/03/27

Pros

Ease of tracking. Allows me to see periods of sickness and who is off innthe team if another Annual Leave request is received

Cons

The fact you can't state if a lunch needs to be taken into account. If someone works 11am til 7pm, they will have an hours lunch, and therefore their AL request would be 7 hours, not 8. I therefore have to keep manual records, which defeats the objective of Timetastic

Richard
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Suitable for a specific type of business

Reviewed on 2018/09/24

Great while our team grew from 5 to 50 people but from 50 and above with our changing team...

Great while our team grew from 5 to 50 people but from 50 and above with our changing team structure it lost its usefulness. We have a team of around 200 people now and due to none hierarchical departments in Timetastic (users belonging to departments within departments) it is loosing its usability.

Pros

Easy to use, one-touch confirmation of leave for approvers from email is a really good feature for me.

Cons

UX could be improved, sometimes it takes far to many clicks to get to the view I need.

Users can only belong to one department. This is not fit for our business. Departments, in reality, are usually hierarchical in structure but in Timetastic they are not. This causes us issues

David
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  • Industry: Publishing
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent tool

Reviewed on 2024/03/27

Pros

Timetastic is very easy to use - so much better than spreadsheets and manual calculations for leave. We love it!

Cons

Nothing - it is a great tool! Very easy to use.

Peter
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Works for me

Reviewed on 2024/04/02

Pros

I like the ease to see on any day who is off on holiday

Cons

Nothing at the moment, it all seems to work

Jaymie
Jaymie
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Simple and effective

Reviewed on 2018/09/21

The few times I've had occasion to contact them, the support team have always been quick to respond...

The few times I've had occasion to contact them, the support team have always been quick to respond and very friendly. We've been using it for years and it's not hard to see why.

Pros

Timetastic is fast to use and easy to configure as an administrator. I'm responsible for a couple of teams and everyone loves how simple it is. I also like that you can subscribe to its calendars, so I'm always up-to-date on my teams' movements.

Cons

I'd like just a little more configurability around the types of "leave". For some workers we want to declare the days they're going to be in the office, so "leave" doesn't really apply there. I like that you can control whether a leave type is deductible from the overall total, but being to change how each "leave" type is described on-screen would be the finishing touch for me.

Cindy
Cindy
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Timetastic Review

Reviewed on 2019/03/07

Timetastic is a real time saver, and it works for the whole office. The work sheet is fantastic,...

Timetastic is a real time saver, and it works for the whole office. The work sheet is fantastic, since it is divided into days and hours and even the pay deductions from leave times are based on that sheet. The work sheet is visible to everyone in the office, so there is no more confusion as to who is supposed to be on duty or who in-fact is on leave for the day, or absent on vacation.

Pros

What I like most about this nifty little Timetastic app is the fact that it is able to group staff members together, separate from the bosses' group, which is also grouped together. It really helps not having that blend-over. The app updates all changes made to it instantly, and it can be downloaded to mobile or to your desktop at work. This app in my opinion, is the fastest, smoothest way to book days off or to get approval for leave days.

Cons

What I like least about Timetastic is that while it is promoted as being a free app that you can use, the trial version does expire after two months and by then you feel like you have to pay for it. You feel that way because of the extent of time you've already invested into the app, and after having it on your phone for two months you have already logged everyone in the company's names, calendars, as well as everybody's leave day information and even private notifications that had been sent through the Timetastic app, and you don't want to loose any of that data, so you end up having to pay for the app.

Kate
Kate
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Effortless

Reviewed on 2018/09/18

Pros

Timetastic has a simple, easy to use interface. This enabled us to delete some boring and complicated spreadsheets that were hard to maintain. Horray!

New starters require no induction, and admins can quickly get on with this often tedious process. I rate the Slack integration since many of our team are remote - it enables us to effortlessly manage and track who's on leave.

I think Timetastic is great value and have recommended to other small business owners I know.

Cons

It's a pity you can't edit leave once it's approved, so admins get multiple emails from users - 'so and so cancelled their holiday', 'so and so requested a new holiday'. This could be merged into one notification, or you could permit admins to edit leave directly rather than deleting/adding.

- It's not clear that users can book leave that spans non-working days without deducting from their allowance, so some people send multiple requests - booking Friday and Monday separately. This could also be solved by an email digest.

Avery
Avery
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Easy to use and covers our basic needs!

Reviewed on 2018/09/18

Pros

As HR & Talent Manager for the company, it can be quiet overwhelming trying to figure what is the best platform for all stakeholders involved. Luckily, Timetastic has been our trusty sidekick when it comes to the holidays and leave. It's easy to use, a good user experience, and doesn't break the bank. Overall, I've been very happy with the service!

Cons

One of our perks is an extra holiday day for every year employed with the business. It can get a bit confusing to implement this automatically with Timetastic. It's almost easier just to enter everyone's extra day manually. Not a huge effort, but that's one thing that has been somewhat challenging.

Richard
Richard
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  • Industry: Wholesale
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Timetastic has taken the burden of absence management away.

Reviewed on 2018/09/18

Pros

The fact that all users can see who clashes with their request for time off. Most Holiday planning happens in the family home and users can see, via the Timetastic App, potential clashes without waiting to go to work to look on a conventional Holiday planner.

The manager has to simply approve or disapprove as appropriate. Job done.

Also good value for money.

Cons

It integrates quite well with Outlook as an additional calendar however it would be useful if it integrated in to our CRM as it would save having too run two separate diaries.

Could also do with two managers being emailed about all holiday requests rather than just one admin.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

“Excellent Staff Management”

Reviewed on 2023/04/12

Timetastic is a staff leave solution made for public administrators and major companies. The...

Timetastic is a staff leave solution made for public administrators and major companies. The application offers an electronic way to notate staff leaves and track their attendance.

Pros

Users can choose Timetastic and prevent the hassles of managing old fashion spreadsheets.

Cons

The user interface is plain. Timetastic should add more features.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Writing & Editing
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Timetastic: It's Fantastic

Reviewed on 2019/07/23

In the end I'm very satisfied with Timetastic. It allowed me to let my employer know when I wanted...

In the end I'm very satisfied with Timetastic. It allowed me to let my employer know when I wanted to work and when I didn't, all without having to leave my desk. As a freelancer, it was a very beneficial addition to my library.

Pros

Timetastic is a software that lets you keep track of employee hours that they have worked or have yet to work. It contains a calendar with said hours, and offers notifications to let you know when someone is supposed to be on schedule (it also lets you plug in desired vacation times, which isn't something I've seen in other time-tracking apps). On the off chance that the boss isn't available for a period of time, someone else can be put in charge of the team (on the app) so that they can approve the hours as you plug them in. This allows everyone to keep working their desired hours, even when the higher-ups are out of town. Finally, despite its origin in Manchester, Timetastic can be used in the US, which is always a plus.

Cons

It did seem to run a bit slow on my phone, but I'm also using an iPhone 5s, which is somewhat outdated.

Kriss
Kriss
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

A simple yet robust solution for staff management

Reviewed on 2018/09/21

Timetastic has made the management of my team a breeze. The developers have clearly focused on good...

Timetastic has made the management of my team a breeze. The developers have clearly focused on good UX principles and making the day to day usage easy - all while allowing for more powerful features underneath. While I believe Timetastic could provide some more integrations out of the box, the fact that they provide an API more than makes up for this fact.

We experimented with using the Bradford Factor in our company, a method for determining the risk associated with an employee's pattern of absence, and I was happy to discover the API during this process. I easily pulled in the data for each employee, the absence types, and then used this to calculate a score for each employee. In the future we plan to integrate Timetastic into our project management system so we can avoid booking developers in for tasks when they're not going to be in the office.

Pros

Ease of use, clean and friendly interface, powerful underlying features.

Cons

Could use a few more integrations with popular software

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Timetastic Review

Reviewed on 2018/09/21

As I outlined above, it works brilliantly for the size of team we have. It give us a simple way to...

As I outlined above, it works brilliantly for the size of team we have. It give us a simple way to request annual leave, sick days and working from home days. It has cut down the level of administration required for such a process. Previously we were using email/instant messenger requests and Google calendar for tracking. This was a messy approach and quite time consuming - TT has solved this problem for us.

Pros

I have been using timetastic for approx. 3 years and it is very easy to use. It is quick to set up and gives you enough flexibility for different teams and approvers.

Cons

I have never had any trouble with Timetastic - it works brilliantly for the size of team we have.

Sophie
Sophie
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  • Industry: Music
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Timefantastic

Reviewed on 2018/09/19

It was a company process prior to me coming into the company but it's been really easy to use and...

It was a company process prior to me coming into the company but it's been really easy to use and if I want to do some changes more often than not the user face is intuitive enough that I can figure it out even without going to the help section.
The integration into other tools is cool too. Our Slack now notifies the company of people on holiday through timetastic integration to remind them X won't be in the morning or Y is on holiday, which saves confusion or having to communicate ourselves.
It makes it really easy for us to communicate with staff about holiday and any other anomaly days we organise.

Pros

Generally it just keeps the organisation of something that's important to staff but not necessarily always on the top of our priority list as management really simple so we can keep on top of it and stay organised whilst they stay satisfied.

Cons

There's not anything I dislike about it, it does exactly what it says on the tin and we don't need it for anything massively complicated, we are not a huge company.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent Software

Reviewed on 2018/09/18

We have used Timetastic for quite a few years now, during its time as a BETA site in a paid for...

We have used Timetastic for quite a few years now, during its time as a BETA site in a paid for site. The guys at Timetastic respond quickly to any issues and took on board my comments during the Beta phase making changes as they could. We have had very few issues since the site became paid for and overall find the site excellent and great value for money.

Pros

The ease of use and clear display. It does exactly what I need it to do.

Cons

There were a few things in the early days, but these were improved and now the software works as I would like it to.

Jake
Jake
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great Starter Tool

Reviewed on 2018/09/18

Timetastic was a great application for us to begin with, however now that we have grown our...

Timetastic was a great application for us to begin with, however now that we have grown our requirements have changed we have moved to a more all around HR Solution.

I would recommend Timetastic to any other business looking to make the step forward to a self serve employee time off solution.

Pros

Timetastic was a great tool for us initially as a small business. It was a low cost and easy to use for management and employees.

Cons

It would be helpful to have multi level authorisation for time off

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Timetastic Review

Reviewed on 2018/09/18

This is a quick and easy solution to register leave with having to allocate a person to administer...

This is a quick and easy solution to register leave with having to allocate a person to administer the holiday chart.

Pros

The ease of use, setting up quickly and the ability to approve leave on the move.

Cons

You cannot fast forward to a date in the future, you have to scroll through each month. Also it would be nice to be able to edit a calendar entry rather than cancel it and re input. An example is adding the reason for the leave.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Furniture
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Simple, Well-Priced, Functional

Reviewed on 2018/09/18

We manage teams in 2 different Geographic locations, with different state holidays and I was...

We manage teams in 2 different Geographic locations, with different state holidays and I was surprised to find that Timetastic caters for that scenario so well.

What concerns the regular, 1 geo location team management, i think its pretty flawless..

Pros

The simplicity, users pick it up very easily. Its intuitive, so no need for special training whatsoever.

Cons

Not sure, seems pretty ideal. Hope they won't over-complicate with too many functions.

Robin
Robin
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Beautifully simple

Reviewed on 2018/09/18

Brilliant simple solution that is very cost effective.

Brilliant simple solution that is very cost effective.

Pros

We were looking for something that only did basic annual leave tracking and we found it. It's very simple for our staff to use.

Cons

I would like to be able to mark day 'on' with a status too, e.g. we currently mark days traveling or working remotely on the calendar but althought not counted as off, they look like days off.

Chris
Chris
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  • Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Simple and effective

Reviewed on 2018/09/24

A hassle free and cost effective way of managing staff holiday.

A hassle free and cost effective way of managing staff holiday.

Pros

Very easy for all of the team to see when colleagues have time booked off and plan their own holidays. Also very simple for managers to asses and respond to any requests. Link to Google Calendars very useful.

Cons

No real negatives. Can be a timelag before updates feed into a Google calendar.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Timetastic

Reviewed on 2018/09/18

Timetastic has taken away the paper trail for our office manager, we can easily book leave and have...

Timetastic has taken away the paper trail for our office manager, we can easily book leave and have department managers sign this off, we can easily see a picture of who's off and integrate this into our Slack application. Definitely a must have tool.

Pros

Easy to use
Replaced our paper based solution
Integrates with Slack so we can update the team on who is on leave automatically
Flexibility to schedule leave, appointment etc.. for different time slots
Has an App

Cons

App is very good but doesn't have the full features of the web version

Paul
Paul
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

What is not to like

Reviewed on 2018/09/18

Totally fits the bill and does everything we need

Totally fits the bill and does everything we need

Pros

This product easily fulfils the task. It is easy to use and administer and provides us with the staffing flexibility we need in our business.
Easy to add in different types of holiday and part time working

Cons

To be honest we have been using this for ages and not found any issue yet

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Facilities Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

ShopGo / Lubna

Reviewed on 2018/09/19

Overall it's good, we like it.. but we think more functions should start being added soon before we...

Overall it's good, we like it.. but we think more functions should start being added soon before we start needing more and thinking of moving to others

Pros

It's easy, it's SAAS, I can upgrade downgrade immediate, it's connected to our gmails so it's smooth

Cons

it just needs to start having more functionality- HR functionalities, reminders on birthdays

Kyle
Kyle
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  • Industry: Pharmaceuticals
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Simple to use, integrates seemlessly with Google accounts and Slack

Reviewed on 2018/09/18

Great experience, solved our business need without any issue. Time out of office with approvals is...

Great experience, solved our business need without any issue. Time out of office with approvals is something totally solved, it’s never something we have to think about.

Pros

Fit our needs exactly, and integrated well with our existing setup. Instant adoption with employees since it’s so easy to use.

Cons

It didn’t support real well our international employees that have different leave policies. We got it working but have to do some additional tracking in a spreadsheet outside the app.