Cezanne HR

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HR software for UK & global businesses - 100-3000 employees

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4.4 /5
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Value for Money
4.5/5
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4.1/5
Ease of Use
4.1/5
Customer Support
4.6/5

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Michelle
Michelle
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  • Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

An All Round Helping Hand - Excellent HR Software Solution

Reviewed on 2016/09/27

Our HR department was a very paper heavy function and we needed something to bring us up to date as...

Our HR department was a very paper heavy function and we needed something to bring us up to date as quickly, easily and cheaply as possible. We tested a number of options and many of them seemed to have close to everything we needed but when it came to costs, we were always faced with a 'but'. A 'You can have this, but if you want that, it will cost you extra' scenario. The version the sales person had demonstrated to us was always the most expensive option and would cost a great deal more than we have been lead to initially believe. We felt many of the sales people we met with from those companies, had a habit of talking 'at' us. An approach which did not sit well.

By chance, we stumbled upon Cezanne at a HR exhibition. The representatives on the day were incredibly friendly, helpful, approachable and the information they provided was very clear and we left them having arranged for a demo of their product. We were impressed with how they 'conversed' about their product and did try the hard sell.

We were impressed with the ease of navigation, the fact it was cloud based and therefore always accessible. Things looked even more promising when the figures came back in terms of the cost - the same as had been explained to us when we had spoken to them at the exhibition. No hidden extras!

From the very first contact with Cezanne, they were always there to help and always went the extra mile. They uploaded our core data, and after a very worthwhile day of training at their head office in London, we were good to go. We started with around 120 employees when we first integrated Cezanne, and that number has now more than doubled. The performance of Cezanne has remained effective and efficient with no visible signs of slowing down in performance. We have also uploaded the hard copy contents of over half our employee files and still, there has been no drop in performance.

We do not operate within just the UK, but rather several offices throughout Europe and Asia, and Cezanne has been able to adapt to the different legalities of each country.

Since bringing Cezanne on-board, we have been able to hand over much of the employee administration, to the employees themselves - change of addresses, contact numbers, absence management. We've also streamlined our performance management function to a completely paperless process.

It has allowed us to hand over much of the day to day running of employee matters, to the Line Managers. It has negated the need populate multiple reports each month for our directors and senior management, as the data is available to them at the push of a button. We were able to tailor reports to individual managers and assign it to them personally. A very big help in itself as it has freed up a great deal of time for the HR department, allowing us to concentrate on other projects that there simply wasn't time to address before.

Cezanne is very much a company that encourages customer feedback. They are keenly interested in ideas and suggestions and actively do what they can to meet the requests and suggestions wherever possible.

The customer service and support is absolutely first-class. Issues (and user errors as is often my case) are addressed and resolved extremely promptly.

Cezanne HR is definitely a software and a company that I would recommend.

Pros

Software is very straightforward to use with a great user friendly interface.

Encourages a greater involvement on the part of the employee and the manager

Some of the best customer service I have experienced.

The team at Cezanne work with their customers to continually develop and improve the software. They really do listen to the voice of the customer.

Has the ability to streamline many HR functions.

Has everything - is an all-in-one solution

Cons

Were I to recommend one area of improvement, it would be the interactions available with some of the data on screen. For example, the ability to filter information on screen so that I can control the order in which I'm viewing it, rather than exporting it to an Excel spreadsheet.

However, is is a very minor cosmetic point and as a whole I think the product offers huge benefits.

Emily
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  • Industry: Management Consulting
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

User friendly with good reporting

Reviewed on 2024/08/30

Very positive - easy as a general user to book leave and good from the HR side for things such as...

Very positive - easy as a general user to book leave and good from the HR side for things such as reports

Pros

User friendly, especially functions such as booking leave

Cons

Difficult to do individual work patterns or alternative patterns within the system

Alternatives Considered

Bob

Reasons for Choosing Cezanne HR

We were growing as a business and needed more from the HR system

Switched From

Cascade

Reasons for Switching to Cezanne HR

The cost of HiBob was too much for us as a business
Jessica
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Average HR system

Reviewed on 2024/08/30

Pros

It is a cheap HR system. support team are generally very speedy at responding

Cons

It's a very clunky system. Unable to run reports on all and any fields

Jodi
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  • Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Would recommend for HR use!

Reviewed on 2024/12/20

Easy to get used to and maneuver around.

Easy to get used to and maneuver around.

Pros

Cezzane does everything we need for a medium sized company its great!

Cons

Sometimes it buffers and a bit slow on occasion

Emma
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Cezanne HR

Reviewed on 2023/10/10

Great service, knowledge and communication.

Great service, knowledge and communication.

Pros

- Reporting- Configuration- Helpdesk - Absence Management- Implementation- User Led Enhancements and monthly functionality updates

Cons

- Does not have automated compensation linked to Grades - Does not automatically pro rata compensation data for starters / leavers or those on short-term contracts- Does not have the capacity to manage working patterns that are different from a standard weekly pattern

Alternatives Considered

Bob, BambooHR, Moorepay and Breathe

Reasons for Choosing Cezanne HR

Did not meet the organisation needs, did not have a good customer service or feedback mechanism.

Switched From

Ciphr

Reasons for Switching to Cezanne HR

It had more capacity to edit and tailor to our operations. Our organisation has complex absence plans, terms and conditions and flexible working agreements - we could not find a solution that accommodated these things.It has single-sign on, and other API functionality, it is also cloud based and has a mobile app. The price for the quality of the system was a huge factor.We also found that Cezanne HR offered comprehensive onboarding and set up help, with unrestricted team training.
Milen
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Reporting functionality not satisfactory

Reviewed on 2024/08/30

Pros

the level of details the platform offers

Cons

somehow the report function is too heavy, lack of simplified instant reports
too complicated menus and too much details not organized well for a simple view

Alternatives Considered

Personio

Reasons for Switching to Cezanne HR

it had more input data options and more detailed input
Victoria
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Fantastic Software, Highly Recommend!

Reviewed on 2023/09/27

Fluent, easy to use and brilliant for all our HR needs.

Fluent, easy to use and brilliant for all our HR needs.

Pros

With regards to our previous software, Cezanne has been so easy to use, implement and learn. The set up team are very helpful and friendly.

Cons

There is nothing that we have come across yet!

Alternatives Considered

Sage 300cloud

Reasons for Choosing Cezanne HR

We need a software that better supported our needs, was easier to use and manage and combined additional features such as time keeping.

Switched From

Jane

Reasons for Switching to Cezanne HR

Cezanne was drastically cheaper and offered the same features we required.

Response from Cezanne HR

Thank you so much for your review Victoria, we are glad that Cezanne HR is supporting your needs as a company and as a HR Team! If you ever have any additional feedback or ideas, don't hesitate to get in touch.

Charlotte
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  • Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Overall a great system with excellent support team.

Reviewed on 2024/08/30

Overall it is a good system and the support team are great at helping quickly and effectively. The...

Overall it is a good system and the support team are great at helping quickly and effectively. The check in Teams calls with a member of staff at Cezanne are also great to discuss any concerns.

Pros

Visually the platform is very user friendly and makes it very easy to navigate to whatever you need to access.

Cons

Recently, we have seen a lot of issues that have occurred following updates to the system. The support team were able to help rectify these quickly, but there was no communication at the time that the issue had occurred (despite Cezanne being aware of it) so we had to wait until an employee stumbled across it to then have it resolved, rather than fixing it straight away and avoiding the inconvenience to others.

Samuel
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  • Industry: Business Supplies & Equipment
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

HR Cezanne user review

Reviewed on 2024/07/31

Generally very good and works how is required. A few user focused additions such as recurring time...

Generally very good and works how is required. A few user focused additions such as recurring time off could be useful.

Pros

It is useful to use for the core functions of booking time off and gathering overtime

Cons

Sometimes putting in absence requests can be a little long winded, especially if you wanted to book say a recurring friday off for 4 weeks you would need to do 4 seperate booking requests.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Cezanne review

Reviewed on 2024/08/06

A good product, with great support and assistance, and open to suggestions for improvement

A good product, with great support and assistance, and open to suggestions for improvement

Pros

Responsive support team, happy to help with any queries

Cons

Would like a test system, and to be able to more easily view as a user

Amanda
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 501–1,000 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

User friendly

Reviewed on 2024/09/02

A very positive experience, user friendly.

A very positive experience, user friendly.

Pros

The reports and how clearly the information is in the form hub

Cons

I cannot find a How To guide so always have to ask a colleague

Adam
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great experience

Reviewed on 2024/08/30

Very happy experience, Cezanne go above and beyond for any requests or projects we have raised with...

Very happy experience, Cezanne go above and beyond for any requests or projects we have raised with them.

Pros

The user interface is easy to use and clear, with sensible headings making navigation simple. Like the fact the payroll module bolts on and is seamless, meaning we can successfully submit payroll on time and correctly each month.

Cons

Initial training was quite short meaning there was a level of self training to be undertaken, but the Cezanne team have always been supportive and responsive if we have had any queries.

Claire
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  • Industry: Writing & Editing
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

A simple and intuitive system

Reviewed on 2024/08/06

A good experience - we did not have anything similar before, and it's really handy to have...

A good experience - we did not have anything similar before, and it's really handy to have everything together in one place. Booking and viewing holidays is now very simple

Pros

Nice and quick to use - very intuitive. Clear menus and several different views available (eg calendar or list views of booked holiday). Good to have everything useful together

Cons

It signs you out a little quickly. Would like more customisation of being able to view different colleagues' holidays (rather than just your line reports and your line manager's other reports)

Maya
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 51–200 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

Enjoying Cezanne

Reviewed on 2024/08/30

Positive. Learning to use it has been fun.

Positive. Learning to use it has been fun.

Pros

Extremely user friendly, once you learn the ropes. Especially like that they offer all things HR in one place.

Cons

Getting to a place where you're confident to use it can take some time/training. Once you learn the processes it becomes very easy.

elisa
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Good value for money

Reviewed on 2024/07/31

For the users, it is great and simple to use.

For the users, it is great and simple to use.

Pros

It is a complete system that covers all areas of HR.

Cons

You have to set up the system yourself or pay for the support to do it for you. It is a complex system because offers you a lot but it doesn't work properly if you don't set up it properly.

Jess
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  • Industry: Textiles
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great for our SME

Reviewed on 2024/07/31

Pros

I like the range of functionality and ability to personalise just about everything.

Cons

The setting up or processes and sending out of documents on mass, can be very fiddly.

Thomas
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  • Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Very positive

Reviewed on 2024/08/30

Very positive overall. Support has been very good during implementation and required.

Very positive overall. Support has been very good during implementation and required.

Pros

Ease of access, integration and setup. Support has always been very well received.

Cons

Initial setup to how the business requires it took longer than anticipated.

Mark
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  • Industry: Pharmaceuticals
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Easy to use

Reviewed on 2024/07/31

Pros

The interface is clean and easy to follow.

Cons

A calendar view showing annual leave would be good

Leigh-Ann
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Review of Cezanne from a HR Admin

Reviewed on 2024/09/03

Very good so far, and the support has been great from the Cezanne team

Very good so far, and the support has been great from the Cezanne team

Pros

How easy the stages are set out, step by step

Cons

Probably that when an error message comes up, it isn't that easy to figure out why

Kate
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  • Industry: Medical Devices
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Ideal HR Software for SMEs

Reviewed on 2023/07/31

We have a number of flexible working patterns and using Cezanne has automated calculating holiday...

We have a number of flexible working patterns and using Cezanne has automated calculating holiday entitlements. It is an easy to use, one-stop shop for storing and retrieving employee information. It has also been useful for capturing document storage and gathering electronic signatures to ensure employees have read changes to procedures or other important documents.

Pros

Cezanne was a great investment for our business as it helped to streamline and automate a number of manual processes that we had been carrying out. It is user friendly and cloud based allowing for easy use from home or on site.

Cons

Cezanne seems to have taken on board requests for improvement over the years and it has become much easier to use than in the early days.

Anna
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  • Industry: Human Resources
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Cezanne review

Reviewed on 2023/07/31

Great

Great

Pros

As someone who helps implement, train employee to use and who is an admin user, I find Cezanne to be very intuitive and user friendly. I enjoy sharing Cezanne with new clients as I know that it will help to make everyone's lives easier!

Cons

Reporting - sometimes it is difficult to get all of the information you need on one report as the data sits in different tables within the system

Chris
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 201–500 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

Flexible Functions

Reviewed on 2023/07/31

Cezanne have been a dream to work with. Support is great and we've had a great level of up time. We...

Cezanne have been a dream to work with. Support is great and we've had a great level of up time. We have no complaints.

Pros

We outgrew our old HR platform and we realised that most (even some of the industry leaders) only work to one very fixed hours patten. Cezanne HR has helped us to accommodate many working pattens. Their API has allowed us to easily pull this data into our BI platforms. Staff can use the app to book absence at home. We have even deployed custom absence plans which allows for gift holiday etc.

Cons

The UX is not the most intuative out there and the design could do with a little refresh. However, neither are show stoppers. The functionality gains and value for money are far more important.

Rachel
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  • Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Ease of use

Reviewed on 2023/07/31

Pros

Cezanne is so easy to use, I have used several other HR & Time and attendance platforms and I have to say this is the easiest one I have used.

Cons

Sometimes the support can be a bit slow in getting back to you. It would be beneficial to have a number to call.

Julie
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Use of system

Reviewed on 2023/07/31

I have used the system extensively and it helped us to achieve what we needed when we purchased it....

I have used the system extensively and it helped us to achieve what we needed when we purchased it. However it would be good to see this system develop further

Pros

Ease of use by the user. It helped us to manage PDR’s and absences.

Cons

Difficult to use as an administrator and not as flexible as perhaps we need it to be.

Grace
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  • Industry: Pharmaceuticals
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

My experience using Cezanne

Reviewed on 2023/08/10

Cezanne allows a variety of report running/data inputting. It provides us with what we require.

Cezanne allows a variety of report running/data inputting. It provides us with what we require.

Pros

Once you understand how to use Cezanne it is easy and very useful to input and export data.

Cons

I feel would be better if there was a phone line we could call rather than all email tickets - as sometimes we need things resolving asap and can take 24 hours for ticket to be raised/resolved. Email ticket responses are helpful but would be quicker and easier to have a phone call.