About Personio
Personio is the all-in-one HR software for small- and medium-sized companies with 10 to 2000 employees. Personio’s solution includes human resources, recruiting, and payroll, all while supporting a company’s core HR processes. People Workflow Automation, a new category of HR software launched by Personio, ensures cross-departmental, automated processes and seamless integrations. More than 5,000 customers in over 100 countries use Personio. In October 2021 alone, Personio received $270 million in Series E funding. With a valuation of $6.3 billion, Personio is Europe’s most valuable HR tech company.
Unlike other HR solutions, Personio covers employee management, recruiting, payroll, and onboarding, so HR can perform all core people-related tasks from one place. Highly efficient processes are enabled by centralized data and automated workflows. An example are the Personio Posting Bundles, where your company’s open positions are promoted on the most relevant job boards in only one click – and at an exclusive price just for you, too! Having accurate people data in a single system of record enables HR to gain insights while optimizing processes. It provides you with actionable insights that provide a holistic and reliable view of your company’s key workforce data to make data-driven decisions. For greater efficiency and complete data security, the seamless integration between DATEV’s payroll software and Personio allows you to send important payroll data with only the click of a button.
This collaborative foundation, through Personio, helps HR to be truly effective. Customized access rights allow employees and managers to access information in the system independently. Employee self-service supports seamless collaboration on people-related tasks, from candidate assessment to onboarding and development. Templates and workflow automation minimize manual overhead, like creating employment certificates, calculating vacation entitlements, or rejecting candidates. Built-in task management and reminders help the team stay on top of tasks and priorities, to seamlessly avoid bottlenecks.
Personio is designed to make it as easy as possible to integrate into third-party solutions, so you can design your own unique best practices. Other specialized solutions (e.g. travel expenses software) can be seamlessly integrated into Personio. The data from the integrated system is then automatically synchronized to ensure that you have all information centrally available. An entire overview of every possible integration can be found in the Personio Marketplace.
Pricing starting from:
€2,88/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Key benefits of Personio
- Personnel data is stored correctly, completely, and in compliance with legal requirements at all times.
- The seamless integration between DATEV’s payroll and Personio allows you to send important payroll data securely and with only the click of a button.
- Job advertisements can be posted to more than 500 job portals in only one click and at an exclusive price with the recently-released Personio Posting Bundles.
- Custom reports can be quickly created for any point in time or time frame and exported to different formats.
- Onboarding tasks can be viewed centrally, while task owners are automatically reminded of pending tasks until they are complete.
- Customized access rights allow employees and managers to access information in the system independently.
- Employee self-service supports seamless collaboration on people-related tasks, from candidate assessment to onboarding and development.
- Templates and workflow automation minimize manual overhead like creating employment certificates, calculating vacation entitlements, or rejecting candidates.
- Built-in task management and reminders help you stay on top of tasks and priorities, to seamlessly avoid bottlenecks.
- Structures and processes can be adapted to specific business requirements without the involvement of IT specialists.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Pricing starting from:
€2,88/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Personio: 93
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great help in everyday HR work.
Reviewed on 2019/02/12
Pros
- We at ORDA use Personio over one and a half years now and by now this tool has become an essential part of all of our HR processes. Therefore we can highly recommend the product.
Cons
- In the beginning there were some usability issues which are mostly resolved by now.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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The one-stop solution for better HR
Reviewed on 2019/08/19
Our overall experience with Personio has been extremely positive. It has allowed us to digitize and...
Our overall experience with Personio has been extremely positive. It has allowed us to digitize and streamline our processes and workflows in a way that has vastly increased our efficiency and the quality of our services as an HR department. Personio has enabled us to very quickly move all our core HR processes to the software and makes it possible for us to handle them in a much more efficient, user-friendly way. The software has also been a great help to our employees, who can take care of their HR tasks much easier now, as well as our team leaders and managers, who now have a better way of administrating and supervising their team and making sure all tasks are taken care of. Working together with Personio's implementation and key account managers, as well as their customer support team, has always been a great experience. Personio provides extensive support, guidance and best practices which help in further improving workflows and customizing the software for each individual company. Overall, with its variety of features, Personio has opened countless ways for us to optimize our processes and offer better services, and has enabled us as HR to transform from a department preoccupied by administrative tasks to a true strategic partner.
Pros
We greatly appreciate all of the features Personio offers, and actively use the entire range of tools and features. In terms of core HR processes, one of the most instant and most significant benefits of using Personio was the easy administration of personnel data and the absence management. Everyone in our company, from employees to managers to members of the HR team, has benefitted tremendously from Personio's user-friendly absence management features, which all our employees use regularly. Both our HR and Accounting departments profit from the extensive reporting features, which we use to create monthly, quarterly or annual reports on all relevant personnel data. This function is also appreciated by our managers, who can gain quick overviews on key figures with just a few clicks. Apart from the administrative features, it is mainly Personio's recruiting tool which has impacted our HR processes in an extremely positive way. Creating and publishing job ads, managing applications and communicating with applicants has never been so easy, and is enabling us to manage our recruiting workflows in a way that is sure to leave a positive impression on applicants. All in all, Personio has greatly improved our HR processes and, along with this, improved the working lives of all internal stakeholders.
Cons
Since we are a global company, our aim is to roll out Personio internationally to all our subsidiaries in different countries around the world. In this regard, we are doing a certain amount of pioneer work, as the system is not yet completely perfected for international use and some features or special configurations are not yet part of the software. Therefore, we need to align the requirements of our international subsidiaries with the features currently available in the software and, in some cases, find workarounds. Personio has provided great support in this process and has been able to provide solutions to the vast majority of topics we dealt with.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Software with a good potential but a lot of issues
Reviewed on 2021/08/20
After struggling with problems for a long time, we approached them with a request to fix things...
After struggling with problems for a long time, we approached them with a request to fix things again. And the reply was a mail with an announced price increase.
Pros
It's easy to understand and adapt and newer features often work quite well
Cons
The development process is very slow. Even critical bugs that make a feature impossible to use were not fixed for months and the fix still had problems which were either not fully thought through or still buggy. It's not possible to get an estimate from the devs when things will be fixed or even addressed.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2019/09/05
On the whole very satisfied. The tool covers our complex requirements very well. Feedback is...
On the whole very satisfied. The tool covers our complex requirements very well. Feedback is processed quickly. Personio develops quickly which is mostly positive. Sometimes there are smaller obvious errors with releases. We use the SW over 3 countries. This works quite well. Partly one notices, that it was primarily developed for the German market (e.g. with withdrawals and holidays adaptations).
Otherwise, it is a great relief for us compared to the many manual processes we had before. It requires relatively little to no instruction effort for the employees. We have only adapted the presentation of Personio and handed it over to the employees and this works well. Many things can be configured so that you also have control over the data that is captured.
Pros
It can be easily configured. The fast implementation. Good and fast customer service. All inquiries are answered within 24 hours (weekdays) and 80% of inquiries are resolved within 24 hours. Usually within 6 hours. The software is constantly evolving and is becoming even more customer-friendly.
Cons
Partly the red thread through the SW is missing. For example, the date can only be recorded with 24/12/2019 at one location while it must be recorded with 24.12.2019 at another location. There are newer reports, especially in recruiting, where the figures are not correct. Further input fields do not always correspond to the same logic. So you have to be careful in the salary area if you overwrite a number in the salary field, an additional "0" is added. Just some small things.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Clear recommendation for SMEs
Reviewed on 2020/08/12
Pros
- As we were one of the early adopters, we got personio for quite a cheap rate
- There was no tool that was as comprehensive and could be used without GDPR issues
- It saves a lot of time vs. our setup before, which was Excel
Cons
- There are a few open requests from our side regarding more flexible reportings
- There is an obvious bug in the dashboard that just doesn't get solved (always shows that "everyone is in the office today")
Personio FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Personio.Q. What type of pricing plans does Personio offer?
Personio offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: €2,88/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Essential: from €3.76/ month. Professional: from €5.7/ month. Enterprise: price upon request. Prices vary depending on the number of employees and functionalities. Discounts apply for yearly payment plans.
Q. Who are the typical users of Personio?
Personio has the following typical customers:
11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000
Q. What languages does Personio support?
Personio supports the following languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Q. Does Personio support mobile devices?
Personio supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Personio integrate with?
Personio integrates with the following applications:
ATOSS, Circula, CodeSubmit, Culture Amp, Dataddo, ESG and Sustainability Cloud, Engagedly, Evalea, Firstbird, GitHub, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Workspace, Greenhouse, Greenhouse PM, HRider, HelloID, HeyJobs, Indeed, Indeed Hire, Indevis, JobUFO, Justworks Hours, Lanes & Planes, Lattice, Leapsome, Ledgy, LinkedIn Jobs, LinkedIn Recruiter, Localyze, Loop Now, Loopline, MOCO, Merge, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Outlook, MoBerries, Mobilexpense Declaree, Molteo, MuchSkills, Okta, Recruitee, Rydoo, Shyftplan, Slack, Small Improvements, Staffomatic, Talentry, Teamtailor, Timr, Wellbeing Warrior, Workable, Workademy, Workday Peakon Employee Voice, Workpath, ZEP, ZMI, askDANTE, easyJOB, teambay, vyble, yoffix
Q. What level of support does Personio offer?
Personio offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, Chat
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