Appogee Leave

Best way to track PTOs and Sick days

Comentários: Appogee Leave has made it easier to track the number of employees who are out on any given day and allows us to plan for the days ahead to best service our clients. We have the option to reject requests from our employees if our staffing needs are not met on the days that they request. Appogee Leave automatically sends them both the Approvals and Rejections immediately, saving us the time it would take to send emails to our staff.

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We use Appoggee Leave every day within our department. Every day we have someone is out on vacation or calls in sick. Appogee Leave automatically updates their PTO balances and provides Managers and Employees an easy-to-use and understand snapshot of their PTO records. It helps our employees maximize their earned time off without leaving any PTOs unused. It also allows us to see at a glance who is out on any given day, which helps us allocate our resources to better service our clients.

Desvantagens:

At the moment Appogee Leave does NOT talk to our Outlook 365 calendar, like it did when we had been using Google calendars. Whenever an employee requested time off, Appogee would update our shared Google calendars with a "Pending" status and then, once approved, would change the status to "Approved". However, now that we moved to Outlook 365, Appogee does not automatically update our calendars any longer. The net effect is that we have to manually input the days off in our shared Outlook 365 calendars, which is time consuming and since it is done manually, is subject to mistakes or omissions.

Works, but a bit fiddly

Comentários: Works, is far better than our paper system and has reduced the overall overheads throughout the year. However, is fiddly to get to work in the way we work (booking days rather than hours off) and do basic things like cancel bank holidays, or prebook holidays on behalf of staff). It took us about 16 hours of senior and admin time in January just to sort out the 2019 year carryovers and bank holidays for a company just below 50 people.

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Integration with office login/calendar Quite simple to use in general. Has been reliable. Different staff groups.

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It works in hours not days, so we spend far too much time fiddling adjustments to avoid someone having e.g. 0.7623 days holiday carry over. Holiday (for us) is only be booked in days or half days. It gets even more complicated for part-time workers. Bank holidays - too rigid - people cannot cancel a bank holiday if they need to work it. So we don't use the bank holidays features. No bulk upload of holidays. We prebook certain holidays for all staff (Christmas week and bank holidays). We have to do all of this by hand.

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Comentários: It's fine, it's not an amazing experience but it does the job.

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Simple interface. Good value for money Integration with G Suite

Desvantagens:

Though the time specification period has much improved, it doesn't work so well with editing existing entries. Takes a long time for any new features to be put in.

Outstanding Product at Affordable Price

Comentários: We've been customers for a number of years now, and everything is working great. Employees love it because it keeps track of everything and management is pleased to not have to jump through hoops for correct HR data. A major upgrade for our company.

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This product is so flexible for both a small and large business, its afforded my small company the ability to have a big powerful software system, for a fraction of the price, and manage some of the most important HR needs within our small company. Its very easy to use and gives lots of options for any kind of business.

Desvantagens:

There was very little to no training on how to use the software or any guidance on upgrades, and we werent able to find videos on youtube or anything, so we had to feel our way around until we figured things out, but it was pretty easy to do so. We wished there had been some video tutorials on how to set everything up from the start.

Good stuff

Comentários: It's really helped us get a handle on our vacation schedules

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Easy to keep track of time off for multiple teams with and without complicated reporting structures

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There are some workflows that seem overly complicated

Nice Tool

Comentários: working out calculations for holiday entitlements is now harder with the new web interface then the older version.

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Ease of use to book and manage holidays

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new release - harder to navigate - calculations and going between teams is hard to manage.

Great piece of software, absolute timesaver

Comentários: It's nearly self administering. The support team are fantastic and very responsive.
Save so much time and give your team control of their time!

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The administration time that it's saved us. We used to work with excel spreadsheets and this has just saved so much time. Plus our team feel in control of their time. I'd highly recommend it.

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Nothing, I can't complain. It takes a little time to set up but other than that no complaints.

Simple and efficient

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I love how intuitive it is for employees and managers to use the system. I also like the fact it integrates with Microsoft 365 I am excited about trying the full hr suite!

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I would love to see a features to follow up on essential kpis for hr to follow in the war for talent context, such has automatic track of new hires/ month, leavers, staff turnover, average longevity of employment, progression of those kpis, and an historical recap of employee life: when and how often they got promoted, got salary increase... the last thing to be the cherry on the cake would be to integrate with payroll system to have all information in one place

Great product for medium size company

Comentários: Appogee Leave allows us to handle time out of the office in a way where it is easy to use and effective for all employees.

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Product is easy to use and has great flexibility.

Desvantagens:

Product pricing model is geared toward medium size company (25 or more) which works fine for us.

Fantastic solution, highly recommended

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The UI is intuitive, smart and modern. The functionality offers exactly what I needed from both a user, and a manager. The reporting was second to none and I would look to utilise this application in whatever company I am in.

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No real issues, support was responsive and the developers were always open to feature requests. Great piece of software that was easy to adopt across the organisation.

No longer have the need to keep track of paper!

Comentários: Save a lot of time - there are no longer lost or missed requests from administrative side of things. Employees are able to keep track of their time used and remaining.

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Everything you need to manage vacation time, sick time, no pay days off all in one place. Once system is set up automatiically calculates annual distributions and counts them down. Easy to read team calendars

Desvantagens:

Mobile app not available for iOS only android operating systems - all of our employees use iPads and most have iPhones.

Experience of a HR staff

Comentários: Overall experience of using Appogee is good, but problems always occurred when leave balance carried over to next year. When submit ticket to Appogee support team, they are helpful and efficient, but it will be great if the team can deliver the opinions which I wrote in the ticket to responsible team/person rather than asking me to make suggestion by visit the Feature Suggestion Forum myself.

Vantagens:

Ever user can have a individual account for leave record. Company can set holidays in calendar easily.

Desvantagens:

If someone submit a leave of last year when the leave balance already carried on to new year calendar, the leave balance can update in last year only and won't be able to update at current year. Manual adjust needs to be made at this circumstance which is not convenience. Recently, there is a new function of allowing user to upload attachment when apply leave. It is good that the company listen to customers, however the function is not well developed, e.g. if we set someone's access right to read only, then he is not able to see the content of the attachment, as Appogee does not have the function to let you review it without download permission. Developer should run more test on new function before release the function to public.

Outstanding Response Times

Comentários: Our company has multiple locations. Appogee Leave has allowed us to track attendance company-wide. The link to the GSuite calendar is amazing. This is an important piece as to why we decided to continue with our registration. Each employee can open their calendar daily and see who is unavailable due to absence. Prior to Appogee we used a paper trail process to track absences. Appogee Leave eliminates the use of paper and allows for immediate tracking. The system is also beneficial for our company as some managers/supervisors travel daily. Being able to receive notifications via email when employee absences are first booked, helps with overall productivity and communication. We have been using the system going back to 2015 and have no intentions of moving to another provider.

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I have always loved the ease of use. Appogee is very user friendly and is easily taught to employees and supervisors.

Desvantagens:

I do not like the return to work function (sick leave). When you process a sick leave, I would rather the notification be sent to the supervisor/manager for approval right away, rather than wait until the employee returns to work and completes the request. For our business, we would prefer an employee processes a sick leave each day that they will be absent (separately).

Simple, affordable cloud software to manage team time off

Comentários: Very functional, very user friendly.

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Appogee was a no-fluff, practical software that does one thing well that we were looking for: managing team vacation, sick days and other types of time off requests.

Desvantagens:

Changing allowances is a bit clunky. You can't access these details just by selecting the employee's name.

Our Best Solution

Comentários: Our experience has been very positive, it allows us to implement a single program to organize our entire time off program.

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Appogee Leave is the best solution we have found to solve our time off dilemma. It allows us to request, approve, and monitor all time off, including PTO, sick days, maternity leave, and administrative leave.

Desvantagens:

It doesn’t fit our needs exactly or precisely, but neither does anything else. Our organization is unique, but this has been the most flexible and best fit we have found thus far.

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Comentários: Overall I have use AppogeeLeave at 2 companies now and love the platform. One company used Gmail the other O365 and the platform integrated great with both of them. If you are looking for a simple solution to track, manage and report out on your companies PTO balances and provide a great user experience for your employees you can't go wrong with Appogee.

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Integration with Office 365 Transparency for the company around holidays and PTO of other employees Flexibility to fit our many different PTO plans Great UI/UX for end users - very easy to use and teach to employees Integration with outlook (to do all approvals directly inside email platform)

Desvantagens:

The only complaint I would have is the UI/UX for the admin can be a little clunky. Not terrible but I think they spent more time on the user side - which is fantastic.

Flexible and Easy to Use

Comentários: Really positive. Our team have expressed how much easier it is now to book their holiday - and our operations manager no longer has to worry about keeping track on a spreadsheet. It's made everyone's life a lot simpler.

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Plenty of well-thought-out functionality and customisability. It's very clear that the developers are constantly looking to push their software further, such as creating a plug-in for Outlook mailbox, pushing leave through to Outlook calendars seamlessly, and allowing companies to use single-sign-in through O365.

Desvantagens:

Setting up the software initially had a few ups and downs. There were certain restrictions that mainly resulted from the way the software calculates leave at the end of the year (we set-up the software at Christmas and rolled it out in the New Year - resulting in a few hiccups in calculating the number of days some employees 'carried over'). But the support team were really helpful and guided us through the process to make manual amendments.

Good value for money!

Comentários: Our Company uses Appogee Leave to track Employee sickness, leave and overtime requests. Appogee Leave also provides reporting opportunities but they are not very adjustable and thus we mainly do not use it.

Vantagens:

Appogee does not have too many features and functionality, though it is quite easy to use, especially for Employees.

Desvantagens:

I would suggest they provide faster and easier to reach support (like instant chats with support representatives etc.)

Easy to use

Comentários: Easy for staff to see when everyone is off, administrator can easily see clashes when approving. Eliminated annoying paper requests.

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Integrates well with G Suite Easy to see clashes and approve Both Approved and pending requests are visible on Google Calendar Easy for all staff to use

Desvantagens:

Doesn't fit our situation exactly so it's use to track PTO allowances is limited, not a fault of Appoggee, our situation is unusual

Not so User Friendly

Comentários: I think the system works fine, but it's not easy to navigate.

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I think the system works great once everything is set up. For the most part, approvers in the system eliminate a lot of manual e-mailing.

Desvantagens:

Setting up employees isn't easy. It's also hard when the system has updates throughout the year. We had a problem last year where all data was erased in February- we lost current employee data and terminated employees were back in the system. I had to completely start over entering employees into the system and setting up approvers.

Good system that keeps our company running smoothly

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Always stable. Keeps being developed. Works brilliantly for UK, US and other holiday setups.

Desvantagens:

I still don't love the navigation, I think it's quite confusing. There has been improvements, but, still not 100%

Good App for a Small business

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The software is relatively easy to set up and use. It's straightforward, flexible and streamlined enough for our company of 23 people. It integrates with the Google platform and reports can be exported to Excel compatible (.csv) files. There's an app for your smartphone. The cost is reasonable.

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As the company accountant I would like to see a couple extra reporting features. The software could be more flexible when it comes to calculating carryover days and some cutoff reports.

Great Vacation and Sick time HR Manager

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Ease of use. The system is very accurate at monitoring Requests

Desvantagens:

As an administrator, it can be difficult to navigate to some of the other management accounts to OK requests

We have been happy with it for 2 years

Comentários: We are very happy with it, especially the integration with Google calendars.

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It solved our problem of a previously very manual time-off request process. Makes things quick and easy.

Desvantagens:

Sometimes it's a little hard to find the features I need. (Holidays for example). This mostly had to do with getting used to the changes when an upgrade was made later last year.

Great inexpensive product that gets the job done!

Comentários: We have been happily using this software for almost 5 years. For our start-up the price was right/low and they have been consistently making functionality improvements that have kept the software current and relevant for us.

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ROI - For the price the amount of functionality and options are exactly what we needed. Quite customizable! My employees love most how it syncs automatically without Gmail applications and calendar. Appogee Leave even lets you set up your OOO messages for you when you upon requesting time-off.

Desvantagens:

Sometimes the admin screens are not as intuitive as I'd like. There seem to be multiple areas you need to go to in order to trigger on/off a function. Reports and analyses could be more robust too. I also wish they'd integrate an easy time tracking software for non-exempt employees, that would be a great win for us.