HR/Holiday Software

[Wing Commander]

Hi everyone

Hoping that I can get the collective thoughts and hopefully some recommendations for software for HR and holiday tracking.

We currently use BrightHR and my 3 year (!) contract is expiring in a month, and I am extremely reluctant to renew. I currently pay something like £130 per month, and this would likely increase, as our employee count has gone up since we took out the contract.

Basically, all I am looking for is an accurate holiday planner system, that the team can all log into and request/view their holidays.

It needs to be easy to use and accurate. We have about 18 people that would need to be added to it, and this number is growing fairly quickly, so I need to be able to add new users easy enough.

Any recommendations?

[EVLATECOMER]

Wing Commander said:

Hi everyone

Hoping that I can get the collective thoughts and hopefully some recommendations for software for HR and holiday tracking.

We currently use BrightHR and my 3 year (!) contract is expiring in a month, and I am extremely reluctant to renew. I currently pay something like £130 per month, and this would likely increase, as our employee count has gone up since we took out the contract.

Basically, all I am looking for is an accurate holiday planner system, that the team can all log into and request/view their holidays.

It needs to be easy to use and accurate. We have about 18 people that would need to be added to it, and this number is growing fairly quickly, so I need to be able to add new users easy enough.

Any recommendations?

PeopleHR maybe?

[Simpo Two]

I saw a friend staring at his phone for half an hour yesterday trying to work out if he was on holiday today or not. Is that really progress?

Why do we always turn to computers and software to solve everything?

[jollysoutherner]

We use whosoff.com

Cheap, half decent app and web interface..

[RTPT]

Timetastic is straight forward and very cheap

[loosemarbles]

jollysoutherner said:

We use whosoff.com

Cheap, half decent app and web interface..

seconded.

[Ean218]

Simpo Two said:

I saw a friend staring at his phone for half an hour yesterday trying to work out if he was on holiday today or not. Is that really progress?

Why do we always turn to computers and software to solve everything?

We have 20 people and a holiday board. It shows all holidays, sick & training in one place. Certainly doesn't cost £130 per month.

[Sunday Drive]

We use BrightPay for payroll and it has the holiday and calendar system you need included.

The subscription is around c£35 per month for 45 employees, plus an annual charge of c£250.

[snuffy]

Simpo Two said:

I saw a friend staring at his phone for half an hour yesterday trying to work out if he was on holiday today or not. Is that really progress?

Why do we always turn to computers and software to solve everything?

20 odd years ago I worked in a small company and we had a wall planner where you wrote your holidays.

And it had the added bonus that if you marked your holiday on in pencil, you could rub out the odd day or two and give yourself a couple of extra days a year and no one would notice !

[Benny Saltstein]

It amazes me how much some of these systems cost. We had a quote from Bodet for time and attendance software which included holidays and came out around £45 per WEEK for around 30 people.

We use Sage for Payroll and their costs are a little better but not by much. For now we stick with the wall planner and Sharpie.

[Tebbers]

We use Onfolk, think it’s a fiver a month if you don’t want payroll. We use it for payroll and it’s very good.

[Truckosaurus]

I work for one of the world's largest companies with a no doubt very expensive HR system with Workday.

I also have to log my holiday time in a couple of shared Excel spreadsheets so my day to day colleagues know when each of us is off (and is what my task manager would look at to decide if my holiday request is approved).

So, you easily run a small company holiday plan on a free Excel spreadsheet or two.

[Wing Commander]

Thanks everyone, I will try a couple of the suggestions.

Just to answer the point made by a couple of posters - we do not have an office, our team are scattered all over the place, remotely working or on the road etc. And we are paperless. Using a wall planner or excel sheet would just not go with how I want to run things, but appreciate I might be in the minority here

Cheers everyone

[zedx19]

We use edays, for another option, no idea on costs but works well, people log holidays/sickness/doctors appointments/etc and email is then sent to their line manager for approval. Can also produce reports for teams or team members, I find it simple to use and manage my team.

[biggiles]

Wing Commander said:

Thanks everyone, I will try a couple of the suggestions.

Just to answer the point made by a couple of posters - we do not have an office, our team are scattered all over the place, remotely working or on the road etc. And we are paperless. Using a wall planner or excel sheet would just not go with how I want to run things, but appreciate I might be in the minority here

Cheers everyone

Excel on a sharepoint IS paperless - you can also get Teams to show it in a handy tab so it's really easy to look at if your team use Teams. Depending upon needs, it's a very simple solution if you have simple needs.

[Wing Commander]

Just to close this off

It certainly looks like WhosOff is the best fit for our needs.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions