SimplyMerit Reviews & Product Details

SimplyMerit® is a compensation management software solution that enables HR teams, executives, and managers to plan and administer compensation programs with greater accuracy, efficiency, and security. It replaces manual spreadsheets with a centralized, cloud-based platform designed to support merit budgets, annual bonus pools, and equity grants across global organizations. With SimplyMerit, organizations gain transparency into compensation decisions while reducing errors and administrative burden. HR leaders configure rules that match their business needs, managers make data-driven pay decisions, and employees receive clear, personalized Total Reward Statements that improve understanding and trust in the process. The platform is particularly valuable for organizations managing multi-currency workforces, running complex approval workflows, or seeking to eliminate the risks of spreadsheet-based compensation cycles. Key features and capabilities include: • Compensation planning – manage merit increases, bonuses, and equity grants in a single platform. • Currency conversion and prorations – automatically apply conversions and prorations based on configurable business rules. • Approval workflows – route pay decisions through custom approval paths for oversight and compliance. • Total Reward Statements – generate and securely distribute personalized summaries of total compensation. • Mobile-ready application – support managers wherever they work with an intuitive, responsive interface. • Data security – safeguard sensitive employee data with enterprise-grade security and role-based access. Use cases for SimplyMerit include: • HR teams running annual or mid-year compensation cycles. • Organizations looking to reduce risk and eliminate spreadsheet-driven processes. • Companies managing multi-currency workforces across multiple geographies. • Businesses seeking better visibility and governance over compensation decisions. By streamlining compensation planning, SimplyMerit helps organizations improve accuracy, reduce risk, and deliver a better employee experience. Leaders gain confidence in budget management, managers make fairer pay decisions with real-time visibility, and employees understand the full value of their rewards.

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SimplyMerit is incredibly easy to set up and configure. Most of our customers are Live in Five days or less! Our AI and Machine Learning Dynamic Importer makes loading your data a breeze.

The manager's planning screens are clean, thorough, and highly customizable allowing you to fit SimplyMerit into your processes... not the other way around.

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Elizabeth A.

Director - Human Resources

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/15/2025

"True Partnership, Unmatched Support, Manager Approved and Instant Results!"

5/5

What do you like best about SimplyMerit?

Simply Merit provided absolutely exceptional support that was instrumental in helping our team meet a very tight deadline. Their customer service is truly the best I have ever experienced—they acted as a genuine partner, patiently guiding me through every step and resolving all my concerns.

Key Highlights:

User Adoption: Managers found the system remarkably easy to use, and the budget feature was particularly valuable.

Customization Power: The platform's high level of customization was crucial, and Simply Merit successfully accommodated nearly all of my specialized requirements.

Unrivaled Responsiveness & Partnership: A perfect example of their dedication is how quickly they responded to my request for a very specific report. Not only did they create it for me, but they also recognized its broader value and added it to their standard report offerings.

Commitment to Improvement: Simply Merit actively listens to its customers and is dedicated to continuous improvement, consistently rolling out valuable new features.

A huge shoutout to their customer service and technical support teams! Their responsiveness is unmatched—their replies are almost instant! They are, simply put, the best, bar none! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SimplyMerit?

It took me sometime to understand how the system functioned. It was not a easy Plug and Play! My ultimate 'blue sky' wish would be to have certain features automatically synced with the system—for example, performance ratings, automatically feeding updates like salary changes, new hires and terminations straight from the HRIS! While these are 'dream big' improvements, I don't want it to take away in anyway from all the positives Simply Merit has to offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from stacy fenner of SimplyMerit

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Elizabeth, thank you for such a generous and thoughtful review.

What you described—true partnership, responsiveness under tight timelines, and managers confidently using the tool—is exactly how we strive to support our customers. We’re delighted that SimplyMerit helped your team transition away from spreadsheets with speed, clarity, and consistency when it mattered most.

Your feedback on customization and manager adoption is especially meaningful. Compensation is never one-size-fits-all, and designing flexibility while keeping the experience intuitive for managers is at the core of SimplyMerit. We also appreciate you highlighting the reporting example—customer insights like yours directly shape how we continue to enhance the platform.

Thank you as well for sharing your “blue sky” ideas. Please keep them coming. Deeper automation and stronger HRIS connections are precisely the types of enhancements we continue to explore as SimplyMerit evolves.

We’re grateful for your trust and partnership and for helping us make SimplyMerit better.

Nilesh L.

12/22/2025

"Effortless Merit Management, Room for Improvement"

3.5/5

What do you like best about SimplyMerit?

I use SimplyMerit for Merit Increase exercises and promotions and find the tool very user-friendly. I appreciate its self-explanatory and customer-centric approach, which reduces manager training time and allows our team to navigate the merit cycle independently. The guidance and support provided are unlimited, giving me confidence to handle complex scenarios without the risk of data errors. SimplyMerit also excels in efficient salary history imports from Namely, which saves significant manual effort and speeds up implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SimplyMerit?

1. There should be a filter option available at headings to easily track specific employee details instead of scrolling down. 2. The absence of a row and column freeze option makes it difficult for managers to scroll to the end. 3. The salary history dropdown should be available immediately after the employee name for quick comparison between two employees' salaries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SimplyMerit solving and how is that benefiting you?

SimplyMerit offers efficient salary history imports, increased delegate access for visibility, and unlimited support, making it user-friendly. It reduces training time with its self-explanatory interface and saves effort by seamless data import from Namely, ensuring a faster implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from stacy fenner of SimplyMerit

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Thank you for taking the time to share both your experience and your thoughtful feedback.

We’re glad SimplyMerit has been intuitive and time-saving during your merit and promotion cycles, and that unlimited support has given you confidence when navigating more complex scenarios. Keeping the experience simple for managers is a core goal of the tool!

We also appreciate your suggestions around filtering, sorting, and column visibility. We’re excited to share that filtering, along with the ability to sort and freeze column headers, is being released this week, making it easier to quickly find and review employee details. Salary history is already available today, and we’re actively exploring faster and more intuitive ways to compare employee history side by side.

We truly value your partnership and the insights you’ve shared — they directly help shape how SimplyMerit continues to evolve.

James S.

Director, Total Compensation

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/16/2025

"Empowers Merit Management with Stellar Support"

4/5

What do you like best about SimplyMerit?

I really like SimplyMerit for its dynamic importing, which is great because it allows us to have more context and ensures information is accurate when it gets into the system. The support team is also very helpful. They don't just offer standard answers; they really listen to our feedback and help us in whatever way they can. It's refreshing, and we truly appreciate that. Additionally, the platform helps us with enhanced communication and management of our merit processes, and the insights report created each year is interesting and useful. The letters they provide for employee communication are largely customizable, allowing us to share information the way we want. I am impressed by their frequency of updates they make based on feedback and their curiosity to make a better product. SimplyMerit makes it easy to interface with other systems, and the onboarding process was smooth, thanks to their support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SimplyMerit?

I think some of the customizability can be enhanced a little more. Being able to globally manage a few more things rather than individually or at a team level would be beneficial. Do so would be very useful to the way we process, and might be something that could help us do a more effective job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from stacy fenner of SimplyMerit

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Happy New Year, James — and thank you for such a generous and thoughtful review.

We truly appreciate you calling out our approach to listening and support. Our goal is always to understand the next two problems you’re trying to solve and work alongside you to get there. It’s great to hear that dynamic importing, system flexibility, insights reporting, and customizable employee letters have supported your process and helped bring clarity to your merit decisions.

We also appreciate your feedback on expanding global customization. Input like this helps guide how we continue to evolve SimplyMerit so teams can manage their processes more efficiently while still tailoring the experience to their needs. Stay tuned, as we have exciting enhancements to customization in store for 2026!

Verified User in Medical Devices

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/12/2022

"Simply Merit was the perfect tool to meet our needs"

5/5

What do you like best about SimplyMerit?

The ease of reviewing data and allowing managers the autonomy to make proposals. The process made it easy for executives to view their entire team and make approvals and/or suggestions. Allowed HR to oversee entire process company-wide. The support by the SimplyMerit team provides quick, friendly and educated responses and assistance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SimplyMerit?

I do not have any dislikes, the system worked well for our organization and met our needs. One area we would like to enhance is on the bonus calculation to avoid having to uploads and download multiple times for final calculations. We look forward to using again during our next merit and bonus cycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jayna Smith of SimplyMerit

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We're honored to be your company's comp planning solution and appreciate you taking the time to leave us such a fabulous review. We're happy to hear that SimplyMerit is easy for managers, executives an HR to use!

Jodi C.

Director, Total Rewards

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/10/2025

"Impressive Functionality and Flexibility in a Simple Package"

5/5

What do you like best about SimplyMerit?

The name says it all. Although it's simple to use, the functionality is impressive -- giving us everything that we need. It is also flexible enough to make edits as needed. The ability to produce confirmation statements for each employee is great. Implementation was a breeze. Customer Support is very responsive and very knowledgeable of the product. Uploading and downloading information is very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SimplyMerit?

I see no downside, we have had great success with this product and the team at MorganHR Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from stacy fenner of SimplyMerit

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Jodi, thank you so much for taking the time to share this review — we truly appreciate it! We’re thrilled to hear that SimplyMerit has been such a smooth and reliable solution for your team. Making merit and bonus cycles simple, flexible, and stress-free is exactly what we designed the tool to do, so your feedback really means a lot.

I’m especially glad to hear implementation was easy and that the confirmation statements, uploads/downloads, and overall workflow are working well for you. Our customer support team will be thrilled to know their responsiveness and product knowledge made an impact — they take great pride in supporting our clients through every step of the compensation cycle.

Thank you as well for the kind words about MorganHR. We’re grateful for the partnership and so glad SimplyMerit is filling a critical gap that your HRIS couldn’t support.

We feel just as lucky to work with you.

Kaylee W.

HR Project Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/8/2024

"Great Experience"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SimplyMerit?

My company had a great experience with the simply merit system and team!

We have just under 2,000 employees and was nervous about how we were going to navigate our first merit planning tool. The Simply Merit customer service team was amazing! Every time I had a question, big or small, they always got back to me extremely quickly. Excited to continue using this system! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SimplyMerit?

None that i can think of! They are great to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Neil Morgan of SimplyMerit

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Thank you, Kaylee, for such great feedback! We're thrilled to partner with you!

Melanie S.

Director, Total Rewards and Systems

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/10/2025

"Highly Customizable and Affordable Solution with Outstanding Support"

4/5

What do you like best about SimplyMerit?

SimplyMerit is a low cost, highly customizable solution for merit and bonus planning and payment. The system allows us to customize merit and bonus allocations, as well as helping with meeting budget and providing an audit trail of approvals. The individualized letters that managers can access directly to provide to their team members saves our HR team time. Simply Merit also provide incredible customer support! And we wouldn't have been able to implement without the security features that were required by our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SimplyMerit?

I honestly haven't had any challenges - it's provided what we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from stacy fenner of SimplyMerit

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Melanie, thank you so much for this thoughtful review! We’re thrilled to hear that SimplyMerit has been a strong fit for your merit and bonus planning needs — especially in terms of customization, budget management, auditability, and the individualized letters. Those are exactly the areas we’ve intentionally built to reduce HR’s workload and provide managers with a smoother experience.

Your comments about customer support and our security features mean a great deal to our team. We understand the importance of security and compliance for your organization, and we’re pleased that we could meet these requirements while maintaining an easy-to-use system.

We’re grateful for the partnership and are thrilled that SimplyMerit is helping your team run confident and consistent compensation cycles.

— The MorganHR & SimplyMerit Team

Heidi C.

Chief People Officer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/4/2026

"Ease of Use and Outstanding Support"

5/5

What do you like best about SimplyMerit?

Ease of configuration. Intuitive for end users and HR admins. Customer support/responsiveness from the team. Ease of distribution of award letters right in the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SimplyMerit?

Really nothing. We do have a fairly complex bonus system that we had to get creative with configuration to do but it worked out and they were a great resources to help us figure out options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from stacy fenner of SimplyMerit

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Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience, Heidi — we truly appreciate the feedback.

We’re so glad to hear that SimplyMerit has been intuitive for both HR admins and end users, and that features like award letter distribution and ease of configuration have supported your compensation cycle smoothly. Our goal is always to keep the process clear and efficient while giving teams confidence in the work they’re doing.

We also appreciate your note about your more complex bonus structure! Helping organizations think creatively about configuration — and partnering closely to find solutions that actually work in practice — is something we genuinely enjoy. We’re glad our team could support you in navigating those nuances and landing on an approach that fit your needs.

Cindy B.

Sr. Director, Total Rewards & HRIS

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/8/2025

"SimplyMerit is Fantastic!"

5/5

What do you like best about SimplyMerit?

SimplyMerit is easy to use for HR and managers. The support we receive from the SM team is A+++++! They regularly make updates and add new features that are of great value to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SimplyMerit?

Would love to be able to directly connect our performance management system with SM to sync ratings across both systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Neil Morgan of SimplyMerit

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We're thrilled to hear that you find SimplyMerit easy to use and that you receive excellent support from our team! We appreciate your feedback and will certainly take into consideration your suggestion about connecting with performance management systems.

Bailey M.

Payroll & Benefits Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/15/2025

"Exceptionally Easy-to-Use Interface"

5/5

What do you like best about SimplyMerit?

The user interface is very easy to use and it is very customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SimplyMerit?

In order to update certain fields, you have to complete an import to override current information. Would be nice if you could edit directly in the interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from stacy fenner of SimplyMerit

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Hi Bailey!

Thank you for the great review—we’re glad you’ve found SimplyMerit easy to use and customizable.

We appreciate your feedback on updating fields. We’re continuing to add more in-system data editing capabilities. Keep an eye on our feature update emails in early 2026 for more information.

We’re also glad to hear you’ve found the downloadable letters helpful—manual mail merges can be time-consuming, and simplifying that step by adding in-app letters is a popular feature.

Thank you for being a SimplyMerit customer and for taking the time to share your feedback.