--- title: CATS Reviews meta_title: 'CATS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 127 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CATS works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 127 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-21' parent_category: name: HR url: https://www.g2.com/categories/hr --- # CATS Reviews **Vendor:** CATS Software **Category:** [Staffing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/staffing) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 127 ## About CATS CATS is a web-based applicant tracking system that helps recruiters and direct employers work more efficiently by automating the hiring process. ## CATS Reviews ### 1. Cost-Effective and Robust ATS! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Douglas S. | Senior Human Capital Consultant, Defense & Space, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I have been using CATS for a variety of Clients for the past 5 years. What's very helpful is the ability to customize portals, applications, fields, workflows, and messaging/escalation of critical matters via self-performance. Other systems I have used and implemented don;t come close to CATS' ability to meet individual organizations' needs. Smooth candidate experience, instant notification on any device after a candidate applies, and meaningful KPI development. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Would be great if CATS could offer digital signatures or integration with DocuSign. Only other suggestion would be to enable a "tab" interface. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Very robust ATS at a VERY reasonable cost. Support is incredibly responsive and will typically resolve any issues or concerns while you are on the phone with the expert. Support is provided at no additional cost. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recruiting and tracking. I've transformed numerous Clients' hiring processes with the help of CATS. No paper files, spreadsheets, or manual notes. Every event from requisition development to hire is automated in CATS. Time-to-Fill often drops to 2-3 days thanks to the automated approval processes. ### 2. Simple and Robust **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Craig F. | Vice President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2023 **What do you like best about CATS?** I like the easy job posting to all the websites and the easy portability CATS offers. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I would like a better Candidate Search engine. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** CATS is an affordable user friendly Tracking System you should compare with any other system you are considering before making your decision. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main business problems I am solving is filling open job orders. I have realized CATS is the primary contributor in making that happen. ### 3. CATS Applicant Tracking System – smart, creative, yet simple! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Megan C. | Human Resources Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about CATS?** Hiring is the ultimate goal and key duty in an HR department and the job – no matter how tiny and simple it seems to others – is a quite tough and troubled one. This can take ages and lots of time to find the perfect candidate but this won’t be the case with CATS on your team. **What do you dislike about CATS?** The reporting and analytical features are not as robust as you might consider or want them to be. This can be a hassle for managers that need quick numbers on their fingers. The updates do help with the betterment but just not enough yet in this area. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** CATS is a robust, online, simple and creative platform for hiring managers. You can create a whole new automated workflow with CATS and it is easily adjustable and adaptable in all industries and businesses. You can also post multiple jobs, hire multiple candidates and schedule interviews with ease. ### 4. A good tool for your Talent Acqusition Needs! CATS **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham T. | C, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2022 **What do you like best about CATS?** The upside of using CATS is that you can integrate all your positions and job boards on CATS itself. Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice are some of the Job Boards I was working with to find candidates along with our contractor database. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I'm not fond of the User Experience of CATS. The UI is not easy to understand unless you are specifically trained for a process. Initially, a lot of hand-holding is necessary for a newbie to learn the ins and outs of CATS. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Other tools are available in the market but this is a cheap and suitable option for companies with around 500-1000 employees. Depending upon the number of requirements you have, data sharing among peers with a single click makes the work easier for everyone. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used CATS in the capability of an Account Manager and Recruiter. It is effortless to find candidates on any Job Portal using CATS. Once a candidate is locked, their information like rate and skills will be available to any number of Employees/Team members or Account Executives for approvals and whatnot. ### 5. Good product **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2022 **What do you like best about CATS?** Email integration and job posting features are easy to use, the add-ons feature is very useful and helpful, and really like the friendly and active customer support. **What do you dislike about CATS?** There's a complicacy during forwarding the resumes. When a position is listed, it automatically adds them to a job order which creates a lot of confusion. Sometimes email integration fails to work properly and sometimes the site is slow to work. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it for recruiting process, creating custom job applications, posting jobs, resume parsing, custom recruitment workflows, and generating customized reports. ### 6. An ATS that works well. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill F. | Executive Lifescience Recruiter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about CATS?** That it is a complete ATS - has email tracking, texting and allows customized fields. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Price per user of $99/ month is a bit high. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeps everything in one place for both candidates and clients. ### 7. CATS Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Greg L. | Talent Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2021 **What do you like best about CATS?** It's ease of use so much better then larger ATS's that miss the boat **What do you dislike about CATS?** It still needs to have a more google search approach to the database. Search functions are not as fluid as I'd like them to be. It's gotten better though **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Become more fluid and start having user experience about how recruiters could use it more effectively **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well the business of people and recruiting is always challenging but CATs has been helpful. ### 8. Current USER - could be improved. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I do think this is a GREAT tool, the more I navigate around it the more I begin to like it. It is only as good as the users inputting data. **What do you dislike about CATS?** No automatic skills to select, you must type in skill section. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** It is a good tool, when you work with it properly. It's only as good as the data you are inputting. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to keep track of Accounts, Recruitment and Job orders. ### 9. Great applicant tracking system and very user friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about CATS?** I like that CATS is super user friendly. I also like that it's customizable. More recently, we've been using it with our HRIS system and it has been helpful that it integrates so well with that (BambooHR). We also use it to integrate with job postings on our website and it helps to track people who apply to positions. I like that when someone applies, it automatically moves their information into the ATS portion. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I wish there was the ability to bulk email a little bit easier but it's not a huge issue. Otherwise, there are no dislikes that I have about the system. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** It is a great applicant tracking system and it is very cost-effective and user friendly. The pricing is not outrageous and it helps keep us extremely organized as a whole. It is helpful to keep historical data of conversations our recruiters have with potential candidates. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it for our applicant tracking system. It keeps our recruiting team very well organized and up to date with items. ### 10. AMAZING Sourcing and Pipelining Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2019 **What do you like best about CATS?** I love how intuitive and user friendly CATS is. It allows me to see all of my candidates for each job at a glance. I also love how I can email candidates right from the status tab. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I don't like the fact that I can't change the status to the same thing twice in a row on a particular candidate in the workflow. Instead I have to choose a new workflow status and then change it back to leave a new note. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to use an excel spreadsheet to keep track of candidates we contacted and then use mail merge to email them. Now, I can upload them as I go into CATS and easily email them right away right from the app. It also makes sure that I never miss an email because my email syncs with the CATS system ### 11. The best ATS (and I've tried most of them!) **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim H. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2019 **What do you like best about CATS?** For a smaller staffing firm, this perfect ATS. Super intuitive - Zero training needed to get started. Super Powerful too. The workflow automation is fabulous. We have our entire sourcing, recruiting, qualifying, interviewing, hiring and on-boarding process built in to the workflow. My recruiters don't need to use email. They Use CATS. One of my top recruiters, I could never get to use any other ATS (PCR, BullHorn, MaxHire, etc.) and now she only uses CATS and her cell phone. She loves it because we've automated all the emails, scheduling, follow ups, etc. Just flip a switch and your task is done!! **What do you dislike about CATS?** Reporting. This is CATS biggest weakness and the only reason I wouldn't recommend it for a bigger firm. It's virtually impossible to pull out recruiter metrics without spending hours each week. Although they have some canned dashboards, there is no customizable performance reports comparing week over week or month over month. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Highly recommend it for smaller staffing firms. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation of the recruiting process and management of clients, candidates, jobs and companies with ease. ### 12. Best I’ve ever used! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** JT H. | Managing partner , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2019 **What do you like best about CATS?** For starters, customer service is awesome. I have use this software since 2012, and it keeps getting better and better. It’s very user-friendly and keeps a lot of data at your fingertips. It doesn’t take a lot to get started, and it has a lot of integrations that Connect with my chrome browser for easy data entry. **What do you dislike about CATS?** The reporting function has a lot to be desired. I personally like to be able to break down into small bits of information to find places for improvement across my team. This really just measures very basic data. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Not only is the price point exceptional, but it is very functional across the board **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a good software where I can manage clients and candidates has soft many problems. It keeps things very easy and accessible. ### 13. Best program for candidate tracking **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kimberly R. | Administrative Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** With CATS you literally have everything you need for candidate tracking. Is user friendly and very detailed. Apart from the candidate friendly application process, it let's me upload resumes from candidates who show up to our offices without applying online. The easiest part of it all are the metrics. Easy to download reports too, makes my job alot easier so I can concentrate on other tasks. Furthermore, they recently integrated the SMS service, were I can send messages to candidates and keep track of it all in the candidates file. **What do you dislike about CATS?** The only thing I could suggest is having different language settings. For example, I use this program here in Puerto Rico, many of my coworkers a do not understand English as good as I do. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Review all the training videos they provide on their website. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the problems we resolved with CATS was the EEO tracking of our candidates. **Official Response from Zach Dimond:** > Hi Kimberly, CATS actually has been translated by our users into a number of languages, including Spanish. You’ll find the account-wide setting for this from your avatar icon in the top right corner > Administration > Localization > Language. To only change the language for their individual user, other users can go to the avatar icon > My Profile > Language. ### 14. Simple ATS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about CATS?** CATS is great for ATS. Low price point. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I don't like the limitations. I have permanent and per diem and contract placements and CATS doesn't meet all of my needs. I have used CATS for many years but left to get a more well rounded ATS. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** CATS is a great product for tracking. The career portal is a very appealing feature. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used CATS to organize my applicants for permanent placements. ### 15. Best tool for Agency Recruiters **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erin C. | Partner - Founder, Staffing and Recruiting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The ease of use in the system it is robost without being over engineered! It allows loading from LinkedIn which few tools do! **What do you dislike about CATS?** I wish when we searched in the candidate files there was a way to load that to a "project" or at minimum page from record to record without having to go back to the list every single time. I don't use the sourcing feature in the tool very often due to the lack of paging item from person to person. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** If you are seeking a great pipeline product and one that has nearly everything you need yet at a cost effective price and without a contract this one is amazing! It allows us to be flexible in our business as we have recruiters that don't work full time or take summers off thus it allows us to turn on and off the cost of the tool, we love this product! **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recruiters by nature are not detailed in data entry and CATS ease of use makes this less painful for them. Time savings for entry of candidates from LinkedIn vs any other system I have used ### 16. Customize customize customize **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jessica M. | Scientific Recruiter, Biotechnology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I love the responsiveness of the CATS support team, they're willing to troubleshoot and entertain new suggestions. The ability to customize just about every field and feature available makes the system work very well for us, even between different teams within our organization. The community tips and suggestions are helpful. The CATS extension for importing candidates is also excellent. **What do you dislike about CATS?** The interface could use a facelift, however, it's grown on me as my appreciation of the software has increased. Some of the features are not as intuitive as I would have anticipated, but they're the type of errors that you only make once and never forget. I'd like to be able to use multiple email addresses as I have multiple clients. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** At this time, there are not separate pricing tiers for admin vs recruiter. One form of CATS (HR) has interview templates while the other does not - many features would be useful for both groups. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've been able to decrease the number of applications that we require to track our applicants. By utilizing the tasks feature, we've gotten rid of our reliance on much of the project management software. We're able to store quite a bit of information on a job order page which time. There seems to be an overall sense of improved organization. ### 17. Far beyond all expectations! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Phillip H. | Talent Acquisition Partner, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The flexibility of the CATS ATS is one of the greatest things I've seen in this industry. The ease of use and adaptability make it number one in my book. The way we are able to track and pull reporting has cut down on back end work for our HR department by a great deal. I can not recommend this program enough to any company that is struggling with little resources or budgeting. It's cheap, easy to use, easy to setup, the people at CATS are fantastic to work with and know their stuff. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I have used this ATS system for over five months now and and have no dislikes at all. Every time I think there is something missing there is a new roll out and update that takes care of it. By far the greatest tool added to date has been the ability to text within system. I just can't seem to find anything to dislike about it. Even upon polling my team of recruiters they are at a loss to give me negatives. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Give this ATS a try you absolutely will not regret it! **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not only has the functionality of posting to job boards on our behalf brought in more candidates, we can now quickly search through, tag and move to hire quicker. ### 18. Great ATS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikki H. | HR Generalist, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** A lot of ATS are hard to use and not configurable/very hard to configure. We have build in trigger for almost everything that kicks out emails to those who need to hear from the recruiter. All the triggers are customizable! **What do you dislike about CATS?** The only thing I dislike is the email signature and how I cant input a picture into my signature **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** I would recommend making the emails show without pictures. For some reason when the emails kick out, it shows a notification saying you need to click to download pictures in the email? There is also an error with the linkedin plug in for Chrome. when I try and download it, it says sorry couldnt unzip file **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlining and automating the recruiting process has helped cut down on our fill time for many positions. ### 19. Organized, Easy to Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mackensey P. | Office Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I like that you can funnel all your job orders and applications into one spot. Easy to use, search engine yields great results when searching for anything. I like that it's easy to keep track of what you're working on, you can make notes for yourself on candidates for your other employees to see. You can mark off what you're working on and whether or not the candidate moves to the next round. Essentially made it easier for everyone to see what everyone else was working on. Everything is viewable in one spot. We can see how many job postings we have, we can see how many applicants come in, we can see how many we have declined or moved to the next round YOY. **What do you dislike about CATS?** There is a 40 character minimum but I can't say there is much that I dislike! **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Do it! Super easy to use, organized, allows communication to be seamless with whoever your working with or whatever departments. Easy to make and leave notes, change candidate statuses, add, remove, alter job postings and job orders. Would definitely recommend! **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** CATS overall mostly just helped us with organization. Everyone can see, track and make notes on candidates or whatever it is we are working on. ### 20. User Friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I have worked with many ATS- This is the most user friendly one I have used thus far. There are many options for your team to utilize. We could additionally use this for other needs, but haven't established any other needs that we need to use for at this current time. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I would like to see the option to collapse the status updates, when you copy/paste a message. Or even the option to have different tabs so that it doesn't look as crowded on the main screen, but overall I like the system. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** This is a great system, especially for new users, given the ease of use. I haven't had to utilize support, but have not heard anything negative from my team members who have had to utilize it. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is our ATS- we use it for tracking all of our candidates across our group. It is great to be able to share candidates and have all of the recruiters with access to make notes across the board for all to see. It is always helpful when trying to scroll back through for reference notes. ### 21. Have used it for about 5 months and it is the easiest ATS I have ever used. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael S. | Talent Acquisition Partner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I like the text function. Most ATS have the email function. People prefer to be texted rather than called these days. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I wish it was mandatory to upload a resume when applying. I still get some applicants that do not upload a resume. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Simple and no contract. You can try it out during a trial period. I also like how you can edit things to fit your needs. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were not getting candidate flow for LNFA with any of the job boards we were using before. We are now getting flooded with qualified candidates. ### 22. It gets the job done **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** maddasyn m. | Talent Management Specialist , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The ability to customize different aspects.I like the tracking system of applicants and the ability to source them into CATS. I also like the customization dashboard but i dont use that often. **What do you dislike about CATS?** it is slow and would and like to see more advancements in regards to tracking candidates and adding more notes. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** If you like having alot of functions and customization then CATS would be the one for you. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it mostly for recruiting purposes. So it helps to manage our candidates but we dont use it for HR purposes like onboarding. ### 23. Wonderful System - Checks almost every box **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I love CATS and the usability of it. Features are very well thought out and automate a lot for the Recruiters. The new text system is a great addition and makes it that much easier to get in touch with candidates. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I am waiting for improvements on CATS reporting features. This is the one down fall of the system, other than that it checks 9 out of 10 boxes. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Have another system or function for reporting and metrics. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Going from excel to CATS was an amazing transition. It is an easy to use system and has made our Recruiting Department an efficient machine allowing organized data and notes, as well as, automation and customization options really save time without sacrificing our voice and brand! ### 24. I use it, it's great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darius and C. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I love that you really can set up this system, this ATS, exactly the way you want it. You can add fields, name them whatever you wish, place them where ever you wish, search and report based on that. Completely Versatile, How can you complain about a system that you can make it do exactly what you want it to do? Great ATS - and trust me I have used them all! **What do you dislike about CATS?** Nothing, I dislike nothing about CATS, NOTHING! It's perfect! **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Got to use it. Simply the best, most versatile, most user friendly, most customizable, and best customer service. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cats are solving both my recruiting headhunting needs as well as my staffing tempt to perm needs! Perfectly. ### 25. Great Candidate tracking system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Outsourcing/Offshoring | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** It is an easy system to use and the support from the CATS team is great. If I have had an issue, they always work with me! **What do you dislike about CATS?** Though it is an easy system to use, it does require initial training and the UI can be confusing if you aren't sure what to do. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows for tracking our candidates and listing our jobs in a simple and straightforward way. It also allows us to list our jobs quickly and make sure we can get the right people calls back. The tracking system allows us to see which jobs are going well and which ones we need to update it. ### 26. Pretty basic **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** It's relatively simple to use. It's efficient since it automatically posts to popular job boards. It also allows candidates to apply straight for Indeed creating an easy application process for candidates. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Not as customized as other ATS. Emails to candidates through the system seem to end up in their junk mail. This leads to missed communication which inst good for the candidate experience. We have multiple companies and it doesn't have the ability to post as our separate companies from one account. We had to create separate accounts for each company which has effected to our efficiency. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** If you're looking for something simple & low cost this suits your needs - we unfortunately outgrew it and needed something more customizable **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helps us keep track of our recruiting. We do high volume recruiting and can have 100's of applications at any given time. ### 27. Frequent CATS user **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Enforcement | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** There have been some recent updates that have been helpful- such as the SMS capability. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Using tags has not been user friendly from my perspective-- some places it shows the tagged information input into the email-- other places it shows it as the scripted tag info. When sending an email to an applicant I don't get to see what they receive. From my sent history it makes it look like the applicant receives an email attempting to send tags and failing to succeed successfully. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just realized that a meeting scheduler is included; this is something I've toyed with being a helpful tool-- i was not aware it was a provided feature until today. If this works how it is intended then it could be awesome. ### 28. Very customizable and strong search functionality **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** CATS is highly customizable with a robust search function which makes it easy to keep track of the candidate data that is most important to us. The list of job boards that CATS pushes out to is one of the longest lists I have seen in an ATS. **What do you dislike about CATS?** The time it takes for the page to load after every click or command can be a bit frustrating. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** CATS has made it easy to keep track of our full candidate network, and reach out to them on an ongoing large-scale basis with opportunities that may be a good match for them. ### 29. Racheted Up our level of Organization on New Client and Candidate Follow ups **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike N. | VP, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Ease of Use and Depth of solutions. A lot of great applications that work cohesively. **What do you dislike about CATS?** There has not been anything to dislike so far. Company has been responsive to implementing new ideas and recommendations.. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Check out the integrations including Slack. Also, the smartphone configuration works very well, too. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improved our efficiencies ion reach outs and follow up activities. Leading to more placements ### 30. I can't imagine using a different service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Derek O. | Principal, Hospital & Health Care, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The workflow automation is amazing and it makes my job so much easier. The effectiveness of the system allows me focus on what I'm best at. I love the ability to customize basically everything within the system. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I wish there was a click to call feature. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am finding amazing effectiveness in my recruiting business because of the automation of my workflow in sending emails and creating tasks. I can just spend my time doing the things I do best rather than organizing information or deciding what my next task is. ### 31. Excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas d. | Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** We have been using CATS since we opened our company, and it has helped us organize our database efficiently, reach the human resources we need to find in just minutes, and it has helped us increase our database in a simple way, just by clicking on an add-on in Chrome. **What do you dislike about CATS?** They should integrate WhatsApp for sending the work. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well-organized database. Increase the database on a daily basis. Follow-up with candidates. ### 32. Very organized, easy to access system! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mary P. | Recruiter , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The thing I like the most about using CATS, is when a job is posted and I feel there may be an error, I'm able to go back and fix the error even after published! Saves me! **What do you dislike about CATS?** I'm not sure what to pinpoint that I dislike. I don't dislike anything about the CATS system! **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm able to organize the jobs I'm posting down to every detail without a hassle of switching between pages. Very easy system to use ### 33. The best ATM of all times !! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** François J. | Senior Recruitment Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I love the integration with LinkedIn and CV sent by emails to Cats ! **What do you dislike about CATS?** I think that the features arround job posting are not enough developped. The layout and the fields are not very good... **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Try it !! **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recruitment !!! ### 34. Great CRM at a reasonable cost that does the job **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** 1. Customized Workflows - the way that you want and with color indicator by stage; 2. Solid integrations with email (gsuite for me), calendar; 3. Custom job board; 4. Daily posting to Social sites, like Linkedin, Indeed, and many others; 5. Total email history by contact or candidate; 6. Email link to upload resumes. 7. Browser based and works on any device. **What do you dislike about CATS?** 1. They do updates by number of votes - would like to see a few features that my old vendor had; **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** CATS is a great product. The support is excellent. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** CATS is a comprehensive CRM for recruiters to manage their business. Everything ties to CATS. ### 35. Great CRM system with great automation options for sending out email **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff B. | Account Executive Project Manager, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** It's simple and easy to use. New employees can be trained within a couple days or less to use it. Control over users and permissions. Decent price plan, and support for how it works. In other words they will help you understand how it works. **What do you dislike about CATS?** The reports that are built in. Be careful. Some numbers are dynamic , and some are static. Some are historical, some are now snapshots. CATS provides no report titles or descriptions that would tell you anything. The number in different screens don't gel with what they say either. Use API for reports , or use the report > general > users to see the true numbers based on the time frame and now. Just don't trust they are correct (the reports) Also some things only get recorded upon mouse click events. Meaning if you use the online application system, it will not show you numbers on what user got the most new application .. the web cant record the status .. cause it needs manual entry. Which defeats the point of the live site. . .Also support doesn't get technical, and neither can the staff. If you plan to use this for API and build something bigger . be aware they only have forums in which you can get tech help from. No internal support or devs it seems. Last note , if you want something to be fixed, or find a bug. You will need to gather mounds of evidence before they belive you. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Its a great system at a great price. However, ee careful with reports , they don't come right out and tell you what you are looking at per say. Be aware. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recruiting, and staffing. Works well, we integrated with API. again be aware they may change the way the API works .. don't go too far beyond what the basics are. The built in reports are good for gauging direction ,, good or bad. Do not count on these numbers to reflect accuracy. ### 36. User Friendly System **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ross T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The ability to customize and configure the system to meet the needs of your organization. The system also integrates with a number of free job boards which increases the exposure of posted positions to reach a broader audience. There is also a connection which allows users to share job orders / openings with a community of recruiters if you're a firm and willing to split placement fees with other firms. Uploading existing data is simple and integrations into an existing jobs page or website is an easy process as well. **What do you dislike about CATS?** We have multiple divisions in our company so we would like to have the option to have separate Candidate databases in our system so not all divisions are grouped together in one large bucket. Sometimes key-word searches will bring up candidate in other divisions that we do not want to see. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** If you want a systems that's simple to use and easily configurable, this system is for you. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to log and track activities on candidate for our various recruiters to utilize to eliminate duplication of efforts and keeping candidates on-track at every step in the hiring process. Also we have a process in which we pipeline candidate (or create lists) for certain positions to help with focusing efforts on filling the position. Lastly, championing the use of CATS has improved our employees detail-orientation and has allowed for them to develop habits which increase their recruiting capabilities. ### 37. Long-time user -- I LOVE CATS! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MICHAEL S. | Director of Recruiting / Finance, Staffing and Recruiting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I really love how customizable the interface is. It allows you to add or hide fields, move things around on the various screens, add triggers and workflow steps, etc. Instead of forcing you to work their way, it lets you make the ATS follow the way YOU like to work! You can easily make call lists, keep track of who has applied to which jobs, where each candidate stands in the application process, and display a complete log of all conversations and other communications with each person you deal with. I also love how easy it is to post jobs and add specific application questions for each job. It also integrates well with LinkedIn, with a browser extension that automatically imports LI candidates into CATS. **What do you dislike about CATS?** The CATS mobile app (for iPhone) is extremely limited in what it allows you to do. This should be much more robust, allowing you to do almost everything the desktop version can do. In today's mobile world, this should be a priority for the development team. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** CATS makes the entire process of recruiting and business development as easy as possible. I've used may other ATS programs in the past, and I still think CATS is better (and more affordable) than most. ### 38. Robust set of features for the price point **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy F. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I find CATS to be very user friendly and pretty intuitive. I also think it has a really robust set of features for the price point. I work as an HR consultant and this is my top recommended ATS for my customers who are on a budget. You can't beat it! I have implemented it at 5 different businesses and they love it. It is very easy to configure and customize for your needs - anything from the workflow to email templates to triggers. **What do you dislike about CATS?** It can be a bit slow to load at times, but it's usually not a problem. I would also like to see better reporting/metrics, and the ability to run email campaigns from within the system. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Do the trial and see if you like it! **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage your candidates in a strategic way. Mitigate risk with good documentation/record keeping. Provide a great candidate experience by using triggers and templates. ### 39. Better than the other ATS's **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tatiana B. | Owner, Staffing and Recruiting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** CATS is workflow based, and allows bulk messages, which were a couple things that are absolute must haves in an ATS. We find it way more user friendly than Bullhorn and other ATS's that are made for agencies. **What do you dislike about CATS?** It's tough to distinguish between an update to one workflow, and a state of being. For instance, if someone is Not On Market - and I've marked that on one role, I would have to update it somewhere in the candidate record as well. In my ideal world, I could set this for 6 mo and it would go away after that. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** CATS customer service team is mostly responsive, but could still be even better at taking the time to understand the business case behind certain requests. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We want everyone in our system to always be discoverable. We even find that when the client said oh we filled the role with... Bob Jones... well, Bob Jones is in our system. We just have to classify things so that it is easier to find things again. ### 40. A User Friendly Option for an ATS **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Web based, extremely easy to use and perfect for my type of business. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I do wish there was an application that I could download as well as having the option of it being web based. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Applicant Tracking System ### 41. Exceptional Database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dustin B. | Direct Hire Search Consultant, Staffing and Recruiting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I love how easy it is to navigate from page to page and the overlays that come with each segment **What do you dislike about CATS?** sometimes the loading process when entering data in will take a few seconds **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm a direct hire recruiter who also bids our business with each new client. I'm able to have everything I need with reporting. ### 42. Great ATS software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diego D. | Talent Acquisition , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Quick start up, no Implementation fees , Easy to use and learn, Cheap! Ready to go right out of the box. Some custom functions are annoying but overall and easy to use **What do you dislike about CATS?** Limited Reporting tool, Some usability issues **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** No start up cost and easy to use!! **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data basing and bulk communication. Candidate communication has been solid ### 43. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** It is extremely easy to use once you get to understand the way it works. It helps to find exactly the candidates that you are looking for. **What do you dislike about CATS?** There is nothing as such to dislike. If there was a way to find more information regarding the cnadidates then that would have been awesome. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Looking for candidates. This is a portal where you find them from everywhere. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use cats to look for candidates who are looking for a job according to the positions that open up with our clients. ### 44. The ease of posting jobs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Helps to manage the recruitment life cycle. Also love how it pushes job postings automatically to several well known job boards **What do you dislike about CATS?** At this time I don't have any thing negative to say about the system **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** N/A **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recruiting and Staffing. I love the way it retains all of the candidates information! ### 45. Great Applicant Portal **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I've worked with other Applicant Portals, but CATS is always the best for me. It is easy to receive applicants as well as going back to search candidates **What do you dislike about CATS?** I do not like that some times when I check to see if a candidate is in the Portal, it does not show me that they are there until I try adding them again **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Yes highly recommended **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** CATS provides candidates from various job boards ### 46. After 6 months using CATS One **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gerry T. | President & Chief Travel Recruiter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Easy to use. Straightforward. Robust infrastructure **What do you dislike about CATS?** UI is not the best; it could look better. Job board publishing not driving much candidates **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation, centralized place for information, candidate tracking. ### 47. Extremely user friendly system, very flexible to your org **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bobbi C. | Programs Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I liked that not only did it perform all the functions I needed it to, but that it was highly customizable to what the organization needed. Quite cost effective and approachable. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Nothing yet! The team has been super responsive, the system is reliable from both an administrative and hiring manager perspective. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** I used iCIMS at my previous job, and wish I'd known about CATS earlier. WAY more straight forward, and still functioned in all the ways we needed it to. Great support team as well. I cannot recommend this highly enough. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The organization that I implemented this system for was using excel to track their applicants and a folder system within gmail to manage communication. This linked to outlook, capturing all correspondence, neatly put candidates in the right places for all to see, and allowed for easier tracking/visibility into pipeline management. ### 48. Awesome ATS with good features to add flavor in recruitment **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankit K. | US IT RECRUITER, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** We can add candidates to a specific requirement. **What do you dislike about CATS?** There is no auto-import feature is there. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using CATS to serve my clients for IT requiremnets ### 49. Fantastic! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Austin D. | Site Supervisor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Efficiency, tracking candidates is very fast & clean. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I cannot find anything that I dislike about CATS. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking Candidates is easy and clean. ### 50. Easy to use! Great for smaller companies! **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The ease of CATS. They provide training and they have great customer support. Extremely customizable. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Not "flashy". Doesn't have all the bells and whistles but for a company that doesn't need them CATS gets the job done. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our ATS is our biggest tool and being able to have all of our information in one place is huge for our business. ## CATS Discussions - [Do you integrate with other software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/integrations-0b2009c0-eddc-4b15-8c4f-e413f6784088) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What kind of support will I have?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/support-6283d491-b268-4c1d-bd4a-5571490d295b) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Can I import my data?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/import-data-c3d6bc5a-b736-4577-8d76-e3582a278f90) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How secure is my data?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/security-640d9044-1b25-4bc1-9ea7-1a54f523c5dd) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View CATS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cats/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-27+20%3A31%3A27+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=dbb03d11-02d6-4c03-8826-d76b57a049f4&secure%5Btoken%5D=0d99f07bba441ca8be06ff5dfdb9d8777f9fa99ece95fd20c98b3b77981e066f&format=llm_user) ## CATS Features **Candidate Management** - Automation - Filtering - Resume Management **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Decision Making **Sourcing** - Candidate Search - Career Page Configuration - Social Sourcing - Job Posting - Candidate Sourcing Metrics **Communication** - Candidate Portal - Job Posts - Email Integration **Candidate Management - Applicant Tracking System** - Candidate Evaluations - Applicant Data Management - Hiring Processes Tracking - Automated Resume Parsing - Scheduling - Candidate-Facing Statuses - Workflow Building **Analytics** - Pipeline Dashboards - Analytics Reports **Platform** - Customization - Integration APIs - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Performance - Mobility - Reporting - Dashboards **AI - Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)** - Predictive Insights - AI Job Description - Chatbot ## Top CATS Alternatives - [Ceipal ATS](https://www.g2.com/products/ceipal-ats/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (1,416 reviews) - [JobDiva](https://www.g2.com/products/jobdiva/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (1,737 reviews) - [Bullhorn](https://www.g2.com/products/bullhorn/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (1,175 reviews)