--- 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: '2026-08-09' 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. 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. ### 2. 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. ### 3. 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. ### 4. 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. ### 5. 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. ### 6. Good if you're on a budget **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I like the search feature - it pulls the people closest to what you're searching for above ones who aren't the best match. **What do you dislike about CATS?** The interface feels very confusing. I still haven't fully figured it out. The workflows aren't really intuitive like a Taleo system, but Taleo is also far more expensive, so it's all about balance I guess. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Make sure to customize it. We didn't realize it needed customization when we first implemented it, and it was terrible (as any un-customized product will be). **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking candidates for EEOC compliance. It works decently, but didn't include a default setting for hiding the self-id from recruiters which I feel it should have defaulted to. ### 7. Good expereince **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I enjoy how user friendly and customizable the CATS system is **What do you dislike about CATS?** I would like the reporting features to be improved. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lots of automation capabilities make day to day processes easier and time efficient! ### 8. Basic but effective **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2017 **What do you like best about CATS?** Very self explanatory and easy to understand **What do you dislike about CATS?** Glitchy and a bit slow to use and navigate **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping candidates updated and tracking statuses. ### 9. Its good, but could be better with more reports **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ★ Debbie D. | VP, Staffing, Staffing and Recruiting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2015 **What do you like best about CATS?** Easy to use, inexpensive, nice feature to add jobs to multiple sites. **What do you dislike about CATS?** There is just one report, a job order report, which can have "quick notes", job location, recruiter name, etc. added to the reports. But we need basic reports on individual recruiter productivity, and CATS doesn't offer any. Its weird because we enter the data, but there's just no quick reports to pull the information we've entered and print a simple report on a recruiter's monthly/quarterly/yearly placements, interviews, submittals, etc. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** There is just one report, a job order report, which can have "quick notes", job location, recruiter name, etc. added to the reports. But we need basic reports on individual recruiter productivity, and CATS doesn't offer any. Its weird because we enter the data, but there's just no quick reports to pull the information we've entered and print a simple report on a recruiter's monthly/quarterly/yearly productivity such as placements, interviews, submittals, etc. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good, basic Applicant Tracking System ### 10. Decent system, but needs work **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2015 **What do you like best about CATS?** CATS is relatively inexpensive compared to similar candidate tracking systems, and largely does what we need it to do. Customer Service has also been responsive to our suggestions. **What do you dislike about CATS?** It has a clumsy user-interface, and it has fairly limited uses. In order to record the information we are legally required to track, we have to use certain elements quite creatively, but are still unable to easily gather the data we need. It is also not mobile friendly, which is becoming imperative as more people start exclusively using mobile devices. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Be sure to review all of the limitations of CATS before purchasing a subscription, and compare it with the features you need. However, due to the low cost of a subscription, it would be worthwhile to do a test run to see if the system meets your company's needs. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use CATS for tracking our recruiting efforts. ## 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?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+12%3A57%3A12+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=57d0cc22-452c-451c-a39c-75c62f5c7160&secure%5Btoken%5D=bc86efcfdcc0279686ce25e10f394630032c06809ee3deb6db2e1c4fb5972a58&format=llm_user) ## CATS Features **Candidate Management** - Task Management - Automation - Filtering - Resume Parsing - Self Service Portal - Compliance Management - Assessment Management - Interview Management - Calendar Management - Communication Management - Email Management - Referral Management - Workflow Management - Recruitment Management - Job Management - Lead Management - Candidate Management - Job Application Management - HR Management - Pipeline Management - Payroll 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 - Candidate Sourcing - Job Posting - Candidate Sourcing Metrics - Boolean Search - Resume Search **Communication** - Candidate Portal - Job Posts - Email Integration - Third-Party Integrations - Social Media Integration **Candidate Management - Applicant Tracking System** - Candidate Evaluations - Applicant Data Management - Hiring Processes Tracking - Automated Resume Parsing - Scheduling - Candidate-Facing Statuses - Workflow Building - Application Management - Candidate Management - Task Management - Pipeline Management - Calendar Management - Workflow Management - Communication Management - Compliance Tracking - Approval Workflow - Application Management - Job Management **Analytics** - Pipeline Dashboards - Analytics Reports - Reporting/Analytics - Activity Dashboard - Customizable Reports - Real-Time Analytics - Pipeline Reports **Additional Functionality** - CRM - Billing & Invoicing - Resume Database - Talent Pool - Alerts/Notifications - AI Copilot - Email Marketing - Searchable Database - Reminders - GDPR Compliance - Customizable Branding - Customizable Templates - Job Board - Data Import/Export - Recruiting Firms - Reference Checking - Social Recruiting - Internal HR - Job Requisition - Collaboration Tools - Background Screening - Status Tracking - Activity Tracking - Customizable Forms - Contact Database - Email Templates - Interview Scheduling - Full Text Search - Resume Search - Talent Acquisition - For Recruiting Agencies - Generative AI - Applicant Tracking - Job Tracking - Reporting & Statistics - Job Posting - API - Electronic Signature - Temporary Staffing - Configurable Workflow - Real-Time Reporting - SMS Messaging - For Staffing Agencies - Workflow Automation **Platform** - Customization - Integration APIs - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Activity Dashboard - Activity Dashboard - Mobile Access - Activity Dashboard - Training Management - Goal Management - Feedback Management - Action Management - Mobile Access - Activity Dashboard - Benefits Dashboard - Activity Dashboard - Feedback Management - Performance Management - Recruitment Management - Compliance Management - Training Management - Calendar Management - Employee Management - Orientation Workflow Management - Task Management - HR Management - Help Desk Management - Mobile Access - Payroll Management - Document Management - Job Description Management - Social Media Integration - Mobile Access - Activity Dashboard - Third-Party Integrations - Assessment Management - Social Media Integration - Activity Dashboard - Mobile Access - Third-Party Integration - Initiative Management - Workflow Management - Community Management - Employee Referral Management - Candidate Management - Workflow Management - Communication Management - Advertising Management - Application Management - Email Management - Job Management - Discount Management - Pipeline Management - File Management - Job Management - Data Storage Management - Compensation Management - Employee Management - Job Application Management - HR Management - Competency Management - Performance Management - Compliance Management - Job Description Management - Evaluation Management - User Management - Role-Based Permissions - Third-Party Integrations **AI - Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)** - Predictive Insights - AI Job Description - Chatbot - Generative AI **Additional Functionality** - Self Service Portal - Data Import/Export - Question Library - Customizable Templates - Reminders - Recruiting Firms - Talent Pool - AI Copilot - Scoring - Candidate Profiles - Job Board - Internal HR - Reference Checking - Careers Page - Resume Storage - Customizable Branding - Collaboration Tools - Tagging - Alerts/Notifications - Matching Engine - Search/Filter - Social Recruiting - Onboarding - Reporting & Statistics - For Small Businesses - Background Screening - Commenting/Notes - Billing & Invoicing - CRM - Resume Database - Email Marketing - Searchable Database - GDPR Compliance - Job Requisition ## 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 (1,176 reviews)