--- 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: '2026-07-12' 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. Excellent, customizable ATS and CMS in one package! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The ease of customizing both contacts and candidate workflow and data fields. Email, calendar and other platform services integrations for posting, etc. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Needs a better system to document and schedule of internal follow-up on the candidate or contact profile without emailing the candidate or contact. An internal tickler system while logging an activity, schedule a task or event. CATS needs to have texting capability. Understand this is on the product roadmap. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Reporting is really in need of an overhaul. Need to take the corporate customer in mind of the data and how the data is accessed and presented. Needs to have ad-hoc reporting. Candidate screening is okay, but no real way to force rank candidates. The job portal on mobile is good, which is a big win when getting candidates to apply. For the internal user of CATS, a mobile app really needs to be developed. Currently just the website access which is cumbersome and hard to navigate on mobile. 2018, CATS needs to get into the mobile age allowing recruiters to access their jobs, candidates and quick evaluation and outreach to candidates. See Zip Recruiter's mobile platform. Super easy to navigate and syncs with the web application on desktop. Go mobile CATS! **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to create separate job portals per client and create screening questions per job or using templates is great for the RPO space. ### 2. 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. ### 3. Excellent product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Connie B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Easy to use, cost efficient and offers exactly what I need for my business. I am a small business and CATS works perfectly for me. I like that it allows me to post my open positions on various job boards as well as my website. **What do you dislike about CATS?** There is nothing that I don't like, as with any system you have to work with it and learn. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** CATS will allow you to preview their system and once you do you will find that it offers the very same service as some other companies. When I have had a problem or question they are right there, I have not had to wait for someone to call me back and be down for hours or days. They were excellent in transitioning my former data base to CATS. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to add and delete candidates, customers and jobs. Allows me to track my candidates throughout the interview to hire process. ### 4. Applicant workflow, messaging, branding, posting customizable and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The amount of standard ready-to-go features are great. Customizing in every phase of workflow is powerful. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Would like to see more features made available to turn on or off for the Hiring Manager. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** If you have an internal HR/HRIS person who is dedicated to HR workflow tools you'll do fine. If you don't, I strongly recommend outsourcing. www.hrpartner.pro. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I provide an HR outsourcing model www.hrpartner.pro to small and medium businesses from 5 to 250 employees. For my CATS users, I become the clients HRIS strategist. Applicants experience a direct process and are not left with the infamous "black hole" that most ATS systems leave them in. I know this is more on the user to manage but CATS makes it very easy to engage and disengage applicants with respect and timeliness. In a competitive market, the best applicants seem to recognize this and are positively influenced by great customer service. The war for talent is now real. My clients that have been with me for several years are growing their talent and in proactive mode while their competitors are experiencing hyper turnover and slow hiring processes. ### 5. User Friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shaela N. | Sr. Account Based Marketing Program Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The display and easy-to-navigate features, especially the tagging and trigger options. **What do you dislike about CATS?** It's not a make or break by any means, but if I could separate my lists into groups like I can with tags, that would be great. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Take advantage of the triggers when changing a status for a candidate - it will save you and your team an IMMENSE amount of time! **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking talent, especially if a candidate applies for a role they are not qualified for, it allows us to track them and follow up if there is a role that opens up in the future which is a better fit to their experience. ### 6. Easy to use and effective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I have been able to quickly learn the product. My favorite part is the ease of posting positions! **What do you dislike about CATS?** The only drawback I run into is that our setup only allows submitting to a limited number of managers. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking applicants and communication ### 7. Very User Friendly- Not super flashy AI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 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?** I love how user friendly it is. It doesn't take a million clicks to get somewhere. It is also VERY customizable. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I wish candidates in the system were "matched" to a job. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The whole recruiting process is fluid with CATS. ### 8. CATS is making my business simplify. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** CATS has been customizable to the way our company works and their development of new reporting and time saver features gives my business a technological edge in an all ready highly-competitive market! **What do you dislike about CATS?** Reporting could be even more robust. We also would like it to eventually integrate with our VOIP phone system but we know that Is in development along with a text feature. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a customizable work flow has helped us to mirror in CATS what is happening in the candidate lifecycle. It has also been scalable from day one. We’ve been using CATS for over 7 years! ### 9. CATS ONE User Friendly, Simplifies all Processes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Bulk upload of job orders and ability to pick up resumes from email. Dashboard can be customized. **What do you dislike about CATS?** No Job Descriptions which slows down process **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Training Modules as I have not been training at all. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Job Positng to everywhere ### 10. The Simple Essentials **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shawn P. | Managing Partner, Industrial Automation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I like the ease of use whencomes to exporting and importing candidates. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I wish they had more integrations and the chrome extension worked on more sites. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** My entire process is efficiency and relies heavily on importing and exporting candidates through .csv sheets. I currently recruiting forand Engineering candidates. I can generate a list of 1000 target candidates in less than 3-4 hours through data extraction and reach 400 candidates over the phone with a power dialer system. This is the only system that gives me the flexibility I need. ### 11. Best for sending Email merges **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manickavel M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The most i like is, sending an email merge from the tool to pool of candidates from our candidates database. Its an awesome feature. **What do you dislike about CATS?** So many duplicate names and duplicate resumes can be added for a single person and hence forth it is very difficult to keep one record for each person. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Sure will recommened **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Interview Scheduling. 2. Interview remainder email sending. 3. Resume submission to Manager 4. Uploading resumes into our database. 5. Visibility of all employees using CATS ### 12. Robust, but could use some tweaking **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Ability to customize to our needs in terms of multiple departments and reviewers **What do you dislike about CATS?** Confusing menus not always user friendly **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Candidate tracking. CATS is a great database ### 13. CATS is meowwww **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 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?** Ease of use, excellent customer service, price point is perfect **What do you dislike about CATS?** Need more free texts. System a bit slow, but overall very nice. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** yes **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** ATS ### 14. Good solution, easy, but needs some more robust features. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** - Customer service is great - Easy to configure - Usually always fast and responsive (Sometimes issue with cloud packages) - Logging is usually very accurate - Logical design and easy to find what you are looking for - Easy to work with Hiring Managers to get profiles to them for review, etc. Including logged feedback. **What do you dislike about CATS?** - No agency management portal, with included duplicate blocking feature (IE, when an agency uploads an application with email, it automatically blocks the application, and alerts the HR. Like Taleo, SFDC, etc, can do) - No indication to Hiring Managers that other Hiring Managers have approved a candidate. (IE, when you select multiple Hiring Managers but only one is required for approval, and someone approves, no one gets a notification about it so causes confusion and delays for others. It would be great if they got an email or something to say no need to review or approve anymore) - Reporting is so-so. Currently have to run manual reports as its so-so on running reports that matter most, like conversion rates, etc. - Working in the system email tracking and success rates is so-so. Its capable of doing and the rational for not doing it for individuals is macro view is better, but in a candidate driven market, its not. It would be SUPER useful to be able to click on the mails you sent that were tracked in the candidate profile to see what happened and get more robust insights (IE, like Yesware) - No SMS ability and tracking. (The dislike part looks long, but just improvement points. The positives outweigh these parts, but would be awesome to have.) **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Read my review. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Everything... lol! When I joined there was no ATS.... it was a challenging situation. This tool helped get up and running rather quickly and easily with minimal support required. ### 15. CATS User Since 2012 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I've used other systems and what I personally like about CATS is it's not overly complex. It's fairly intuitive and there's not a lot of extraneous features to make it more complex than it needs to be. **What do you dislike about CATS?** To be fair, I don't spend a lot of time looking at features as I'm usually busy doing the things that need to be done, but reporting is one thing that comes to mind that might be better. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** If you're looking for an easy to use and functional ATS that's affordable, CATS will suit you well. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly tracking candidates through our process. Makes it easy to go back and read through notes on a candidate. Dealing with the volume that we do, it's hard to remember every detail and there have been a number of times that I've forgotten details about a candidate that jogged my memory once I was able to go back and review. ### 16. Satisfied customer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The CATS workflow is efficient and allows me to customize it to my needs and process. The CATS Chrome extension saves me a lot of time when adding online resumes to my database **What do you dislike about CATS?** The pricing has increased substantially from when I first became a customer and it was around $39/month. The product continues to improve, but I still feel like the pricing has spiked in a way that may not be fully warranted. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping track of various recruiting projects and being able to see relevant reports has solved the problem of keeping my clients and candidates updated. Being able to transfer candidate pipelines to new projects has saved time. ### 17. Simple and Clean User Interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** * Simple and clean user interface, cleanest of all ATS I reviewed * Integration with company website and job boards * Lightening fast search in database * EVERYTHING is searchable * Support team is very quick * Web based software * Fair price **What do you dislike about CATS?** I can't think of one thing that I dislike about CATS. If I had to make a new feature recommendation, it would be to integrate with Google Contacts. Then, because of Caller ID, I would see the name of the person calling my cell phone before I answer the call. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** If you like clean and simple software, look no further. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** CATS keeps me organized and efficient. ### 18. The Best Recruiting ATS On The Market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Doug O. | Strategic Staffing Partner, Career Strategist, Staffing SME, & CEO of GreenFoot Technologies, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I have been in recruiting for 22 years. My first ATS was an Excel Spreadsheet. CATs allows you to fits your personal preferences in a very robust system that takes you through Account Management, Job Order Tracking, Candidate Pipeline, Interviews, Starts, and Revenue. You do get everything you need plus it integrates with all social media and digital calendars. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Like all cloud-based systems, data retrieval can take time, but at least you know your data is always backed up. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Well worth your investment. You will see your ROI with your first placement. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a one-stop repository for all necessary data involved with client development and recruiting ATS ### 19. Easy out of the box usability **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diego D. | Head of Talent Acquisition, Civil Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I needed Cats for a startup talent acquisition department. It's so easy to setup and use no implementation any expensive start-up fees but with most of the features of the bigger guys. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Sometimes I wish the reporting tool was a little more robust and I would love an SMS text message integration. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Good system with Quick start-up functionality **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hiring and recruiting has been made a lot easier ### 20. Professional Excellence **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** It's straight and to the point on what it offers. I hope they never change a thing. It is truly perfect. **What do you dislike about CATS?** It's really hard to be that picky honestly. It's fine. The email integration sometimes messes up and you have to reset it, but I'm just being picky. Only takes a second to fix it. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to stay organized. We didn't even use an ATS before this. We can both post to job boards and have an ATS all in one. It's a solution that requires only one program instead of multiple. It even emails for you. ### 21. Cost effective and efficient CRM for Staffing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Craig A. | Managing Partner, Staffing and Recruiting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Resume parsing, simple candidate ratings, job board, automated emails. Simple to see resumes directly through mobile device. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Would like to see a mobile app with similar functionality/ access to work from while on the road. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Highly recommend looking at this system over other products. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost effective solution, simplicity of processes and ease of use. ### 22. CATS ATS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ed m. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Regular improvements/upgrades, Quick support **What do you dislike about CATS?** Cumbersome/time-consuming. To get annual discount, all users must be paid for up front. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** If you need an easy-to-learn, basic ATS that is constantly improving and provides great support, CATS is a good choice. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** CATS keeps us organized and provides detailed records of each candidate and job pipeline. ### 23. Easy, efficient and it works **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen O. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Ease of use, intuitive approach to workflow. CATS has come a long way in over 10 years. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Wish one washable to text candidates from within app (apparently this is a feature that is coming soon) **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to be able to work on any platform, anywhere makes CATS a joy to use. ### 24. I spent 6 months researching ATS systems and concluded that CATS is is the best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacomin S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Workflow and possibility to customize the pages - creating new fields etc. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Not being able to have SMS integration. I would love to send sms from CATS and track SMS received. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** You cant go wrong !! Its the best. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving a huge amount of time on administration and email tracking ### 25. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thyra G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I like that job postings are included in the price. It is easy to add jobs orders and candidates. **What do you dislike about CATS?** It can be slow at times and get stuck. I wish it was cloud based vs internet based. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeps all our resumes in once place. Good, basic Applicant Tracking System ### 26. User Friendly Applicant Tracking Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Troy B. | VP Recruitment Services, Staffing and Recruiting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** How easy it is to navigate through the software **What do you dislike about CATS?** There is nothing I can think of as it fits our need **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** If you want a user friendly applicant tracking software this is the one for you. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping the candidates flow organized and being able to follow up more efficiently ### 27. Great Workflow/Automation and Easily Customizable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Ability to customize/automate workflow and minimize "unnecessary" clicks. Free auto posting to to Glassdoor, Indeed and more.... Plug-in with ability to import resumes directly from LinkedIn, Indeed and similar. Plug-in tracks all emails to/from candidate even if emails sent from recruiters regular email (outside CATS) **What do you dislike about CATS?** Calendaring didn't work well for me. Wish there were plug-in or ability to import resume directly from a word document.... **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reporting (internal and EEOC), process automation. Able to better maximize our hiring potential and hit opportunities that we might otherwise miss. ### 28. Solid CRM for processing candidates **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julian C. | Owner, Human Resources, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Catsone offers a flexible workflow I can tailor to my client needs **What do you dislike about CATS?** The cost per user is not cheap, but I don't believe it is out of line with the value provided. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Work on your templates and your status workflow. It will take a little bit to find your perfect workflow and your message to your candidates. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I 1st found Catsone, I had 700 candidates clogging up my email. I was able to streamline and keep the candidates organized without building spreadsheets. ### 29. Innovative ATS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Innovative Platform that is very very user friendly and very sleek design and model **What do you dislike about CATS?** In order to complete some tasks, you would have to click several buttons which was a bit disadvantageous at times. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to manage a full cycle ATS with CATS ### 30. Cats ATS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karen M. | Owner, Restaurants, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2015 **What do you like best about CATS?** Very user friendly and intuitive. Keeps track of everything and has some nice Add-ons that make the process even smoother **What do you dislike about CATS?** sometimes it is slow and gets stuck. Also adds candidates to all jobs when forwarding resumes. If it is listed in the subject line. That tends to be an inconvenience **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Of course **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to add and delete users as needed Helps us to keep track of candidates and our interactions with them as well ### 31. Excellent tracking system! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Love the ability to customize the fields for my specific company **What do you dislike about CATS?** The negative about CATS is that the prices is high for small buiness - i **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** shop prices, I understnad there are other systems that add multiple users for less than the first user, prices tier down with each additional user- way expensive for small company **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits include following candidates through the entire process, search capabilites are great ### 32. Meets many of our HR needs in One place **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 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?** Ability to post jobs on multiple site from one location. Ability to put on HOLD when we are not posting jobs. Storing resumes on the cloud **What do you dislike about CATS?** As a small business owner the monthly cost can be daunting at times. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Best online HR source I've located. Provides features I have yet to tap into. Would highly recommend **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Meets our HR needs in one place. Saves space and time, no hard drive space to store resumes need at our local office. Saves cost to post on each job site. Saves time posting to each site. Can contact multiple potential employees, saves previous job posts. ### 33. 4th Year Using CATS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick M. | Director of Talent, Staffing and Recruiting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Simple, easy to use features. Scalable, cloud-based great desgin **What do you dislike about CATS?** Not too much. I do wish there was a mobile app. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking and communicating with our candidates ### 34. CATS ATS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I like the simple drag and drop functionality of the system. **What do you dislike about CATS?** The bulk email capability doesn't have good reporting or SPAM recognition - it could be developed further. I've resorted to using another system and having to export my data out of CATS to do so. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** update email system to resemble other email automation and marketing softwares **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** daily interaction with candidates, clients ### 35. CATS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Ease of use and configuration it seamlessly makes process workflows and the candidate. The service is outstanding and support is great! **What do you dislike about CATS?** reporting configuration is a bit clunky and lacks visualizations. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Cats simplifies the process and communicates directly to them through one system. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to rapidly scan review and upload candidates. ### 36. Its fine **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian P. | Chief Information Officer / CEO, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Link to linkedin sucks data accurately for candidates **What do you dislike about CATS?** Not able to search database on requirements. You can boolean but it is not smart enough to search on the keywords and aspects of a req. This is why we left. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** None we dropped it. ### 37. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dennis K. | Web Developer, Human Resources, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Straight forward app, efficient and easy way to track applicants. love its simplicity **What do you dislike about CATS?** I dislike the fact I cant preview the Pdf and doc attachments within the app **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** CATS is the best and ease to use app for ATS **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlining recruitment process ### 38. User Friendly ATS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** CATS is easy to learn, use, and customize **What do you dislike about CATS?** I wish some of the reporting was more robust **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a recruiting firm CATS is the heart of our operations. The benefits I see most is the ease of training new users. ### 39. 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! ### 40. Ability to track candidates through our interview process. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The cost and accessibility for small business. We are a search firm. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I have been using CATS for 4+ years and have no no dislikes at this time. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** We are a small executive search firm. CATS is cost effective for our company. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We now have an ATS to track our candidates, we only use Module 1. CATS is cost effective, easy to access and we get great customer support. ### 41. Best ATS I've used in years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The system is easy to use and maneuver through **What do you dislike about CATS?** There are some glitches and the fact that it doesn't always catch duplicates and parses in Anonymous resumes **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy work flow ### 42. Decent ATS but I'm sure there's better ones out there **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I like how you can customize fields and the UI is easy to read and use **What do you dislike about CATS?** Little to no reporting or data, there's some weird functionalities if you want to pull reports and download CSV of candidates and it's not very apparent and TONS of bugs and issues that will take a day or two to resolve. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing candidate data and tracking them through the process. ### 43. Director **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I believe it is easy to track candidates and put notes into the database. Its not to expensive for a small firm . I like you can post jobs and look at indeed. **What do you dislike about CATS?** I think there should be more training for us. I have never had any training from cats. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do recruitment for healthcare. ### 44. Very cost effective ATS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I love the cost and I truly enjoy the intuitiveness of the system. The customization is also pretty great. **What do you dislike about CATS?** It starts to get much more technical when you try to customize work flows and add in automatic responses to certain actions. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidated resume database, automatic web posting to job sites is fantastic! ### 45. CATS review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** I find it to be a very user friendly ATS and have been using it for 7 years **What do you dislike about CATS?** Nothing I can think of and it is a very easy to use reasonably priced product **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidation of resumes in one central place and candidate notes and statuses ### 46. Been a decent experience (so far), but don't have another ATS to compare (Cats only one ever had) **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** There is an ease of use with the system, posting jobs, etc. **What do you dislike about CATS?** Indeed candidate searches provided more info (contact info for free)~now it paid only. Assuming your license with them expired. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Job postings, and everything attache to our website. ### 47. Easy to use and fulfill our needs of a recruitment tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** Ease of use, plug in with Linkedin saves a lot of work **What do you dislike about CATS?** Should be easier to track emails between candidates and hiring managers **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving time, keeping track of the processes. ### 48. Good Experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about CATS?** The ability to have an ATS as well as a lead development system in one tool **What do you dislike about CATS?** Not enough customization / workflow options **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recruiting ### 49. 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. ### 50. Vice President of Operations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Warehousing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2017 **What do you like best about CATS?** CATS is a great tracking system to use very easy to use for first users of tracking system **What do you dislike about CATS?** I wish they had discounts to offer for any additional users. **Recommendations to others considering CATS:** Yes, starter system to use. **What problems is CATS solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A ## 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?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-27+14%3A39%3A52+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=72489b0e-afc2-4ff9-9f8b-a6f52b5a8931&secure%5Btoken%5D=c891d1157b80513e953f671c9f2c293aab478bf8a5edacd398705f12b2a5a1a6&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 - 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 (1,415 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)