PurelyHR Reviews & Product Details

PurelyHR is powerful modular HR software for small to medium-sized businesses. Since 2010, we've helped thousands of companies worldwide save hours a week on everyday HR tasks like leave management, employee file management and onboarding, time tracking, performance management, infraction tracking, and certification management. Choose the modules you need and the number of users for an HRIS that fits your business needs and budget. Get started today with a free 21-day trial (www.purelyhr.com/trial) or a live demo.

Seller

SherWeb

Discussions

PurelyHR Community

Languages Supported

English, French

Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

Maude Tanguay

Pricing

Pricing provided by PurelyHR.

Time-Off

Starting at $25

/Month

Staff (Core HRIS)

Starting at $5

/Month

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User Insights

Average based on 287 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

1 month

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

PurelyHR Reviews FAQs

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Last updated: Nov 04, 2026

What is PurelyHR, and what problem is it built to solve?

PurelyHR is used to bring everyday HR administration into one place, particularly time-off requests, leave balances, approvals, and staff availability. It helps replace manual spreadsheets, paper forms, and email-based leave tracking with a shared system.

What languages does PurelyHR support?

PurelyHR supports 2 languages: English and French.

What company sizes and industries is PurelyHR the best fit for?

PurelyHR appears best suited to small and mid-sized organizations, with positive experiences especially visible among teams in nonprofit, education, and administrative settings.

Small business: Organizations with 50 or fewer employees.
Mid-market: Organizations with 51–1,000 employees.
Nonprofit organizations: A prominent industry group among positive experiences.
Education: Including education management and higher education.
Other recurring industries: Marketing and advertising, information technology, construction, and healthcare.

How long does it take to implement PurelyHR across a team?

Implementation is most often reported as taking less than a month, though setup can vary with the complexity of an organization’s policies and configuration needs.

Time to go live	Relative frequency
Less than 1 month	Most commonly reported
Less than 1 day	Also reported
1–3 months	Also reported

What customer support options does PurelyHR provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

PurelyHR provides support through chat, email/help desk, and phone support. The support experience is often described as responsive and helpful, particularly when teams need guidance during setup or troubleshooting, though help resolving issues can vary.

What features or capabilities could make PurelyHR even more useful?

PurelyHR could be more useful with improvements that reduce manual work and make day-to-day tasks easier to navigate.

More customizable and easier-to-use reporting for reviewing balances and team-wide data.
A clearer, more flexible calendar and dashboard experience, including improved mobile usability.
Broader integrations with other workplace and HR systems to reduce manual data handling.
More flexible time-off workflows for requests involving partial days, nonconsecutive dates, and policy variations.

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Tytus S.

Student Account Processor

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/16/2022

"Convenient"

5/5

What do you like best about PurelyHR?

Seeing how much time is available now and by the end of the year is so helpful. Then being able to see the calendar of who is taking off so you can plan around that helps to ensure there are no discrepancies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

As of yet, I haven't experienced anything negative for me to post about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vivek K.

General Manager - Social, PR and Experiences

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/15/2022

"Makes work easier!"

5/5

What do you like best about PurelyHR?

Purely HR helps me manage not just mine but the annual leaves of my entire team and also helps me track my sick days and leave balance. It is a very helpful tool in my everyday work and keeps everyone up to date on the days when our colleagues will not be around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

Does not have an external application for desktop or mobile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Itay V.

Small Business Advisor

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/14/2022

"Purely HR Review"

5/5

What do you like best about PurelyHR?

The ability to know when my peers are off or in other words, when to not ask for time off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

Nothing I can think of. Working with Purely HR is different than other HR software I worked with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kaleigh B.

Digital Marketing Specialist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/15/2022

"Great system to request time off"

5/5

What do you like best about PurelyHR?

I like that I can see everyone else in my company's time off in one place. I also like that holidays are listed on the calendar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

I can't think of any downsides to PurelyHR. I've been happy with my experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Edinson A.

Regional gbMSM Health Promotion & Risk Reduction Worker

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/10/2022

"PurelyHR is a Great Tool"

5/5

What do you like best about PurelyHR?

It's easy to use, and it's excellent to keep time offs and banked times up to date and accessible for everyone Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

I don't have any 'dislike" to add here. All is working great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Haley H.

Director of Shows and Events

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/10/2022

"Easy to use and great at keeping track!"

5/5

What do you like best about PurelyHR?

Purely HR is very user friendly and the many options make it suitable for employers of all sizes. We enjoy being able at a quick glance who has already requested time off and how many hours you have left of both sick and/or vacation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

I have not found any downsides yet. Super easy to use! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 11/10/2022

"Good Platform!"

3.5/5

What do you like best about PurelyHR?

PurelyHR provides a variety of customizable time-off request types, detailed time-off summaries, and staff notification options. Compared to the previous method of leave request tracking, PurelyHR streamlines the process and automates various tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

Utilizing all the banked time-off entitlements is difficult as PurelyHR only allows you to enter partial day entries in 15 min increments. For example, you cannot enter 9:18 as a time-off start time; you can only enter 9:00, 9:15, 9:30, or 9:45. By the end of the entitlement year, some of the banked time off would be unusable. For example, if you have 7.8 hours of banked time off, 7.5 hours can be requested; however, the 0.3 hours can not be utilized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sherree M.

Controller

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/15/2022

"Purely HR is a great affordable and Attendance Tool"

2.5/5

What do you like best about PurelyHR?

User-friendly application. Reasonably robust and provides most features required and a few extras. Information such as staff lists, including compensation, depts and addresses, can be pulled into excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

A few areas are a bit confusing such as carry forward days. Sometimes it doesn't apply current vacation days taken to the oldest available days. I like using my phone for the site, although not all features seem available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Campbell of PurelyHR

Hi Sherree,

Thanks for taking the time to leave a review! We'd love to hear more feedback about the carry forward days- send a quick message to our support team (support@purelyhr.com) and we can get more information. As for mobile, we're working on something great- stay tuned:)

The PurelyHR team

Taylor K.

Sr RevOps Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/10/2022

"User friendly, great visibility"

2.5/5

What do you like best about PurelyHR?

The platform is incredibly user-friendly, and allows great, easy visibility into when team members are going to be out. Also the Google Calendar integration is super helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

Predicting the hours I have available to use before the end of the year isn't always very straightforward Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Construction

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/10/2022

"Purely HR is a good platform for requesting, tracking and viewing time-off schedules of employees."

4/5

What do you like best about PurelyHR?

Having instant visibility of the whole team's vacation schedule is a useful advantage of the Purely HR system. Also, reviewing your own allotted days off, what you've already used, and what is remaining is also very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

For what I've used Purely HR for, there are no discernable downsides. It would be nice to have google calendar integrations though, and this may be something it already does, I'm just not aware of it if that's the case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.