# Kallidus Reviews **Vendor:** Kallidus Ltd **Category:** [Core HR Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/core-hr) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 390 ## About Kallidus Sapling is now part of Kallidus Group, a full-suite Human Capital Management software and digital learning provider, offering businesses solutions across the entire employee lifecycle. As a Kallidus product, Sapling’s capabilities in onboarding, offboarding, core HR, and people operations are further elevated by Kallidus’ expertise in learning, performance, talent management, and learning content. Sapling automates your people workflows - from onboarding to offboarding and everything in between - by connecting your people data across your existing systems. Kallidus’ suite of HR and L&D software supports the entire employee lifecycle. Kallidus serves companies such as JYSK, Nestle, McDonalds, and Aston Martin, and currently has over 2 million users worldwide. ## Kallidus Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Kallidus to have a **smooth and intuitive onboarding experience** , enhancing productivity for new hires. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy onboarding process** of Kallidus, which facilitates quick acclimatization for new employees. (2 reviews) - Users find the **smooth onboarding workflow** of Kallidus intuitive and engaging, enhancing their initial experience significantly. (2 reviews) - Users find the **onboarding workflow simple and intuitive** , making it an excellent tool for new hires. (2 reviews) - Users find **Easy Management** of Kallidus invaluable for efficient onboarding, especially in hybrid and remote work situations. (1 reviews) - Users find Sapling **incredibly helpful** for quick onboarding and organization, especially in remote and hybrid work environments. (1 reviews) - Intuitive (1 reviews) - Intuitive Platform (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **chat widget intrusive** , taking up space and causing visual confusion on profile pages. (1 reviews) - Users find the **lack of chat features** limits effective communication and can hinder interaction within Kallidus. (1 reviews) - Users often face **navigation difficulties** , leading to missed notifications and challenges in locating documents. (1 reviews) - Users find the **poor design** of Kallidus causes visual confusion and intrusive elements, hampering overall usability. (1 reviews) - Users find Kallidus has **poor navigation** , leading to confusion with greyed-out sections and intrusive chat widgets. (1 reviews) - Profile Issues (1 reviews) ## Kallidus Reviews ### 1. Smooth, Intuitive Onboarding/offboarding with a Standout Timeline Feature **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad Tauseeq T. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2026 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling provides a smooth and well structured onboarding workflow. The steps are clear, intuitive, and easy to follow with minimal confusion. I especially like the timeline feature that highlights the company’s history it adds a thoughtful and engaging touch to the overall experience. It clearly manage the time off and Org chart **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** rofile pages could also be enhanced by allowing direct clickable links to LinkedIn or other platforms instead of requiring copy/paste. The greyed-out sections create some visual confusion. Additionally, the Intercom chat widget feels slightly intrusive, as it occupies significant space and doesn’t minimize easily. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling streamlines and standardizes the onboarding/offboarding process, ensuring consistency for both interns and full-time employees. It creates a structured and professional introduction to the company, reducing uncertainty and making the transition smoother. As a new joiner, this clarity and organization are highly valuable. Task assignment and clear direction what to do and who will do ### 2. An excellent tool for HR management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard S. | UX and Interaction Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling is easy to use and is really helpful when first joining an organisation (especially when remote working). It helps get onboarded quickly. As a hybrid worker I found it invaluable. It notifies me when I have documents to sign or new contracts. I have used it a lot in the current job. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Sometimes notifications can be missed. Sometimes documents are hard to find. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling allows us to onboard people more easily to the organisation giving checklist to get people set up. Thorughout work it allows documents to be distributed to the right person and the write time and see their interaction. ### 3. Using sapling in a L&D team **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** rosie b. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** its easy for us to run reports and set tasks that our employees need to do. Also its very easy to use **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Often have issues with it being slow and data not migrating to kallidus **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** being able to keep all of our employee details on one system which is accessible to a number of people. As well as being able to manipulate that data ### 4. Very easy and convenient for HR work, tracking employees and PTOs. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marian K. | BDR, Information Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Clear overview of the company and employees. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** There really is not any, it's a great tool. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it both for core HR and onboarding services. It helps the process be smooth and convenient for both parties - employee and employer. ### 5. A great tool for onboarding new employees **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling does a great job of getting new employees up to speed, ensures compliance in following all key set-up steps , and helps remind them to do all necessary steps. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Its was honestly really great. Some steps were unnecessary, and sometimes reminders came before steps could even be completed, but I think that had more to do with our specific implementation. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ensuring consistency and a high standard of the onboarding process. Employess can mange the process of getting set-up and Sapling helps manage the challenges of communications to both work and personal email addresses. ### 6. Flexible tool that helps drive effectient HR info management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adrienne B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I appreciate the flexibility of the system to set up the fields and workflows I need to run HR processes and also keep track of and report on HR data. While the differentiation from competitors isn't extreme, I do think saplings flexibility with adding fields and seting up workflows is a huge benefit. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The navigation on the back end isn't always the most user friendly. Sometimes I have to click through a few different fields to get to what I want. Also, while they have api's available and you can easily set up API keys- I know from one system in particular (knoetic) that they aren't always open and willing to work with that system to send the data in useable ways. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling is our core HRIS and our onboarding and offboarding workflow tool. It helps us autmate much of our Hr processes and is an easy to use platform for employees for HRIS type tasks- time off, org chart, promotions, etc. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Adrienne, Thanks for your comment on Sapling’s flexibility with fields and workflows. We’re glad Sapling is helping to automate some of your work and make your team more efficient. Regarding your comment on the navigation, did you know that Sapling is in the final stages of a fully revamped UI? With beta testing wrapped and last-minute tweaks tweaked, we will start rolling out the new Sapling to everyone over the next few weeks. Our new UI will feature consolidated Navigation with streamlined Dashboards and Tasks to make it easier than ever to get everything done, new and improved Smart Assignment to make onboarding even faster and easier, and a totally new look to make sure the new Sapling is accessible for all with WCAG 2.0 AA certification. We hope your team are as excited about this as we are! Thanks, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 7. I think its the BEST HR system that exists of the new age **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Agata Z. | Vice President, People & Culture, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I was able to implement this pretty much on my own over the course of a few days. We didn't have any other system to transition from. In general, the training with the team was bang on and informative. BEST THING... embedded videos ya'll. I like the simple UI. Integrates easy with Google. What I think most HR systems miss, is that they are build with the HR person as the user, but here is the thing. EMPLOYEES who can do more, will reduce the impact on HR, which is really solving the problem. The employee experience is incredible, we have all employees participating on all main purposes with no laggards, and that's saying something! **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The time off part was a bit more trickier than I would have liked, but the UI is great. Missing functionality is putting people on "leave" with appropriate workflows from there. I'm sure it's coming through. Wish they had an LMS part of the platform or some Performance stuff, issue with the performance stuff is the out of the box stuff available, rarely fits a company and is hard to develop. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** Please make LEAVES! **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its our source of truth for all employee related things. Employee and Manager self serve has been great with vacation time, sick time, and just general "info" people need about our employees. What I think most HR systems miss, is that they are build with the HR person as the user, but here is the thing. EMPLOYEES who can do more, will reduce the impact on HR, which is really solving the problem. The employee experience is incredible, we have all employees participating on all main purposes with no laggards, and that's saying something! **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Agata, Thank you so much for such a positive 5 star review. I’ve shared your feedback with our internal teams and they are delighted that implementing Sapling was so seamless for you. We’re glad you found our team so informative and helpful to work with. It’s so great for us to learn that you now have an incredible employee experience running which is reducing the workload on the HR team. Thanks for your input on the time off feature. We’re continuously improving our product so look for updates to the time off feature in the new year. Good news! Since we joined forces with our parent company, Kallidus, we’ve created integrations between Sapling for onboarding, Learn for an LMS and Perform for performance management. I’ll share a link below to our new website. Thanks again for your review, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 8. Streamlines our onboarding but difficult to manage when you scale **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christina L. | Operations Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Automated tasks, re-assigning tasks, reporting, sequencing tasks, customized fields and forms on employees' profiles make it an easy tool to use for onboarding. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** There are some things that could definitely be made better. With the workflows, there is no way to easily compare tasks across workflows or delete or assign the same task from/to multiple workflows. We have a lot of workflows set up, and it's difficult to manage. Also, it would be so user friendly if when you're on an employee profile, when you scroll down, it keeps the name and information at the top. I often am looking at an employees profile and, now that we're a few hundred, have to scroll all the way back up to see whose profile I'm on - very annoying. Finally, there are issues in pulling reports - I ask it to pull ALL the individuals in Sapling, and some people don't get pulled even though they're in Sapling. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were onboarding using gsheets previously which was super tedious and not fit for our growing needs. We have become more efficient in onboarding people, and I think employees appreciate it. We also can keep track of how far a new hire is in the onboarding process and have a record of whether a step was done or not. ### 9. Finally found a tool to manage my global workforce **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Catherine N. | Senior Manager, People Operations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Clean interface, easy to navigate, multifunctional for my team's profiles, time off, workflows and document management for my entire employee life cycle. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Some integrations are limited and some features dont meet my needs such as notifications that only notify some parties. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlined onboarding experience for my global team in EU, India and the US. It allows me to manage our headcount at any time and have a good snapshot on our activities throughout the company ### 10. Daily user **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steve T. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Makes onboarding simple and avoids missing steps, send reminders. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** It can be a little clunky at times, signing documents, profile editing are the things staff have issues with mostly. We require a system that does not rely on good internet signal. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** It ensures consistency, avoids emailing certificates and contracts, provides an audit trail. Allows me to issue forms to entire team in one simple step. ### 11. Great onboarding and continuously improving **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andie C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling is very easy to use and configure. It makes repeatable events easy, consistent, and alleviates having to track sequential and spaced-out tasks **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Lots of opportunities to improve features, so the public submission board is helpful. We've run into some API integration challenges with other tech providers. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** simplifying and automating admin improving the employee experience with consistent experiences **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Andie, We’re glad Sapling has been easy to configure at your org, and that our onboarding platform is improving the employee experience while also saving your HR team valuable admin time. We’re constantly reviewing product feedback submissions and appreciate all the suggestions that get sent our way. Thank you so much for leaving us this five star review! Ciara Slattery, Marketing Manager ### 12. Sapling review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling had an appealing and mostly intuitive user interface. The integration with Greenhouse was very helpful when it came to moving candidates into the onboarding stage. I also like the customizable workflows for new hires and offboarding. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Sapling has some limited functionalities that we've been able to solve by moving our onboarding over to Paylocity instead. I also found some issues in creating the customized workflows like setting the relative dates and not being able to assign the same customized task to multiple people. Sapling also doesn't have an EDI feed available to directly transfer benefits enrollments and changes to our carriers. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling has been helping us with our onboarding and offboarding processes. By assigning tasks to all individuals involved in the processes it's an easy way to know who needs to do what for each change in the employee lifecycle. ### 13. Onboarding and employee data management that's easy to use! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacki L. | Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** My favorite thing about Sapling is its integration into our systems to keep HR informed. I know our data is correct because we can quickly onboard and onboard people with Sapling. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** So far, there's nothing I don't like about Sapling. My company doesn't use the full capabilities, so if I'd change something, it would be that, but that's on us to do. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling solves our problem of needing multiple systems to track employees. With Sapling, we can onboard employees (integrated with our ATS), assign them tasks, assign tasks to others who are part of onboarding, and even see our org chart! **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Jacki, Thanks very much for leaving Sapling a five star review! We’re glad your team enjoys Sapling's integrations and that you are onboarding and offboarding with such ease. Have a great day, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 14. User Friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David A. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I am an admin on a few platforms and we use the platform to onboard and offboard employees across those platforms. Sapling is user friendly and intuitive to you. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I get notifications every day if I have not completed a task **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Throught the platform we in Finance and HR on the same page. ### 15. Sapling has overall been great for onboarding! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Clara M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling tasks! This is a great feature and I like that they are sorted by due dates. I also like the autofill features when creating a sapling profile. It has saved time. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Documents! This is what seems to glitch the most. Limitations around documents - not being able to adjust a co-signer, ect. I also wish it integrated with Greenhouse. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** A full onboarding platform and creating a positive onboarding experience for new hires. It helps to have everything in one place and saves time sending out communications and asking for info. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Clara, Thank you for taking the time to write us a review. We’re glad to hear that Sapling tasks and Sapling profiles are helping your team to stay organized. For your comment on a Greenhouse integration, we do offer this integration and we would be happy to chat to you about setting this up. Please email us at help@kallidus.com Have a great day, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 16. Sapling for Distributed Team **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Caroline H. | Operations Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The ability to create templates and saved workflows for on/offboarding team members on different teams. Our team became permanently distributed during the pandemic and this tool has made it so much easier for each stakeholder in this process to clearly understand what is happening from a hiring perspective, and what tasks they're responsible for. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I would really love the ability to chat/communicate within the tool. We still find ourselves taking some of the back and forth outside of Sapling and then returning to the tool to complete. Would love to be able to do it all in Sapling. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a distributed team and a busy on/offboarding calendar, Sapling has infinitely improved communication within all talent stakeholders. We all now know who is joining/leaving, when, on which team, with which manager, etc. This has been a game-changer for us! ### 17. Good Software lots of configuration required **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mia M. | human resources, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** It creates a great process for new hires and automates things for the team **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** the amount of time it takes to get things up and running is intensive, comapny branding flexibility is very low **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** automating our onboarding process, making it a better experience for our team ### 18. A comprehensive Onboarding Tool with a helpful personable team **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Caleb B. | Technical Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling offers many different modes to allow new employees to quickly get a read on what to expect in terms of company culture and in order to get to know their team quickly! There are also a lot of integration options including TriNet and Lever which i don't see integrations for very often! **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Sapling can sometimes feel a bit clunky and if not used correctly leads to employees feeling as though it's just another thing in their inbox to read. Make sure that company wide you instill value in Sapling to begin. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling helps me to effectively and efficiently automate the process of welcoming new team members in a personal matter without having to stir up new emails every time. It is also a source of truth for vital company information. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Caleb, We’re delighted Sapling is helping you be more efficient and effective in welcoming new team members. It’s always nice to hear that our platform is helping your new employees get to know their colleagues better and understand more about your the company culture right from the start. You're right, we do have lots of integration options, and we're continuing to add more in the coming months! Thanks again for your review, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 19. A good global HR IS - Great win for Regional Use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Employee details, workflow, and overall setting also great. It mainly gives us opportunities to set up standardise processes that can be implemented through the workflows. It helps us have a very comprehensive data management. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I wish to have more customisation on the exit survey questions. Also, fewer bugs, if possible. There are times that I will get forced close while doing the work. Most importantly, i would love to get Sapling can be integrated to more systems, so if the API integration can be used more often, that'd be ideal. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Save so much time on onboarding / offboarding. Employee data management for a quick health check. Standardizing workflow and process and can be customized for covering more region with specific task to complete **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi there, Thank you for taking the time to write us a review. I’m glad to hear that Sapling has helped your company save so much time onboarding and offboarding as well as standardizing HR processes for specific regions that you operate in. We don't currently have any limits on the number of times you can call our API so you should not be experiencing any issues with this. If you are we'd be happy to look into this, please email us at support@trysapling.com. Currently Sapling has over 45 different integration partners and we’re continuing to add more. You can see a full list of all our integration partners on this link. Thanks again for your review, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 20. Sapling user **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amanda S. | Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I do like the ease of use and the information you can grab! **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Though I appreciate the integrations, some integrations don't feel it flows over well. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** onboarding tasks, org chart, time off request ### 21. Sapling has been our one stop hub for onboarding! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael B. | Senior Director of People, Talent, and Culture, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The ease of customization within the sapling platform has been our number one favorite thing! We're able to survey our staff, ensure that we have emergency contacts and support our onboarding process all in once space! **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Very little, honestly! The fact that we (on our end) haven't loaded all of our full experience into the platform is it. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ensuring that our staff is all onboarded in an equitable way **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Michael, Thank you for this glowing five star review! We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts on Sapling. Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 22. It really helps me feel connected in a remote word setting! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ermaline O. | Leadership Operations Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I like how I can view the org chart in real time, and adjust who I see. I also love how the time off is integreted there, as well as a mini hub of information for my benefits etc. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Nothing really? It all seems great since it is there as an asset and alternative to things we used before. It combines so many things into one. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Ermaline, Thank you for this five star review! We appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback on Sapling. Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 23. Very user friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stacey P. | Office Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Quick and easy access to company and employee info. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** UI needs A LOT of work. Would also like access to DOB (with no birth year) and reporting capabilities. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee info database **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Stacey, Thank you for taking the time to write us a review. I’m happy to share that Sapling is in the final stages of rolling out a fully revamped UI. With beta testing wrapped and last-minute tweaks tweaked, we will start rolling out the new Sapling to everyone over the next few weeks. Our new UI will feature consolidated Navigation with streamlined Dashboards and Tasks to make it easier than ever to get everything done, new and improved Smart Assignment to make onboarding even faster and easier, and a totally new look to make sure the new Sapling is accessible for all with WCAG 2.0 AA certification. This update is coming very soon and we hope your team will be excited by the improvements we’ve made! Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 24. Good platform, still missing some features I would love to see. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justicia L. | Senior Technical Talent Acquisition Partner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** How quickly I can navigate across the platform. It has been easy to find quick information that I need on my employees. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I can't customize the org chart to highlight teams by departments, its all just a tree. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to solve the challenges of onboarding and PTO tracking, however adoption has been small since the name changed. ### 25. Great platform! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I love how everything is so easy to see. You can present your company in a great light from pre-boarding to have task reminders for new hires and management. It is a great support system for sure! **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Sometimes it runs slow, or I have to refresh my screen to be able to search for specific team members. Due to having a lot to do in my position quick and efficient speed is crucial to grab what I need and more on to the next. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am not aware of them solving any problems? All good here. ### 26. Great user experience and intuitive navigation. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andres G. | Customer Success Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I really like the way the navigation throughout the app is done. It's very intuitive and creating new requirements and workflows is very easy. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The fact that there is no way to pin the app in google chrome for quick tasks. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** organization overview, profiles review and the way you can submit absences. ### 27. Time saver! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joyce Y. | HR Business Partner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Automations. The ability to schedule emails and tasks for new hires. Being able to set up feeds between our systems (lever and adp) **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I wish there was a better way customize access levels beyond what is already offered. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling saves time. We don't have to manually track new hires onboarding tasks. ### 28. Does what it should **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Manage my team in Sapling. It does what I need it to do. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Not intuitive. Would be nicer if things were more clear without having to hunt for the info. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeps track of my staff all in one place. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Sarah, It’s great to hear that Sapling is helping your team to track all the important HR data in one location. However we never want you to have to hunt for info or be unclear on where to find it. Did you know that Sapling is in the final stages of a fully revamped UI? With beta testing wrapped and last-minute tweaks tweaked, we will start rolling out the new Sapling to everyone over the next few weeks. Our new UI will feature consolidated Navigation with streamlined Dashboards and Tasks to make it easier than ever to get everything done, new and improved Smart Assignment to make onboarding even faster and easier, and a totally new look to make sure the new Sapling is accessible for all with WCAG 2.0 AA certification. We’re very excited about this and we hope your team will be too. Thanks again for the feedback., Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 29. Think twice **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** It's great if you like doing things their way. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Lack of customization. No flexibility from a development perspective. Their way or the highway. When submitting customer servic questions, be prepared to hear no. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Their organizational chart is pretty. ### 30. Sapling creates a great experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** JB B. | Director, People Experience, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Workflows and automated tasks make sapling a breeze to use both as an admin and an employee **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I have no concerns with sapling at all. It's a fantastic tool **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Onboarding has become much more manageable with sapling as has document storage **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi JB, Thank you for this glowing five star review! Our team really appreciates you taking the time to share your thoughts on Sapling. Have a great day, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 31. Good tool for managing employees **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthias H. | Head of Marketing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The ease of use, the available integrations, easy to organize teams etc. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Expensive, already feels outdated, lacks more modern ways to engage with employees (especially remote). **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organising HR workflows and processes (such as onboarding, offboarding etc) ### 32. Sapling works great and their team is always very helpful. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I like that Sapling is user-friendly and integrates with our HRIS. In addition, I really like the org chart view. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Lately, there have been a few things not working properly, such as workflows or email templates not being assigned correctly. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling makes it easy for us to onboard new hires and for them to complete their paperwork. In addition, creating future dated tasks save us time from manually having to track dates, etc. ### 33. Incredible system for HR! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alan C. | People Operations Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** That is very simple to use and everything loads very quickly. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The document area could be more organized. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it mainly to get employee's personal info and it saves me a lot of time. ### 34. Major time savor and wonderful onboarding experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Textiles | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** You can customize almost anything with Sapling, which makes creating workflows a breeze. We have so many different types of teams and roles, which ultimately made onboarding a real challenge...until Sapling. Sapling has allowed us to launch very specific or comprehensive workflows depending on the needs of those individuals / teams. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Limitations on integrations // functionality..It would be a total game changer if performance reviews and engagement surveys could be integrated via this onboarding tool. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration between Sapling and 15Five. Right now, we're still manually onboarding folks to 15Five so with Saplings help, this will become a hands-off process shortly. ### 35. Fantastic HRIS and people ops SaaS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Integration with okta for seemless account creation and user atributes sync **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I with api auth options were better. Bear token expires, oauth would have been better Also, I wish tasks could trigger integration calls. For ex jira ticket opening, slack notification etc **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling is fantastic HRIS first and formost. We also use it for peopleops like on-boarding and off boarding tasks ### 36. Indifferent, created work **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Textiles | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I like the profile aspect of it, it allows you to express yourself and show your colleagues a different side of you. It's also cool to explore other people's pages. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The connection to ADP does not work and causes a lot of confusion. My time off and vacation balances do not match at all, and the requests sent in Sapling do not sync. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows you to learn about co-workers in a more casual way. It also is a nice, clean platform to use. If set up properly, it would allow me to easily track my time off. ### 37. Great onboarding product - Not so great HRIS **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling has a very flexible customizable workflow that allows HR teams to set up onboarding workflows based on location, department & status. This is super helpful in working with geographically dispersed teams. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The HRIS capability is overstated. There is no formal compensation structure aspect. The integrations are limited and many things that are essential to running HR are on the roadmap, but not yet implemented. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prior to Sapling implementation, we were operating on GoogleSheets for our HR database. Sapling provides us with a full global view of our team & allows us to grab business intelligence on our workforce quickly. ### 38. Overall Positive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Absolutely the customizable workflows for onboarding and offboarding. Can handle different employee classes and situations, really makes things easier. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The fact that simple addons like a company tree cost extra $ per month. Esp when features like this are free with other platforms. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making normally complicated and disparate programs like onboarding and offboarding simpler and centralized. ### 39. Personalized onboarding! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I love the ability to add in questions that are important to us as a company - and how it elevates the new hire experience. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Some of the locations of things such as email templates are a bit clunky/confusing **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating a personable and automated onboarding experience ### 40. Sapling **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** It has a good overview and it's easy to edit fields. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** It has too many bugs and it logs you out superfast. It's not always easy to search for people. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing useful reports about over newcomers and also useful info that we need to onboard them ### 41. Sapling has improved our preboarding/onboarding experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben R. | Program Manager, Learning Experience, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Being able to fire off tasks based on pre-created workflows has saved us so much manual work and automated so much of our onboarding experience. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** There is often times a lack of new functionality. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instead of manually keeping track of preboarding/onboarding tasks, we're able to automate them through Sapling. ### 42. Sapling Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** That you can find anyone in the company and see who they report to, as well as the organizational structure of the company. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** There's isn't much I disklike, overall I think it's a good product. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** None **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm not sure what problems we are solving, I mentioned the benefits above. ### 43. A tool to onboard your users faster **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The user interface is very intuitive. They give a lot of focus on UX, and they take feedback on this. I like their customer success team. They are very responsive and help us troubleshoot any roadblocks. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** It takes a lot of time to implement new features. I have requested a few of them, and they have not been implemented yet. They follow an internal sprint process to prioritize these feature requests. However, this is something they could work better. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** Sapling is a good tool for small to medium size company. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Sapling for onboarding our newcomers and assigning tasks to different team members (like the manager, peer, or IT). We have also integrated Sapling into our HRIS and can pass information back and forth without any issues. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi there! We’re glad you’re enjoying Sapling’s intuitive interface and our responsive Customer Support team. We’re continually working through requests and rolling out new product features on a regular basis. We added three new full time Product team members in the last three weeks to help us work more efficiently and continue to meet the growing needs of our customers. We look forward to releasing more new features in the coming months. Stay tuned! Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 44. HR Generalist Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling is a nice all-in-one tool for HRIS. I use it mainly to track PTO requests, pull reports and maintain accurate HRIS information in all of our FT and contractors. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** One thing I do dislike about sapling is the documentation setup. I do wish I could see historical copies of documents (new hire files/etc.) **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of use is a problem they are solving. Making sure anyone is able to access HR information while also keeping sensitive information hidden/available to HR personnel. ### 45. The platform is intuitive and looks futuristic as compared to traditional HRIS software. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The onboarding and offboarding workflows which I'm able to customise. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The 'time off' function has its limitations. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling enables me a HR professional to do my work more efficiently with the creation of workflows and ease of extracting reports. ### 46. Great tool during Covid that is now part of our tech stack **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dustin L. | V, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** My favorite part about Sapling is how easy it has made remote onboarding for us. It has allowed us to streamline our process and automate things that would have normally taken many more hours **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Integrations are a little tricky. They haven't been seamless but they work for the most part. A greater focus on integrating with other HR platforms would really take Sapling to the next level. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remote onboarding, workflows/automation and assigning tasks to leaders for all sorts of different tech setups and initiation **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Dustin! Thanks so much for taking the time to write this review. We’re glad Sapling has become part of your current tech stack. It’s always nice to hear that our platform is improving onboarding by streamlining processes, automating tasks and saving time. Thanks for your note about our integrations. We are continually adding new integration partners and working on improving existing integration processes. You can check our current integration partners at any time on the page I’m linking to here. Thanks again for your review, Ciara Slattery, Marketing Manager ### 47. 6 months in and still the issues flow (and with little help from Sapling) **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marcus W. | Chief People and Culture Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The automated workflows are great, that's about it sadly **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The leave policies are unfriendly to Australian employers, the xero integration is problematic and when issues are raised the support received has been at best, appalling. Do not recommend **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** Don't **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sadly, we had high hopes for the system. Due to ongoing issues, delays and inadequate support by our implementation specialist (and now his team leader) we're seriously considering moving to a different system. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Marcus, We are sorry to hear that Sapling is not meeting your expectations at this time and we appreciate you taking the time to leave your feedback. We will be making enhancements to our Time Off add-on over the second half of this year to specifically better support policies and absence management practices in the UK, Australia, and other regions outside North America. Our Service Delivery team will continue to work with you to resolve any outstanding issues you are facing with the Xero integration as your partnership is important to us. Thanks, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 48. Great tool for HCM **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Overview of tasks that need my attention **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Doesn't always integrate with other systems like WFN **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** All my action items in one place ### 49. Sapling Review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling is easy to use and rather intiuitive. It has features that helps with automation and a standard reporting dashboard. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** It is not as stable and reilable. there are times where my data goes missing or information misreported in the the downloads. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling helps with giving us an organizational chart, a central database for all employees and providing a space for us to link any external platform or information. ### 50. 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