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Catherine N.
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Senior Manager, People Operations
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What do you like best about Sapling?

Clean interface, easy to navigate, multifunctional for my team's profiles, time off, workflows and document management for my entire employee life cycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

Some integrations are limited and some features dont meet my needs such as notifications that only notify some parties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sapling 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sapling Overview

What is Sapling?

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.

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Product Description

Sapling enables companies to provide a simple, intuitive and consistent employee onboarding experience.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Sapling focuses on three main initiatives to support your HR needs: automation of workflows, deep integrations of your tools, and a better employee experience.

Sapling is able to do this better than any other solution, by focusing on customization to fit into your ideal processes. Unlike other providers which have limited flexibility in how you manage your daily workflows like onboarding and offboarding, Sapling’s configurability is perfect for high-growth, distributed, and global workforces.


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Year Founded
2000
HQ Location
Bristol, GB
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@Kallidus
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213 employees on LinkedIn®

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1.0 out of 5
"Think twice"
It's great if you like doing things their way.
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rosie b.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Using sapling in a L&D team"
its easy for us to run reports and set tasks that our employees need to do. Also its very easy to use
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Marian K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Very easy and convenient for HR work, tracking employees and PTOs."
Clear overview of the company and employees.
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Sapling Demo - Employee Profiles
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Create repeatable processes to add new hires in minutes.
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What do you like best about Sapling?

its easy for us to run reports and set tasks that our employees need to do. Also its very easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

Often have issues with it being slow and data not migrating to kallidus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sapling 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marian K.
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What do you like best about Sapling?

Clear overview of the company and employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

There really is not any, it's a great tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sapling 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sapling?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sapling 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adrienne B.
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What do you like best about Sapling?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sapling 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ciara Slattery of Sapling

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

Agata Z.
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Vice President, People & Culture
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What do you like best about Sapling?

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Please make LEAVES! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sapling 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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ciara Slattery of Sapling

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

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Christina L.
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What do you like best about Sapling?

Automated tasks, re-assigning tasks, reporting, sequencing tasks, customized fields and forms on employees' profiles make it an easy tool to use for onboarding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sapling 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sapling?

Makes onboarding simple and avoids missing steps, send reminders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sapling 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andie C.
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What do you like best about Sapling?

Sapling is very easy to use and configure. It makes repeatable events easy, consistent, and alleviates having to track sequential and spaced-out tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sapling solving and how is that benefiting you?

simplifying and automating admin

improving the employee experience with consistent experiences Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ciara Slattery of Sapling

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

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What do you like best about Sapling?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sapling 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jacki L.
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What do you like best about Sapling?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sapling 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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ciara Slattery of Sapling

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