# Kallidus Reviews **Vendor:** Kallidus Ltd **Category:** [Core HR Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/core-hr) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 391 ## 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 appreciate the **ease of use** of Kallidus, enjoying clear, intuitive workflows that enhance their onboarding experience. (2 reviews) - Users value the **easy onboarding process** of Kallidus, appreciating its intuitive workflow and helpful features. (2 reviews) - Users find the **onboarding workflow efficient and intuitive** , enhancing the experience of starting a new job. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **smooth and structured onboarding workflow** of Kallidus, making the experience clear and efficient. (2 reviews) - Users find the **easy management** of Kallidus invaluable for quick onboarding and staying updated with tasks. (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 **Intercom chat widget intrusive** , occupying too much space and being difficult to minimize. (1 reviews) - Users feel the **lack of chat features** in Kallidus makes communication less efficient and somewhat intrusive. (1 reviews) - Users struggle with **navigation difficulty** , often missing notifications and having trouble locating documents efficiently. (1 reviews) - Users find the **poor design** of Kallidus cluttered and confusing, affecting usability and visual clarity. (1 reviews) - Users find **poor navigation** frustrating, with confusing sections and intrusive chat widgets hindering their overall experience. (1 reviews) - Profile Issues (1 reviews) ## Kallidus Reviews ### 1. Stable, useful and easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis Alfonso V. | IT Helpdesk Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** simple solutions and intuitive interface **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** didn´t find something that particularly found annoying **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** i use a lot of information on my colleagues profiles ### 2. Easy to use! Good overall tool for onboarding needs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Clean look and organized. Very helpful representation - Nick Preston. Great tool for onboarding and making sure all employees get the same experience and tasks completed. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** In Workflows, when you refresh the page or add a task it loses place and you have to start over. Can we also have 20 tasks (not 10) as a permanent placeholder? Sometimes hard to find something as grayed out words don't look as though it would be an option. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running reports and making sure all new hires sign onboarding documents. Without Sapling the Operations Team would be very hard to onboard as getting to be a larger company. ### 3. Payroll/ Benefit & HRIS Analyst **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling allows us to stay integrated with our recruiting system Greenhouse **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Sapling does not integrate with JustWorks, our PEO **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling is going to integrate with UKG our new HRIS system for 2023 ### 4. Really great way to create checklists for multiple people who touch onboarding! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashley W. | Head of Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** User interface! Really nice to welcome people with an about us page and background on the company. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The integrations part is unclear in terms of how it links to Gusto and if people are asked the same questions. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting everyone on the same page. Having new hires know what is required of them as they start. ### 5. Intuitive, simple, wonderful customer support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 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?** Onboarding, workflow management, customization and the ability to provide product feedback and track the progression of the product enhancements suggested! **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Integration with ADP has been rocky - we have had to do dual maintenance between both systems. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping track of onboarding, offboarding, benefits, and many other types of tasks for HR, IT, Management and Employees. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi there! We appreciate the comment about Sapling’s wonderful Customer Success team. It’s also great to know you enjoy providing product feedback and tracking the progression of the product enhancements suggested. Thank you for taking the time to leave Sapling this 5 star review! Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 6. An rather effective HR & People Ops app **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I like how you can easily see everyone's essential information, documents, and any important activity (to-dos) that needs to be taken care of. One of the neat features is the calendar integration that shares any updates or to-dos from other teams - this way, cross-functional teams are always in the know and don't forget to do something. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** One of the downsides to Sapling is that it can be a bit buggy and when trying to load sections from time to time or when adding a task/ workflow, it tends to glitch, causing to redo the process again - but this could also be due to internet connection or if you have a lot of apps running in the background. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** People operations are probably the biggest "problem" we are solving with Sapling. its a great tool to utilize on that end, but if you are trying to use it for project managing or tracker, you may be better off using another - but this also depends on the size and scale of the teams (s) and project(s) **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi there! Thank you for leaving a detailed review. We’re delighted Sapling is helping your HR and People Ops to be more efficient with gathering information, documents, and important to-dos. We’re sorry to hear you’re experiencing bugs from time to time. Perhaps closing down some open apps/tabs running in the background might alleviate this. If not, feel free to contact us at help@trysapling.com and we can look into it for you! Thanks again for your review, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 7. Great for centralizing Employee Comms, Onboarding and Offboarding **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The fact that I can create uniform and equitable employee experiences throughout all stages of the employee lifecycle **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The interface of sapling isn't always functional or user friendly . Bulk emailing is extremely glitchy and has caused my team alot of extra work in the past when we tried to use the bulk assign/email feature **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralizing on and off boarding. I have also realized the benefit of creating templates for employee communications for alot more than just on and offboarding. I use the emails feature to kick off recruiting, QLEs, parental leave meetings, employee information comms etc. ### 8. Flexibility if you need it **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I like how flexible the system is. You can truly build it to work for your workflows. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** There are some features and elements that I wish were a little more flexible. Like approval workflows. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** You'll get the best use by having very clear usecases to build workflows for. It also helps a lot with employee onboarding and offboarding. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a more user friendly face on top of ADP and this works well. We also wanted a better onboarding experience for new hires which this solves for. I also like some of the ease of reporting. ### 9. Nicky Venturino Sapling **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicky V. | People Operations Generalists, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Workflows that help understand all of the moving parts of the process being able to assign multiple team memeber different tasks and being able to create new work flows based on location **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I have been having issues with the integration into other systems like ADP. The team is helpful but there seems to be random issues that keep coming up which creats a lot of addtional work **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Onboarding, offboarding, leaves. Some benefits include having employee data stored. Defeinetly more productive and don't miss a lot of things because of the platform ### 10. The Tools makes IT person Life easier and we have the same integrated with okta. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The user-friendliness and simplicity of the application **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Primary i haven't notice any de-merits as such, I love it **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** The good thing is we can Integrate with our other application and it give a periodical update about the employee ### 11. not for larger companies **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** org chart view and the bio section of the profile **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** not scalable for our org - slow at times **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was solving our org chart need and for looking up people within the org ### 12. Such a great platform, with an in-depth onboarding process **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The supportive team at sapling that helped answer all of our questions **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Sometimes the platform crashes or loads slowly **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Onboarding automation has saved our team hours of work ### 13. Lacking many features I hope they plan to add in the future. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cimony C. | Talent Support, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling has a great way to build workflows. This allows my team to be able to keep things in order without having to communicate every task. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** There is a lack of features that I am used to seeing in other HRIS platforms. Most have to do with ease of use. Why can't I easily go between employee profiles for example? I either have to search for each employee or go back to the people page. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling has helped my company get employee data all in one place so we have a true source of accurate information the employees can verify. ### 14. It does the job **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Relations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I really like the user experience where everything is easy to navigate. I really would like to see a tab for documentation for FAQ troubleshooting, and new features. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** the support team is slow in responding, also the Workflows automation is not fully integrated. I would love to see where I can create a flow to send an email to a new user and be interactive. For example: in the workflow- for new hires, we send them an email asking if they are familiar with Computers Mac OS. -> In the email, they will click either a yes or no button. -> Based on the answer there will be another email sent with a set of documents. (If YES- send instructions X, Y, Z. If NO- Send Instructions Y, Z) that way they can then open those documents to configure their own computer before their start date. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hiring process. and the benefits new hires can access this site without being in our organization. this is the initial setup process of a new user. ### 15. Support is Lacking **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Easy to pick it up without any formal training. Reports are fairly easy to run as well. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Lack of support front the Sapling team when we need to build something new or Integrate Sapling with another system. Very slow (over months) without any progress. The org chart feature is really clunky. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Houses our employee data, need a basic HR System for start up. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi there, We are sorry to hear that Sapling is not meeting your expectations at this time. We recently received many reviews highlighting our great support team. We would love to schedule a chat to learn how we can support you and your team better. Please email us at support@trysapling.com Thanks again for your review, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 16. It’s user friendly but it doesn’t seamlessly sync with ADP for the time off requests **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** User friendly platform, task manager, makes on-boarding/off boarding easy **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Time off request doesn't sync well with ADP **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having everything in one spot, on-boarding forms, emails, tasks, etc. ### 17. Is great for some things, but has a couple of missing pieces **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The actual interface and some of the options available in the onboarding module that allow us to create custom workflows. I also like the ease of changing/updating profile info. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** We need WAY more options for merge fields in automated letters. There are literally like 8 choices. We also need some customization for the profile and better integration with our payroll system. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** How to administer a seamless onboarding experience without undue administrative burden, benefit of having workflows that capture all steps required by various parties ### 18. Lots of features but very slow platform **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh M. | L, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Decent integrations - for example the Slack integration. The Onboarding flow has to be the best that we've ever used, and our newly joined employees praise it, we have to put that on Sapling. Really great **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Sooooo slow. For a couple of years Sapling has been talking about rewriting their code to speed things up - but that hasn't happened yet. The platform is just incredibly slow. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** An unexpected benefit was the amazing onboarding. Centralising employee data was expected and is good. Not perfect though. Time off management as well, although a few more features would be nice. ### 19. Easy to maneuver, intuitive to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I find things where I expect to find them - intuitive! That prevents frustration, and increases the odds I'll use Sapling to find the information I need. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** There isn't any specific feature that I dislike. As an end user, I appreciate having list of tasks easily accessible. As an administrator, I appreciate being able to find what I need. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** managing onboarding tasks, collecting information to facilitate hardware deployment for new hires, etc. ### 20. Love the functionality and ease of use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I like the ease of use of Sapling and the easy functionality/user interface. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I wish it were easier to un-do completed tasks and able to assign tasks to multiple people or a group of people rather than only a single individual. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** An easy workflow tool **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling is a workflow management tool for us. We use it to keep track of employee transfers, onboarding and offboarding workflows. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hello, Thanks very much for leaving Sapling a five star review! We’re glad your team enjoys Sapling intuitive interface and ease of use. It’s really simple to undo a completed task. Within your completed task list simply click on the check box to deselect it. This will move the task from the ‘Complete’ list to the ‘Incomplete’ list. Tasks can also easily be assigned to multiple people, for example an entire team, or all staff in a particular geographic location. I’m attaching a link that shares more detail on this. Thanks again for your review, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 21. Great for growing companies! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason C. | Head Of Production, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The onboarding process is smooth, customizable, and easy to use. The customer support was incredible too! **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Some areas don't allow complete customizability. We have hit some areas where we couldn't change the name or function of a specific tool / prefab. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Onboarding a rapidly growing team. The ease of getting accounts set up with the AAD integration and forms control and task control. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Jason! Thank you for leaving Sapling a new review. We’re glad you’re enjoying Sapling’s customizable platform and our responsive Customer Support team. If there are areas of our platform you would like help exploring further, feel free to contact us at help@trysapling.com and we can look into it for you! Thanks again for your review, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 22. Clean interface and helpful support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The interface is neat and extremely easy for staff to navigate **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** We had problems integrating it with our payroll system, but in Sapling's defense they tried their utmost to help. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** The portal looks professional; employees feel their information is being handled in a secure way **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee leave management, managing the employee appraisal process and document management at the time of onboarding ### 23. Great tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Cosmetics | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** When using Sapling, the company is able to view each other's profiles, anniversaries, birthdays, statuses, even roles. It's like an employee directory, but easier and convenient to use. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I'm not sure if there's really anything I would say that I dislike about Sapling. However, if I really had to choose, I would say that maybe it would be nice to have the option to add more photos to your profile. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** Highly recommended **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some of the problems that Sapling is solving for our company is having our team's info easy to refer to. It's like an employee directory and helps us stay connected and informed. ### 24. I like the product, it's just a bit hard to figure your way around at first. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I like how the product seems to think of most things for the team. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I think I'm pretty savvy as it pertains to platforms, but I've struggled a few times to find certain features. The support team has been awesome though, and usually anything I've struggled with, they've been able to help me resolve it pretty quickly. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I think for smaller companies, you need like a million different things for onboarding/offboarding and the in-between. I think Sapling is definitely on the right track as it pertains to bringing all of those things to one place. ### 25. Helping in keeping our team organized **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 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 helps keep our onboarding, offboarding, and internal transfers processes straightforward and easy for everyone to follow **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** We've had some challenges with being able to use Sapling for certain reporting purposes **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping all involved teams up to speed on multiple processes ### 26. A great platform for Human resource partners **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeanie D. | Accountant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** It is able to present data of employees in a format that is highly customisable for your every needs. The customisation reports ensures you to get the data you need. It also helps to initiate on/off boarding for employees and they are able to key in personal data of themselves. Leave applications and balances are also easily tracked. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** There are graphs presented for employees data but no functionality to drill down data from graphs directly. Example if I see 20 employees in SG, i can't click and have the system show me the details of this 20 employees. For multiple entity companies, this could be a time saving initiative. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Leave tracking and ability to estimate end balance leave as of certain dates. Easy payroll calculations from this. Workflow arrangements to ensure that system auto kicks a process and notification process on certain tasks. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Jeanie! We’re delighted Sapling is helping your team to track important people data such as leave allowances and payroll calculations. Thank you for your valuable feedback on our graph functionality. This has been shared directly with our product team. Sapling is focused on automating your work to help you build a better company and we’ve invested in robust raw data reporting and scheduling to allow you to slice and dice the data exactly the way you want it. Check out our report scheduler functionality or request beta access to our webhooks feature at help@trysapling.com to send data to the systems you already use! Thanks again for your review, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 27. Solid tool for managing onboarding tasks, and time off requests. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The future calculations for available time off are super helpful so that I can be informed about vacation requests. This takes into account the accrual rate and other requested dates. Less frequently used but also helpful are some basic demographic profiles. I've used fields like dietary preferences, T-shirt size, and home address for various things over the years. Holiday cards, event planning, etc. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I wish I export the profiles. Perhaps this is done as a privacy protection? I can download my own profile as a CSV file, but not the same for my direct reports. Maybe this is a setting my HR/administrators have set. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time off requests are the most significant use case for my team. The hypothetical calculations sure beat using a spread sheet for determining if a future request will be possible. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hello, Thanks so much for taking the time to leave us a review. It’s great to hear Sapling profile templates are helping you track important details about your team from dietary preferences to t-shirt size. We know having this info ready can save a lot of time when planning company events and sending gifts/swag items to team members! Managers can't download data from an employee profile but individual team members can always download their own data. However Managers can be given access to download some team member data via reporting. This is controllable by your HR admin within our Permissions module. Hope this helps, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 28. Keeps you on track **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarina G. | US Payroll and Benefits Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I like the fact that's it's a reminder to keep on track and be able to log your current checklist of processes. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** For the visibility I have - I don't like that others can mark others stuff as done **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** Great, simple product - keeps organization **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just maintaining flow ### 29. Is a good tool, but it could be better **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nayade Sharon G. | HRBP Project Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I like that we can create flows and tasks related to our team needs, It also is an excellent tool to have data in time directly from the collaborators, and they can update it whenever they want/need without other people help, and everyone (with the proper permissions) can see it **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** We couldn't integrate our time off tool with Sapling, and the database we upload to the platform didn't work, so we need to do it manually, one by one in our profiles **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have all the info we need on the same platform (salaries, time off, new joiners, leavers, equipment, promotion, etc.), and we can share it with other teams (HR, Facilities, Finance, Managers, etc.) ### 30. Sapling review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The automation of the tasks, reminders, setting due dates based on relative dates **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** How long it takes some pages to load, sometimes am waiting a while, bugs. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** Very nice onboarding tool **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Onboarding tasks automation, offboarding tasks automation **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hello, Thank you for taking time to leave a review. We’re delighted Sapling is helping automate your HR and People Ops process so your team can be more efficient. Sorry to hear you’re experiencing issues with pages loading. Perhaps closing down some open apps/tabs running in the background might alleviate this. If not, feel free to contact us at help@trysapling.com and we can look into it for you! Thanks again, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 31. Easy to Use and Intuitive **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jennifer P. | Vp of Finance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** It's easy to set up and logical; no training needed! **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** You cannot export to excel the org charts and lack of custom reporting. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organization charts, movement within departments, and onboarding in a remote environment ### 32. Sapling is a great tool for onboarding! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jess G. | Executive Operations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling was a great solution for us because it syncs with Trinet. We needed to simplify our onboarding process for our remote team, and Sapling works for all of our needs. I love that its simple, clean and easy to use and schedule things. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** It was a little challenging to learn the ins and outs of Sapling. The platform is not as apparent as some other HRIS type software for learning how to implement your onboarding process. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Sapling to onboard all of our new hires, for our PTO tracking system, and for the collection of signatory documents. ### 33. Love all the features, wish it was more customizable **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Love the workflow aspect and having the knowledge in one set place. Integration between systems saves us a lot of time in entering information. Makes the employee preboarding experience more personalized and helpful to provide all the necessary resources in one place so that new hires are set for success. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Integration capabilities seem to lack custom features. A lot of the things we wish to automate, such as welcome emails or certain mapping fields we still manually have to change. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cross-functional collaboration/integrations, Bulk data uploads, Automate onboarding experience, Insights into key metrics ### 34. Gooten<>Saplinghr **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The detail of the personal information, helps us understand how we can better support our employees **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** the reporting tool and the PTO balance, both of them are inaccurate and we have to do multiple checks to ensure the information is correct. Downloading the reports is really cumbersome **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having all the information from our employees centralized is one of the best benefits the tool has. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hello, Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We’re sorry to hear that the reporting tool and the PTO balance are not working correctly for you. We would love to schedule a chat to improve this. Please don’t hesitate to contact your CSM directly or email help@trysapling.com and we can get this sorted. Thanks again for your review, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 35. Good user interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachel D. | Payroll Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I enjoy the ease of use to navigate through the different pages and the reporting capabilities. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The calendar page is sometimes hard to navigate in since I cannot see the list of employee's start dates if the list is too long and does not fit the page. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** HRIS tool that helps us pull information to help process payroll ### 36. Saplings Design is elegant and the New hire experience is excellent **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex D. | IT Systems Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling has an excellent setup for new hires to get them onboarded and working their first few weeks. Sapling works very well to keep the new hire engaged and work on tasks to get them up to speed. We have also used it as a location to add user data and keep it in one central place. Sapling is very clean and modern, and that is their best selling point. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Sapling does not have a great onboarding experience with most identity providers where the new hire data is siloed within Sapling and does not move easily to downstream applications. Saplings API has some good features, and with the addition of webhooks is better, we still struggle to get some of the work done we need. Sapling could create more integrations and would benefit by adding more around Okta, Ping, and OneLogin. Being an HRIS platfrom you need to work with all of the SAAS players and this is where we see sapling fall short. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** When picking sapling, look into their integration offerings or if you can use their API to get your solution working. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling is used within the company to solve for an HRIS system as well as an onboarding platform. There suer interface for onboarding new hires is elegant and very easy to use. We have used their platform to send out new hire onboarding and get the data from our Application tracking system into a central location so we can flow that data down to the new hires. We Have also used their API and Webhooks to hack together user creation and deletion with our IDP. We also use Sapling as a single source of truth for all user data on employees. ### 37. Sapling has some fantastic functionality **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gary S. | VP, Total Rewards, People Operations, HRIS and Analysis, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Onboarding - our people have really enjoyed the onboarding experience of Sapling! **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Sapling is not necessarily the best HRIS solution for a company as it scales. We use is for onboarding, primarily, but it's ability to link to other ERP systems and to serve as our full system of record is not fully there, yet. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** If you are a small to midsize company looking for a great tool to help you with many of your HRIS needs, Sapling is one you should consider. Support is very good, as well, and overall, the price is right for the functionality you will need. We are scaling towards 1,000 employees, with a disctinct lobal population, and we just now find ourselves having to relook all things technical...at this juncture, we have to support much functionality across a lot of different of the business, not just HR, and in multiple countires and continents. To that end, we are finding that we may very well need to scale our HRIS, in totality, as well. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Sapling mainly for onboarding, and the experience our new hires report is nothing short of fantastic. They love the ease of getting into the system, the prepopulated tasks that help their onbaording experience and the fact that Sapling reminds both new hires and managers of required tasks is superb. ### 38. 2-year review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rita S. | Operations - Talent, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The ability to create workflows for employees to accomplish specific tasks such as Onboarding, uploading Covid-19 Vaccine record, obtaining signatures of annual compliance forms, etc. This platform has been beneficial during Covid, as we have been onboarding employees remotely. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** We want the ability to upload our own Org Chart or make edits to the automatically generated one vs. having it filter through employee records - which may not always be up to date. A Chat function would be fantastic, but I find the message response times very efficient and timely. I can always count on a same-day response, and the video tutorials are beneficial. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** Utilize the help guides and the tutorial videos - these are all very informative **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to obtain e-signatures and maintain records of annual compliance forms is very helpful. The safekeeping of private Covid-19 uploaded records has been useful as well. ### 39. Improved automation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling has allowed us to automate our onboarding process more so than ever before. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** We have had some challenges with integrations not going as advertised. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are scaling rapidly and this allows us to do so. We are spending less time doing manual processes and it is an overall timesaver. ### 40. Sapling Review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Team Lists, links readily available for benefits **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Takes time to keep it updated, therefore it doesnt get updated as quickly as we need **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefits of having all the on boarding documents available, employee can navigate without much assistance. ### 41. Helped streamlined on-boarding and off boarding, but room for inprovement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Ability to streamline on-boarding and off boarding with automated messages, tasks etc. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** some bugs from the administrator end. Adminstrators may not find it user-friendly. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** Great software, but has room for improvement. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to onboard and off boarding people within a short time frame. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hello, Thanks so much for taking the time to leave us a review. We’re sorry to hear you’re experiencing bugs. We would love to schedule a chat to learn how we can support you better. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at help@trysapling.com and we can look into it for you! Hope this helps, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 42. Sapling Experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling is easy to use and has fun colors and icons that make it user-friendly. We use this in place of an employee org document, and it is easy to keep up to date. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** It can be a little bit hard to login sometimes. You have to find the link that is specific / particular to your company, much like other resources such as ADP. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a central resource to keep employee tenure / department up to date. We are also able to see basic things like where they live, a little bit about them, who their manager is, etc. ### 43. Clean user interface, can use improvements in certain widgets + onboarding process **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyler M. | Incoming Software Development Engineer Intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Very nice workflow for onboarding members to follow. The steps were clear, with minimal points of frustration and confusion. The timeline of the company's history was a useful, pleasant feature to include. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I would appreciate a slightly different onboarding experience as an intern for the company this summer. I am very keen on getting to know the incoming class of interns, but aside from a single screen showing the names of the people joining for the summer (which disappeared after pressing "next"), I was unable to identify who among the sprawling list of teammates were fellow interns. I also think the profile section when visiting other users can be improved so that people can press a button to visit a LinkedIn or Twitter page as opposed to having to copy/paste their links. The fact that these profile sections are greyed out (which seems to suggest nothing more than the fact that I don't have permission to edit them) was another visual component that I did not particularly like. Lastly, the intercom chat box takes up a significant amount of space when clicked, and it does not disappear when you click out of it. While its UI is nice, that did not stop me from feeling frustrated overall (this was the one component that annoyed me). **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** It seems that PagerDuty uses Sapling to provide a consistent onboarding experience for incoming interns and full-time workers. This motivation is quite nice, and as an intern who's probably more concerned about the quality of the onboarding experience than most, the formality of this process was much appreciated. I can tell that Sapling is intended to act as a hub for workers belonging to a company, and I believe this platform can approach it. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Tyler, Thank you for taking the time to write this honest review of your first experience using Sapling to onboard as an intern at PagerDuty. We’re so glad to hear that you found Sapling clear to use and enjoyed certain features like workflows and the company timeline section! Our product team loved your insights on differentiating the intern experience – I went ahead and added that insight to our feedback portal where you can track its progress using the link attached to this response :). We’re actually currently in the process of re-imagining this “pre-boarding” experience, so this was a remarkably timely insight. As for the Intercom chatbox – we are also in the process of moving from Intercom → Zendesk as our main support tool, so hopefully that issue will be resolved with that shift as well! Thanks again for taking to time to leave this review and wishing you all the best during your internship at PagerDuty. Ciara Slattery, Marketing Manager at Sapling ### 44. Not a lot of leeway with customizing the overall look **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ezinne O. | Head of People Ops, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Automating the onboarding process is undoubtedly helpful. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Not a lot of leeway with customizing the overall look with corporate colors **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated onboarding processes ### 45. Great Program with room for deeper admin capabilities **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura L. | Executive Business Partner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Sapling creates a great pre-boarding experience for our new hires. We love how simple it is for all employees to interact with - there isn't a learning curve at all. It has allowed our 3 person people ops team to process 100 new hires in the past 6 months! We LOVE having this in an automated process system. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** The admin capabilities are just okay. The reporting is average, but nothing special. We frequently have to do a lot of manipulation to reports to get what we need. The same can be said about the documents dashboard - there is no reporting capability other than if a document is complete or not. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a very manual onboaring process before Sapling. Emails would get missed, new hires would be missed on the calendar, lots of small items falling through the cracks. Sapling has allowed us to simplify and automate our pre-boarding process. The new hire side is seamless and we have been able to create workflows on our side to ensure nothing is missed. We've also used sapling to integrate with our SSO, HRIS, and Performance Management system to help automate IT's workload. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Laura! Thanks so much for taking the time to write this review. We’re glad Sapling is helping your new hires to have a great preboarding and onboarding experience. It’s also fantastic to hear that your 3 person people ops team processed 100 new hires in the past 6 months using Sapling! Thanks for your note about our reporting capabilities and our documents dashboard. We’re working on modifying our documents feature so stay tuned for a simpler experience there in the next couple months. Thanks again for your review, Ciara Slattery, Marketing Manager ### 46. Data issues **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The onboarding experience for employees is Sapling’s strongest offering. New hires get a glimpse of the team, the company, the culture from the inside before their start date. Automated communication is good. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** We’ve used Sapling for a few years, and it was fine while we were small, but we’ve more than doubled, and the platform is just not growing with us. The behind-the-scenes is fine for smaller teams (<100) but is not a scalable solution in terms of data. We’ve had issues with data reverting, change history issues, and we can't bulk upload data without our CSM. The data upload experience that could help Sapling scale with its growing customer base was problematic, so they removed access to it from employers, and now we need to go through our CSM to get those uploads complete (and we have so many changes that the data uploads aren't keeping up with us). There aren’t good auditing capabilities. There are very few integrations with other tools we use. They are so focused on trying to catch up on the bug backlog that they haven’t rolled out impactful new features. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling is supposed to be our source of truth for employee data. Aside from the major data issues, Sapling is good with the onboarding workflow and enables us to welcome new members to our team and assign custom workflows based on employee lifecycle. ### 47. Simple and easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Priyanka J. | User, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** I liked the easy-to-use interface. I feel the interface is well designed. The components are well placed. I can directly go to my company's important link, it makes the application more usable. I can directly visit company blogs while keeping track of TO-DO tasks/ activities. I can get insights about new joiners as well as the current team and its really interesting to know who all are in our team. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** I feel the response time can be improved. When I click on a tab, it takes some time to open the new page. **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** I would say its a simple and easy to use so I definitely recommend to use this platform. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping track of team onboarding tasks. Getting to know more about the team. ### 48. User Friendly Platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The platform is very user friendly. It is simple to create tasks, follow up with late employee documents, and it keeps our onboarding and off boarding process running fairly smoothly. Also, it is easy to connect with most of our other platforms, which helps cut down on manually entering Information. **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** We are doing an internal audit of employee documents prior to implementing Sapling. There is no mass import/upload process for said documents. I have to upload them individually and it is very time consuming. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our onboarding and off boarding process is streamlined. Sapling provides a centralized location for employee information. ### 49. SUPPORTS SMALL BUSINESS **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** Very easy to fine employee basic information **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** Creating reports are difficult and not user-friendly. **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** It tracks basic global employee information ### 50. Most of my BAU job is now automated! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Kallidus?** The task reminder is beneficial for company-wide exercise. Also the onboarding is made easy by scheduled follow-up and workflow **What do you dislike about Kallidus?** When searching for names, it's a bit laggy (I need to type twice). For the workflow (task) report, we couldn't personalize the details of the workflow report (location, department). Would be better if we can substract data not from the department, but sub-department **Recommendations to others considering Kallidus:** For those who's still pulling headcount data manually, and many employe exercise **What problems is Kallidus solving and how is that benefiting you?** As mentioned above, sapling saves time and data can be pulled quickly. Regular reminder for all employee via email task **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi there, We’re glad Sapling is helping your team with onboarding workflows and task reminders. We’re sorry to hear you are having issues with Search. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at help@trysapling.com and we can look into it for you! We are exploring your sub-department concept you mention here and if you’re interested you can sign up to be a beta tester of this new feature. Simply email help@trysapling.com and we’ll handle the rest! 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