--- title: SimplyMerit Reviews meta\_title: 'SimplyMerit Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 72 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SimplyMerit works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.8 review\_count: 72 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: HR url: https://www.g2.com/categories/hr --- # SimplyMerit Reviews & Product Details Visit Website SimplyMerit® is a compensation management software solution that enables HR teams, executives, and managers to plan and administer compensation programs with greater accuracy, efficiency, and security. It replaces manual spreadsheets with a centralized application designed to support merit budgets, annual bonus pools, and equity grants across global organizations. With SimplyMerit, organizations gain transparency into compensation decisions while reducing errors and administrative burden. HR leaders configure rules that match their business needs, managers make data-driven pay decisions, and employees see the full value of their pay through personalized Total Rewards Statements and a dedicated employee portal. SimplyMerit is particularly valuable for organizations managing multi-currency workforces, running complex approval workflows, or seeking to eliminate the risks of spreadsheet-based compensation cycles. Enterprise teams choose SimplyMerit for depth rather than breadth. HCM suites are broad by design and comparatively shallow in merit, bonus, and equity planning. SimplyMerit supplies that depth alongside the systems already in place, with no core HR replacement project: layered approval hierarchies backed by a full audit trail, consolidated multi-currency budgets across entities and regions, granular role-based permissions, and configuration that adapts as compensation strategy changes. Large employers run SimplyMerit as a dedicated planning layer while their HCM remains the system of record. Implementation does not depend on integration readiness. Clients who arrive with nothing more than a messy spreadsheet have gone live in under five days, because SimplyMerit maps and transforms the data it receives rather than asking clients to reformat it first. API connectors are added where systems expose access, and they can follow go-live instead of gating it. KEY FEATURES AND CAPABILITIES Compensation planning: manage merit increases, bonuses, and equity grants in one application. Dynamic field mapping: send an export from any system and SimplyMerit maps and transforms the fields, with no HRIS change and no reformatting required. API connectors: direct connections where HRIS and payroll systems expose API access, with your team mapping fields once. New connectors are built as clients bring their systems. Global budget consolidation: automatic currency conversion and prorations from configurable business rules, with a single consolidated view across entities and regions. Approval hierarchies: route pay decisions through custom approval paths, with executive approvals recorded as a system of record for auditability. Live budget tracking: managers see allocations against spend as they enter recommendations. Configuration support: adjust rules, guidelines, and workflows as compensation strategy changes, working with compensation professionals rather than a ticket queue. Total Rewards Statements: generate and securely distribute personalized summaries of total compensation. Employee portal: a fully customizable portal where employees view compensation details, Total Rewards Statements, and compensation statements, including personalized total rewards dashboards. Retained award history: prior awards and statements stay available to employees, with clients deciding how much history to load and retain. Year-round employee access: extend the portal beyond the annual cycle as a configurable setting, so employees can revisit their total rewards and history between planning cycles. Mobile-ready application: support managers wherever they work with a responsive interface. Data security: enterprise-grade security, granular role-based access, and GDPR compliance. USE CASES HR and compensation teams running annual or mid-year compensation cycles. Enterprises needing compensation depth alongside an existing HCM without replacing core HR. Organizations managing multi-currency workforces across multiple entities and geographies. Companies with multi-level approval hierarchies and audit requirements. Organizations looking to reduce risk and eliminate spreadsheet-driven processes. Teams that need to launch quickly without waiting on an integration project. Employers strengthening year-round pay communication as transparency expectations rise. Businesses seeking better visibility and governance over compensation decisions. By streamlining compensation planning, SimplyMerit helps organizations improve accuracy, reduce risk, and deliver a better employee experience. Leaders gain confidence in budget management, managers make fairer pay decisions with real-time visibility, and employees understand the full value of their rewards. * * * Product Website SimplyMerit Seller [MorganHR, Inc.](https://www.g2.com/sellers/morganhr-inc) Discussions [SimplyMerit Community](https://www.g2.com/products/simplymerit/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Neil Morgan (Eliminate Spreadsheets From Your Annual Merit and Bonus Process) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/simplymerit/pricing) ## SimplyMerit Integrations (10) What do users say about integrations? 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Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/30/2024 "Flexible and Effective!" 5/5 What do you like best about SimplyMerit? SimplyMerit allows you to configure the comp cycle truly to your organization's needs, in a short amount of time, and has the nimbleness of mid cycle changes. Such an easy implementation as well, and great support team. It also could account for our different types of changes, bonus, and equity. Very easy for our managers to use, and had great information so they could make informed compensation changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimplyMerit? SimplyMerit could work on their options for the set up of equity when you have guaranteed ratios between types of stock. But that is a very specific request. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimplyMerit solving and how is that benefiting you? Ease of providing informtaion to managers to make informed decisions and staying within budget Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Neil Morgan of SimplyMerit [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/simplymerit-review-9170981/official_response/edit) Thank you, Stephanie! We strive for quick set-ups with a good amount of flexibility built right into the application. I'm glad that you found it so beneficial for you managers. Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Josh H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Josh H.") JH Josh H. Director, Human Resources Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/6/2024 "Easy to use, automated, and modern." 5/5 What do you like best about SimplyMerit? The interface is user friendly, both from an HR admin and front-line manager perspective. No more manual spreasheets! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimplyMerit? N/A - the team is engaged, the product is adaptive and affordable. We are very happy with SimplyMerit! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimplyMerit solving and how is that benefiting you? Removed a burdensome and manual merit cycle process for us - we went form hundreds of spreadsheet sbeing cascaded through leadership levels in our organization to a simplified, easy to use platform that provides easy set-up, editing and outputs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Neil Morgan of SimplyMerit [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/simplymerit-review-9200644/official_response/edit) So glad to hear, Josh! Thank you for your very positive comments. Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite TB Tiffany B. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/28/2023 "Solid Compensation Management Program" 4/5 What do you like best about SimplyMerit? Simply Merit covers the vast majority of scenarios that most organizations utilize. It includes Merit, Promotions, Equity and lump sum payments. This system was able to handle 99% of our requirements and our managers found it very easy to use. The support team including Neil and Stacy were always very helpful and responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimplyMerit? My biggest critique of Simply Merit is that importing data from ADP into Simply Merit is not as seamless as other systems I've worked with. While you can pull your ADP data into Simply Merit via an import, I would have liked to see this be accomplished through a more hands-off approach such as a overnight file feed. I would also warn users that if you are utilizing ADP fields for purposes other than what those fields were designed for, you may need to make some adjustments to your data before importing into Simply Merit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimplyMerit solving and how is that benefiting you? Simply Merit allowed our organization to upgrade from a manual spreadsheet-based merit process to a fully electronic process, which helped us to empower our managers to make appropiate decisions regarding merit increases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Neil Morgan of SimplyMerit [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/simplymerit-review-7878744/official_response/edit) Thank you, Tiffany, for the great feedback about SimplyMerit! SimplyMerit's API with ADP WFN is designed to pull your employee data and apply the standard field mapping to simplify the initial configurations as well as to provide you with full control over how and when the data is imported to SimplyMerit. You are correct that any unique customizations in your ADP environment do need to be factored into the data that's pulled into SimplyMerit. While this approach is more manual, it does allow for very quick implementation times. Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite KB Kristie B. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/16/2023 "Effective and efficient tool for merit & bonus management" 5/5 What do you like best about SimplyMerit? SimplyMerit helped us get away from managing our merit & bonus cycle on spreadsheets. Having the information laid out for managers to view their entire organizations, with all the data points necessary to make decisions, plus the real time changes and approvals was a big timesaver for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimplyMerit? The configuration and data uploads process was tricky at the start, with not having familiarity of the product and how the data we import would translate into the platform. It took several tries with the employee salary history and the incentive plans, before we got it how we wanted to portray it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimplyMerit solving and how is that benefiting you? SimplyMerit allowed us to move off a spreadsheet managed process, that was very manual and despite being a shared file, was always at risk of having data overwritten. SimplyMerit allowed our managers to have access to their teams with HR delegates having the ability to provide guidance when needed. The roll-up approval process and the ability to manage within budgets saved us a considerable amount of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from stacy fenner of SimplyMerit [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/simplymerit-review-7840289/official_response/edit) Thank You so much for taking the time to write such an excellent review. Thank you for the feedback about your data uploads. We certainly always want to make sure the data is portrayed how you want it in the tool. We are thrilled you were able move aware from spreadsheet and simplify your process. We are happy you found the roll up such a time saver. Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Packaging and Containers](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Packaging and Containers") AP Verified User in Packaging and Containers Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/13/2023 "Easy to use and Outstanding Customer Service!!!" 5/5 What do you like best about SimplyMerit? Ease of use, budget is always displayed, and management can easily see recommendations and make changes throughout the process. I like the ability to process multiple transactions simultaneously, Merit and multiple bonus types. Communicating with employees is easy; using the letter feature for merit and bonus allows the manager to print and present a letter to each employee. The customer support is outstanding!!! Always friendly and very helpful no matter what the question is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimplyMerit? I wish there was a search feature in the Manager Activity section. I don't like having to continue to click next or guess which page my manager may be on in the event I need to resend an invite or check if the invite has been accepted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimplyMerit solving and how is that benefiting you? No more Excel or manual processing. Managers stay informed throughout the entire process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from stacy fenner of SimplyMerit [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/simplymerit-review-7945835/official_response/edit) Thank you for such high praise! We pride ourselves on a tool where you can easily accomplish multiple transactions simultaneously. So happy you used and liked the letter function as well! Great feedback on the Manager Activity: Stay tuned! We have some significant enhancements planned for that function in the relatively near future. Thanks again for taking the time to provide feedback! Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Organic ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/31/2023 "Straight-Forward Product." 3.5/5 What do you like best about SimplyMerit? I liked how quick we could get the system up and running. We could arrange the fields how we wanted to and upload any custom data fields we needed. Being able to pull the data was also helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimplyMerit? The biggest dislike we had was with the final merit statements. Either this is how it is or we just didn't have time to research it fully, but we could not create a dynamic statement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimplyMerit solving and how is that benefiting you? We needed one location for managers to go in and enter the merit increases for their employees. This helped reduce the amount of spreadsheets we had to create and distribute, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Neil Morgan of SimplyMerit [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/simplymerit-review-8164655/official_response/edit) We're glad to hear that you found SimplyMerit quick and customizable for your needs. Please reach out to our Support team regarding the merit statements. There is a tremendous amount of customization available today... and more on the way very soon! Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite JZ Jenna Z. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/9/2023 "Awesome Customer Service and Support" 5/5 What do you like best about SimplyMerit? Neil, Stacy and the team were the best! Their customer support was extremely helpful and they were always very responsive. The system is easy to use for both admins and managers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimplyMerit? The only thing I didn't like was that some of the fields on employee profiles I couldn't edit myself and would have to do another upload with any changes or edits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimplyMerit solving and how is that benefiting you? Eliminated manual work of all comp changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Mary Pat Rowland of SimplyMerit [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/simplymerit-review-7814596/official_response/edit) Jenna, Thank you for the five-star rating! Neil, Stacy, and the team appreciate the feedback as we strive to provide exceptional customer service. We also appreciate the information on your challenge with profile field edits. This will help us to continue our improvements to best serve the needs of our customers. Most importantly, thank you for being a SimplyMerit customer! Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite CW Cynthia W. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/10/2023 "Simply Merit is Simple to use" 4.5/5 What do you like best about SimplyMerit? The Simply Merit system is easy to understand and use. Our managers can easily view and review increases without having to use Excel spreadsheets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimplyMerit? The communications you can use to notify employees of their merit increase needs to be manually created by the Simply Merit team. Once they are loaded, the communication is simplified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimplyMerit solving and how is that benefiting you? Simplifying the overall merit process and eliminating manual processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from stacy fenner of SimplyMerit [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/simplymerit-review-7819698/official_response/edit) We are thrilled you were able to simplify your process. As always it is our team's pleasure to create salary adjustment letters tailored to your company's needs. Thank you for taking the time to review SimplyMerit! Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite BM Bianca M. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/24/2023 "SImplyMerit was amazing" 5/5 What do you like best about SimplyMerit? The system is easy to use and can be configured based on company needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimplyMerit? We liked the system and there wasn't anything we didn't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimplyMerit solving and how is that benefiting you? Our HRIS has a compensation module which wasn't meeting our needs. We explored standalone compensation modules to help us do company merits and annual bonus payments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from stacy fenner of SimplyMerit [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/simplymerit-review-7866768/official_response/edit) Thank you sooooo much for the wonderful review! We are happy you found the configuration so simple and were able to tailor it to your specific needs!! Thank You for taking the time to review SimplyMerit! Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") AA Verified User in Automotive Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/10/2022 "An user-friendly compensation planning tool for both HR and business managers" 5/5 What do you like best about SimplyMerit? An easy and intuitive process for all users, including flexible configuration for administrators and user-friendly planning tool for business managers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimplyMerit? Lack of budget roll-up view for equity planning and compensation planning dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SimplyMerit: The most simple, effective and affordable tool for managing compensation planning processes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimplyMerit solving and how is that benefiting you? SimplyMerit helps us manage compensation planning faster and more accurately with better manager experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Jayna Smith of SimplyMerit [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/simplymerit-review-6592414/official_response/edit) Hi Alicia, Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to write a review of SimplyMerit. We are so happy that SimplyMerit helped you manage your comp planning faster and more accurately!! We are happy to jump on a call with you to go over the rollup. Thank you again! 5/22/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about SimplyMerit? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about SimplyMerit ](https://www.g2.com/products/simplymerit/discussions/new) ![Verified User](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User") G2 Verified User • Last activity over 5 years ago How does SimplyMerit handle additional currencies for a global workforce? 2 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-simplymerit-handle-additional-currencies-for-a-global-workforce) GU Guest User What is SimplyMerit used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-simplymerit-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/simplymerit/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Return on Investment 7 months ### Average Discount 10% [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/simplymerit/pricing) SimplyMerit Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_92c40d524b4c59065b5236d9589ac15b/paycom.png "Product Avatar Image") Paycom 4.5/5(6,854) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/paycom-vs-simplymerit) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_0aff88bc4d0163521351dce0b917c433/hrsoft-compensation-management.jpg "Product Avatar Image") HRSoft Compensation Management 4.4/5(139) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/hrsoft-compensation-management-vs-simplymerit) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Paycom](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Paycom") Paycom 4.5/5(6,854) ](https://www.g2.com/products/paycom/reviews) [ ![Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors)") Payscale Ascent (formerly Payfactors) 4.3/5(723) ](https://www.g2.com/products/payscale-ascent-formerly-payfactors/reviews) [ ![Salary.com](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Salary.com") Salary.com 4.4/5(1,091) ](https://www.g2.com/products/salary-com-salary-com/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/simplymerit/competitors/alternatives) ##### Categories on G2 [Compensation Planning](https://www.g2.com/categories/compensation-planning) ##### Explore More [Is Knock worth it as a notification infrastructure platform for a dev team that needs the fastest integration path, or does Courier offer comparable integration speed with more delivery channel flexibility?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-knock-worth-it-as-a-notification-infrastructure-platform-for-a-dev-team-that-needs-the-fastest-integration-path-or-does-courier-offer-comparable-integration-speed-with-more-delivery-channel-flexibility)[Top tools for building cross-platform business apps](https://www.g2.com/discussions/top-tools-for-building-cross-platform-business-apps)[How do food safety management platforms compare for user adoption rates and team productivity gains?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-food-safety-management-platforms-compare-for-user-adoption-rates-and-team-productivity-gains) [Visual Lease vs LeaseAccelerator for ASC 842 compliance: what actually separates them?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/visual-lease-vs-leaseaccelerator-for-asc-842-compliance-what-actually-separates-them)[Best VOIP Providers](https://www.g2.com/discussions/best-voip-providers-for-business-calls-and-team-communication)[Pros and Cons Details](https://www.g2.com/products/simplymerit/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)