Zenefits Reviews

In a single place you have multiple options for the area of human resources. Within the areas of the company, the area of human resources is usually very broad, since you have payroll management, employee management, salaries, hiring ... All these aspects are integrated into Zenefits which helps to have everything right organized and controlled.

Employees also have access to consult data on their payroll, on payments or on vacation days or queries they wish to make. This provides that they are informed at any time about the information they require.

Integrating the data within the system took some time, since we had a lot of data to enter into the system.

They could make more extensive and specific tutorials about some areas of the program, since at first it was difficult for us to adapt to their operation and we had to spend some time reviewing all the options.

To integrate all the elements of human resources in a single place is recommended Zenefits, since it facilitates the interaction, communication and integration of all aspects of this area.

Time is the word that comes to mind when I think of Zenefits. Now human resources management that previously cost us a lot of time such as review the payroll, give days off or solve employees' budgets are made much faster through this platform. It is all integrated in one place and both the employees and the human resource managers have the options in one place, which helps to make all communication more fluid.

One stop shopping for all of the HR processes. From onboarding to payroll, health benefits, PTO, performance management through termination. It provides one place to efficiently organize/manage and securely document/store everything along the way. Employees have 24/7 access to their pay stubs and PTO requests.

There have been some changes in customer support. It was great when I had one contact who could give me personalized and immediate help. It's improving now, with more options for help like chat and a support line. But the more services there are, the more the help gets dispersed. It's product-specific help rather than someone knowing me and my company. That can feel scattered.

There are videos and tutorials for you to see the navigation. This is very helpful in understanding and experiencing first hand how the apps work. It's very intuitive and easy to use. If you have considered an online HR tool, you must consider Zenefits.

We are more compliant. We are more consistent. We are more timely. The integration of all of the processes into one streamlined tool is so valuable. It gives us more time to do our work and focus on servicing our clients.

It's been great having all of our employees and incoming hires in one place, along with all of their documents. As a rapidly growing and developing business, we need to keep all of our documents online. Zenefits lets us keep all employees' documents and onboarding materials in one easy-to-find place. The Time Off tools that keep us on top of who's in and out of the office has also proven useful. The dashboard looks great and makes Zenefits easy to navigate. Customizable enough when we need to create different policies for different teams.

Their Support services could use improvement-- slow response time, and not the highest quality of support and advising. Of the issues that have come up, I'd say 60% of them go unresolved. We've always had a problem with the automated PTO accrual that creates a headache for us throughout the year, especially so when our PTO accrual and insurance policies renew. It seems as though Zenefits is still in Beta, always discovering and working out chinks.

We've run into a lot of issues with employee benefits and PTO with Zenefits, but we wouldn't switch to another platform.

Organizing and consolidating our onboarding and employee tracking. Zenefits streamlines our onboarding process and makes hiring headache-free. We manage about 100 young, part-time employees, in addition to about 75 full-time staff. They have, for the most part, found Zenefits easy to use to manage their needs.

Smooth experience, it's so much easier than managing it manually. Support team at benefits are a great help when needed. Zenefit's real strengths are on boarding, off boarding, health benefit enrollment and COBRA management. They get better and better with features they continue to add, i.e. FSA, Commuter Benefits, PTO, Reporting etc have been added and is seamless these days.

When they buy new software, they should take more time to integrate the product. I think they learnt their lessons on this.

It's a really an easy system to use and much better than trying to manage outside of a system. Zenefit's real strengths are on boarding, off boarding, health benefit enrollment and COBRA management. They get better and better with features they continue to add, i.e. FSA, Commuter Benefits, PTO, Reporting etc have been added and is seamless these days.

Onboarding, Offboarding, Health Benefits, FSA, Commuter benefits

I like the fact that Zenefits is always improving. I was with them when they were a free platform and now that they are paid. I am waiting for full scheduling functionality before I move on to transferring all of my human resources programs.

I think that their systems can be visually more appealing. It's better than most in the market, but I like something bright and clean looking.

Zenefits is a good choice if you are looking to consolidate different programs into one. I would ask what exactly are you looking for; for example, if you are looking just for payroll, an HR software with that may be too much, but if you are looking to have a seamless program for all of your employees this program may be a good choice to consider.

I am tired of having a thousand apps all over the damn place. Zenefits is a solution to have everything under one roof. It is in Zenefits business model to continue to grow and encompass more human resources needs.

Zenefits is a very cost efficient brokerage of benefits and HRIS system with some great tools, such as US employee onboarding and benefits enrollment, cobra administration, and commuter benefit offerings. It’s great to have a benefits broker that comes along with an HRIS system.

There have been many quirks with the software, mainly the lack of effective dating, the validity of some reports data, and the lack of customer service. Recently I will say, the reporting and customer service have slightly improved but it is still hard to truly trust the data like I can with ADP and other systems.

Commuter benefit issues with employer contributions have been a challenge for 2 plan years. Effective dating I have been told is an issue that Zenefits is aware of but not yet working on, which really is baffling to me since it is very important. I do like the cobra administration, time and attendance module and ease of US employee onboarding, while still awaiting these features for international entities.

Payroll processing, Built in performance management, company directory, great and easy to access customer service. I love having our benefits integrated and having a one stop shop essentially for all aspects of HR.

I love that they are constantly growing and rolling out new updates that have both functionality and compliance in mind. The performance management tool isnt much yet, but it is a very promising app that should make Zenefits a ones stop shop for all of our companies needs. Apart from that the mobile app is easy to use and make time and attendance is easy to use as an administrator and as a user.

Reports are poor. They are getting better and have had some improvements. I hope the payroll reports improve so I dont have to continue to make my own each payroll run. Their customer service is only accessible via chat, email or phone call. Now that my sound like its an amazing aspect but you submit tickets and wait for them to call you back. Not too convenient when you actually want to talk to a real person.

Learn how to use EVERYTHING before launch. Make sure your specialists actually call you and teach you how to use it rather than letting them just email you.

The benefits we are using are health, medical, dental and then out other coinsurances. They integrate well and working with the other apps they have is easy and a HUGE bonus.

What I like best from Zenefits I think is their customer service approach. They know that even-though a user can do everything through the platform, there are processes that are completed offline by third parties. Having always someone willing te help you find out what's going with those off-platform processes is great.

On the other hand, the platform is beautiful. It is very intuitive and it has the perfect balance between modern and professional.

Additionally, you can manage the whole HR process on it. Before Zenefits I remember we had to make a lot pf phone calls and emails to coordinate everything. Today all of that is on the platform, so there's no more overhead and my HR team has more time to work on other stuff.

I don't really dislike anything from Zenefits.

I'd recommend starting with the first tier and then move up if needed. Customer service is really good to helo you understand the setup process.

Before using Zenefits we had to handle everything manually on different platforms and/or offline. Multiple points of contacts created multiple single points of failure. It was messy. Zenefits has allowed us to consolidate everything employee related in a single place and it makes both HR and Administrative people lives easier. Think of Zenefits as a bridge between employees, the HR team and the brokers. In the platform we now can manage all the processes that involve those three parties.

Zenefits streamlines the place to go for employees to see any benefits our company offers or employees' personal benefits. The look of the portal is very clean and nice, easy to use and pretty intuitive. The dashboard for each user is great because it highlights the main areas that one would need to access often. I often use the commuter benefits portion to check how I've been using those benefits. Or, the vacation time portal to request time off, whether it's PTO or sick time.

The tool for hierarchy and teams isn't the most intuitive to use and the functionality seems a bit dated. I wish there was a more robust way to show how all the teams in the company are connected to each other.

When using Zenefits, know that the portal holds the information it has populated from the integration you have set for it. For example, if your insurance company policies give certain information to Zenefits regarding your coverage, it will reflect that in the portal however it could be missing information or could be incorrect—so you must defer to your actual documentation to assure it's correct.

There are great features like the Vacation portal for PTO and Sick Time, insurance info, payroll, and commuter benefits. Additionally, HR policies and contracts can be created and held within the portal. It creates one space to hold all HR and employee materials that they would need.

Zenefits has had a lot of ups and downs, but it is constantly changing and evolving. There is no doubt how much time and money Zenefits has saved us as a small company in gathering information, tracking people, tracking insurance, hiring, terminating, and payroll. I think by far the best feature that we utilize with Zenefits is payroll. It took our payroll process down from 8 hours to 30 minutes. It used to be a two person process that would involve a day of double checking numbers and now I do it myself within 30 minutes and Zenefits always does the math right and remembers things that I would not.

Also, I love documents. We can track all of our employee documents here and it is such a relief. Also, we can send yearly documents that need to be signed or updated. This is such a time save.

We have yet to have a very wonderful experience with Zenefit's insurance brokerage. They used to do it in house and it was just a disaster for someone that wasn't from California, where they are located. We struggled in Georgia with a lack of knowledge from their brokers, and an inability to advise us on crucial things like HSA's and FSA's. They have changed their process and are now using a different agency, and I can't wait to see what this process is like (and they are in Atlanta, too!)

Also, their time off app needs tweaking. I LOVE having a time off app and it is so useful, but the way that it calculates available time is just wonky and none of my employees seem to understand it.

This is a company that listens and makes the right changes in the right direction. I have never felt my voice heard as well as I do with Zenefits.

1. Keeping track of important personal employee files

2. Processing insurance and tracking benefits

3. Tracking ETO/PTO

4. General HR questions

5. Payroll

6. Employee onboarding

As the HR Contact, I use this software on a daily basis. It helps me with so many things. My employees know they have it and occasionally have to use it for things like ETO or checking their paystubs, but don't need to bother it, and that's how I like it.

Zenefits was an amazing platform when we first rolled out. It was so easy to use and took our on boarding to the next level and really provided a fantastic platform to begin to manage the HR needs of our growing organization.

It was very hard to make the move away from our local insurance agent but we were convinced the benefits of a total HR solution and still having a person to communicate with regarding our medical insurance needs was worth it. Unfortunately, we went from a dedicated rep, to a team of reps, to simply having an email address to send questions to. Our employees suffered.

It was very disappointing to lose all of our personal support and contact with our insurance agent. It then was even more disappointing that Zenefits began charging for features we were promised would always remain free of charge.

Zenefits was truly an amazing HR software and on boarding platform. We were able to solve needs we didn't even know we had.

It's pretty straightforward and easy to navigate. You can get reports for anything.

Have had a couple of technical issues, and website directions can be misleading or just too vague for people unfamiliar with the system or with running payroll. I'm with a tiny nonprofit organization, and was hired as sort of the part-time "all in one" admin person, with payroll being one of the responsibilities. I have no prior experience with payroll.

It's basically straighforward, but when you have a unique situation, I have found the infomation/instructions on the website to be vague and often misleading. Example: "a paper check will be issued" should probably say "employer will issue a paper check to employee" - the way they word it definitely leaves open the understanding that Zenefits is sending the check. (Perhaps they should contract with a technical writer for this - couldn't hurt.)

I had a similar issue with Contractors module. Needed to issue a Form 1099 for someone. When you check the "yes" box to have Zenefits issue it, they ask you "How much to you want to put on on the 1099"? or something very similar. Being new to this, I put in the amount of money the contractor had been paid based on Zenefits' payment history.

Contractor got a 1099 for double the wages she actually earned. Turns out what they MEANT was, "Zenefits shows total payments of $$$. Do you wish to add additional payments to the 1099"? Luckily, I had some IRS form and I could issue the corrected 1099 because Zenefits could not. Had I not had the forms their only suggestion was to pay a CPA to issue the correction. They should just be more precise in their language.

The Time and Attendance thing seems a little buggy - recently I had to add hours to some employee's timecards after the deadline, and hours I added to one employee's card ended up also in another employee's card (employee 2) - and the hours that employee 2 had added to their card had disappeared. I did not see that because I had not edited employee 2's card. Result was employee 2 was overpaid. Did not get a response as to how to fix this before the next pay run, which is annoying. I also log my hours on a spreadsheet as I work, then transfer them to Time and Attendance. I can never get my hours/minutes/totals to work properly in T&A. I have to tweak the decimals in T&A to make the total hours match what I show in Google Sheets.

Watch for bugginess and before you do something new, make sure you either watch the tutorial or ask Support to be sure you are doing it right. The website directions make it seem that you understand what you are about to do, but the wording is poor and it's easy to make a mistake.

The payroll account was in place when I started, so no idea what problems might be solved. I added Timd and Attendance because it was too time-consuming to do manual timecards and ensure compliance with the overtime laws, etc. It is faster but as I mentioned above, it's buggy.

Zenefits helps us to manage our HR department much easier. Candidates are always on track, the moment when people accept the offers we will be notified immediately. We also begin to consider using it's payroll function in the near future. The platform is clean and nice, easy to use.

Nothing is more frustrating when you are about to discuss with the new employees about their 401(k) and the website shows it encounter system issues. The cost for each employee is also an interesting issue, since it charges us by the number of employees. Wish they can do a bundle sale, for instance, different price sets for 1-10, 11-49, 50-100 employees, etc.

Consider changing the price setting. It will encourage more start-ups to use Zenefits if it offers more flexible price based on the current number of employees and the future growth.

Onboarding, benefits, and hopefully payroll next year.

Zenefits is one stop for all of your HR needs. It is easy to use for admins as well as staff. Customer service is impeccable. I have never been let down by this company when I need to get in touch with them.

Not much to dislike with Zenefits. Once you get everything entered in; the software takes over. If you have questions; customer service is easily reachable and their response time is amazing.

Try it and you will see that it is a wonderful tool to have within your business.

Zenefits just added payroll so I am anxious to explore that and possibly add that to my HR package. All employee info is stored here as well as all of our benefits packages. It it very helpful to all of us when we have a question.

We've used Zenefits for 2.5 years. Despite the "automation" nature of their products, I've been very impressed with how personal the service is. Each of the Zenefits reps I've dealt with has not only been friendly, but super responsive and knowledgeable.

They seem to have recovered well from the CEO shakeup and turmoil from 2016, but it's something that sticks at the back of your mind - are they stable enough for us to keep relying on them more and more? My sense is that they are, but it's hard sometimes not to wonder.

If you're using it for the free features, it's hard to go wrong. There's very little risk. That's how they get your attention, and it's a neat model.

We're onboarding new employees with ease and we've automated our Annual Enrollment process. We're currently considering using them for payroll too.

Zenefits has gone thru a lot of changes THANKFULLY and as a customer for 3 years now, I've seen a huge improvement and I hope it doesn't end. Specifically, I like how much easier open enrollment is now.

There certainly are areas of improvement but I think the more you communicate with them, they're able to find ways to make the platform work for your needs. It's really the only way to get things fixed.

But if I had to point out one (tiny) flaw, it's when offer letters are resent, they candidate does not get notified. We need to actually email the candidate to log back in to Zenefits to view their updated offer. It's minor. I know.

Zenefits is our main HR platform and it takes care of all of our benefits. I'm pretty happy with it.

I think that Zenefits is well-designed and has an intuitive user interface. It makes payroll much easier, employees enter their hours quickly and managers are able to review the hours and quickly resolve issues. It is fast and convenient for employees to update their information. It was really easy to onboard a new employee.

There is no good way to enter information for flex days, we have to approve it through managers and log it as regular hours worked.

This is great for a small company. Payroll and all the information is available to the employees, making HR issues a lot easier to deal with.

Employees can quickly view medical, dental, vision, and 401k retirement plans, this cuts down on the amount of searching employees need to do, keeping all information in one location.

This tool allows for various uses for small to mid-sized companies. Overall, I have mostly been a user of the system with a touch of interaction with manager and back-end functions. We're currently using the system to track our hourly employees, administer benefits, and keep track of employee information. I think the tool has been pretty intuitive and easy to use with integrations making the flow of the admin more seamless.

I think there are areas for improvement, however, I don't think I have the best suggestions given I'm mostly a user of the software and not an admin.

Employee benefits and general admin of HR.

It has a lot of HR resources in one place... It's really a promising platform if you live where you can take advantage of everything they offer! After talking to my sales person, I also have a lot of confidence that new features are coming.

(Update - 4 months in and Zenefits is full of bugs and problems. Unfortunately, they lured us into pre-paying for an annual service, and they have a no-refund policy. Escalating concerns with Zenefits is a nightmare - I'm supposed to be on a call with them now, but the rep no-showed for our scheduled call. Don't waste your money!)

Many services aren't offered in Delaware. We couldn't use them for health insurance or for payroll - 2 of the key reasons we wanted the platform. That being said, we like it enough that we signed up and are waiting for those services to be made available in Delaware!

(4 months in - Still no Delaware Payroll....but lots of product bugs to report. Buttons on the platform that don't go anywhere... slow responses from escalation support, and no refunds if you're not happy... Stay away!)

Even if they don't offer everything in your state, the solution is still solid! We are glad we made the switch!

(4 months in and Zenefits is why I drink... this platform gets worse by the day!)

We will eventually be able to put all of our HR in one place. Employees will have quick easy access to payroll and HR forms, in the same portal they use to clock in and out every day.

(4 months in - causing more problems than it solves for... We were better off with the disjointed systems we had in place before!)

I like that it's one stop for all HR needs that includes on boarding, benefits, reports, record keeping and much, much more.

They don't have a reputable 401K partner.

If you're a small company and growing either quickly or steadily, Zenefits is the way to go. It gives you back your time, saves time when it comes to ob boarding new hires, open enrollment, any employee changes are made easily. Hiring syncs with Lever - ATS. Support is responsive if you have an issue.

You're saving money by using Zenefits, not saving with a PEO. With a PEO you have no insight or control of anything, you rely on the PEO and it's not good. They are not always available and anything you need you have to rely on them. Why do that when you can save money by using Zenefits.

The company has insight into what we're spending on benefits, we went from paper on boarding to paperless. Employees can update their information on their own, we can run our own reports or use the customized ones that are provided. A lot of information is at our fingertips when it wasn't before since we were using a PEO.

On boarding a new hire is easy and free!

I love that all of our HR 'stuff' can be collected in one place. Less paperwork means less headaches for everyone. The interface is very user friendly, and I love the 'time off' management tool.

We've had some problems with the software not automating region specific HR compliance like its supposed to do. Additionally, their new 'we'll call you' approach to customer service is highly annoying.

The interface is very user friendly, and employees like that they can easily track and manage their benefits all in one place.

Zenefits allows us to keep track of all relevant "HR" paperwork, manage employee time off, and administer/manager insurance and commuter benefits.

It is a super easy to use tool for all hiring and firing needs. Not only did I pick it up in less than a day - the support staff they have goes above and beyond to help!

I've noticed sometimes it will populate an employee twice when I'm trying to onboard but that's a simple fix on my end.

I highly suggest using Zenefits for your company, it's made our lives much easier when it comes to keeping track of employees.

All HR hiring/firing. It's made it beyond easy to on-board and off-board employees. Easily keep track of all employee documents and start days. I LOVE the calendar feature so I can better keep track of birthday's, too. This feature makes it a lot easier to plan things for up coming birthfays.

Our team uses Zenefits everyday for a wide variety of functions: offer letters, employee onboarding, background checks, data reporting, COBRA administration, payroll, Time & Attendance, Time Off, Open Enrollment, ACA Compliance, FSAs, 401(k), etc. It is safe to say we are "power users." One of the best things about Zenefits is how much customer feedback they accept and how the product has continued to evolve during the last three years that we have been using it. We have also appreciated the responsiveness of our customer rep.

Our time savings from eliminating paperwork is very hire (would probably need at least 1 additional FTE if we didn't have the product), we are more compliant than we would be otherwise, and our employees have never required training on the product.

Payroll can run slowly at times, configuring the time off app is not intuitive, and the permissions sets available to admin needs to be more customizable. It would be nice if there was an app for FMLA compliance in Zenefits as well (but they do have some useful help center materials about it). I would also like a repository of HR documents that employees could access in Zenefits that the HR team could update.

We are solving an administrative burden, compliance, communicating with staff, etc. We also have everything in a one-stop location which makes it easier for employees.

Zenefits makes it easy for me to manage information about my employees, adjust salaries, approve time off, and much more. Zenefits streamlined a process that was once cumbersome because I needed multiple systems for payroll, time off, and other benefits. I was in charge of HR (even though it wasn't my full time role) and Zenefits made it easy for me to figure things out.

Some employees complained about not being able to find information easily, but it was more user error than a problem with Zenefits. I trained my employees on how to request time off, how to see their benefits, adjust their 401ks, and after I coached them nobody seemed to struggle.

Make sure you set Zenefits up properly to save you headaches. I recommend putting everything (insurance plans, employee handbook, PTO tracker, commuter benefits, contact information, etc.) in Zenefits. If you only use half of it, you're missing out on the advantage of keeping all of your HR/benefits in one place.

Keeping all HR and benefits related things in one place. I no longer have to search a spreadsheet to know how many days off someone has left in the year!

All your HR needs in one place. We have employees in more than one location all over the country. Zenefits makes onboarding easier and it happens with far fewer emails. It also offers a lot of safety where employees do not have to send sensitive information via email.

Not all of the services are offered to us due to locations where we operate. We cannot run payroll or add contractors because of where we do business. We are also unable to sync with our benefits provider

Good for small businesses with employees in several work locations

Keeps our HR department more organized and accessible anywhere. It is more secure and frees up a lot of space for storing paper files. Our employees like that they have access to all of their paperwork and are able to make any changes to tax withholding or direct deposit very easily.

Zenefits helps keep a good portion of HR paperwork all in one spot. HR always has a tremendous amount of paperwork and deadlines, so it's amazing to find a product to keep a lot of that chaos all in one spot. We use Zenefits for our benefits, onboarding, documents, tracking and reminder for training, and several other features. It has organized and decreased the amount of paper on my desk by a lot. One great feature is that it's fairly easy to customize to fit to your company rather than the company trying to fit to the software. We continue to find new ways to utilize it which makes it easy for me to justify it to the CFO & ED. We have definitely found efficiency and effectiveness with this product. For any business that can't afford the ridiculous prices they have for other software, Zenefits has a great bang for the buck!

Although I love Zenefits, there have been some bumps in the road. We've been using Zenefits for two years and it has definitely changed a lot in those two years. Sometimes things are changed without the best of communication, but it is getting better than it was two years ago. And truthfully, even though some of the changes surprised me, most of them really were good changes, so that helped. There are a few things within the categories I use that I would change for my particular business, but that would happen with any software. They are, however, very good about listening to their customers on what they want changed. All in all, not a lot to gripe about.

I highly recommend Zenefits, especially to any company that would like to ease into software to help with their HR needs. Zenefits is pretty easy to use, which is nice when starting a new software in a business. Make sure to utilize part of it you can, it will save you money in the long run.

It has tremendously limited our benefits paperwork, which is amazing! It has also streamlined our onboarding process and I have only heard positive feedback from our new hires. We also use the ACA tool, which has saved our company money and made it fairly easy to follow those regulations. The documents section has also changed several of our processes and helped us stay compliant with state agency regulations we must follow.

It's great having everything in one place—PTO, insurance information, and FSA. Given how utterly awful web portals for benefits usually are, it's great to use something that actually functions like you would expect from a real, modern web page.

It's clear they've tried to streamline and simplify the process—however, some things (like health insurance) are complicated in their very nature, and perhaps should stay that way. Zenefits seems to encourage you to "click through" and just get your medical benefits set up as painlessly as possible, when in reality you should probably be enduring a little pain to dig into and think about the details of your coverage.

Make sure to encourage your employees to look through all the details of their insurances and flex account plans, because these plans are complicated and a lot of potential pitfalls are hidden in the details.

I'm an employee using Zenefits as the way to get my benefits. The "benefits" are having my benefits in one place, and being able to set everything up online (health insurance, FSA, etc), without having to wait on hold with a call center or use a fax machine or do anything else that shouldn't be required in they year 2017.

The automated ability to handle our benefits. In this day and age, I am surprised it took so long to make the benefits enrollment and termination process an automated one. Zenefits was a leader in implementing this platform, which has since been implemented by others.

I believe the paid pricing modules are a little steep. It's not that they don't provide good additions, but the pricing is a little above what the paid products warrant.

I love the fact that my employees know what benefits they are eligible for and are reminded repeatedly that they need to act or lose their eligibility, without this falling solely on MY shoulders. This has been immensely helpful, as well as the the ability to see at a glance who has what benefits, and what their cost is.

I love that all employee paperwork is accessible in one spot. Also, it makes open enrollment so much easier. Plus, the reporting is excellent!

I'd like to use Zenefits HRA/FSA offering, but we can't set it up with Zenefits the way we use at TrueWealth. As a result, we use MedCom. I'd love to move all HR to Zenefits if I could.

Talk to current customers and find out the creative ways they use Zenefits. It is amazing all the new stuff I learn from being involved with ClubZen and the Community Group.

To have HR in one place, such as benefits, payroll, 401k, PTO, time keeper; better system for employee paperwork

I like that it is easy to request time off and access my paycheck easily. I also like that commuter benefits are built into this and also easily accessible.

Zenefits recently messed up our companies benefits, so I am still unsure as to whether or not im insured at the moment because of this. This should have been something they jumped on top of ASAP but from what I heard they were not very sympathetic considering it was their mess up.

Its not the worst, not the best.

I wouldn't say its solving any problems. Its just an easy way to see your benefits, payroll, ect...

One Stop HR. Ease of use, integration of employee management info both from admin and employee pov, user interface, HR compliance resourcing.

As an early adopter, Zenefits is continually improving. Until recently, customer service and additional services (like FSA) lacked effective problem resolution and solutions orientation (significantly improving!).

Needs Org Chart capability. Reporting is limited.

Depending on size and budget of your company, Zenefits provides great HR management software solutions! Easy for employees to use. Benefits admin integrates benefits well. A big value-add!

HR benefits admin (medical, dental, vision, FSA), employee management software (PTO tracking, employee database). Provides employee info and access to review and manager their info.

Zenefits makes our on-boarding process so easy for us and our new employees. Everything is in one place, and easy to use. It is nice to have the support they provide as well. We just went through open enrollment, and it was so easy to pick our new plan and get everyone signed up who was interested.

The only think I dislike is that we don't run our payroll through them so we have to send documents to our payroll provider.

Give them a shot. I know there was some bad press around them, but we never experienced any of that. And, they have been very easy to work with the whole time. They communicate well, and you can reach them by phone or email. The follow up even when they don't have an update yet, but want you to know they are still working on items for you.

Compliance across the board.

Configuration and overall setup of the system is intuitive and it's clear what is possible and not within workflows and available fields. What really sets it apart is the ease of adoption for users - with just a few tips, employees and managers can complete their tasks.

In some cases there is a trade-off to get the simplicity which limits alternate configurations for different employee segments. Also, training videos posted on youtube doesn't seem appropriate for a technology as comprehensive as this.

Managing a geographically disperse set of employees within on standard system. We have seen quicker process completion times from open enrollment, time off requests and managing savings accounts.

I like the interconnectivity of it all as well as the accessibility in a number of platforms

Personally, it just seems a bit bland for what it is. Sure it's not a frivolous app, but it could use something to liven up the place

None that I can think of at the moment but as soon as I find out I'll let you know

I'm not too sure if we have had any problems but we always have a means to contact each other

We love using Zenefits because it helps us to maintain our digital status. We pride ourselves on being a digital company. It also has been a great help in mainstreaming our PTO and On-Boarding process. It is so much easier and makes us feel better knowing things will not fall through the cracks. Also getting someone ready for payroll faster puts our employees at ease as well!

I have not come across anything so far that I do not like!

Payroll, PTO and On-Boarding!

When it's working, it's relatively user-friendly and aesthetically, it's pleasant to look at. In theory, it does its job well. The fact that it has built-in preferred name and pronoun choices is certainly appreciated.

It only works some of the time. It's buggy in Chrome, and as of this review, will not load the sidebar or profile features, or let me record time off for employees. Variations on this theme where I'm unable to actually use the core functions of the product have existed on and off the entire time I've used this software (6 months now).

Make sure you vet it thoroughly and ensure that it will actually work.

It has made tracking PTO vs. balances easier (though I still use a backup method because I just don't trust it for all its issues).

Ease of use- I work for a construction company, and our employees are not necessarily "computer savvy", so there were some concerns about introducing a system with an employee self-serve component, however it is so user friendly that no one has had any issues to date, not with onboarding, uploading, or the system in and of itself.

The implementation was rocky and slow moving- I basically had to dive in and learn through trial and error, however it is pretty easy to use, so it wasn't too bad, the implementation manager did not have a lot of time to devote and was inaccessible. - I would like the ability to transfer employees from one company to another , which is not a feature currently.

Easier onboarding, system of record, we have several remote offices and this has allowed managers to view pertinent personnel information online in Zenefits rather than having to wait until we pull the hard copy file.

The software interface is easy to use -- for admin and for users. Our employees like the interface and new hires say onboarding was easy.

We used to have an account manager but he was fired and we weren't notified. It seems that account managers are no longer part of the support model. Instead, the only way to contact support is to fill out a web form -- there is no email or phone number. This makes it hard to address bigger or recurring issues. We also have had problems in which some benefit enrollments weren't transferred to the insurance carriers.

If you need a tech solution for a growing company and can't afford to purchase a true HRIS, Zenefits is great. However, their services as an insurance broker are less rich.

We were able to digitalize our onboarding and benefits enrollment at no cost, which was a great success for us as a nonprofit.

I'm really impressed with zenefits thus far. I've yet to have many of the problems that some of the reviewers have, but i will take note of any and update my review. I also like the ability to consolidate all of our HR-related resources into a single portal and/or mobile app for my employees.

none to think of yet. If i really had to find a con though, it would be that their "Time and attendance" app is separate from their main Zenefits app.

If you are considering using Zenefits, make sure you weigh it against its competitors. It does a lot of things, but it does few of them perfectly. A jack-of-all-trades, master of none type of solution.

It has allowed us to centralize the large majority of our HR-related tasks.

Zenefits is an easy to use interface for both the company, and the employees. Simple, easy and effective. The employees feel comfortable using the system and we have had no complaints. I could go on and on about the system but I'm sure you've stopped reading at this point. It is the online support system that we used and although I was nervous moving in this direction it the on-boarding process was much easier than I expected. Most of our employees are younger, recent graduates, and their expectation was support 24/7 and this was the easiest means to provide it to them without the expense of hiring a full time human resources manager. I certainly had no desire, nor time to become an expert in the area of human resources and still keep the business growing. Choosing zenefits was a great decision that is validated with every employee changeover. We also find the benefits enrollment reminders very helpful and insure that our employees don't miss the necessary deadlines. I can't imagine what problems we would encounter if that happened.

I have trouble pinpointing areas of concern. The only issue that did come up was solved through their customer support system online. Really not a problem.

I'm sure there are alternative systems out there, but I found Zenefits to be be easy and so did our employees.

I particularly like the ease of use as a small company with little HR support. Zenefits IS our HR support! We manage our benefits and maintain employee records and information through the system.

+ I appreciate the user friendly design of the system

+ the data base of protocols and how to's for employees to reduce follow up with HR ie it's easy to self manage your benefits

+ PTO plug in

+ reminders and prompts for renewals, outstanding administrator tasks, etc

+ quality of customer support is very poor (rarely able to resolve matter, leave things open ended, should benefit from going through more support trainings)

I would recommend Zenefits with a good payroll system. We have intuit and I would not recommend them as a provider.

If you have very straightforward needs zenefits is great, if you have a need to customize benefits and PTO offerings across the board, there is quite a bit of hassle in setting things up or changing existing programs.

PTO & Benefits Management

The need for systems that address perks and additional types of benefits offered by an employer. (examples: employee discounts with vendors, gym membership, volunteer days included in PTO systems, tuition reimbursement management)

I like that it has a clean and simple design, allowing me to always find the information I need, when I need it.

There's really nothing I dislike. The one thing I struggled with recently, but figured out after 5 minutes of playing with the tool is how to actually use the vision care.

I always know what my benefits are and where to find them. I just downloaded the app and it made it even easier for vision. I'm going to use it soon, so I will see how it works when actually needing to show my insurance via Zenefits.

Zenefits is an hub that greatly reduces time spent managing HR tasks. For the small or medium sized business, Zenefits eliminates the need for hiring an HR manager while streamlining the process and consolidating data and important information. The Zenefits team is very responsive and knowledgable, and will advocate when needed, which again reduces the manpower needed to manage HR.

The new interface is not as user friendly in some cases, although it is more robust. We use ADP for payroll, and the disconnect has increased the effort needed to manage HR bi-weekly, which goes against Zenefits core philosophy. The commuter benefits program makes it difficult to remove an employee and could be better documented or tweaked to avoid issues.

Onboarding, management of documents and employee data, health insurance, short term disability, streamlined processes such as signing off of new employee handbook, PTO management, commuter benefits, integration with Slack.

Zenefits has streamlined my HR responsibilities immensely. I have been very grateful to have this tool to help me learn the ropes of everything from hiring to PTO.

When I first was learning about Zenefits, I reached out to get support/training and was told that didn't exist. Then, through my own digging, I found extensive options for that and it has helped a lot. It was a rough start getting support, but now they've made up for it with their training offerings.

We're solved the job offer process through using Zenefits. What used to be a complex communications process between all parties involved. I hope to continuously improve this process and use as many integrations Zenefits offers.

I love that all of our HR is done through this one app (payroll, benefits, time off management, etc) and that employees can easily access their information and make updates whenever they'd like.

I've reached out a few times for a demo of their time & attendance recording options and haven't received a response. They have a 'request a demo' button that I'm thinking probably doesn't work!

Zenefits does a lot of the not-so-fun HR duties for us. We don't have to hassle with running our own payroll and filing taxes, employee documentation is available and easily accessible anytime (for us an employees), they manage and administer our benefits, and they help us make sure we are complying legally regarding things like hiring and termination.

My favorite part about Zenefits is how it simplifies my onboarding process by keeping everything online.

I'm sad that Zenefits is no longer functioning as a health insurance broker. The fact that we will have two different systems to use for this going forward is concerning, and I'm worried things will get messed up or lost in communication during my open enrollment and general new hire enrollments in insurance.

Make sure everything during your implementation goes perfectly so your use of the product going forward is seamless. Their support has really improved over the years, and I do appreciate the feedback they ask for to make their product better and better.

Onboarding documents moved to completely electronic, making the process fast and easy for both the employer and the employee.

It is an excellent option to use in the incorporation and enrollment of employees in health benefits. it helps you save time, especially with the elimination of paper forms and the fact that you communicate with our health care provider

some of the options of this tool can be a bit tedious to configure example configure a policy or enable a function

add a performance management module

It is a tool full of many functions is very useful to work with it since it allows to manage the human resources management in a practical way

You can do everything on it. I've used it at two different jobs now who have used it for: on-boarding, performance reviews, requesting time off, tax info, pay stubs, health insurance etc. It truly does it all in terms of HR.

I truly can't think of anything wrong with it.

It might take a while to on-board and get everything squared away in the system but it is totally worth it.

Rather than go to dozens of different platforms for your HR needs it is ALL in Zenefits. You can fill out your W2 and change your emergency contact on the same webpage.