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Adrienne B.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/14/2023

"Flexible tool that helps drive effectient HR info management"

4/5

What do you like best about Sapling?

I appreciate the flexibility of the system to set up the fields and workflows I need to run HR processes and also keep track of and report on HR data. While the differentiation from competitors isn't extreme, I do think saplings flexibility with adding fields and seting up workflows is a huge benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

The navigation on the back end isn't always the most user friendly. Sometimes I have to click through a few different fields to get to what I want. Also, while they have api's available and you can easily set up API keys- I know from one system in particular (knoetic) that they aren't always open and willing to work with that system to send the data in useable ways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ciara Slattery of Sapling

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Hi Adrienne,

Thanks for your comment on Sapling’s flexibility with fields and workflows. We’re glad Sapling is helping to automate some of your work and make your team more efficient.

Regarding your comment on the navigation, did you know that Sapling is in the final stages of a fully revamped UI? With beta testing wrapped and last-minute tweaks tweaked, we will start rolling out the new Sapling to everyone over the next few weeks. Our new UI will feature consolidated Navigation with streamlined Dashboards and Tasks to make it easier than ever to get everything done, new and improved Smart Assignment to make onboarding even faster and easier, and a totally new look to make sure the new Sapling is accessible for all with WCAG 2.0 AA certification.

We hope your team are as excited about this as we are!

Thanks,

Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager

Sapling Reviews & Product Details

Sapling is now part of Kallidus Group, a full-suite Human Capital Management software and digital learning provider, offering businesses solutions across the entire employee lifecycle. As a Kallidus product, Sapling’s capabilities in onboarding, offboarding, core HR, and people operations are further elevated by Kallidus’ expertise in learning, performance, talent management, and learning content. Sapling automates your people workflows - from onboarding to offboarding and everything in between - by connecting your people data across your existing systems. Kallidus’ suite of HR and L&D software supports the entire employee lifecycle. Kallidus serves companies such as JYSK, Nestle, McDonalds, and Aston Martin, and currently has over 2 million users worldwide.

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

12 months

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Richard S.

UX and Interaction Designer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/24/2025

"An excellent tool for HR management"

4/5

What do you like best about Sapling?

Sapling is easy to use and is really helpful when first joining an organisation (especially when remote working). It helps get onboarded quickly. As a hybrid worker I found it invaluable. It notifies me when I have documents to sign or new contracts. I have used it a lot in the current job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

Sometimes notifications can be missed. Sometimes documents are hard to find. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

rosie b.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/8/2024

"Using sapling in a L&D team"

4/5

What do you like best about Sapling?

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

What do you dislike about Sapling?

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

Marian K.

BDR

Information Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/1/2024

"Very easy and convenient for HR work, tracking employees and PTOs."

5/5

What do you like best about Sapling?

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

What do you dislike about Sapling?

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

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/18/2023

"A great tool for onboarding new employees"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Sapling?

Sapling does a great job of getting new employees up to speed, ensures compliance in following all key set-up steps , and helps remind them to do all necessary steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

Its was honestly really great. Some steps were unnecessary, and sometimes reminders came before steps could even be completed, but I think that had more to do with our specific implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Agata Z.

Vice President, People & Culture

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/26/2020

"I think its the BEST HR system that exists of the new age"

5/5

What do you like best about Sapling?

I was able to implement this pretty much on my own over the course of a few days. We didn't have any other system to transition from. In general, the training with the team was bang on and informative. BEST THING... embedded videos ya'll.

I like the simple UI. Integrates easy with Google.

What I think most HR systems miss, is that they are build with the HR person as the user, but here is the thing. EMPLOYEES who can do more, will reduce the impact on HR, which is really solving the problem. The employee experience is incredible, we have all employees participating on all main purposes with no laggards, and that's saying something! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

The time off part was a bit more trickier than I would have liked, but the UI is great. Missing functionality is putting people on "leave" with appropriate workflows from there. I'm sure it's coming through.

Wish they had an LMS part of the platform or some Performance stuff, issue with the performance stuff is the out of the box stuff available, rarely fits a company and is hard to develop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sapling:

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

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

Its our source of truth for all employee related things. Employee and Manager self serve has been great with vacation time, sick time, and just general "info" people need about our employees.

Response from Ciara Slattery of Sapling

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Hi Agata,

Thank you so much for such a positive 5 star review. I’ve shared your feedback with our internal teams and they are delighted that implementing Sapling was so seamless for you. We’re glad you found our team so informative and helpful to work with.

It’s so great for us to learn that you now have an incredible employee experience running which is reducing the workload on the HR team.

Thanks for your input on the time off feature. We’re continuously improving our product so look for updates to the time off feature in the new year.

Good news! Since we joined forces with our parent company, Kallidus, we’ve created integrations between Sapling for onboarding, Learn for an LMS and Perform for performance management. I’ll share a link below to our new website.

Thanks again for your review,

Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager

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Christina L.

Operations Associate

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/17/2022

"Streamlines our onboarding but difficult to manage when you scale"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Sapling?

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

What do you dislike about Sapling?

There are some things that could definitely be made better. With the workflows, there is no way to easily compare tasks across workflows or delete or assign the same task from/to multiple workflows. We have a lot of workflows set up, and it's difficult to manage. Also, it would be so user friendly if when you're on an employee profile, when you scroll down, it keeps the name and information at the top. I often am looking at an employees profile and, now that we're a few hundred, have to scroll all the way back up to see whose profile I'm on - very annoying. Finally, there are issues in pulling reports - I ask it to pull ALL the individuals in Sapling, and some people don't get pulled even though they're in Sapling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were onboarding using gsheets previously which was super tedious and not fit for our growing needs. We have become more efficient in onboarding people, and I think employees appreciate it. We also can keep track of how far a new hire is in the onboarding process and have a record of whether a step was done or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Catherine N.

Senior Manager, People Operations

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/4/2023

"Finally found a tool to manage my global workforce"

5/5

What do you like best about Sapling?

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

What do you dislike about Sapling?

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

Steve T.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/14/2023

"Daily user"

4/5

What do you like best about Sapling?

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

What do you dislike about Sapling?

It can be a little clunky at times, signing documents, profile editing are the things staff have issues with mostly. We require a system that does not rely on good internet signal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andie C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/28/2023

"Great onboarding and continuously improving"

5/5

What do you like best about Sapling?

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

What do you dislike about Sapling?

Lots of opportunities to improve features, so the public submission board is helpful. We've run into some API integration challenges with other tech providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ciara Slattery of Sapling

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Hi Andie,

We’re glad Sapling has been easy to configure at your org, and that our onboarding platform is improving the employee experience while also saving your HR team valuable admin time. We’re constantly reviewing product feedback submissions and appreciate all the suggestions that get sent our way.

Thank you so much for leaving us this five star review!

Ciara Slattery, Marketing Manager

Verified User in Biotechnology

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/15/2022

"Sapling review"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Sapling?

Sapling had an appealing and mostly intuitive user interface. The integration with Greenhouse was very helpful when it came to moving candidates into the onboarding stage. I also like the customizable workflows for new hires and offboarding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sapling?

Sapling has some limited functionalities that we've been able to solve by moving our onboarding over to Paylocity instead. I also found some issues in creating the customized workflows like setting the relative dates and not being able to assign the same customized task to multiple people. Sapling also doesn't have an EDI feed available to directly transfer benefits enrollments and changes to our carriers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.