AI SoloHR vs. ETO Software (legacy)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AI SoloHR
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
AI SoloHR is HR case management software for U.S. small businesses and lean HR teams that need a structured way to manage sensitive HR workflows. The product is designed for teams that handle HR in-house and need more than spreadsheets, inbox threads, and shared folders to track case activity. AI SoloHR helps users organize FMLA, ADA accommodation, employee relations, benefits renewal, leave-related, and other HR follow-up workflows in a case-based workspace. Each…
$79
per month per workspace
ETO Software (legacy)
Score 7.1 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
ETO Software is a legacy case management solution supported by Social Solutions, acquired by Bonterra, and later sold as Bonterra ETO. The application is not the company's current case management solution.N/A
Pricing
AI SoloHRETO Software (legacy)
Editions & Modules
Starter
$79
per month Per workspace
Solo HR
$199
per month Per workspace
HR Ops Team
$399
per month Per workspace
Compliance Plus
$799
per month Per workspace
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AI SoloHRETO Software (legacy)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsAI SoloHR is sold as subscription SaaS with four monthly plan tiers. Starter begins at $79/month. Solo HR is $199/month, HR Ops Team is $399/month, and Compliance Plus is $799/month. Plans are based on workspace tier and operational limits such as active cases, people records, seats, AI drafts, intake links, outbound email, audit exports, and advanced controls. A 14-day free trial is available with no credit card required.
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Community Pulse
AI SoloHRETO Software (legacy)
User Ratings
AI SoloHRETO Software (legacy)
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(44 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(5 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(5 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.1
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AI SoloHRETO Software (legacy)
Likelihood to Recommend
DragonVerse Media Inc
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Discontinued Products
ETO Social Solutions should be avoided until they start caring about the problems generated by their software. In regards specifically to the ARMS suite utilized by the entire state of California, until the ETO software learns how to speak with SOMS, and unless it can be customized by knowledgeable people who consult with front-line users. It is not appropriate to provide the state legislature with bad data. I have 6 years of experience with it and I have multiple sources of agreement from fellow users throughout the state.
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Pros
DragonVerse Media Inc
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  • ETO's customization allows for the use of so many different and unique applications.
  • The ability to build extremely customized reports also allows us to get very detail oriented results or very broad building wide stats.
  • The additional added features such as workflow, referrals, and ETO Engage are useful in their own way and add more ways to better track and record data while simplifying some end-user processes.
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Cons
DragonVerse Media Inc
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  • The user interface is not intuitive and exceptionally difficult for non-tech savvy people to learn.
  • The system is not as customizable as we were led to believe at the initial purchase.
  • The system does not interface well with other systems. Organizationally we are moving towards data integration, and we will likely replace ETO because of this limitation.
  • Considering the limitations of the system, the cost is quite high. We've seen only marginal benefits of this system over pen and paper, and the ROI is not promising.
  • The initial build process was very frustrating. We didn't understand what the developer was billing us for. Something like simple touchpoint forms was billed for more hours than it would seem to require.
  • A system like this should be both fully mobile compatible and have offline functionality.
  • We would benefit from more nuanced security settings.
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Likelihood to Renew
DragonVerse Media Inc
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Discontinued Products
Social Solutions has been great for our organization. It has allowed us to not only report on data, but to dive into it to see trends and give snapshots of the current status of our neighbors. Social Solutions has been helpful in getting us to see additional ways we can use our data and ways that it is easier for front line staff to use this tool
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Usability
DragonVerse Media Inc
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As a technically savvy person with experience learning new database software systems I find ETO relatively straightforward now that I've been trained in it's use. However, many of our staff are less technically savvy and the learning curve for ETO can be grueling for many, who require frequent troubleshooting and support from me. Additionally, there are small quality of life improvements that would increase usability even for me - such as allowing multiple tabs to be open simultaneously or being able to use the browser's "back" and "forward" buttons.
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Reliability and Availability
DragonVerse Media Inc
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Discontinued Products
Routine maintenance is announced with plenty of lead time, and the few times I've been unable to log in to the system properly a simple refresh was all that was required to fix.
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Performance
DragonVerse Media Inc
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Discontinued Products
Mostly really strong now, although I understand that for some years before switching their hosting service to AWS performance was a real issue with ETO and we had frequent problems with pages timing out or other glitches stemming from performance issues. With AWS that is mostly a thing of the past, although it is still a major issue with the reporting tool which is unable to run reports on the entire database due to performance limitations, instead requiring admins to define universes prior to running queries.
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Support Rating
DragonVerse Media Inc
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Discontinued Products
We love the first tier customer support folks! They're friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable within the scope of their position. The experiences we've had with their supervisors have also been mostly good and again they seem to be doing what they can within the scope of their positions. This is what prevents me from selecting 1. Unfortunately, none of these wonderful folks can offer real solutions when things are actually broken. They verify there's a problem and send it to the black hole called "the developers". After that, we don't hear anything useful and we figure out how to live with/work around the problem ourselves. (Requests for updates typically get "still with the developer" responses.) This is highly frustrating given that most of our issues are basic system issues (functionality that worked then broke after an update by Social Solutions, servers not syncing, report universes not flattening automatically, etc.). All we want is for the system to work as designed and to be fixed in a timely fashion when it doesn't. Apparently, that's too much to ask. (And no, we don't expect it to happen instantly, programming and quality control checks obviously take time.)
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Online Training
DragonVerse Media Inc
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Really good trainer and exhaustive curriculum covered, but ETO is a complex enough system that you don't *really* know how to use it until you've been in the trenches for a few weeks. For instance, I took a Report Writing training and emerged with some fluency in the reports interface and a vague understanding of the process, but immediately encountered a legion of instance-specific idiosyncrasies that would have been totally impossible to address in a webinar training for a dozen folks from different orgs working in different instances.
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Implementation Rating
DragonVerse Media Inc
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Discontinued Products
Hard to say, as I was not with the agency at the time. However, based on our use of the software ~5years later I can say that there were no catastrophic design choices made during implementation that have become unduly burdensome as we've scaled up.
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Alternatives Considered
DragonVerse Media Inc
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Discontinued Products
When we made our decision several years ago Social Solutions had just acquired Apricot. At that time it was recommended to use ETO based off our revenue stream. However, it seems like Social Solutions has put in a lot more time and effort into Apricot over ETO and it seems more modern and user friendly. I think it is worth a second look once our contract expires
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Scalability
DragonVerse Media Inc
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The core product scales well, and we've grown quite a bit as an agency during our use of ETO. However, there are some real pain points particularly around creating new programs and managing report universes that require extensive offline checklist resources and a full-spectrum understanding of how changing settings in one part of ETO can have downstream impact in other areas. This can introduce a "chilling" effect on proposed changes to the system, where there is strong incentive to leave things as-is to avoid unforeseen consequences.
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Return on Investment
DragonVerse Media Inc
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Discontinued Products
  • I would say that at this point the overall ROI has been negative as we aren't getting much more out of our data by the switch we made to ETO, but the cost is much higher. I anticipate that will change as we get better at using ETO.
  • Most users that have switched to ETO in our organization prefer it to what they were using before and some are more appreciative of the value they can get from the data.
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ScreenShots

AI SoloHR Screenshots

Screenshot of AI SoloHR FMLA workflow screen showing how HR teams can track leave request details, eligibility review, notice dates, certification deadlines, designation status, payroll or benefits status, and return-to-work readiness in one structured case workflow. The screen shows a case moving from intake through certification and designation, with workflow state, blocking reason, key dates, status fields, notes, and a save action for maintaining an organized FMLA case record.Screenshot of AI SoloHR HR-managed forms screen showing how HR can upload and organize the current form version for an employee case. The panel includes fields for form display name, form code, version, optional source URL, and an upload action, helping HR keep case-specific forms such as FMLA employee forms connected to the relevant case record.Screenshot of AI SoloHR AI draft workspace showing how HR can generate draft communications from verified case facts. The screen includes a draft type selector for employee emails, manager summaries, or leadership briefs, a case facts field, and a generate action, with drafts positioned for HR review before sending.Screenshot of AI SoloHR cases dashboard showing a centralized list of HR workflows from intake to resolution. The screen includes search, status, type, risk, and department filters, plus case rows for FMLA, ADA accommodation, interview no-show, benefits renewal, employee relations, and general follow-up workflows. Each row shows the related person, case type, risk level, status, workflow readiness, open tasks, document count, required gaps, overdue items, and export or new case actions.Screenshot of AI SoloHR case detail screen for an FMLA leave request, showing the case summary, compliance progress, risk level, owner, next action, due date, editable case fields, incident details, case facts, tags, and resolution notes. The screen also includes side panels for AI draft generation and HR-managed forms, helping HR keep case tracking, communication drafts, and required form uploads connected to the same employee case record.Screenshot of AI SoloHR new case screen showing how HR can create a structured HR case by capturing the minimum facts first. The form includes primary person, case title, workflow type, risk level, applicable state, next action, and case summary fields, with a disclaimer reminding users to verify AI-generated workflow guidance against current official requirements.

ETO Software (legacy) Screenshots

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