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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BrightHR

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ABritish company BrightHR offers a human resources platform which helps replace paper documents with edocuments and contains features for managing employee scheduling and ROTA, sick leave and tardiness, vacation and holiday shift planning, as well as providing employment law legal advice.N/A

    Calendly

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ACalendly helps organizations globally automate the meeting lifecycle by removing the scheduling back and forth, with the goal of enabling companies to close deals, hire candidates faster, and build relationships.

    $12

    per month per seat

    Pricing
    BrightHRCalendly
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $10
    per month (billed annually) per seat
    Teams
    $16
    per month (billed annually) per seat
    Enterprise
    Starts at $15k
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BrightHRCalendly
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices start at £4.50 (per employee/per month)Monthly billing also available.
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    Features
    BrightHRCalendly
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of BrightHR and Calendly
    Feature
    BrightHR
    7.2
    41 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Calendly
    -
    Ratings
    Employment history7.335 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration7.633 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.419 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organization and location management6.431 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.318 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of BrightHR and Calendly
    Feature
    BrightHR
    7.4
    16 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Calendly
    -
    Ratings
    Pay calculation7.214 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors7.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management8.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reimbursement management7.39 Ratings00 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of BrightHR and Calendly
    Feature
    BrightHR
    7.3
    53 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Calendly
    -
    Ratings
    Approval workflow6.551 Ratings00 Ratings
    Balance details7.845 Ratings00 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment7.526 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of BrightHR and Calendly
    Feature
    BrightHR
    8.4
    52 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Calendly
    -
    Ratings
    View and generate pay and benefit information7.517 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update personal information8.650 Ratings00 Ratings
    View company policy documentation9.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of BrightHR and Calendly
    Feature
    BrightHR
    7.5
    25 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Calendly
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built reports7.525 Ratings00 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of BrightHR and Calendly
    Feature
    BrightHR
    7.4
    16 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Calendly
    -
    Ratings
    New hire portal7.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools7.813 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of BrightHR and Calendly
    Feature
    BrightHR
    7.8
    19 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Calendly
    -
    Ratings
    Review reminders8.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency7.616 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of BrightHR and Calendly
    Feature
    BrightHR
    6.4
    14 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Calendly
    -
    Ratings
    Job Requisition Management6.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking6.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts7.113 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Zoho People
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BrightHRCalendly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (57 ratings)
    9.5
    (90 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (42 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (4 ratings)
    8.7
    (32 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BrightHRCalendly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BrightHR
    I feel Bright HR is well suited to most small/medium sized businesses where they have a 'straight' forward resource set up. For larger businesses or for complex businesses similar to ourselves, where we operate 24 hours per day, rotational shift patterns, ambulatory staff, locums etc...we have to 'fudge' the way we use the information sometimes to make it work for us.
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    Calendly
    It's well suited for music students' lessons. It's well suited for online coaching, primarily through places like Zoom and more. It helps simplify things for your clients, lets you program your schedule, and allows it all to go automatically! If you are working with a senior population, it may be a little tricky for them to sign up and then really hard for them to cancel lessons. There isn't a way to go to the site and cancel. You have to pull up the confirmed email and cancel from there, but people can lose emails.
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    Pros
    BrightHR
    • BLIP is working very well. Staff find it easy to use and the geo-fencing that can be set up is very useful.
    • Reporting, in particular reporting of Absence. We run this monthly and the information we can download is flexible and useful.
    • Sick analysis - helps in controlling absence.
    • Holiday planning and authorization is very helpful and details including date booked helps manage requests.
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    Calendly
    • Sync with multiple calendar types so my schedule is always current.
    • Integration with Zoom to schedule meetings, send invites, and populate my Zoom app accordingly.
    • Automatic email communication to all parties with all relevant details in a clear format.
    • Allowing team members to do the same in a way that I'm also notified of what meetings are taking place saves a lot of time in terms of coordinating to find out what other people are doing.
    • Well-designed interface that simplifies everything down to its clearest expression. Language instruction and interaction are wonderfully simple and clear.
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    Cons
    BrightHR
    • Notifications for requests should be optional based on individual employees. For example an admin won’t necessarily want every staff members leave requests by email and push notification. The settings only currently allow for notifications for everyone or no one. Being assigned as a manager may not allow data viewing required of wider staff.
    • Toil should automatically be accrued into a balance if the employees clocked in time amounts to more than the target hours. It shouldn’t have to be calculated and requested.
    • When reviewing hours worked for the week, the history calculation should take into account approved leave and sickness etc. I have a staff members target of 37 hours, but if their hours show 29 hours worked then I have to work out why they worked less. It should account for this if the absence is approved.
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    Calendly
    • After a meeting is booked, having the ability to change the location without canceling the entire booking.
    • Being able to offer 2 different locked in locations for certain time periods of the day within the same event. So you're not having to create 2 events for the same thing, only different locations.
    • Giving users permission to create their own routing forms. We run an independent business model where our users like to have control over their subscriptions.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BrightHR
    It's not entirely my decision - we are members of a 'community' of veterinary practices who have signed up to the contract with pensinusla and have bright hr as part of that contract however, I am usually involved in the tender process as I am one of the biggest users of both bright hr and the services from peninsula
    Incentivized
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    Calendly
    For all reasons like workflows, UI, and the way Calendly keeps all of us engaged through the Collective forum. It's indeed undeniable that no other product covers all business needs like Calendly does. On the other side, this has also reduced the workload by enabling us to focus more on other tasks for the day
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    BrightHR
    Onboarding took too long due to our unique working ways however the support team tried their hardest to make it work (still ongoing) In particular Leyla S. who has been our point of contact, she has ensured our issues are addressed and always follows up.
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    Calendly
    Calendly is extremely easy to use for selecting times and days for meetings. From my end, it's very easy to indicate the days and times that I am available for meetings. I have used other scheduling products, but Calendly has the smoothest way of operating. I highly recommend it for scheduling meetings
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    Support Rating
    BrightHR
    The team are proactive, having an advocacy team is just amazing and a great way to really understand their product roadmap and have input into useful features or feedback
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    Calendly
    There is a lot of support for Calendly. Whenever I have had issues navigating through it, especially as a new user, I found multiple support on the web addressing my questions or concerns. There is a lot of in app informative notes accessible to users to navigate through Calendly when needed.
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    Implementation Rating
    BrightHR
    it was fairly easy to do but timely as i had to enter everything from scratch - i didn't at the time realise how important it was to set up the variable or fixed working pattern correctly given future changes as this is very tricky once it has been set up and i wished i had been aware that sometimes you can't make future changes without deleting the whole profile and starting again
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    Calendly
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    BrightHR
    I chose BrightHR as it offered a one-stop platform for HR management for which we have dedicated UK and ROI HR specialists who not only give HR advice but also write policies and handbooks, etc. They are a one-stop-shop, which was very important as when I signed the contract I did not have an HR person in my team and they were essentially my back office. Also, by signing up, I got access to Bright Safe too; which is great as again it's a one-stop-shop for Health and Safety in the workplace. So I can roll out toolbox talks, training, and accident management.
    Incentivized
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    Calendly
    When I started using it, there were not many competitors in this space. I've seen some like Mixmax that seem to work well for solopreneurs or where free version might be better than Calendly's free version. I use the paid version of Calendly and it's just kept serving us well so why change?
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    BrightHR
    • Able to reduce one member of staff in personnel from 5 days to 3 days.
    • Able to reduce time spent by payroll on holiday records significantly and improve accuracy significantly.
    • Able to improve control of sick absence and improve record keeping.
    • BLIP meant we did not need to buy expensive attendance software.
    • Looking at possible use of payroll and other aspects of Bright HR not used at present.
    Incentivized
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    Calendly
    • Positive: When people want to meet, I can simply send my Calendly link and it takes less than 5 seconds to do.
    • Positive: It integrates well with Zoom, which means that by default all my appointments include Zoom information for a remote call.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    BrightHR Screenshots

    Screenshot of BrightHR dashboardScreenshot of Brainbox+Screenshot of Bright ExchangeScreenshot of BrightSafeScreenshot of PoP by BrightHRScreenshot of BrightHR Payroll

    Calendly Screenshots

    Screenshot of how to share a scheduling linkScreenshot of automated workflowsScreenshot of browser extensionsScreenshot of routing formsScreenshot of round robin & collective eventsScreenshot of admin management