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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CharlieHR

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ACharlie, or CharlieHR from the company in London, offers a cloud-based software product designed to enable small companies to automate many of the administrative headaches that they experience as they scale. Charlie also includes onboarding and offboarding features, and its higher tier plan includes HR Advice from a personal advisor from Charlie to handle dismissals, grievances, or redundancies, or other difficult HR challenges.

    $6

    per month

    Lever

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/ALever is a Talent Acquisition Suite designed to help talent teams to reach their hiring goals and to connect companies with top talent. Lever provides ATS and applicant CRM capabilities, in LeverTRM. The Lever Hire and Lever Nurture features allow leaders to grow their people pipeline, build long-lasting relationships, and source the right people. Lever Analytics provides customized reports with data visualization, see offers completed and interview feedback, and it informs strategic decisions…N/A
    Pricing
    CharlieHRLever
    Editions & Modules
    CharlieHR
    £4
    per employee, per month
    CharlieHR + HR Advice
    From £179 (+ £4)
    per month (per employee)
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CharlieHRLever
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    CharlieHRLever
    Considered Both Products
    CharlieHR
    No answer on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    CharlieHRLever
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of CharlieHR and Lever
    Feature
    CharlieHR
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    Employee demographic data8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organizational charting7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organization and location management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of CharlieHR and Lever
    Feature
    CharlieHR
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    31% below category average
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct deposit files7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reimbursement management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of CharlieHR and Lever
    Feature
    CharlieHR
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    Approval workflow8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Balance details8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of CharlieHR and Lever
    Feature
    CharlieHR
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    Update personal information9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    View company policy documentation6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of CharlieHR and Lever
    Feature
    CharlieHR
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    New hire portal7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of CharlieHR and Lever
    Feature
    CharlieHR
    -
    Ratings
    Lever
    9.7
    34 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Job Requisition Management00 Ratings9.831 Ratings
    Company Website Posting00 Ratings9.831 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media00 Ratings9.821 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings9.823 Ratings
    Customized Application Form00 Ratings9.829 Ratings
    Resume Management00 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings9.830 Ratings
    Candidate Search00 Ratings9.833 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking00 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation00 Ratings9.822 Ratings
    Email Templates00 Ratings8.928 Ratings
    User Permissions00 Ratings8.931 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings9.830 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    CharlieHRLever
    Small Businesses
    UZIO
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Crelate
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zoho People
    Score8.6 out of 10
    CareerSiteBuilder
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    PeopleStrong
    Score10 out of 10
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    CharlieHRLever
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.8
    (35 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CharlieHRLever
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CharlieHR
    As a part-time employee, it would be better if I was able to book leave on an hourly basis. Also, to be able to set up two leave types, paid and unpaid, and accrue lieu time.
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    I think Lever is great for any sized company, but especially strong for smaller, growing teams. It's a very simple system, but clean, sleek, and very useful in any scenario. They have great support whenever you need it so those with smaller HR or People teams could easily benefit from their help. Can't think of too many scenarios where Lever wouldn't be well-suited, but maybe once you grow to International growth and hiring, it may be better to have a more Enterprise style business, set up for larger scaling.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    CharlieHR
    • Ensures personal requests are not lost in email
    • Makes managing leave days easier
    • Provides a standard UI for all
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    • Great integration: Keeps a list of Outlook email communication along with LinkedIn and other data sources
    • Is fairly lively, not too much lag between screens even though it is looking through a lot of data.
    • Has excellent reporting on how well each email message is working.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    CharlieHR
    • Better ability to manage leave for part time / pro rata employees
    • Links to other HR apps such as free agent
    • Management of unpaid leave allowance as well as paid.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Employ Inc.
    • [In my experience,] terrible customer support - pay more to get less...
    • Integrations are spotty and can break without reason
    • Lever has so much potential, but their Roadmap is lacking in ways that will really help customers succeed
    • Focuses on the number of candidates and not the company's need to build talent in a cost effective, data driven and collaborative way
    • Overpromised and underdelivered in [the] capability of the tool. [I believe that you should] not trust your sales team.
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    Usability
    CharlieHR
    No answers on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    It isn't difficult to use for the applicant processing, but [I feel] if you want to pull reports or use their tools, good luck!
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    CharlieHR
    No answers on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    What support? - Add a ticket and get links to [I believe] their unhelpful user guide. Add a charge if you want better support - afterward just got those links faster...
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    Alternatives Considered
    CharlieHR
    Both the above work in different ways and provide different services to CharlieHR, although if we could use a single app for all, that would be better.
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    Lever is comparable to Greenhouse in its basic recruiting functions. I have found it to be WAY better than Bullhorn (clunky and overly-complicated with a very dated and non-intuitive interface) and Jazz HR (slick and pretty, but limited in its functions). The best ATS I've used is the proprietary tool at Meta, but alas, that tool is for internal use only
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    CharlieHR
    • Easier to track leave taken and left
    • Still need greater flexibility for leave types
    • Need to be able to book leave by the hour
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Employ Inc.
    • Lever provides an enormous ROI by getting us in front of the right candidates that are going to make us more money and more successful as an org.
    • I think that both the quality and quantity of new hires has gone up ever since we started using lever and involving the entire org in the process.
    • It also saves us a lot of time because we don't need to send referrals via email, while saving/attaching resumes and such.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
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    Lever Screenshots

    Screenshot of where to identify the top origin and sources of candidates in all stages, the Offer stage, and the Hired stage.