Charlie, 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
PaySimple
Score6 out of 10
N/A
PaySimple is a payment gateway software solution offered by PaySimple.
$59.95
per month
Pricing
CharlieHR
PaySimple
Editions & Modules
CharlieHR
£4
per employee, per month
CharlieHR + HR Advice
From £179 (+ £4)
per month (per employee)
Subscription
$59.95
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CharlieHR
PaySimple
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
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More Pricing Information
Features
CharlieHR
PaySimple
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of CharlieHR and PaySimple
Feature
CharlieHR
7.3
1 Ratings
12% below category average
PaySimple
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Organizational charting
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Organization and location management
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of CharlieHR and PaySimple
Feature
CharlieHR
6.0
1 Ratings
31% below category average
PaySimple
-
Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors
4.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Direct deposit files
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Reimbursement management
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of CharlieHR and PaySimple
Feature
CharlieHR
7.7
1 Ratings
7% below category average
PaySimple
-
Ratings
Approval workflow
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Balance details
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of CharlieHR and PaySimple
Feature
CharlieHR
7.5
1 Ratings
10% below category average
PaySimple
-
Ratings
Update personal information
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
View company policy documentation
6.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of CharlieHR and PaySimple
Feature
CharlieHR
7.5
1 Ratings
7% below category average
PaySimple
-
Ratings
New hire portal
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Payment Gateways
Comparison of Payment Gateways features of CharlieHR and PaySimple
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.
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PaySimple has made it next to impossible to become PCI compliant unless we purchased a separate computer for the sole purpose of invoicing. We switched to Chase Bank who does not store sensitive info on our computers allowing us to accept credit cards and still remain PCI compliant. Our money is available much faster by not using the 3rd party. Additionally, a simple company name change required more paperwork than closing the account and setting up a new one even when the same bank account was going to be used. This was the primary reason to shop around. We happily contacted Chase Bank and now save $125 a month and receive access to our funds faster. I cannot believe I stayed with PaySimple as long as I did. It's amazing anyone would jump through the hoops of PCI compliance when the technology exists to keep sensitive information off your small business computers. If this review stops anyone from paying those monthly fees, the time was well worth it! PaySimple, requires business owners to fill out forms that make no sense in laymens terms. Chase Bank fills them all in for you and highlights the areas that need to be signed and initialed. PaySimple, charges excessive fees and in my opinion has very emotional customer service reps. Chase Bank, was eager to help and get things rolling so you can focus on your business. I would never recommend PaySimple.
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PaySimple is awesome for recurring payments. It's easy to set one up and make changes as needed. Without this feature, our business would be dead. Being able to easily set up recurring payments for our retainer is a must and PaySimple does it beautifully.
The payment portal feature is also really good fro collecting payments of differing amounts. We setup a single portal where customers enter the payment amount accessed from a link in the invoice email. This feature has transformed out collections and cut down our time to get paid significantly.
If you do have product type offerings, it's easy to setup individual products or an entire store.
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More proactive and empowering role in merchant fee's and alternative processors. Transparency is challenging in understanding Paysimple's role and relationship to the processors.
Identifying areas for further value to clients.
More targeted small to mid-size business perspective to anticipate growth challenges and prevent blocks on funds for legitimate sales and growth.
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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.
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Authorize.net and a handful of other merchant processors and gateways. Most payment gateways (online portals to process payments) are rudimentary and not extremely intuitive. PaySimple is not and they are constantly coming up with new ways to improve upon an already very impressive platform.
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Because we've got a really awesome rate with them it's definitely a positive ROI. I can't say what that figure is but it's pretty good. Also, our customers have a huge ROI over their prior way of getting payment from their customers.
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