Namely vs Zenefits

• Time off management - simple and efficient way to submit/approve and keep track of the remaining days. It covers all types of legal time off.
• Goals setting - Namely has a mature enough framework that you can configure based on the company's requirements.
• Organization chart - a nice visual display of the company hierarchy structure.

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• On-boarding new hires- allowing newly hired employees to fill in their forms and upload supporting documents saves hours from their first day!
• Time off tracking- the system auto calculates accrual however your company needs, and makes it easy for employees to manage their sick and vacation use.
• The Business Intelligence section of Zenefits offers lots of helpful tools that new to HR professionals would find helpful as they set up features and processes for smaller companies.

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• Namely Payroll can be confusing as it doesn't link directly with HRIS time off. It is another platform and there is a lot of duplicating information, increasing potential for errors. There is a lot of manual entering and not great ways to input data for multiple employees at once.
• The time sheets are not as simple as we'd like. We have a lot of employee errors with these on a regular base. You need to save on each page that you make updates on and the search features for approvers aren't as user friendly as we'd like. (This is separate from the time feature which is an additional expense, we don't use this.)
• The time off doesn't link directly with payroll and employees have to enter time off twice. This could be user error on our end, but we've been told a few different answers from Namely help as they've made some changes recently. (2020)
• Namely is constantly updating features but it feels sporadic and is a lot of time and energy to learn how things have changed.
• Performance reviews are a bit tricky to learn how to use because you have to learn the language that Namely uses. They don't seem very obvious to use. I think their capability is good, but it takes some learning to set them up correctly. Our managers have had some difficulty with them.
• In general, it feels a bit difficult to make edits and changes simply and efficiently.

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• While the Tech Support is fast to respond, the actual resolutions can take a while to come into play
• In the Time and Attendance feature it allows people to clock in early from 30 minute unpaid breaks if they wish. Most TimeKeeper apps prevent you from ending a break early to comply with the law, switching to Zenefits actually increased our California meal break violations.

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• We were able to standardize processes much more easily with Namely. Without Namely it would be difficult to get 10 locations to follow the same procedure. But with Namely, we're able to set up the workflow and the manager just follows along on his computer.
• Payroll mistakes are virtually nonexistent with Namely.

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• Going paperless has saved me tons of time, its a good system but it could be better (more permission levels, customizable forms, better electronic signatures).
• Our onboarding went very smoothly. When we had an employee that needed to change their account it was pretty easy to make that happen.
• It would be great to have more levels of permissions, right now all of the hiring managers have to be admins so that they can adjust PTO balances for comp time.

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