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Sapling by Kallidus

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What is Sapling by Kallidus?

A suite of HR and L&D software that supports the entire employee lifecycle. It offers functionality to support onboarding and upskilling, performance reviews and employee farewells, and boasts over 2 million users worldwide.


Sapling provides onboarding and offboarding experiences that aim to create a unique and engaging experience for employees, helping HR teams automate workflows, support data-driven decisions and be more strategic. The vendor states the platform is used by Degreed, 15Five, Versapay and 98point6.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Sapling by Kallidus has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 9 ratings of Sapling by Kallidus's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Update personal information

    Employees can update personal profile with change of address, dependents, or other personal data.

    Category average: 8.6

  • View company policy documentation

    Employees can review company handbook, and corporate policy documents.

    Category average: 8

  • New hire portal

    New hire portal eliminates printing and mailing with a personalized portal of all required reading, corporate information, and all forms and other paperwork, online.

    Category average: 8.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Balance details

    Balance details is automatic updating of paid time-off balance to reflect time taken.

    Category average: 8

  • Ability to combine HR data with external data

    Ability to bring data from external systems like CRM and combine with HR data.

    Category average: 6.9

  • Employment history

    Employment history is the ability to track previous positions held.

    Category average: 8.2

Reviews

What users are saying about Sapling by Kallidus.
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Pretty Good for certain use cases!

Incentivized
Adrienne BarnardView profile
SVP, People Operations & Experience in Human Resources at AdmitHub (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Time off management
  • On demand reporting
  • Onboarding workflow management
  • Offboarding workflow management

Cons

  • Deeper data management/review - dashboard experience could be better and deeper
  • Ability to drill into reports within the tool- right now it takes you out to a sheet to view
  • Org planning/org chart sharing

Most Important Features

  • Time off management
  • Workflow management
  • Reporting
  • Human data repository

Return on Investment

  • More people want to interact with the tool so we're better able to manage some processes
  • Saves us a headcount on some of the things it can automate
  • We don't have the ability to provision every account with them even though they said they could (slack) so we still need to do some manual work on account provisioning

Alternatives Considered

BambooHR

Other Software Used

ADP Workforce Now, Greenhouse, Culture Amp, 7Geese, Reflektive

Usability

Great observability and async onboarding tool

Incentivized
Sergi SparksView profile
Engineering Manager in Information Technology at 98point6 Inc. (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • scheduling upcoming tasks
  • tracking on the to do list
  • provide manager with clear view on onboarding

Cons

  • Org chart is very useful but takes a lot of time to load (250 people) and eats a lot of CPU
  • Maybe it's hour policy, but I need to log in again every 30 mins

Most Important Features

  • Org view
  • onboarding
  • task assignment

Return on Investment

  • Sapling App made our ability to onboard to be fully async!
  • Great list of things to do for newcomers

Other Software Used

Jenkins, GitHub, Sumo Logic

Simple place for storage

Incentivized
Michelle ThorntonView profile
Registered Behavior Therapist in Professional Services at Alternative Behavior Support (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Organized documents.
  • Ability to DocuSign.
  • Email intra and inter.

Cons

  • Less email reminders to incomplete work.
  • Clicks must be specific to file, can't highlight and open file.
  • Too many add-ons in the system.
  • Have to upload and transfer too many documents.

Return on Investment

  • Lost 12% by having to pay for another service.
  • Sign on bonus.
  • Additional cost to add other services.

Alternatives Considered

ADP Enterprise eTIME

Usability

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Adobe Acrobat DC, ADP Enterprise eTIME

A highly customizable tool that allows teams to work together to ensure a smooth employee onboarding

Incentivized
Aldo Gomez
Human Resources & Recruiting in Human Resources at Medely Inc. (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Very customizable. Very easy to create new workflows and tasks to meet the unique needs of your organization.
  • The system is easy to navigate, so minimal training is needed for users.

Cons

  • Though the system is easy to use and set up, getting in contact with a customer support representative can take some time.
  • As highly customizable as it is, there are some features that you cannot change or bypass.

Return on Investment

  • We were able to get the system implemented very quickly, which was of great importance to us as we were undergoing rapid growth.
  • The system has helped us keep and stay organized and allowed team members to work collaboratively to get tasks done. Many of these tasks were previously managed with various spreadsheets and other trackers that were quickly becoming unmanageable.
  • Sapling has greatly decreased the time we needed to onboard and employee and has prevented many errors.

Alternatives Considered

WorkBright

Other Software Used

ADP Workforce Now, Greenhouse, Slack

Sapling HR is simple to use and so organized!

Incentivized
Danny EngView profile
Product Manager in Product Management at Credit Karma (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Organization Structure: Clean and simple visual organization structure to understand the business fairly quickly.
  • Onboarding: Great tool for utilizing their questionnaire and presentation tools.
  • Employee info: Keeping all employee/workforce individual info (i.e. t-shirt sizes).

Cons

  • Being able to complete Sapling surveys in email would be hugely convenient.

Alternatives Considered

Workday Human Capital Management

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