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What is Namely?
Namely offers a cloud-based HR platform for integrated core and specialized HR services, including time and employee performance management and onboarding processes.
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- Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc. (122)7.676%
- Employment history (126)7.373%
- Organizational charting (124)6.666%
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What is Namely?
Namely streamlines HR data into a single platform. With technology, supported by a team of HR experts, Namely aims to empower people teams with a complete HR solution designed for mid-sized businesses (25-1000 employees).
Namely Features
Human Resource Management Features
- Supported: Employee demographic data
- Supported: Employment history
- Supported: Job profiles and administration
- Supported: Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
- Supported: Benefits information
- Supported: Organizational charting
- Supported: Organization and location management
- Supported: Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Payroll Management Features
- Supported: Pay calculation
- Supported: Support for external payroll vendors
- Supported: Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
- Supported: Payroll history for each employee
- Supported: Benefit plan administration
- Supported: Direct deposit files
- Supported: Payroll tracking and auditing
- Supported: Salary revision and increment management
- Supported: Reimbursement management
- Supported: Statutory form management
Leave and Attendance Management Features
- Supported: Approval workflow
- Supported: Email notifications
- Supported: Balance details
- Supported: Travel absence management
- Supported: Annual carry-forward and encashment
Employee Self Service Features
- Supported: Employee login
- Supported: View and generate pay and benefit information
- Supported: Update personal information
- Supported: Request time off
- Supported: View job history
- Supported: View company policy documentation
- Supported: View company news and information
- Supported: Employee recognition
Asset Management Features
- Supported: Tracking of all physical assets
- Supported: Asset issue and transfer management
- Supported: Asset return
- Supported: Warranty and after-sales status maintenance contract tracking
HR Reporting Features
- Supported: Report builder
- Supported: Pre-built reports
- Supported: Ability to combine HR data with external data
Integration with other HR capabilities Features
- Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by same vendor
- Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by different vendor
Performance Management Features
- Supported: Performance plans
- Supported: Performance improvement plans
- Supported: Review status tracking
- Supported: Review reminders
- Supported: Multiple review frequency
Succession Planning Features
- Supported: Candidate search
Onboarding Features
- Supported: New hire portal
- Supported: Manager tracking tools
Performance and Goals Features
- Supported: Corporate goal setting
- Supported: Individual goal setting
- Supported: Line-of sight-visibility
- Supported: Performance tracking
Recruiting / ATS Features
- Supported: Job Requisition Management
- Supported: Company Website Posting
- Supported: Publish to Social Media
- Supported: Job Search Site Posting
- Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
- Supported: Applicant Tracking
- Supported: Notifications and Alerts
Additional Features
- Supported: HR Analytics
- Supported: Compliance Database
- Supported: Learning Management
- Supported: Live Compliance Advisors
- Supported: Anonymous Employee Reporting
- Supported: Time Management
- Supported: Time Tracking
- Supported: Mobile App for Employee Self-Service
- Supported: Benefits Enrollment Wizard
- Supported: Open API
- Supported: Managed Payroll Services
- Supported: Managed Benefits Services
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Namely Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | United States |
Supported Languages | English |
Frequently Asked Questions
Namely offers a cloud-based HR platform for integrated core and specialized HR services, including time and employee performance management and onboarding processes.
Reviewers rate Update personal information highest, with a score of 8.7.
The most common users of Namely are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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September 27, 2022
Customer Review.
We use Namely for HRIS, payroll, time management, and benefits. This allows us to track the major aspects of the employee life cycle. The business problems addressed are employee data management, payroll, time management and benefits administration.
- Report building.
- Payroll
- Time keeping.
- ATS integration.
- Performance management.
- Better e-signature integration.
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- Cost effective.
- Saves time in reporting.
- Improved employee self service.
Namely does not compare to Workday because the size and scale of the company is very different. There are a lot of automated features and ATS integrations that Workday offers and I hope Namely will be able to offer someday as well.
We have benefited from the payroll and timekeeping side of things, but we are struggling with the manual nature of the performance management piece.
We have been able to automate most onboarding forms. This allows me to find all new hire forms needed for their employee file create in one place. Since we are required to keep physical files onsite it is very easy for me to go into Namely and print all the information I need.
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They represent HR, Operations, Warehouse, Finance, Leave Management, Payroll, and Administration. Some employees only use it for time keeping and for keeping their personal information up to date. For the admin users, we use it for reporting for our respective units and other everyday employee life cycle items. Payroll items are varied but super helpful for a lot of the state reporting.
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Our internal HR team supports Namely and we reach out to customer service for any issues that we can handle. We all posses an understanding of systems, how to build processes, and detail oriented. Namely is easy to understand and learn and most of our team picked up how to use it properly after a month.
- Time Keeping
- Payroll
- HCM
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- Price
- Product Usability
Again I was not involved in making the decision as I was not an employee at that time. But the biggest thing that I have heard is that Namely was chosen for it's cost effectiveness and ease of use. Namely also offers great customer service and is able to connect us with a third party if they are unable to help with something (which is rare).
Again I was not involved in this process but had I been I would have focused more on it's scalability, integration capabilities, and a list of the manual data transfer points within the system. I think if we had more awareness in these areas the company could have asked better questions and generated work arounds quickly.
We recently had some issues surrounding taxes in a state that we have a physical location in. The Namely support team was able to provide me with a clear and concise list of what was needed from our organization. Once they had everything they were able to help us quickly pay the past due amounts and ensure that we had the correct tax rate going forward.
I have not had the opportunity to provide feedback on enhancements, this is done by our primary administrator. But she is aware of my request for better integration between the HCM and Payroll and I believe they are in the process of fixing that issue for us. I believe they take our requests seriously and do their best to delivery or provide an alternate solution when they cannot.
The biggest impact from the onboarding enhancements is that I no longer have to duplicate my templates in order to update them. I also love that I can see where my new hires are in their onboarding process so that I can reach out to help them along. On the reporting side I love that I can build customer reports and that I can save them and allow my team access if they need them.
- Electronic file storage
- ATS integration
- Employee Trainings
May 25, 2022
Namely - Simple, but not very customizable
The business problems Namely addressed are performance reviews, requesting time off, automating onboarding new hire paperwork, some helpful diversity stats, and creating an org chart.
- New hire onboarding and paperwork
- Performance reviews
- Custom reports
- Requesting time off
- Adding job history
- Converting from temp to FT
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- It does not integrate with our payroll system. We need to manually submit time-off requests to payroll. This requires more labor on our part.
- This has allowed for a much smoother new hire onboarding (particularly with paperwork), especially as we work remotely.
We use Namely for all HR functions except anything that involves payroll/benefits. It has been beneficial to housing all personal information with performance management, but we still cannot integrate without a payroll system.
I have not been able to automate anything. You must manually go into the system to trigger anything, whether it's new hire onboarding and paperwork or performance reviews. Nothing can be scheduled in advance yet, which I wish weren't the case.
We recently changed the way our sick time works (went from an accrual basis to frontload the amount). When I reached out to Namely to help me, they walked me through creating the new time off plan and did a mass reset from their end to add everyone to it and change their time accordingly. It was smooth.
I don't really feel as though I've provided feedback to Namely, so cannot answer this.
The onboarding solution has been especially useful in cutting back on printing things, but also as we have transitioned to a more remote-first workplace. Signing new hire documents electronically expedites the process. Custom reporting allows us to find more granular information about people easily.
- Payroll
- Time tracking
May 20, 2022
Middle of the Pack
We use Namely as our main HRIS, payroll, and time management system. The whole organization uses it.
- HRIS feed (birthdays, anniversaries, personal info management)
- Some support reps are very kind and helpful
- Help community is pretty robust, as are articles
- Not very robust payroll system
- Three systems (HRIS, time, and payroll) don't always communicate well or work smoothly
- Many glitches in performance module of HRIS
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- Saves HR time when onboarding employees and collecting paperwork initially
- Improved employee self-service (updating banking and personal info)
I have only demoed with Paylocity (never used) but it seems superior to Namely in my opinion as far as time, HRIS, and payroll all communicating.
I demoed a couple others that I would not move away from Namely in favor of. I would say Namely is middle of the pack. They do certain things really well, but have major issues in some areas. Namely is the type of system in which I always double-check work that is supposed to be automated for me because there are often glitches or errors.
I demoed a couple others that I would not move away from Namely in favor of. I would say Namely is middle of the pack. They do certain things really well, but have major issues in some areas. Namely is the type of system in which I always double-check work that is supposed to be automated for me because there are often glitches or errors.
My main issue is that is it not super centralized (payroll, time, and HRIS are separate systems that talk to each other). This makes it confusing when pulling reports and calling/submitting cases to the correct department.
- Document collection when onboarding
- Onboarding task lists
- Birthday and anniversary shoutouts
- Sending out payroll and tax forms
I have given limited product feedback to Namely and have not seen it acted on.
I don't feel the enhancements I've seen over the 3 years using Namely have been incredibly impactful. A couple have been "nice to haves" but not "need to haves" i.e. things I would have placed priority on.
- Performance reviews
- Engagement
May 18, 2022
Quick review of Namely
It is being used as our HRIS, benefits, and payroll system company-wide. It addressed the business problem of freeing up more of my time and tracking organizational changes.
- HRIS tracking
- Payroll
- Consistent interfaces and tools.
- Easy to use searches.
- Job titles are very wonky in the system.
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- Definitely has saved time.
It has been a huge time saver.
Onboarding and benefit administration
We were transitioning a portion of the team to it's own LLC with relatively short notice. The support team was able to get me connected to the right people and get a project set up so we could make the transition ahead of schedule. In addition, the team checked-in on progress throughout the project to ensure it was succeeding. And this was even during the busy times of November - December.
The primary piece of feedback I always think of when asked about how to improve Namely is to improve consistency of forms on the platform. Many things have been clearly designed and built by different team members with little QA to ensure consistency. One such example (and headache area) has been the onboarding form. The salary input field is different than everywhere else on Namely. Importing from JazzHR breaks for separate LLCs and there is not much flexibility in the templates (e.g. choosing a different W4 for different state addresses).
We have seen the improvements that Namely has made over the year and half we have had the service. Overall the feature upgrades have been nice, but have minimally impacted/improved our workflows.
- Better Performance Management
- Offboarding templates/tools
- Automatic everify
Namely is being used at our company to manage onboarding, payroll, time off and reviews.
- Payroll is done very well, especially by Christin Taylor. She is the best.
- Review tracking is easy and efficient.
- Calendar is great.
- Definitely in benefits. I decided not to use Namely benefits with how poor communication was.
- Namely Time is not user friendly, also don't like how it's separate from HRIS.
- Project Services is poor in communication. I have to ask for updates from them.
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- They have cost us with tax penalties. We share the notices we get and they are not timely enough to get them fixed.
- Namley Time glitches cost us time.
- Pay project services for EIN registration and still dealing with it for 2 months.
- Saved us on payroll multiple time. :)
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It has helped greatly with organizing our company. Definitely better than what we were using before.
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Payroll, Onboarding, Planning, Time off management, Analytics fof KPIS
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HRIS experience, tech oriented, detail oriented.
- Payroll
- Onboarding
- Reporting
- Analytics
- Time Tracking
- Time Off
- nothing unexpected
- we don't find it very customizable
Payroll! The payroll consultants always go the extra mile for us!
Not really.
The profiles with the payroll details has been a great enhancement. Employees can see their details quickly and can grab their year end tax docs without asking us.
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