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Sage HR
Formerly CakeHR

Starting at $5.50 per month
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What is Sage HR?

Sage HR is HR software for small to medium businesses. The vendor states Sage HR is designed to be easy to use, and automates every step of the human resource process. Sage…

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Expenses Management

$1.50

Cloud
per user, per month

Performance Management

$3.00

Cloud
per user, per month

Shift Scheduling

$3.00

Cloud
per user, per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $5.50 per month
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Features

Human Resource Management

Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.

6.4
Avg 7.9

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

8.2
Avg 8.0

Leave and Attendance Management

Streamlines communication between HR and employees and facilitates efficient management of employee leave including requisitions, approvals, balance calculation, and annual carry-forward.

7
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.

8.5
Avg 8.1

Asset Management

Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.

3
Avg 7.9

HR Reporting

Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.

5.9
Avg 7.6

Onboarding

Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.

8.6
Avg 8.0

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

5.3
Avg 8.1

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

5.5
Avg 8.0

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

7
Avg 7.9

Recruiting / ATS

Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.

6.5
Avg 7.8
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Product Details

What is Sage HR?

Sage HR is HR software for small to medium businesses. The vendor states Sage HR is designed to be easy to use, and automates every step of the human resource process. Sage HR is designed with modular functionality to be customized for users' needs.

According to the vendor, key differentiators include:

1. Easy to use

2. Modular functionality

2. Automates the end-to-end HR process

3. There's a mobile app (iOS & Android)

5. Feature set that will meet the needs of users


Sage HR targets small-to-medium businesses that want to automate their HR process while engaging their employees. Sage HR is cloud based and offers remote access.


Sage HR Features

Human Resource Management Features

  • Supported: Employee demographic data
  • Supported: Employment history
  • Supported: Job profiles and administration
  • Supported: Benefits information
  • Supported: Organizational charting
  • Supported: Organization and location management
  • Supported: Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)

Payroll Management Features

  • Supported: Support for external payroll vendors
  • Supported: Reimbursement 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

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 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: Create succession plans/pools
  • Supported: Candidate ranking
  • Supported: Candidate search
  • Supported: Candidate development

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: Shift Scheduling
  • Supported: Timesheets
  • Supported: Expenses
  • Supported: Leave Management
  • Supported: Recruitment
  • Supported: Core HR
  • Supported: Mobile HR

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Sage HR Integrations

Sage HR Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Samsung Knox
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Arabic, Armenian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Thai

Frequently Asked Questions

Sage HR starts at $5.5.

BambooHR, Access PeopleHR, and HiBob are common alternatives for Sage HR.

Reviewers rate Employee recognition and New hire portal highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of Sage HR are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Sage HR Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)70%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)30%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)0%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Customization Options: Users have appreciated the customization options available for templates and dashboards, allowing for personalized tracking of employee performance and management of compensation and timecards. The ability to tailor the system to specific needs has been a key factor in user satisfaction.

Comprehensive Features: Reviewers noted the comprehensive features for employee reviews, goal setting, time management, and document management to be useful. They particularly liked the shared document access feature that enhances collaboration among teams and departments.

Outstanding Support: Users praised the platform for its outstanding support, mentioning that assistance is readily available whenever needed. This level of dedicated customer service has significantly contributed to positive user experiences.

Confusing Time Off Setup: Some users have faced challenges with setting up Time Off policies, especially when dealing with long-term leave and accrued PTO interactions. The confusion in configuring these settings has led to errors and inconsistencies for employees.

Lack of Support for Time Off Adjustments: Users have expressed dissatisfaction with the inadequate support received when seeking assistance with automated adjustments. The lack of clear explanations and guidance on preventing issues has left users frustrated and struggling to resolve Time Off discrepancies effectively.

Complex Performance Review Configuration: Reviewers have found the Performance Reviews setup perplexing due to various components being scattered across different sections controlled by similar configuration settings. This complexity has resulted in difficulties navigating the system and conducting thorough performance assessments.

Reviews

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Sage HR

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 09, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sage HR
1 year of experience
We use Sage HR for distributing payslips and allocating holidays. Using Sage HR makes the holiday booking process so easy and avoids any overlap between staff. Being a small business it saves time with everything being in one place allowing me to concentrate on the other aspects of my job.
  • Easy to navigate
  • Great for staff to use for Holidays and Payslips
If only for the timekeeping of staff Sage HR is worth it. I do not use Sage HR to its full capacity as we are only a small company with fewer than 10 staff however I would say to any business get Sage HR - I can imagine that when you are trying to manage 10s of staff from both office and hybrid it can be hard. Sage HR makes this easy.

Sage HR - Useful Tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 20, 2024
CR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sage HR
2 years of experience
Sage HR is used in our organization to facilitate leave management, expenses and project tracking along with announcements and organizational charts.

We were previously using Excel for all of the above and this lead to emails flying back and forth and a much less streamlined process compared to what we have now using Sage HR.
  • Leave management process
  • Expenses
  • Survey creation
Suitability is a case by case basis, however one scenario where Sage HR is suited is for a growing team that can utilise the leave management module to maintain and report on increased leave volumes and coordinate with team members across different departments and locations including remote working.

A smaller team may not find this as useful.

Well-Suited HR Platform for Small to Mid-Size Companies

Rating: 7 out of 10
January 03, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sage HR
1 year of experience
At my company, we used Sage HR to manage, engage, and retain our workforce. Sage HR provides great visibility of our whole workforce (especially remote workers) in real-time and allows us to understand what is going on at all times. Whether we were wanting to recruit, schedule shifts, manage timesheets, or manage performance reviews, Sage HR allowed us to seamlessly do it all in a central location without making it overly complicated.
  • Customization of Templates and Dashboards
  • On-going Employee Performance Tracking
  • Compensation/Timecard Management
For smaller companies, Sage HR is a user friendly system that allows you to streamline HR processes all under one roof and a time efficient manner. The other software it is able to integrate with is also a bonus allowing processes to be simplified. Ultimately, we really enjoyed using it to allow our team members to engage with it but also to make engaging with our team members simpler on the HR team and requests always recorded.

CakeHR helped us survive COVID!

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 22, 2020
BR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sage HR
1 year of experience
CakeHR allowed us to bring our entire HR function remote during difficult COVID times and has made our partial return to the office smooth and complete.
  • Employee reviews/goal setting
  • time management
  • document management
  • Shared document access
CakeHR works great for general HR management. We are not utilizing it for hiring.

CakeHR is a cool HR tool!

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 10, 2020
BC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sage HR
1 year of experience
I have tested many HR software and finally found a cool one. The features I like are performance management and leave management. There are simple 1-2-1 schedules, personal/company goals, and training. We can even set-up birthday alerts! Support is great and easy to reach.
  • Leave tracking.
  • 1-2-1.
  • Goals.
Cake HR is well-suited for managing people and supporting them!

My thoughts on CakeHR

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 04, 2020
MG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sage HR
1 year of experience
Today, CakeHR is being used within my organization to track time off, one-on-one's, annual reviews, and goals. The features that CakeHR offered ant the price they offered was by far more superior than other HR applications I looked at. Prior to using CakeHR, we were keeping track of time off in a manually managed Excel document. CakeHR was implemented across our entire organization and has been a huge success since day 1.
  • Time off policies are clear and transparent.
  • The review process functionality was extremely easy to use.
  • Support is outstanding . If you ever run into an issue they are always available to help.
  • Onboarding document control is really easy to manage and stays consistent with a growing company.
Keeping an accurate time off calendar, with specific buckets, is extremely important. It has helped my company grow without having to manage things in Excel. Also, implementing an annual review process by using CakeHR has been very clean and transparent with my employees. This also allows me to see year over year. In years past, we used Word or a Jotform which made it challenging to pull up years past.

CakeHR Keeps Everyone Happy and Organized!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 07, 2020
BR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sage HR
2 years of experience
We use CakeHR to manage any day off requests for our team. It's a great tool for keeping everyone updated on their day-off allowance and vacation day requests. It's also easy to approve requests and see reports on remaining time off. We also use this service to keep track of employee start dates and other valuable information.
  • Day Off Requests
  • Management Approvals
We use CakeHR for keeping track of day-off requests and vacation time. Works great for us!

A solid HRIS for SME's, good price, excellent service and functionally, with regular feature updates

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 04, 2019
EM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sage HR
1 year of experience
We use CakeHR to manage all aspects of HR (ex payroll and recruitment) for all our employees in HK and Shenzhen. It's particularly useful for managing time off and employee data, and is very user-friendly - I only have to do minimal user training as its very intuitive. More recently I have been using the performance management modules to great effect and this has saved me many hours of admin and Excel sheets!
This system allows for a good deal of employee self-service through the desktop and mobile apps and speeds up their onboarding/removes the associated HR admin so we can focus on the person rather than the papers.
  • Employee self service - the apps and desktops GUIs are very intuitive.
  • Leave management - this manages itself through the app and system, saves lots of admin.
  • Customization - you can tailor the system more and more to suit your specific needs.
  • Updates and Customer Service - the CakeHR team gave dedicated a lot of time to bring out weekly updates and systems improvements which shows they are dedicated to making this a great product - the fact that they were bought by Se recently is also testament to their ongoing mission.
Wells suited for startups and SME's as it's well priced and has everything you need.
It could be used for bigger enterprises but depends on the features big firms would want - cakeHR is still growing and now with Sage, I think they will be able to target the big firms.

CakeHR is like having a treat when booking time off!

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 12, 2019
KM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sage HR
1 year of experience
Our staff uses CakeHR to book off time, which is then accepted or denied by management. It is clearcut and simple to use and makes a difference when we want to efficiently look up what kind of time is left to each employee for vacation.
  • It's easy to find when dates previously booked are accepted/denied.
  • It generates the acceptance of time requested off.
  • CakeHR can be requested to remove time off as well.
Everyone has been able to use it with no training, which is perfect for us!

An easily usable system with great support

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 07, 2018
We use CakeHR across the whole organization. Everybody in the office uses it to manage their days off. It allows us to have a good overview per person on the working days, days off, overtime, etc. This overview wasn't there before at our company and everything was tracked manually.
  • Super easy and usable system.
  • Great customer service; listens to feedback and does something with it, answers really quickly.
  • A good overview per team for managers.
  • An app available for every employee to quickly arrange a request.
I would really recommend it to other companies. Especially to companies like ours, startups, 10+ employees. CakeHR gives you a good overview of all the teams, days off, and you have all the data about employees in one system.

Simple and Affordable system for small and medium-sized businesses

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 26, 2018
TH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sage HR
3 years of experience
CakeHR is for the entire organization to manage HR data for our team members. This includes personal information, sick and holiday tracking, and internal employee notes.
  • Amazing customer service. Questions have been answered fast and product updates were even made based on feedback.
  • Requesting time off interface is nice for employees and managers. There is also a native mobile app available too.
  • Priced very reasonably.
I'm not sure how well it scales for very large businesses, but would definitely recommend for a small to medium-sized businesses.
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