Ascentis HR Review
May 29, 2018

Ascentis HR Review

Tina Cella | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Ascentis HR

We use Ascentis HR (and other Ascentis products) across our organization for all departments. It is helping us address our rapid growth.
  • Customer Service - our project manager listened to our struggles and was quick to ensure that she put the right people on our team to get us through. As a company, I feel our "asks" were a little difficult at times but Ascentis helped us get through it.
  • Webinars - most of their webinars are very informative and give you more knowledge of the product.
  • Implementation - the process is much longer than the sales presentation layout showed. If they had ONE combined workbook for ALL aspects of the Ascentis program, not just HR, it would help speed up the implementation process.
  • Manuals - Ascentis doesn't have any manuals for their systems and they are currently working on them. As a new user, it is difficult not to have any type of reference material to refer to.
  • The positive impact is that because the company has grown at astronomical rates, Ascentis Payroll prints our checks, pays our State and Federal Taxes, sends out our garnishments and it eliminates the hours we spend doing it ourselves.
  • The negative impact was that it is taking a lot of time to implement, more than what we were lead to believe it would take.
When you get someone on the phone the support is great; the problem is at times, there isn't anyone that is answering the phones so you are waiting for a call or email back. This is why a manual would be nice.
In our first stages of implementation the HR Implementation Rep that was assigned to us didn't really click with our team, nor did our Time Keeper Rep so our Account Manager made sure to assign 2 new people that have been amazing. Ascentis will work with you regardless of the needs the company may have.
Ascentis HR as a standalone product - I wouldn't know how that would be beneficial to our company but having Payroll and Time Keeper make the whole package best suited for our company. It keeps all data for all employees, active or not, in one system. Entering new employees is simple and the information passes down to all other systems.

I am only selecting a 6 because of the struggles we had with implementation.

Ascentis (discontinued) Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
Not Rated
Employment history
10
Job profiles and administration
8
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
8
Organization and location management
8
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
8
Pay calculation
10
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
10
Direct deposit files
10
Reimbursement management
Not Rated
Approval workflow
Not Rated
Balance details
Not Rated
Annual carry-forward and encashment
Not Rated
View and generate pay and benefit information
10
Update personal information
10
View job history
Not Rated
View company policy documentation
Not Rated
Employee recognition
Not Rated
Report builder
7
Pre-built reports
7
Ability to combine HR data with external data
Not Rated
Performance plans
Not Rated
Performance improvement plans
Not Rated
Review status tracking
Not Rated
Review reminders
Not Rated
Multiple review frequency
Not Rated
Create succession plans/pools
Not Rated
Candidate ranking
Not Rated
Candidate search
Not Rated
Candidate development
Not Rated
Not Rated
New hire portal
Not Rated
Manager tracking tools
Not Rated
Corporate goal setting
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
Not Rated
Line-of sight-visibility
Not Rated
Performance tracking
Not Rated
Job Requisition Management
Not Rated
Company Website Posting
Not Rated
Publish to Social Media
Not Rated
Job Search Site Posting
Not Rated
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Not Rated
Applicant Tracking
Not Rated
Notifications and Alerts
Not Rated