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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BrightHR

    Score3.4 out of 10
    N/ABritish company BrightHR offers a human resources platform which helps replace paper documents with edocuments and contains features for managing employee scheduling and ROTA, sick leave and tardiness, vacation and holiday shift planning, as well as providing employment law legal advice.

    $4.50

    Vacation Tracker

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AVacation Tracker is a software tool that enables users to manage employee absences, set leave policies, and streamline leave tracking processes, from the company of the same name Montreal, Quebec. It is available for Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Workspace.

    $25

    per month 25 users (minimum)

    Pricing
    BrightHRVacation Tracker
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Core
    $1
    per month per user
    Complete
    $3
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BrightHRVacation Tracker
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices start at £4.50 (per employee/per month)Discounts available for annual pricing.
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    Considered Both Products
    BrightHR
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    Vacation Tracker
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    42 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
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    Features
    BrightHRVacation Tracker
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of BrightHR and Vacation Tracker
    Feature
    BrightHR
    1.0
    2 Ratings
    155% below category average
    Vacation Tracker
    -
    Ratings
    Employment history1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Organization and location management1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of BrightHR and Vacation Tracker
    Feature
    BrightHR
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Vacation Tracker
    -
    Ratings
    Pay calculation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of BrightHR and Vacation Tracker
    Feature
    BrightHR
    1.0
    13 Ratings
    156% below category average
    Vacation Tracker
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    Ratings
    Approval workflow1.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Balance details1.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment1.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of BrightHR and Vacation Tracker
    Feature
    BrightHR
    3.6
    14 Ratings
    77% below category average
    Vacation Tracker
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    Ratings
    View and generate pay and benefit information1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update personal information1.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    View company policy documentation8.813 Ratings00 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of BrightHR and Vacation Tracker
    Feature
    BrightHR
    1.0
    2 Ratings
    153% below category average
    Vacation Tracker
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built reports1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of BrightHR and Vacation Tracker
    Feature
    BrightHR
    1.0
    2 Ratings
    155% below category average
    Vacation Tracker
    -
    Ratings
    Review reminders1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of BrightHR and Vacation Tracker
    Feature
    BrightHR
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Vacation Tracker
    -
    Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    BrightHRVacation Tracker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (16 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BrightHRVacation Tracker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BrightHR
    I feel Bright HR is well suited to most small/medium sized businesses where they have a 'straight' forward resource set up. For larger businesses or for complex businesses similar to ourselves, where we operate 24 hours per day, rotational shift patterns, ambulatory staff, locums etc...we have to 'fudge' the way we use the information sometimes to make it work for us.
    Incentivized
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    Vacation Tracker
    It is good for basic increment usage. It was less appropriate for biweekly pay periods and for when work days are technically 7.5 hours with 1 hour unpaid lunch. It got kinda whacky with the numbers then since the concept of a day varied. It was great for transparency between employer and employee in terms of knowing how much PTO one has and how it was previously used. Good for history
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    Pros
    BrightHR
    • BLIP is working very well. Staff find it easy to use and the geo-fencing that can be set up is very useful.
    • Reporting, in particular reporting of Absence. We run this monthly and the information we can download is flexible and useful.
    • Sick analysis - helps in controlling absence.
    • Holiday planning and authorization is very helpful and details including date booked helps manage requests.
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    Vacation Tracker
    • easy to sign up
    • visually clear
    • simple in purpose
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    Cons
    BrightHR
    • Notifications for requests should be optional based on individual employees. For example an admin won’t necessarily want every staff members leave requests by email and push notification. The settings only currently allow for notifications for everyone or no one. Being assigned as a manager may not allow data viewing required of wider staff.
    • Toil should automatically be accrued into a balance if the employees clocked in time amounts to more than the target hours. It shouldn’t have to be calculated and requested.
    • When reviewing hours worked for the week, the history calculation should take into account approved leave and sickness etc. I have a staff members target of 37 hours, but if their hours show 29 hours worked then I have to work out why they worked less. It should account for this if the absence is approved.
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    Vacation Tracker
    • more time choices or increments
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BrightHR
    It's not entirely my decision - we are members of a 'community' of veterinary practices who have signed up to the contract with pensinusla and have bright hr as part of that contract however, I am usually involved in the tender process as I am one of the biggest users of both bright hr and the services from peninsula
    Incentivized
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    Vacation Tracker
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    BrightHR
    It is quite good. Has alot of useful features such as the inbuilt learning / trainings. I really like the clock in function where admin can update or edit staff clock in times. I love the easily accessable annual leave section where we can easily see wat annual leave a staff has. However what would be useful is for 0 hour staff due to them not automatically having 17/28 days annual leave, if it can calculate itbased on hours they work
    Incentivized
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    Vacation Tracker
    Because it did not serve us in the sense that our work day is 7.5 hours long. Otherwise, I liked how transparent it was between employer and employee. We wish it had a better way of working with 7.5 hour work days. It was easy to sign up and to introduce but ended up not being the right fit
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    Support Rating
    BrightHR
    The team are proactive, having an advocacy team is just amazing and a great way to really understand their product roadmap and have input into useful features or feedback
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    Vacation Tracker
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    BrightHR
    it was fairly easy to do but timely as i had to enter everything from scratch - i didn't at the time realise how important it was to set up the variable or fixed working pattern correctly given future changes as this is very tricky once it has been set up and i wished i had been aware that sometimes you can't make future changes without deleting the whole profile and starting again
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    Vacation Tracker
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    BrightHR
    I chose BrightHR as it offered a one-stop platform for HR management for which we have dedicated UK and ROI HR specialists who not only give HR advice but also write policies and handbooks, etc. They are a one-stop-shop, which was very important as when I signed the contract I did not have an HR person in my team and they were essentially my back office. Also, by signing up, I got access to Bright Safe too; which is great as again it's a one-stop-shop for Health and Safety in the workplace. So I can roll out toolbox talks, training, and accident management.
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    Vacation Tracker
    We thought it was friendly and simple which it is but the issue with the time increments made it quite tricky to use. It is a lot more simplified than what we have used in the past as it really just tracks PTO and nothing else which is nice. However, the issue with our work day being 7.5 hours was not something that Vacation Tracker worked well with. If that changed then I would be much more open to looking into it again.
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    Return on Investment
    BrightHR
    • Able to reduce one member of staff in personnel from 5 days to 3 days.
    • Able to reduce time spent by payroll on holiday records significantly and improve accuracy significantly.
    • Able to improve control of sick absence and improve record keeping.
    • BLIP meant we did not need to buy expensive attendance software.
    • Looking at possible use of payroll and other aspects of Bright HR not used at present.
    Incentivized
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    Vacation Tracker
    • helped us determine our specific needs
    • negative in terms of 7.5 workday
    • positive in transparency and history
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    BrightHR Screenshots

    Screenshot of BrightHR dashboardScreenshot of BrightHR LightningScreenshot of Bright ExchangeScreenshot of BrightSafeScreenshot of BrightBaseScreenshot of PoP by BrightHR

    Vacation Tracker Screenshots

    Screenshot of a display of who is off today.Screenshot of the leave approval interface.Screenshot of viewable leave quotas.Screenshot of the calendar sync.Screenshot of Leaver Tracker's Soc 2 Type 2 certification.