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- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Management of employee permits and other human resources tasks.
Reviewed on 30/04/2018
A big problem that I have been able to solve with CakeHR is that I receive email notifications of...
A big problem that I have been able to solve with CakeHR is that I receive email notifications of employees' free time requests and approve or reject them by the same email. This has made things easier for me.
Pros
What I like most when using CakeHR is the ease of registration and access; the function "history of changes made" to facilitate the tracking of changes in the data is very good; and when generating reports with a single click is wonderful.
Cons
A big disadvantage of CakeHR is that it integrates with payroll systems, but not with benefit portals or learning management systems. We are waiting for you to integrate all this.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Appropriate for companies that want one system for whole HR/payroll process
Reviewed on 05/02/2022
Good experience so far. Does lack some out of the box functionalities but can be customized. But...
Good experience so far. Does lack some out of the box functionalities but can be customized. But the team is having fun with the system so far.
Pros
Navigating through the system is very easy and does not necessarily require full training before the end user starts using it. The reports and dashboards are on point for higher management for decision making. And simple requirements can often be easily implemented by the administrator.
Cons
If the system is not properly maintained, the data can quickly become irrelevant and reports are no longer accurate. The should be a team to maintain the system and make sure all data being entered by the employees are correct and regular. For small companies with only a few employees this can be a difficult task.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
3 out of 5 stars application
Reviewed on 12/08/2021
I use a very basic set of Sage HR functional, but it still makes me face some issues, which is not...
I use a very basic set of Sage HR functional, but it still makes me face some issues, which is not the most comfortable experience. Calendar and Company tabs are OK
Pros
It has basic functional needed for a HRM process. The dev team adds new features and updates from time to time.
Cons
The main and critical functional still has A LOT of issues. For example, we have a limited amount of Emergency Days available, BUT Sage do not show me any alerts when people overuse the Policy. Which makes me basically keep a track of things by myself. Also, almost a year ago I reported a few bugs to a customer support, and I still see those bugs from time to time. E.g. I don't think it's necessary to have a "death" item in a dropdown regarding the termination reason.... Like seriously? You guys already have "other" and I personally think it's enough
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BambooHRReasons for Switching to Sage HR
We were presented a demo and decided it had the basic functional for our Company size- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Cake HR - Solid Technology
Reviewed on 10/06/2019
Pros
Its simple, does what it says it will do. Personally I like how it syncs with the calendar.
Cons
I took a week off during easter. We have down on it a company day on Good Friday and Bank Holiday on the Monday. Both days were taken from Annual leave.
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HRLockerReasons for Switching to Sage HR
Just made sense for us at the time for reasons mentioned above. I can't even remember if there was a difference in price. But it was close and would urge others to look at it also.Response from Sage
Dear Robert,
Thank you very much for reaching out!
I'll contact you directly, to go through Leave management once again, as mentioned issue can be resolved, a few clicks is all it takes :)
With thanks,
Viktorija

- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
One of the quickest growing HR systems on the market
Reviewed on 04/07/2019
Only second to one system, which is unaffordable for us. I look forward to seeing how this company...
Only second to one system, which is unaffordable for us. I look forward to seeing how this company develops. I recommend this system for any growing startup and SME.
Pros
Very responsive team.
Slack integration of the leave management is handy and updates in realtime
Leave management is really good, I like that you can extra mandatory fields. We use this to track out of office staff, and remote working. It's also used to track time spent on their personal wellbeing.
The app is handy, I know most of the staff use this instead of the web version.
The org chart with collapsable levels and drag and drop changes is a very strong feature.
Cons
most cons are just potential development and improvement as apposed to major flaws.
Adding timesheets could be more streamlined, maybe a quick add from a calendar style overview would be nicer.
Expense management - it would be great to be able to integrate with Xero.
Response from Sage
Dear Anna,
Thank you very much for your valuable feedback and suggestions. Let's hop on a call and discuss those in more details. I will be in touch with you :)
With thanks,
Viktorija
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Cool HRM tool
Reviewed on 13/07/2023
Cool
Cool
Pros
Having been part of the team that has implemented the solution, I would say it's not a bad HRM tooling and the ability to integrate well with other Sage solutions seamlessly and other external solutions as well is a good one. It has practically met the expectation of those we deployed it for but sometimes with some degree of customization not available within the system it self. But overall it's a good tool.
Cons
Within the context of my usage and interaction with the solution, there's not much to like less.

- Industry: Furniture
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great software with great people behind it
Reviewed on 12/01/2018
Staff are happy that they can book request their holidays at any time and have almost instant...
Staff are happy that they can book request their holidays at any time and have almost instant approval in many cases.
Pros
Clean and user-friendly layout with amazingly helpful people behind the scenes. Lee, in particular, is incredibly helpful.
Cons
The only thing would be the lack of calendar view holiday on mobile app. We have an ever growing young workforce who book their holidays on the app but they are unable to see if other workmates have already booked time off.
Response from Sage
Hi Craig!
Many thanks for your review and we have loved supporting you throughout implementation and beyond.
Right now, we're developing the calendar view for mobile which is really exciting. I'll let you know once it has been released!

- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easy to use, both for admins and employees with a great overview and superb support
Reviewed on 23/01/2018
We get all the information fast and secure in to one system from our employees. No need to look in...
We get all the information fast and secure in to one system from our employees. No need to look in different places or having a risk of loosing papers or receipts when someone had an expense to report.
Pros
Intuitive and very easy to use. Give managers and employees quickly a very good overview.
It can automate many task. We use is to plan ahead and also follow up, for onboarding and now also for expenses.
Cons
The one thing we are missing is that we like to be able to set employment status in %, and have a start date for the change and also be able to get a rapport that show these changes.
BUT since we haven't brought this to their attention yet it's on us.

- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
I loved cakeHR and User friendly app
Reviewed on 22/07/2019
Pros
CakeHR app easy track maintenance college,school and employees details and easy to set up
Convenient dashboard
Cons
Easy to understand and good features
mobiles app is available
Overall it is good compare to other tools
Response from Sage
Thank you, Sarath, for your positive and encouraging feedback :)
Best regards,
Viktorija
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Excellent Product
Reviewed on 16/02/2023
Excellent product
Excellent product
Pros
Easy to use the product, and well structured
Cons
seems all perfect, did not use other product to compare the same
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
A solid option for a startup and SME
Reviewed on 19/06/2019
This has been a great solution to managing the day to day HR ops. I also like that i feel that i am...
This has been a great solution to managing the day to day HR ops. I also like that i feel that i am contributing to making this product better such is the interaction with the CakeHR team. I am starting to reach some scalability limits but this software is evolving and i wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to a startup or SME.
Pros
It has all the standard features you need at a budget friendly cost and the customer support is responsive. The UI is intuitive, even for the employees who didn't really need any training to use it. I also like the G-Suite and Slack integration.
Cons
It needs more feature updates to have better functionality and scalability - the support team and community is pretty good at taking on requests and fixing bugs though.
Reasons for Switching to Sage HR
Cost and required featuresResponse from Sage
Dear Edward,
Thank you very much for your insightful review! Do not hesitate to share your ideas with us, your feedback really matters :)
With thanks,
Viktorija
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Cake HR is a Strategic Partner for Findasense
Reviewed on 18/06/2019
Has helped us a lot in the optimization, automatization and agility to handle our employee data and...
Has helped us a lot in the optimization, automatization and agility to handle our employee data and processes like leaves, feedback, goals, etc.
We have established an alliance with the Cake HR team and this has allowed us to customize the app to our and being able to find solutions to our daily needs.
Pros
Intuitive for its use, user friendly, modern look, flexibility in workflows and constant improvements in the app.
The best part for us is that we have constant contact with the support team and work very closely in designing processes and workflows to respond our internal needs.
Cons
We are working on having a more horizontal structure and be able to install a collective decision making process. So far Cake HR needs for everyone to have a "manager" for approvals in many of the processes so sometimes we need to think around that.
This is not a mejor limitation since the app also allows for some processes to have automatic approvals, but would be interesting to evaluate new organization models.
Response from Sage
Dear Laura,
Thank you for having taken your time to provide us with your valuable feedback! Our goal is to keep new and existing CakeHR features fully customizable, therefore options for different organization models will be definitely considered :)
With thanks,
Viktorija
- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Cake-hr for time-off management
Reviewed on 08/08/2018
It's nice tool to solve a problem of availability visibility in the distributed team, easy to use.
It's nice tool to solve a problem of availability visibility in the distributed team, easy to use.
Pros
- easy UX and UI
- convenient dashboard
- ability to create different policies for various locations (if you have a distributed team it's fantastic)
- integration with a google calendar & slack bot
- custom actions to be done after a time-off request is provided
- mobile app available
Cons
- documents storage is not convenient for users and search
- had few cases with support team when did not receive a reply in time
- would be great to have a follow-up for managers if they do not approve/decline the request of their direct reports
- request for few hours per day does not allow to give precise hours, simply [number] hours in the first/second part of the day. I would prefer specifying exact hours
Response from Sage
Hi there, thank you for your feedback! :)
I'm pleased to hear that you are enjoying your experience with CakeHR and I am sorry to hear that you felt our support team had't replied in a timely manner. I can ensure you that we are working hard on making sure every customer's needs are addressed with accuracy and efficiency, and we are constantly looking at the ways to improve our service, and your feedback is much appreciated.
As it happens, our Document storage UI is being improved as we speak so if you have ideas how it would work better for you, please get in touch with us!
Speaking of TO requests, there is a functionality to specify hours for part-day request, however it depends on permission settings defined by Admins at your company.
I'd love to take our conversation further, so please do get in touch and we will find the answers! :)
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Excellent Product!
Reviewed on 18/06/2019
Pros
Managing Time Off for multiple teams and multiple types of time off. Makes it very easy to see where everyone is without having to manage a company calendar. Easy to use on the go with the mobile app and emailing capabilities. Easy to accept someone's time off request within the email with just a click of a button. Absolutely love this tool for our team's time off.
Cons
Can't set the admin to send me just my team's requests, so I get a lot of emails for our whole company. very hard to edit time off requests. Don't like that after it's approved, it's hard for the user to go in and change their request and be assured it's logged correctly.
Response from Sage
Dear Julie,
It's so exciting to see that you are enjoying both, our software, as well as the app! :) It's so important to have the ability to manage work-related tasks on the go, right?
I'll contact you directly, so we can go through the permissions and time-off settings to arrange them in the way it works best for you!
With thanks,
Viktorija
- Industry: Individual & Family Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Simplifies are HR needs
Reviewed on 03/07/2019
Pros
Before using cake HR all of our time sheets and tracking where done on excel and staff had to to submit them to find out their time off, sick and vacation. Cake HR does everything automatically and gives staff real time information.
Cons
I wish time sheets weres available on mobile .
Reasons for Switching to Sage HR
PriceResponse from Sage
Dear Nichole,
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us :) If you have any further suggestions, please do not hesitate to share them with me directly, or notify us using ''Suggest Feature'' in CakeHR Chatbot.
Best regards,
Viktorija
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
UX is great!
Reviewed on 10/06/2019
CakeHR is a much better experience for our employees than other HR services we have used. We have...
CakeHR is a much better experience for our employees than other HR services we have used. We have gotten positive feedback about it from our team.
Pros
Really appreciate the amount of effort they put into designing this app out. The visual experience is far superior to any other HR app I have used in the past.
Cons
There is additional functionality that can be hard to find, such as where to put documentation like the employee handbook. Also, I would like to see users be able to be grouped into multiple different teams or views.
Response from Sage
Hello!
I'm pleased to hear that you and your team are enjoying experience with CakeHR. I would love to have a further chat with you to review our document management feature, that is very handy in use. This feature gives you various possibilities to organize, store, as well as, notify employees on added documents, give specific permissions, so it's easier to keep a track.
CakeHR also offers possibility to add as many teams as you like. Access to team's profiles, documents, reports, and much more can be set according to your needs. There is so many options we can offer you to make your work life easier, let's get in touch so I can give you a more insight! :)
With thanks,
Viktorija
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Good Help Center
Reviewed on 12/06/2019
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Pros
Everything in one place was most important
Cons
Not all functions are there which are needed
Alternatives Considered
BambooHRReasons for Choosing Sage HR
To have everything in one placeSwitched From
BambooHRReasons for Switching to Sage HR
Latvian help centerResponse from Sage
Dear Maija,
Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts! Would be great to hear in more details about functions in your opinion are missing, let's schedule a call to see how we can make CakeHR more efficient for you!
With thanks,
Viktorija
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
User friendly and easy to use.
Reviewed on 28/01/2019
Cake handles the things we use it for well. Tracking holidays, managing certain manually entered HR...
Cake handles the things we use it for well. Tracking holidays, managing certain manually entered HR processes, but it lacks a lot of functionality which would be needed by an HR system.
Pros
Well presented and easy to use for admin and for users.
Cons
Still Missing features I would like to see from an HR control package
Response from Sage
Hi Gary,
Thank you for your feedback! :) I know that you have been in touch with our team before about various functions and features that you would like to use for your People Management, and I think we should get on a call to touch-base on our latest enhancements as I believe you will find them very useful and handy!
I'll be in touch with you directly to arrange a call.
Thanks
Ilona
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Nice but too young yet :)
Reviewed on 18/01/2019
Could be a good choice, but functionality has to be improved
Could be a good choice, but functionality has to be improved
Pros
User friendly
Flexible (at least in concept)
Cons
No recruitment module
Not enough fields in recipes (I am pretty sure that it is possible to let user to use much more variables and logic operators (jumps, triggers) and play with boolean search and complex logic).
No calendar of upcoming appraisals for all the company, which could be useful for HR service to plan the load (I mean, standard calendar table view for the whole year)
No recurrence (you should duplicate the same task manually, instead of setting of recurrence 'once per every 6/12/18 months etc")
When you change initial task itself, the workflow which includes this task, still contains not updated version. As for me, if any component has been changed, it should be relevantly changed in any more complicated structures which contain that 'brick', instead of manual searching where this component could be used and further manual changing.
Response from Sage
Hi there,
thanks so much for leaving a detailed feedback - this allows us to constantly review our product and improve! :)
As it happens, we are about to release our new shiny Recruitment module! You are very welcome to test it out in the beta version - please get in touch with me directly and we'll set it up.
We are also constantly adding more Recipe variables, and there are to meet our customers' demands. If there is anything in particular that you think should be added to the Recipes, please get in touch.
With onboarding tasks, it has to be looked at each case specifically as one scenario will not fit all and therefore cannot be applied automatically.
I would love to go through these points with as you directly I can see some very good ideas there. Please write to me :)
Thank you
Ilona
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Cake HR is a very handy tool
Reviewed on 15/08/2017
Pros
Shows how much holiday allowance is left in a straight forward manner. Very user friendly and simple to navigate around the site.
Cons
The price went up recently which isn't ideal as we're not getting more for our money. Probably could offer more things on the site.
Response from Sage
Hi Liz
I hear your concerns about the price going up but without any new features.
The pricing increase was our first in 6 years - since CakeHR began. "plans" became legacy and we made the cost much more easier to manage. The problem with the plans was that you would essentially pay double for a new hire that would take you from Plus to Premium, for example.
That being said, this year, we're releasing the following:
Timesheets & Scheduling
Performance & Appraisal management
Expenses
Training
Applicant Tracking
All of the above whilst we are also improving on the current features! 2018 is going to be a hot year!
If you want to talk about the pricing more personally, I'm more than happy to make arrangements for that and make sure you value CakeHR and your company correctly.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great tool to strength you company culture
Reviewed on 25/01/2017
An important part of our work culture is flexibility. Cake HR has helped us manage our time off,...
An important part of our work culture is flexibility. Cake HR has helped us manage our time off, work from abroad, work from home, and sick days policies in a very easy way, without taking time from managers, and giving transparency inside the company.
Pros
Easy to setup.
Even gives you an organizational chart as you add everyone with their reporting lines.
Integrates with Google Apps.
Easy approval of time-off requests with one click from email.
Dedicated customer support.
Cons
Some of our policies were a bit tricky to setup (non US nor European company).
Response from Sage
We love working with you, David! Policies can be a tricky thing when you have employees in other countries but I'm really glad that we get you set up and making the most out of CakeHR for years!
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
An HR "silver bullet"
Reviewed on 16/11/2016
We turned to CakeHR when we got to 9 employees. Until then we were tracking MyShowcase on a clumsy...
We turned to CakeHR when we got to 9 employees. Until then we were tracking MyShowcase on a clumsy spreadsheet that was always wrong. From one day to the other everything was easy and clear. We've kept on using CakeHR. We now have 27 employees. Never have we done any training. CakeHR is super easy to use, new employees seamlessly get on with it.
I strongly recommend it for any small to medium sized company.
Pros
Ease of use
Feature set fully meets our needs
Cons
none
Response from Sage
Thank you, Rodrigo!
CakeHR is perfect for the scaling and growing company. I'm really proud that we hit it off with your employees.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Easy automation
Reviewed on 24/09/2022
While creating the software, I think that you will be satisfied in general, following the needs of...
While creating the software, I think that you will be satisfied in general, following the needs of the people working in the sector.
Pros
You can choose to easily create automation. I can guarantee that you will be satisfied in general, thanks to the ease of use it provides, it will take you one step ahead in your business life.
Cons
Sometimes it may run slow compared to the internet connection speed, if you have a fast connection you will not have any problems. I did not have a negative experience as I was satisfied with its overall quality and ease of use.
- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Human Resource As Sweet As Can Be
Reviewed on 14/12/2018
CakeHR is a great way for small companies to feel like they have the presence of a HR department....
CakeHR is a great way for small companies to feel like they have the presence of a HR department. Although it doesn't replicate all the services it makes sharing information, organizing time off, and more easy for anyone to do. As someone who used it as an employee of a company, it made putting in time off requests easy and the customer support was fantastic the few times I needed to reach out.
Pros
CakeHR is a system I've had to use as an employee. Being forced into a system can often be intimidating and confusing. Using it as an employee has given me the confidence I would need to use it as an administrator if I ever wanted to. The accrual system is fair and responsive and the scheduling and permissions of other users allows everyone to be in sync. For instance, I can see when my co-worker is planning Christmas vacation so I can ensure I'm not taking the same days.
Cons
The only con I can really think of is for United State businesses is that the company is in the United Kingdom. This can cause time zones to kind of be wacky in certain circumstances but they've been providing more and more support in that regard in recent updates and company based decisions.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great for our agency of 25 people.
Reviewed on 03/08/2017
Total organization of our company's tasks and projects.
Total organization of our company's tasks and projects.
Pros
The dashboard is my favorite feature. After about a year I have the perfect system set up to control all my own tasks while managing and overseeing everyone's tasks in the company. Timesheets are also great.
Cons
Creating recurring tasks can be tedious. Support helped me figure out a way to duplicate entire projects, but then making changes don't apply across the board. If there was more ease of use, Wrike would be perfect.
Response from Sage
Hi Jahana,
It sounds like you've reviewed Wrike but not CakeHR :D Not to worry, I'm going to set up a call and make sure you're happy with our solution!