About Calamari
Calamari is No #1 choice for leave and attendance management system for SMBs. At Calamari, our mission is to make the HR and people management easier to empower entrepreneurs to develop their businesses. We help small, medium and big companies focus on their growth and increases efficiency of attendance management.
Calamari helps in efficient time tracking management, giving yout the timesheets, reports and employee monitoring tools for easile managing your workforce. With mobile applications connected via iBeacons your employees clock in/out without any action (automatically with their mobiles).
We provide and initial set up and data import of your employees from the previously used tool and are always available to help with customers needs. We are open for creating new helpful integrations and personalized features for our clients.
Key benefits of Calamari
Calamari is the simple solution regarding daily problems occurs in IT teams:
• Send leave request without looking for your manager
• Teammates can monitor leave entitlement in continue
• Receive instant notification regarding absence request.
Calamari helps managers, CEOs & HR departments with:
• Automatic leave entitlement calculations
• Absence history and reports
• Adjustment to organization policies
• Custom absence types and multilevel approval
• Accept leave requests on any device
• Plan capacity of your team
• Check substitution candidate before you accept absence
• Monitor team members availability
• Define permission levels for managers and regular employees
• Birthday notifications
• Daily / weekly upcoming absence notifications.
Benefits of Calamari Clockin:
• iBeacons: mobile app allows your employees to clock in without actually doing anything
• Easy reports - you can export your time records to payroll
• Attendance and absence from one place - integration with absence calendar
• Role based security - you can define different access levels for your managers and regular employees
• Attendance policies - set up alerts, and ensure clear communication of your company policies on attendance.
Integration with IT & management tools:
• JIRA Tempo,
• Google Calendar,
• Slack,
• Office 365,
• Apple Calendar,
• Gmail,
• Asana,
• Basecamp,
• G Suite,
• Microsoft Teams,
• Tempo Planner.
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- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Effective timesheet and leave management - we have a very happy HR Department!
Reviewed on 16/11/2017
My review pretty much covers it. Resource planning in the Calendar view. Monitoring leave applicatio...
My review pretty much covers it. Resource planning in the Calendar view. Monitoring leave applications and clock in locations. My HR Managers now have confidence in the timesheet information as they can review it in real time and not just at month end.
Pros
We have decentralized operations, and our managers and HR love being able to see presence and location statuses of our employees in real time, and at a high level.
The Calendar function in the leave module allows for great oversight and enables more efficient resource management and allocation.
The time-sheet and leave reports available are robust and we love the download to excel feature, this perfect tabular format allows for deeper dives on trends, pivot tables etc within Excel.
It really is simple to use for employees and managers. The app keeps things simple to enable clocking in/out and applying for leave.
Really just very easy to navigate, after training our managers, no one has had to come back to us on how to navigate the system.
There are several clock in methods which allows for flexibility, eg smartphone clock-in, QR scans, and browser check-ins.
I must also commend the support team for providing excellent back-end support for our administrators! Keep up the great work and service
Cons
A few improvements could be made, such as allowing for attachment uploads from a smartphone for leave applications and for locations to be tagged when clocking in with a QR code.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Would recommend!
Reviewed on 13/04/2021
The customer service and technical assistance that I have received while working with Calamari has...
The customer service and technical assistance that I have received while working with Calamari has been unparalleled. As soon as I signed up for a free trial a representative reached out to me and answered every question I had. For weeks she had very consistent and helpful communications with me and guided me through every step of the way!
Pros
This software is clean, simple and easy to use. it integrates well with Slack and outlook calendars. It's easy for employees to use and keep track of their own time off reporting in an organized way. It's very customizable to out companies accrual rules, holidays, birthdays, working hours and PTO. I really love that our employees do not have to leave the Slack pap to request PTO and check their balance.
Cons
There is little that is missing from this software and they are always making updates! I would say if you have a lot of employees it takes some time to set them all up initially.
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Built for TeamsReasons for Switching to Calamari
It was fully integrated with Slack and they are competitive in pricing- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Change your NAME
Reviewed on 28/04/2022
Comsi comsa
Comsi comsa
Pros
Everyone in Greece is sarcastic and loughs when he/she hears your brand name.
Cons
Absense, time management, breaks control
Response from Calamari
Thank you for your opinion.
We're very glad about our company's name - there's the whole story standing behind it ;).
If you experience any troubles with employees' time management, please contact us on:
https://calamari.io/contact.
Our Customer Service team will help you set everything up according to your needs.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great customer service!
Reviewed on 05/09/2023
Very satisfied! Great value for the price!
Very satisfied! Great value for the price!
Pros
The customer service team was very responsive and efficient when my payment information expired. They were able to correct the problem quickly and restore my account.
Cons
It is a very good software for the price.
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Seen from the admin's perspective
Reviewed on 06/09/2022
I like the fact that I have all tracked time in one place, rather than a multitude of excel files
I like the fact that I have all tracked time in one place, rather than a multitude of excel files
Pros
Quite easy to start tracking time, various options for accepting changes, custom types of absence
Cons
The reports that Calamari generates do not meet my expectations, I can't see tasks descriptions - to see descriptions I need to generate to deffirent types of reports. Calamari adds up the working time added as 'normal' and the working time 'in project', so that instead of, for example, 8h of work in total, including 5h in project, it comes out that someone worked 13h that day. Moving the month view with a bar is annoying
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HarvestReasons for Switching to Calamari
Our account was migrated from our startup studioResponse from Calamari
Hello,
Thank you for your review.
I passed your review to our team, so we can discuss improving our app to prevent this kind of problem.
In the meantime, you can contact our Customer Success team here:
https://calamari.io/contact
They will help you set the app in the best way possible.
Calamari FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Calamari.Q. What type of pricing plans does Calamari offer?
Calamari offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: USD 1.70/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
14-day free trial, no credit card required. Special pricing is available for non-profit organizations.
Q. Who are the typical users of Calamari?
Calamari has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000
Q. What languages does Calamari support?
Calamari supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Polish, Spanish
Q. Does Calamari support mobile devices?
Calamari supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Calamari integrate with?
Calamari integrates with the following applications:
Asana, Basecamp, Confluence, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Workspace, JIRA Service Management, Jira, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SharePoint, Slack
Q. What level of support does Calamari offer?
Calamari offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Chat
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