Zenefits Overview
What is Zenefits?
The Zenefits platform integrates all processes, apps, and tools needed, including payroll, HR, benefits, compliance, and time. Payroll management features allow users to stay up to date on earnings, deductions, and taxes easily, plus track and manage time off requests. Users can also review and approve vacation requests, sick leave, personal leave conveniently online. Pre-configured overtime calculations, time card fraud safeguards, and mobile clock-in/clock-out help employees accurately report their hours.
HR features enable users to manage hiring, onboarding and employee records all from the same platform. Users can send offer letters, run background checks and let new hires onboard themselves before their first day. Business intelligence reports allow users to visualize key HR data, and gain valuable insight into business performance. The HR library gives users quick and central access to everything from state law summaries, to productivity tools, to the latest news on health care reform.
Zenefits enables users to manage benefits administration, and supports medical/dental/vision, as well as life and disability, commuter, FSA and HSA benefits. To simplify compliance management, Zenefits supports online ACA compliance, small business compliance, plus a compliance assistant. Zenefits' compliance assistant helps users manage compliance changes efficiently with intelligent deadline tracking, built-in resources, and more. Zenefits' time management technology allows administrators and managers to track and manage time off requests simply and accurately. Native mobile apps for iOS and Android give users the flexibility to submit hours and request time off on the go.
Zenefits Overview
Cost
Pricing options
ESSENTIALS
All the essentials for onboarding employees & managing HR.
$10 per month, per employee
GROWTH
Expanded HR for growing companies.
$18 per month, per employee
ZEN
Super-powered HR with extra tools.
$27 per month, per employee
Annual Contract (Save up to 20%)
Add-On Apps available:
Payroll
Advisory Services
Benefits Admin Using Own Broker
Zenefits Features
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Zenefits Reviews
Zenefits Reviews
Seamless low-cost solution for small to mid-sized companies that kills busy work
-Paperless onboarding/offboarding to support a remote workforce -Integrations with existing ATS, removing the needs for duplicate data entry -Digital document storage, allowing us to digitize all employee files. No more paper! -Time off tracking: Automatic rating to managers for review and approval of all time off requests while keeping the HR team aware of team schedules. Transparent reporting to have conversations with employees regarding the time off trends (% of unplanned versus planned time off). Time off solution also supports Prop 206 mandated sick leave. -Health insurance platform that allows for the execution of open enrollment, qualifying life events and new hire enrollments for all lines of coverage (med, dent, vision, life and disability). HSA app built in to allow employees to review available balances and submit out of pocket expenses. -ACA compliance: Built into existing subscription model that allows for ACA reporting, submission to IRS and 1094/1095 creation without the need for an accountant or an expensive solution. -Business intelligence: Real-time standard and customized reporting. I use this solution heavily as a federal contractor to execute our annual affirmative action reporting.
Zenefits reduces our time on human resources management
Zenefits is a great human resources management platform that unifies all operations in a single panel after you overcome the high learning curve.
Life Saver
Time Saved! Compliance is always taken care of...not much to worry about.
Long time user of Zenefits
Overall it's been super positive. Mistakes are always made, but Zenefits tries to rectify and solve problems instead of throwing their hands up and saying it's too hard.
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Seamless low-cost solution for small to mid-sized companies that kills busy work
Pros
With a solution like Zenefits, I have managed to reduce the HR budget year-over-year while going 100% paperless. The integration with our applicant tracking system allows me to push data seamlessly from my mobile device directly to Zenefits to extend an offer, wherever, whenever. I am no longer chained to the constraints of my desk, which is critical for an HR team of one. Easily the most comprehensive solution in the market (at this price point) that addresses onboarding/offboarding, automated and customized email triggers to employees, time and attendance, insurance, aca compliance, reporting (standard and custom) and a multitude of integrations. Since becoming a client over 2 years ago, I have gone to market year-over-year, and haven't found a solution that is comparable. Zenefits kills the busy work and allows me to dedicate time to our employees and driving meaningful initiatives, restructuring the experience with HR to being a partnership versus an administrative burden.
Cons
I would love it if the custom email triggers were built out with greater functionality. Right now I highly utilize this tool but I see the opportunity for additional growth. The site should have a support number listed in the event of an outage. Right now you can only access support if you are logged into the dashboard.
Zenefits reduces our time on human resources management
Zenefits is a great human resources management platform that unifies all operations in a single panel after you overcome the high learning curve.
Pros
Zenefits is a time saving human resources management platform for us which collects human resources and payroll in one single panel and enables to manage all related process in an integrated manner.
Cons
They do not provide any support during the setup period, we needed to develop solutions for all problems we have encountered during the setup process which took around 8 weeks.
Not for Small Businesses
Terrible.
Pros
That it helps manage HR stuff - but there are others out there that actually may have a Customer Service Department.
Cons
Zenefits has a slick sales process, however, once you sign, you are on your own. The set up process was a nightmare for us and took almost 4 months before we could run our first payroll. Four months. Once we ran that payroll, we have literally been on our own. There is ZERO customer service in this company. If you have a payroll question, forget it. Recently we were assigned a Customer Success Manager who literally takes 2 weeks to respond to an email and then tells us we need to email Customer Service. It unreal to be paying this expensive service and not be able to get support when running a payroll or needing something related to taxes. Stay away. I can only assume they are more interested in larger companies. The platform is pretty basic and does not have the flexibility to truly work for any kind of company that has both FT exempt staff and PT non-exempt. I feel like everything I asked about I was told would work and then I found out after signing that, well, no it really does accommodate what we need. Very disappointed with this company and regret doing business with them.
Response from Zenefits
Hi Laura,
We are sorry to hear that you are less than satisfied with your experience. As a current customer, you do have options. Have you spoken with your CM/CE? They are able to assist with finding answers. We also offer clients the opportunity to join our online community. There you have direct access to SME's like our product team as well as your Zenefits peers (who can help with navigating the platform).
Please let me know if I can connect you with someone.
Life Saver
Time Saved! Compliance is always taken care of...not much to worry about.
Pros
Zenefits was a life saver for me! Everything was done manually before Zenefits so the amount of time is saved was amazing. The ease of use is incredible and I love the reporting capabilities.
Cons
Support response can be slow, especially for tax items
Long time user of Zenefits
Overall it's been super positive. Mistakes are always made, but Zenefits tries to rectify and solve problems instead of throwing their hands up and saying it's too hard.
Pros
What makes Zenefits most valuable to our business is the ease of onboarding new people and providing a 1 stop place for my HR department that is completely in the cloud and no need for reams of paper to be wasted. The PTO calendar and tracking is invaluable as well.
Cons
Zenefits started as a Benefits company with an HR platform, but has pivoted to providing Payroll as it's core business with the other add-ons. There is still some room for improvement on the payroll side and how to handle the customer service side of this.
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Zenefits Pricing
Zenefits Pricing
ESSENTIALS
All the essentials for onboarding employees & managing HR.
$10 per month, per employee
GROWTH
Expanded HR for growing companies.
$18 per month, per employee
ZEN
Super-powered HR with extra tools.
$27 per month, per employee
Annual Contract (Save up to 20%)
Add-On Apps available:
Payroll
Advisory Services
Benefits Admin Using Own Broker
ESSENTIALS
All the essentials for onboarding employees & managing HR.
$10 per month, per employee
GROWTH
Expanded HR for growing companies.
$18 per month, per employee
ZEN
Super-powered HR with extra tools.
$27 per month, per employee
Annual Contract (Save up to 20%)
Add-On Apps available:
Payroll
Advisory Services
Benefits Admin Using Own Broker
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Zenefits Features
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Additional information for Zenefits
Additional information for Zenefits
Key features of Zenefits
- ACA compliance
- Accounting integration
- Activity dashboard
- Approval process control
- Attendance management
- Automated employee alerts
- Automatic reminders
- Background screening
- Benefits administration
- Benefits management
- Business intelligence reports
- COBRA administration
- Change tracking
- Clock in / out
- Commuter benefits management
- Compliance assistant
- Compliance management
- Configurable workflow
- Contractor management
- Custom fields
- Customizable approvals
- Customizable fields
- Customizable reporting
- Deadline tracking
- Direct deposit
- Document management
- Email invitations & reminders
- Employee data synchronization
- Employee database
- Employee management
- Employee onboarding
- Employee profile
- Employee self service
- Employee time clock
- Enrollment management
- FSA benefits management
- Forecasting
- HR library
- HR management
- HSA benefits management
- Health insurance
- Life & disability benefits management
- Mental/dental/vision benefits management
- Monitoring
- Multi-user admin access
- Office directory
- Organizational charting
- Overtime calculation
- Overtime tracking
- Payroll administration
- Payroll integration
- Payroll management
- Performance management
- Permission management
- Policy management
- Project time tracking
- Proration
- Provider management
- QuickBooks integration
- Real time analytics
- Real time reporting
- Real time updates
- Records management
- Recruiting management
- Reporting & statistics
- Role-based permissions
- Self service portal
- Sick leave tracking
- Small business compliance
- Task management
- Third party integration
- Time & attendance tracking
- Time card fraud safeguards
- Time off requests
- Vacation / leave tracking
- Workflow management
Benefits
Zenefits FAQs
Zenefits FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Zenefits.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Zenefits offer?
Zenefits offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: USD 8.00/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
ESSENTIALS All the essentials for onboarding employees & managing HR. $10 per month, per employee GROWTH Expanded HR for growing companies. $18 per month, per employee ZEN Super-powered HR with extra tools. $27 per month, per employee Annual Contract (Save up to 20%) Add-On Apps available: Payroll Advisory Services Benefits Admin Using Own Broker
Q. What are the main features of Zenefits?
Zenefits offers the following features:
- ACA compliance
- Accounting integration
- Activity dashboard
- Approval process control
- Attendance management
- Automated employee alerts
- Automatic reminders
- Background screening
- Benefits administration
- Benefits management
- Business intelligence reports
- COBRA administration
- Change tracking
- Clock in / out
- Commuter benefits management
- Compliance assistant
- Compliance management
- Configurable workflow
- Contractor management
- Custom fields
- Customizable approvals
- Customizable fields
- Customizable reporting
- Deadline tracking
- Direct deposit
- Document management
- Email invitations & reminders
- Employee data synchronization
- Employee database
- Employee management
- Employee onboarding
- Employee profile
- Employee self service
- Employee time clock
- Enrollment management
- FSA benefits management
- Forecasting
- HR library
- HR management
- HSA benefits management
- Health insurance
- Life & disability benefits management
- Mental/dental/vision benefits management
- Monitoring
- Multi-user admin access
- Office directory
- Organizational charting
- Overtime calculation
- Overtime tracking
- Payroll administration
- Payroll integration
- Payroll management
- Performance management
- Permission management
- Policy management
- Project time tracking
- Proration
- Provider management
- QuickBooks integration
- Real time analytics
- Real time reporting
- Real time updates
- Records management
- Recruiting management
- Reporting & statistics
- Role-based permissions
- Self service portal
- Sick leave tracking
- Small business compliance
- Task management
- Third party integration
- Time & attendance tracking
- Time card fraud safeguards
- Time off requests
- Vacation / leave tracking
- Workflow management
Q. Who are the typical users of Zenefits?
Zenefits has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Zenefits support?
Zenefits supports the following languages:
English
Q. What type of pricing plans does Zenefits offer?
Zenefits has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
Q. Does Zenefits support mobile devices?
Zenefits supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone
Q. What other apps does Zenefits integrate with?
Zenefits integrates with the following applications:
Abacus, Bitium, Blueboard, Expensify, Greenhouse, JazzHR, Lattice, Lever, Slack, SynergySuite
Q. What level of support does Zenefits offer?
Zenefits offers the following support options:
Online Support, Knowledge Base, Video Tutorials, Phone Support
-Paperless onboarding/offboarding to support a remote workforce -Integrations with existing ATS, removing the needs for duplicate data entry -Digital document storage, allowing us to digitize all employee files. No more paper! -Time off tracking: Automatic rating to managers for review and approval of all time off requests while keeping the HR team aware of team schedules. Transparent reporting to have conversations with employees regarding the time off trends (% of unplanned versus planned time off). Time off solution also supports Prop 206 mandated sick leave. -Health insurance platform that allows for the execution of open enrollment, qualifying life events and new hire enrollments for all lines of coverage (med, dent, vision, life and disability). HSA app built in to allow employees to review available balances and submit out of pocket expenses. -ACA compliance: Built into existing subscription model that allows for ACA reporting, submission to IRS and 1094/1095 creation without the need for an accountant or an expensive solution. -Business intelligence: Real-time standard and customized reporting. I use this solution heavily as a federal contractor to execute our annual affirmative action reporting.