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The Appogee Leave cloud-based management system allows you to request, approve and record absence at entry level easy and fast.

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Pros:

Cost and Google calendar integration are good.

Cons:

If someone submit a leave of last year when the leave balance already carried on to new year calendar, the leave balance can update in last year only and won't be able to update at current year.

Appogee Leave ratings

Average score

Ease of Use
4.2
Customer Service
4.4
Features
4.1
Value for Money
4.5

Likelihood to recommend

8.4/10

Appogee Leave has an overall rating of 4.5 out 5 stars based on 48 user reviews on Capterra.

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Bob
Bob
Lead Supervisor in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Financial Services, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Best way to track PTOs and Sick days

4.0 4 years ago

Comments: Appogee Leave has made it easier to track the number of employees who are out on any given day and allows us to plan for the days ahead to best service our clients. We have the option to reject requests from our employees if our staffing needs are not met on the days that they request. Appogee Leave automatically sends them both the Approvals and Rejections immediately, saving us the time it would take to send emails to our staff.

Pros:

We use Appoggee Leave every day within our department. Every day we have someone is out on vacation or calls in sick. Appogee Leave automatically updates their PTO balances and provides Managers and Employees an easy-to-use and understand snapshot of their PTO records. It helps our employees maximize their earned time off without leaving any PTOs unused. It also allows us to see at a glance who is out on any given day, which helps us allocate our resources to better service our clients.

Cons:

At the moment Appogee Leave does NOT talk to our Outlook 365 calendar, like it did when we had been using Google calendars. Whenever an employee requested time off, Appogee would update our shared Google calendars with a "Pending" status and then, once approved, would change the status to "Approved". However, now that we moved to Outlook 365, Appogee does not automatically update our calendars any longer. The net effect is that we have to manually input the days off in our shared Outlook 365 calendars, which is time consuming and since it is done manually, is subject to mistakes or omissions.

Appogee HR Response

4 years ago

Thanks for your review. Great to hear the system is used every day and your employees are finding it easy to use. Unfortunately, there is a limitation with the API provided by Microsoft so we are unable to connect to Team/Shared calendars within your Outlook account. If Microsoft make this feature available for us to implement, we will of course add it to our offering!

Ian
Ian
General Manager in UK
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Works, but a bit fiddly

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: Works, is far better than our paper system and has reduced the overall overheads throughout the year. However, is fiddly to get to work in the way we work (booking days rather than hours off) and do basic things like cancel bank holidays, or prebook holidays on behalf of staff). It took us about 16 hours of senior and admin time in January just to sort out the 2019 year carryovers and bank holidays for a company just below 50 people.

Pros:

Integration with office login/calendar Quite simple to use in general. Has been reliable. Different staff groups.

Cons:

It works in hours not days, so we spend far too much time fiddling adjustments to avoid someone having e.g. 0.7623 days holiday carry over. Holiday (for us) is only be booked in days or half days. It gets even more complicated for part-time workers. Bank holidays - too rigid - people cannot cancel a bank holiday if they need to work it. So we don't use the bank holidays features. No bulk upload of holidays. We prebook certain holidays for all staff (Christmas week and bank holidays). We have to do all of this by hand.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thank you for stopping by to leave feedback for Appogee Leave. Pleased that the integration has been beneficial to you and your staff have found it simple to use! We would be happy to arrange a session to cover off some of your concerns. We calculate in both hours/days so should be able to advise here and we can ensure you have carryover set up to run automatically next year so this does not need to be a manual process.

Jamie
Head of IT in Netherlands
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Appogee Leave

3.0 6 years ago

Comments: It's fine, it's not an amazing experience but it does the job.

Pros:

Simple interface. Good value for money Integration with G Suite

Cons:

Though the time specification period has much improved, it doesn't work so well with editing existing entries. Takes a long time for any new features to be put in.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We are pleased to see that you have found us simple to use and great value. We always welcome feature suggestions from our customers and have regular product meetings to define and change product road maps where required. Please continue to provide us your feedback as it really can help to shape the future of our products.

Ryan James
Ryan James
Chief Executive Officer in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Nonprofit Organization Management, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Outstanding Product at Affordable Price

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: We've been customers for a number of years now, and everything is working great. Employees love it because it keeps track of everything and management is pleased to not have to jump through hoops for correct HR data. A major upgrade for our company.

Pros:

This product is so flexible for both a small and large business, its afforded my small company the ability to have a big powerful software system, for a fraction of the price, and manage some of the most important HR needs within our small company. Its very easy to use and gives lots of options for any kind of business.

Cons:

There was very little to no training on how to use the software or any guidance on upgrades, and we werent able to find videos on youtube or anything, so we had to feel our way around until we figured things out, but it was pretty easy to do so. We wished there had been some video tutorials on how to set everything up from the start.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thank you for your kind review! We are delighted to hear how happy both Management and Employees are.

Mark
Mark
Client Services Manager in Canada
Verified LinkedIn User
E-Learning, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Good stuff

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: It's really helped us get a handle on our vacation schedules

Pros:

Easy to keep track of time off for multiple teams with and without complicated reporting structures

Cons:

There are some workflows that seem overly complicated

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks for the review! Pleased to hear you have found handling vacation at your company easy with using Appogee Leave. Please get in touch any time with feedback on updates you would like to see. We take into account feature suggestions when planning our product road maps.

Adam
Adam
I.T technical Analyst in UK
Verified LinkedIn User
Hospitality, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Nice Tool

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: working out calculations for holiday entitlements is now harder with the new web interface then the older version.

Pros:

Ease of use to book and manage holidays

Cons:

new release - harder to navigate - calculations and going between teams is hard to manage.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks for the review Adam! Pleased to hear you are now finding it easy to manage and book holidays. The Employee Switcher would help to navigate between employees and teams, this can be found on the Employee Ribbon on all employee pages.

Ruth
Ruth
Personal Assistant in Ireland
Verified LinkedIn User
Insurance, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Great piece of software, absolute timesaver

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: It's nearly self administering. The support team are fantastic and very responsive.
Save so much time and give your team control of their time!

Pros:

The administration time that it's saved us. We used to work with excel spreadsheets and this has just saved so much time. Plus our team feel in control of their time. I'd highly recommend it.

Cons:

Nothing, I can't complain. It takes a little time to set up but other than that no complaints.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks for the review! Brilliant to hear you have saved time and accuracy through using Appogee Leave. We pride ourselves on simplicity and our great support!

Emilie
Emilie
Head of HR in Ireland
Verified LinkedIn User
Human Resources, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Simple and efficient

5.0 6 years ago

Pros:

I love how intuitive it is for employees and managers to use the system. I also like the fact it integrates with Microsoft 365 I am excited about trying the full hr suite!

Cons:

I would love to see a features to follow up on essential kpis for hr to follow in the war for talent context, such has automatic track of new hires/ month, leavers, staff turnover, average longevity of employment, progression of those kpis, and an historical recap of employee life: when and how often they got promoted, got salary increase... the last thing to be the cherry on the cake would be to integrate with payroll system to have all information in one place

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks for the review Emilie. Great to hear you have enjoyed using Leave and are keen to explore HR. We always love to hear feedback so please let us know the details of any feature suggestions.

David
David
Sr VP, Product Development & Operations in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great product for medium size company

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: Appogee Leave allows us to handle time out of the office in a way where it is easy to use and effective for all employees.

Pros:

Product is easy to use and has great flexibility.

Cons:

Product pricing model is geared toward medium size company (25 or more) which works fine for us.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks for the review David!

Shaun
Shaun
Director of Sales, EMEA in UK
Verified LinkedIn User
, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Fantastic solution, highly recommended

5.0 7 years ago

Pros:

The UI is intuitive, smart and modern. The functionality offers exactly what I needed from both a user, and a manager. The reporting was second to none and I would look to utilise this application in whatever company I am in.

Cons:

No real issues, support was responsive and the developers were always open to feature requests. Great piece of software that was easy to adopt across the organisation.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to leave us a brilliant review. It is great to hear we provided exactly what you needed to support your business!

Shelly
Administrator in US
Hospital & Health Care, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

No longer have the need to keep track of paper!

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: Save a lot of time - there are no longer lost or missed requests from administrative side of things. Employees are able to keep track of their time used and remaining.

Pros:

Everything you need to manage vacation time, sick time, no pay days off all in one place. Once system is set up automatiically calculates annual distributions and counts them down. Easy to read team calendars

Cons:

Mobile app not available for iOS only android operating systems - all of our employees use iPads and most have iPhones.

Kristin
Human Resources & Administration Executive in Hong Kong
Information Technology & Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Experience of a HR staff

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: Overall experience of using Appogee is good, but problems always occurred when leave balance carried over to next year. When submit ticket to Appogee support team, they are helpful and efficient, but it will be great if the team can deliver the opinions which I wrote in the ticket to responsible team/person rather than asking me to make suggestion by visit the Feature Suggestion Forum myself.

Pros:

Ever user can have a individual account for leave record. Company can set holidays in calendar easily.

Cons:

If someone submit a leave of last year when the leave balance already carried on to new year calendar, the leave balance can update in last year only and won't be able to update at current year. Manual adjust needs to be made at this circumstance which is not convenience. Recently, there is a new function of allowing user to upload attachment when apply leave. It is good that the company listen to customers, however the function is not well developed, e.g. if we set someone's access right to read only, then he is not able to see the content of the attachment, as Appogee does not have the function to let you review it without download permission. Developer should run more test on new function before release the function to public.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We are always happy to help with any queries you have regarding setup, use or support so please continue to get in touch and we can arrange an overview.

Chris
Human Resources Manager in Canada
Wholesale, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Outstanding Response Times

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: Our company has multiple locations. Appogee Leave has allowed us to track attendance company-wide. The link to the GSuite calendar is amazing. This is an important piece as to why we decided to continue with our registration. Each employee can open their calendar daily and see who is unavailable due to absence. Prior to Appogee we used a paper trail process to track absences. Appogee Leave eliminates the use of paper and allows for immediate tracking. The system is also beneficial for our company as some managers/supervisors travel daily. Being able to receive notifications via email when employee absences are first booked, helps with overall productivity and communication. We have been using the system going back to 2015 and have no intentions of moving to another provider.

Pros:

I have always loved the ease of use. Appogee is very user friendly and is easily taught to employees and supervisors.

Cons:

I do not like the return to work function (sick leave). When you process a sick leave, I would rather the notification be sent to the supervisor/manager for approval right away, rather than wait until the employee returns to work and completes the request. For our business, we would prefer an employee processes a sick leave each day that they will be absent (separately).

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks for the kind review! We are s happy to hear you have found our solution easy to use! Thank you for your feedback, we always want to hear suggestions from our customers, so please feel free to add to our Feature Suggestions portal.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Marketing & Advertising, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Simple, affordable cloud software to manage team time off

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: Very functional, very user friendly.

Pros:

Appogee was a no-fluff, practical software that does one thing well that we were looking for: managing team vacation, sick days and other types of time off requests.

Cons:

Changing allowances is a bit clunky. You can't access these details just by selecting the employee's name.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks for leaving us a review! We are very happy to hear that you have found managing team leave and sickness so much easier with Appogee Leave.

Josh
Teacher in US
Education Management, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Our Best Solution

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: Our experience has been very positive, it allows us to implement a single program to organize our entire time off program.

Pros:

Appogee Leave is the best solution we have found to solve our time off dilemma. It allows us to request, approve, and monitor all time off, including PTO, sick days, maternity leave, and administrative leave.

Cons:

It doesn’t fit our needs exactly or precisely, but neither does anything else. Our organization is unique, but this has been the most flexible and best fit we have found thus far.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Great to hear we are the best solution for your business!

Matt
CFO in US
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Appogee Leave

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: Overall I have use AppogeeLeave at 2 companies now and love the platform. One company used Gmail the other O365 and the platform integrated great with both of them. If you are looking for a simple solution to track, manage and report out on your companies PTO balances and provide a great user experience for your employees you can't go wrong with Appogee.

Pros:

Integration with Office 365 Transparency for the company around holidays and PTO of other employees Flexibility to fit our many different PTO plans Great UI/UX for end users - very easy to use and teach to employees Integration with outlook (to do all approvals directly inside email platform)

Cons:

The only complaint I would have is the UI/UX for the admin can be a little clunky. Not terrible but I think they spent more time on the user side - which is fantastic.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to leave us a great review. We are delighted you have used us at two different companies and love our platform!

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Flexible and Easy to Use

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: Really positive. Our team have expressed how much easier it is now to book their holiday - and our operations manager no longer has to worry about keeping track on a spreadsheet. It's made everyone's life a lot simpler.

Pros:

Plenty of well-thought-out functionality and customisability. It's very clear that the developers are constantly looking to push their software further, such as creating a plug-in for Outlook mailbox, pushing leave through to Outlook calendars seamlessly, and allowing companies to use single-sign-in through O365.

Cons:

Setting up the software initially had a few ups and downs. There were certain restrictions that mainly resulted from the way the software calculates leave at the end of the year (we set-up the software at Christmas and rolled it out in the New Year - resulting in a few hiccups in calculating the number of days some employees 'carried over'). But the support team were really helpful and guided us through the process to make manual amendments.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks for the kind review. We are so pleased to hear that your company have found life simpler after implementing Appogee Leave. Our support team are always happy to help so it is great to hear initial setup was assisted by the team.

Iryna
Head of HR in Ukraine
Aviation & Aerospace, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Good value for money!

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: Our Company uses Appogee Leave to track Employee sickness, leave and overtime requests. Appogee Leave also provides reporting opportunities but they are not very adjustable and thus we mainly do not use it.

Pros:

Appogee does not have too many features and functionality, though it is quite easy to use, especially for Employees.

Cons:

I would suggest they provide faster and easier to reach support (like instant chats with support representatives etc.)

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to review us! We do have online chat on our website, that you might find useful going forward.

Elizabeth
Administrator in US
Health, Wellness & Fitness, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Easy to use

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: Easy for staff to see when everyone is off, administrator can easily see clashes when approving. Eliminated annoying paper requests.

Pros:

Integrates well with G Suite Easy to see clashes and approve Both Approved and pending requests are visible on Google Calendar Easy for all staff to use

Cons:

Doesn't fit our situation exactly so it's use to track PTO allowances is limited, not a fault of Appoggee, our situation is unusual

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks for a great review! Good to hear you have set up the integration and found a way to make your unique PTO policies work.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Construction, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Not so User Friendly

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: I think the system works fine, but it's not easy to navigate.

Pros:

I think the system works great once everything is set up. For the most part, approvers in the system eliminate a lot of manual e-mailing.

Cons:

Setting up employees isn't easy. It's also hard when the system has updates throughout the year. We had a problem last year where all data was erased in February- we lost current employee data and terminated employees were back in the system. I had to completely start over entering employees into the system and setting up approvers.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thank you for leaving us a review. As per our secure deletion policy and GDPR regulations we delete all customer data 60 days after expiry. We are sorry to hear this meant additional work for you on return. Please do let us know any further feedback you have, we always love to hear our customers thoughts and ideas.

Jason
Jason
Founder in UK
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Good system that keeps our company running smoothly

5.0 6 years ago

Pros:

Always stable. Keeps being developed. Works brilliantly for UK, US and other holiday setups.

Cons:

I still don't love the navigation, I think it's quite confusing. There has been improvements, but, still not 100%

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks so much for stopping by to give us a review. Brilliant to hear it's helping to keep things running smoothly! We are always looking for customer feedback for product direction, would love to hear your thoughts on the navigation.

Christopher
Comptroller in US
Nonprofit Organization Management, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Good App for a Small business

4.0 6 years ago

Pros:

The software is relatively easy to set up and use. It's straightforward, flexible and streamlined enough for our company of 23 people. It integrates with the Google platform and reports can be exported to Excel compatible (.csv) files. There's an app for your smartphone. The cost is reasonable.

Cons:

As the company accountant I would like to see a couple extra reporting features. The software could be more flexible when it comes to calculating carryover days and some cutoff reports.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks for the great review Christopher. Please add the reports you would like to see to our Feature Suggestions Forum and we can review these for future product development.

Richard
Richard
President in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Hospital & Health Care, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great Vacation and Sick time HR Manager

5.0 6 years ago

Pros:

Ease of use. The system is very accurate at monitoring Requests

Cons:

As an administrator, it can be difficult to navigate to some of the other management accounts to OK requests

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Thanks for the great review. Great to see you are finding things easy to use and better accuracy with requests. Get in touch anytime to let us know some thoughts on admin navigation. We are always keen to hear new ideas for improvements

Megan
Operations Manager in US
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

We have been happy with it for 2 years

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: We are very happy with it, especially the integration with Google calendars.

Pros:

It solved our problem of a previously very manual time-off request process. Makes things quick and easy.

Cons:

Sometimes it's a little hard to find the features I need. (Holidays for example). This mostly had to do with getting used to the changes when an upgrade was made later last year.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

Great you are so happy with Appogee Leave! Thank you for your review.

Holly
Sr. Office Manager in US
Medical Devices, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great inexpensive product that gets the job done!

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: We have been happily using this software for almost 5 years. For our start-up the price was right/low and they have been consistently making functionality improvements that have kept the software current and relevant for us.

Pros:

ROI - For the price the amount of functionality and options are exactly what we needed. Quite customizable! My employees love most how it syncs automatically without Gmail applications and calendar. Appogee Leave even lets you set up your OOO messages for you when you upon requesting time-off.

Cons:

Sometimes the admin screens are not as intuitive as I'd like. There seem to be multiple areas you need to go to in order to trigger on/off a function. Reports and analyses could be more robust too. I also wish they'd integrate an easy time tracking software for non-exempt employees, that would be a great win for us.

Appogee HR Response

6 years ago

We have been pleased to have you as a very valued customer for the last 5 years. Thank you for taking the time to leave us a great review!