Timetastic

Avantages

Timetastic was a big step up from our previous spreadsheet leave system. As the team expanded, it made it easy for us to have a 'proper' approval system for leave, avoid clashes between critical staff and scrap the rubbish paper calendar on the wall that no one ever bothered to look at!

Our leave booking is now simple, and there is no excuse for forgetting to mark your holiday. The calendar sharing means I can see at a glance who is out of the office. We also use Timetastic for signess leave and tracking who is out the office for sales trips and meetings (an extra bonus)

Inconvénients

Some useful features are not there yet
- If some staff get extra holidays each year, this cannot be done automatically
- Holiday roll-over options are basic and may need manual tweaking at year end
- Moving your holiday year end is a nightmare as you effectively have to 'start again', entering all holidays by hand (though to be fair this is not something you do frequently)

Avantages

Timetastic is a great piece of software for any company. The ease of use and most importantly the visibility / clarity is second to none in terms of other products I've seen.

Inconvénients

Not a lot, it does what it says. Perhaps better reporting would be beneficial. It's annoying that we have a system for this and a second system for HR management. Would be better if we had this as an all in one. Long terms we'd move away from timetastic once we get something that integrates both.

Avantages

It's easy to use, the notifications for requests are clear and make it quick to approve. The Slack integration works well and allows everyone to see who's off on a given day.

Inconvénients

I don't feel the integration with anything else I'm using is good enough. We integrate with Slack, but that's it. I'd like to be able to pull it into the scheduling software I use (Harvest/forecast).

Avantages

Really easy to setup and get started. Simple to use and switch on and off as needed when tracking time. Also really easy to integrate with other applications

Inconvénients

There wasn't anything that I didn't like as straightforward and simple to use

Avantages

As a small non profit it is incredibly affordable and efficient. Before this we were tracking leave inefficiently on a spreadsheet. Timetastic has been a gamechanger for us and is a system thats well worth it.

Inconvénients

There isnt anything I dont like about Timetastic

Avantages

Very clear interface
Very easy for everyone to use
Local public holiday database very useful
Birthday and Work Anniversary function helpful
Not too expensive per user
Good system for keeping historic records

Inconvénients

Nothing comes to mind, it does what we need it to do in a very clear way

Avantages

Easy to use for all users, easy to set up and maintain.

Inconvénients

Nothing negative to say. Have been using it for 3 years now.

Avantages

One of the most commendable aspects of Timetastic is its user-friendly interface, which ensures a seamless experience for users at every level.

Inconvénients

I don't have any issues with timetastic at all, the only thing that stops me using it more is my own time restraints.

Avantages

Ease of use, great user interface, cost effective.

Inconvénients

None that I can think of - it fulfils all our current needs.

Avantages

It makes it so easy to request holidays and find out quickly how much I've got left for the rest of the year.

Inconvénients

I feel like some basic features shouldn't be locked behind a pro subscription.

Avantages

The ease of implementation and roll out to users.

Inconvénients

The lack of flexibility around leave types and not being able to book "hour" slots

Avantages

Easy, visual, colour coded and comprehensive tracker of any time taken off on leave or sick or working from home

Inconvénients

The half days would be better diagonal and therefore easier to see. Could do with hour by hour time off logging.

Avantages

Timetastic is very easy to use - so much better than spreadsheets and manual calculations for leave. We love it!

Inconvénients

Nothing - it is a great tool! Very easy to use.

Avantages

Timetastic gives you an extremely quick and simple way to manage all kinds of staff absences from holidays to sickness days and is flexible enough to be able to cover most scenarios within a business.
In a world where some software is priced at a level where small businesses cannot even contemplate using it, Timetastic provides an excellent solution at an excellent per user price, and all without trying to lock you in to a restrictive contract term.
Everything about the program is well designed and user friendly - staff love the ability to be able to request holidays at any time 24/7 using the app.

Inconvénients

There is not a lot to dislike about Timetastic, it does what it says on the tin. I could do with a couple of small features adding but they are just particular quirks to the way we work and may not be needed by everyone.

Avantages

All of our staff use the system and it's features on a daily basis. We use the platform in our weekly priorities meeting to explain who has leave this week and any upcoming leave.

Half of the team is based in Guernsey so we have utilised the custom holiday feature because in Guernsey we have a Liberation Day on May 9th, which is different to the UK.

Inconvénients

In an ideal world our team leave app would also tie into our scheduling app, which is Harvest Forecast. So there is extra duplication of time to set up holiday in Harvest once it has been approved in Timetastic.

Avantages

I am a huge fan of products that focus their features, but do those things very well. Timetastic is excellent at keeping track of our team's holiday time and showing the team who will be out on any given day.

I appreciate how it lets me sort people by teams and set up custom national holidays for people who work in different countries. It also helps us award more time based on tenure with its easy start day tracking.

We really recommend it!

Inconvénients

I don't have many cons. I wish I would have found it sooner!

Avantages

- It works consistently, quickly and intuitive and easy to use
- The wall chart makes it really easy to see where people are in/out of the office
- Automatically detect clashes and show them when leave is being requested / approved
- Using the mobile apps, leave requests can be approved on the go so even when staff are outside of the office they can have approvals for time off done quickly
- Break down your staff into individual teams and have a set manager to approve
- Add custom leave types
- Tie into your calendar on phone

Inconvénients

I haven't found any - the software does everything that it says it does, and it does it well. I would love for this company to expand more into scheduling type applications for scheduling on-site visits for us to clients etc. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Avantages

It's simplicity and friendly appearance. It's great for managing time off on both HR and Employee's sides. They also offer mobile apps to quickly book time off.

Inconvénients

Not much. Although It would be great if there were some extra features (such as staff recognition).

Avantages

- G Suite Integration
- Slack Integration
- working out of pro-rated holiday allowance
- keeping track of lieu days
- multiple Bank Holiday tracking ( For different Countries)
Lots more.

Inconvénients

Only thing I wish it had was notification of work anniversaries.

Avantages

Simple to configure; intuitive for users; good VFM.

Inconvénients

One requirement which Timetastic could not meet is allowing a particular leave type to be only approved by a specific Administrator.

We have the approval set per user to Dept Boss, and this is great for annual leave, sick leave, etc. but I have one leave type - Working from Home - which I would like only myself as Admin, not the Dept Bosses, to approve for all staff.

As yet (with a Support call logged) I have not seen a work-around for this.

Avantages

The simplicity, the interface, and that it's made in the UK :)

Inconvénients

Love all of it, just WISH there was a way for it to show more information via the Slack integration, like what the time off is for (eg holiday, meeting, sickness) and if it could send the notification to slack the day BEFORE, not the actual morning of the event. PLEASE!!!

Avantages

We like the fact that this has made our holiday booking quick and straightforward.
It calculates part year holiday entitlement and is a clear and visible system and the approval process has been streamlined.
The mobile app makes it very easy for out of hours use
Reporting is easy too and has helped with mid-year planning

Inconvénients

There's not much that we don't like to be honest

Avantages

We had an antiquated paper request and wall calendar system before Timetastic so anything would have been better. However, Timetastic exceeded our expectations both in design and ease of use. The simplistic approach makes it really user friendly for staff to book leave and have constant visibility of remaining leave for the year.

Inconvénients

There are no cons so far! We have found it to be exactly what we needed and should have implemented it years ago.

Avantages

Ease of use
Quick, clear format for easy reference
Easy to adapt to the needs of the individual customer
Fast response time to any queries
Amazing value for money!

Inconvénients

I would love this to link to onlin HR records systems - it is much easier to use than the holiday management processes included with many fully integrated packages.

Avantages

It's ideal for us working in a distributed environment (everyone works from home across the UK). Makes it easy to submit and manage requests but, also, see at a glance who is out and in. We have also integrated it into our Slack instance so that we get channel alerts at the beginning of the day, telling everyone who is in and out. We use the Google calendar integration as well. The responsive design is good too.

Inconvénients

I'm struggling to think of anything that it doesn't provide us. Integration into personal Slack channels would be nice to manage personal leave via Slack.