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.
Pricing starting from:
US$1.70/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Supported Languages
English, French, German, Polish, Spanish
Pricing starting from:
US$1.70/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Calamari: 72
Alternatives
ChiroTouch
Sage HR
Clockify
Timetastic
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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: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Calamari really helped
Reviewed on 30/07/2019
Overall, Calamari definitely did help our HR team to save tons of time spent on monitoring the...
Overall, Calamari definitely did help our HR team to save tons of time spent on monitoring the leaves manually. What is more, our team members can see their history and current leave status live. We can surely see the difference using Calamari brought to our business.
Pros
Very user friendly interface encourages our team members to use Calamari regularly.
The tool is also very simple to use so all in-house communication is strengtened because of that.
The Success team writes back within minutes and helps with literally everything so the communication between us/ our team and Calamari is great.
Cons
There are still some HR-friendly feautres to add. For now we find that Calamari is more intuitive for team members rather than Administrators.
For example, the ability to see the history of different kind of contracts and calculate the leaves accordingly, or setting reminders about medical check-ups and OHS is something we still hope to see.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Very simple and great Customer support
Reviewed on 15/03/2023
So far, so good. I would only improve the billing part
So far, so good. I would only improve the billing part
Pros
It is very simple to use, intuitive. It has all the functionalities needed for vacations.Most important is the excellent customer support received so far.
Cons
Billing, I think it can be improved, could have the option to add credit card, not only bank transfer.I would be great to be able to export to excel some data.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Calamari review
Reviewed on 04/04/2022
Pros
I specifically wanted a product with Microsoft 365 single sign-on, and geolocation.
Cons
The sign-in process for sso integration could be better. It's not obvious to my users they need to press the "red square" instead of trying in their password first. Support also isn't available during our business hours.
Response from Calamari
Thank you for the review.
We're very sorry that you can't reach us. Our company is based in Poland (in UTC +2 - CEST time zone). We're working between 9 AM - 6 PM. If you can't reach us in those hours, please contact our Customer Success team via e-mail - they'll try to help you with setting up the meeting.
If you'd like to turn off the sing in via logging and password you can do it in Configuration -> Permissions.
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
useful tool
Reviewed on 15/03/2023
It's easy to use. There was a lot of things to be adjusted at the begining for program to work...
It's easy to use. There was a lot of things to be adjusted at the begining for program to work corectly (for admin) and it was not always easy to find all the settings. But for user it is very friendly.For company it is very useful. Finally we have clear situation with the absences among our employees.
Pros
Multiple of functions (time tracking & absence evidence)
Cons
Limited possibility of adding description of tasks done under one project which results in poor reports for us. We need reports that show every single log of every person in given month (with description of tasks). We charge our clients by time spent on their projects, so we need to show them summary like decsribed above.
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: US$1.70/month View Pricing Plans
- 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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