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What Is Calamari?
Calamari is an HR management software that makes people management easier. It allows for planning and tracking of all types of absences. You can get notifications about upcoming absences and time-off requests. Calamari supports companies with offices based in multiple countries and locations and supports role-based security. The app is integrated with project management tools like JIRA, Slack, Office265, GSuite, Microsoft Teams, Basecamp, and Asana.
Who Uses Calamari?
Calamari helps in employees' time tracking management. It automates and simplifies processes connected to absences and timesheets. We provide support in the initial set up & employees' data import.
Where can Calamari be deployed?
About the vendor
- Calamari
- Founded in 2014
Calamari support
- Chat
Languages
English, French, German, Polish, Spanish
Calamari pricing
Starting Price:
- Yes, has free trial
- No free version
Calamari does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Calamari paid version starts at US$2.00/month.
Pricing plans get a free trialAbout the vendor
- Calamari
- Founded in 2014
Calamari support
- Chat
Languages
English, French, German, Polish, Spanish
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Features of Calamari
Reviews of Calamari

Very good HR Management Software !
Comments: I strongly recommend this service! Calamari provided a good solution to lots of our problems, Thanks to it, Everyday work has been easier than before. I love its multi-functionality and user-friendly interface.
Pros:
User-friendly tool. Very easy and convenient tool to use. A lot of function. Especially good for controlling the working hours and off days and asking for day off. Mobile app is highly recommended.
Cons:
Reporting section is kind of inconvenient. If employees change from full-time to part-time, then it is not easy to track time records.
The best customer service and a great platform all for a great price!
Comments: [sensitive content hidden] is amazing! She gave us our online demo and has been an amazing resource since then. The overall experience has been great.
Pros:
Calamari is a great user friendly platform for time management, HR functions, and so much more. The customer service is amazing!
Cons:
Honestly, there is not much that I don't like. I'd like to see the platform have more integrations available.
Alternatives Considered: Slack
Reasons for Choosing Calamari: We made the switch from an Excel spreadsheet for time and efficiency purposes!
Switched From: Microsoft Excel
Reasons for Switching to Calamari: We decided to use Microsoft Office 365 and we liked that it integrates with Temas.
Change your NAME
Comments: Comsi comsa
Pros:
Everyone in Greece is sarcastic and loughs when he/she hears your brand name.
Cons:
Absense, time management, breaks control
Calamari Response
3 years ago
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.
User Friendly
Comments: Very good, technical support was very responsive.
Pros:
Simple and easy to use, very user friendly.
Cons:
None. So far so good on our side for Calamari.
Alternatives Considered: Zoho People
Reasons for Switching to Calamari: Easy to use, simple setup and able to scale up/down rapidly.
10/10 user friendly and customer service
Comments: 10/10 customer service is extremely helpful and prompt in their responses. [sensitive content hidden] was very helpful with all my questions for adding time clock and getting it configured correctly. The support articles she shared with me were really easy to understand. Configuring everything hasn't taken much time out of my day. Top notch.
Pros:
App for staff and setup for admin are both very intuitive and easy to use. We have used the time off feature for 4 years now and it is simple and exactly what we need. We just added the time clock feature to streamline tracking our hourly employees and weekly summaries for payroll.
Cons:
I don't have any issues at all, which is amazing for an online tool.
Alternatives Considered: Day Off, QuickBooks Desktop and monday.com
Reasons for Switching to Calamari: Reasonable pricing, ease of use and quick setup, simple features which is what we needed at the time, room for growth to more complex features as needed.
Calamari: Easy to use, detailed and brilliant.
Comments: Top quality support and assistance. Excellent simple and clear tool but with many options for set up.
Pros:
Logical, many areas of functionality. EXCELLENT customer service and support. Willingness to advance product with client input/suggestions. Good integrations. Easy to use.
Cons:
Not clear definitions of status of leave and balances.
Alternatives Considered: LeaveBoard, BambooHR, PaySpace, Leave Dates and actiPLANS
Reasons for Choosing Calamari: Did not allow for international staff and functionality not as good.
Switched From: PaySpace
Reasons for Switching to Calamari: Multiple companies in multiple countries. Contract workers vs employees. Different leave policies allowed for different groups. M365 integration. International public holidays functionality. Overtime functionality. Price. Support.
Excellent service
Pros:
Fabulous customer service, [sensitive content hidden] is the best customer success person I've ever worked with. Super knowledgeable and every little detail we could want was already thought through and accessible.
Cons:
Really can't think of anything, it's been a great experience.
Simple and easy to use!
Comments: Love it! What an absolute time saver for keeping track of employee time off. The customer support is phenomenal, and they continue to help set up and answer questions in a timely manner.
Pros:
Ease of employees logging in their vacation and sick time. Visibility to all on one calendar. Less administrative burden on keeping track of time off. And there is a mobile app that helps our salespeople who are on the road see who is off in the office.
Cons:
The calendar view could show a bit more detail on the absence up front. As of now you have to "hover" over the individual to see if they are off the entire day or just taking a couple of hours off.
Alternatives Considered: Time Tracker and Bamboo
Reasons for Switching to Calamari: Excellent demo and easy platform. It was a breeze working with our onboarding rep at Calamari, and they continue to support anything that comes up along the way.
OpenCV.ai
Comments: We recently implemented it and are still figuring out some of the features
Pros:
Clear interface, quite wide functionality Very responsive and fast support service
Cons:
There is no way to use different status emojis in slack
Alternatives Considered: Flamingo
Reasons for Switching to Calamari: Wider functionality, not overloaded with unnecessary features

I improve the design of work
Comments: It favors productivity time and managing more collaborative work between everyone to have a good quality of work
Pros:
I improve teamwork because it is more united with real-time information that we can all see and thus be able to work on the same approach. I also like that when there is a new person in the team we do not have to go back in the work to give them an explanation because through Calamari there are all the necessary tutorials so that they can be updated with our work and thus have a simple interface between new personnel and the daily work done
Cons:
There is nothing to say that I dislike, I have no words to describe something bad that has happened to me
Everting you can look for in one app
Comments: The setup process is very easy and they are helpful every step of the way
Pros:
I like that it considers all the flexibility options. You can control and change anything. Also the customer support has been super! i have dealt with one person from start to the end (her name is Ewelina) and she has been a superstar in the transition and always available. Also the mobile app is amazing
Cons:
Nothing comes to mind. I am very happy thus far.
Alternatives Considered: edays
Reasons for Switching to Calamari: Trial option, and flexibility in the settings
game changer :)
Pros:
We are a small IT company that wants to digitize all applications because our work is flexible regarding time and place. Requests, entitlements, and time management are all in one place. We can't imagine our daily work without Calamari notifications on Slack. It improves our work-life :)
Cons:
Initially, the interface seemed a bit clunky, but the Calamari team welcomes feedback and has made great progress over the past year. They ask about improvements and implement them quickly!
Very easy and cost effective solution for Absence Management
Comments: I have been using Calamari in my last two jobs (I actually proposed and set it up in my current one) and I find it an easy and cost effective solution
Pros:
Easy to use Custom settings for every employee Fair cost
Cons:
Sometimes it appears bugs Entitlement always set to previous year for some weird reason
Recomend. Practical to use for employees and managers.
Comments: Positive. When i nit know something or have problem very good support online.
Pros:
Everyone know actual holiday,sickness, work online or not.
Cons:
That work online and holidays look the same. Icons ahould be different.
Calamari Response
11 months ago
Thank you for your review. We have various options to differentiate types of absences. Please contact our support team. They will help you set it up correctly.
Best HR Tracker for Slack
Comments: Its quite good but I worry about the price hike of calamari
Pros:
I love that it integrate to slack seamlessly so that you dont have to have too much app in this digital age.
Cons:
I dislike the price hike of calamari. In 1 year, the annual cost almost doubled. And I dislike that some of the feature that was in the old and cheaper version was split into another product that you have to pay again.
Good Product for Trackign Employee time worked and time off schedules
Comments: Overall we like the product. It keeps track of time off and daily timeclock functinos very well. It is highly customizable. I just have a hard time getting help if I need it, which luckily isn't too often.
Pros:
Product is very flexible on how you set it up
Cons:
It is so fexible, it can be difficult to set up. Getting help after initial setup has been challenging for me sometimes also.
Very happy Client
Comments: Im overall very happy with the system but it can be improved with the comments above.
Pros:
it is very easy to use and set up. You can set it up without any help
Cons:
I dont like that you have removed the birthdays. You are also missing the anniversary dates reminder which would be nice.

Impressed so far!
Comments: Experience with Calamari is beyond my expectations.
Pros:
I've been looking for a time and PTO tracker for my teams as we grow, and we have been previously using spreadsheets which has become too tedious. I signed up for a trial with Calamari and it was an easy discovery of value for money. Setup was easy, and whenever I encountered hiccups, their support was amazingly responsive (3-4 mins response time). I've seen bugs but they fix it in just a few minutes after I reported it. The effort their support team takes to actually help me out was very much commendable (they fixed my accrual rules, sent me screenshots of my actual account on where I can tweak something). They are also very patient, I love tinkering and their support walked me through the entire setup.The integrations with Slack and Google Calendar are also one of the many things I loved.
Cons:
Not really a con, but I'd love to see an option to restrict requests on specific months/days.
Alternatives Considered: Flamingo
Simple and easy to delay employee management software
Pros:
it`s very simple, easy to read.
Cons:
nothing

Recommended
Pros:
Simplicity. It's easy to learn, effective and very helpful.
Cons:
I don't use it as one tool for all and switch between several.
Best customer service
Comments:
System is great, easy to use.
It works perfectly for us and our suggestions are always taken into consideration.
Best customer service.
Pros:
I love the customer service and willingness of the admins to help.
Cons:
Nothing. Even if something is not working or there is no such feature we needed we always could count on the Admin team.
Get the job done
Pros:
Online base, can use android tablet as a kiosk
Cons:
Poor showing time of work, days off etc. in one doc, bearly accepted by inspection of work.
CALAMARI GREATEST HITS
Comments: overall the initial improessions are very good
Pros:
IN FACT ITS THE ABILITY TO RECORD EVERYTHING
Cons:
i dont know yet Im learning... legibility
A very user friendly tool
Pros:
Since we implemented Calamari, we have received very positive feedbacks from our teams because the tool is very easy to use, and it met very well our needs. The Clamari teams are also very supportive and very responsive, they supported us during the implementation phase, the training of the teams, and the launch of the tool, and I would like to thank them very much for that.
Cons:
A very user-friendly tool, and available on several devices (mobile, laptop...), for me it's making HR management simple :)
Great Tracking, Friendly Support
Pros:
Great user interface. I've never had an issue - I used the chat feature for the first time in 2+ years today, and they were excellent.
Cons:
Today was the first issue I've had, and it was resolved quickly. I don't have anything negative that comes to mind.