Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar
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I've been poking around Google and have discussed a few different things in chat. As well as this thread previously: https://mangolassi.it/topic/16285/looking-for-vacation-calendar-options
But now I am needing to be serious.
Client wants to have a way to see and track employee vacation requests. To date they use desk calendars and wall calendars.
The do not want a shared calendar in Exchange because they do not want everyone to see every one else's time off. Also half the users are field techs with only an iPhone.
The poking at Google led me to some HR software packages.
This one looks nice visually, but seems to have low development looking at the git stats. https://icehrm.com
The client has not asked for a full HR software package, but a solution like this would help them with other things they are currently having issues with but have not asked me to solve yet.
Has anyone heard of this icehrm before or have another similar suggestion?
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Do they not have a time tracking/punchclock software? Our ancient system that hasn't been updated since 2002 has vacation requesting and tracking built in.
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When I was researching ERP systems I installed Odoo, which can do this, among many other things.
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@bnrstnr said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
Do they not have a time tracking/punchclock software? Our ancient system that hasn't been updated since 2002 has vacation requesting and tracking built in.
Of course they have an ancient Lathem system running on XP that I P2V onto the server. They have a network connected pin pad terminal that the hourly employees use to clock in and out.
But no one has the software. A single user used RDP to connect to the XP system on Mondays and get the time from the previous week.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
Of course they have an ancient Lathem system running on XP that I P2V onto the server. They have a network connected pin pad terminal that the hourly employees use to clock in and out.
But no one has the software. A single user used RDP to connect to the XP system on Mondays and get the time from the previous week.This is almost exactly like what we use, but it at least has an employee portal where they can check their hours and request time off and stuff. It's so bad, but it's still working so I get no love on upgrading it.
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@bnrstnr said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
When I was researching ERP systems I installed Odoo, which can do this, among many other things.
Desktop application only?
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@bnrstnr said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
@jaredbusch said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
Of course they have an ancient Lathem system running on XP that I P2V onto the server. They have a network connected pin pad terminal that the hourly employees use to clock in and out.
But no one has the software. A single user used RDP to connect to the XP system on Mondays and get the time from the previous week.This is almost exactly like what we use, but it at least has an employee portal where they can check their hours and request time off and stuff. It's so bad, but it's still working so I get no love on upgrading it.
Oh, their current system might have a portal that can be set up, but they never have, and it is so old, I will not use it for anything new.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
Desktop application only?
it's a web app, I'm sure you can connect with anything. Let me spin it back up real quick and check if it looks decent on mobile.
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@bnrstnr said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
it's a web app, I'm sure you can connect with anything. Let me spin it back up real quick and check if it looks decent on mobile.
@JaredBusch It's pretty fugly and near impossible to use on my iPhone, so it's probably not going to work very well for you.
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@bnrstnr said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
@bnrstnr said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
it's a web app, I'm sure you can connect with anything. Let me spin it back up real quick and check if it looks decent on mobile.
@JaredBusch It's pretty fugly and near impossible to use on my iPhone, so it's probably not going to work very well for you.
Their "pricing" page is confusing as hell.monthly for each app and monthly for users. but it says unlimited users free. Such a mess.
I'll pay their $12/month for Leaves if there is no user limit and this actually works well.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
Their "pricing" page is confusing as hell.monthly for each app and monthly for users. but it says unlimited users free. Such a mess.
I'll pay their $12/month for Leaves if there is no user limit and this actually works well.It looks like if you only need one "app" in this case the "Leaves" app, it would be free. The pricing applies once you add more than one app.
Also not sure if the app is actually "Leaves" or if the app is the entire HR package because it would be hard to implement Leaves without the Employees app also...
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This was an HR solution I was looking at a while back. Sentrifugo
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We use Workday and one of the features is requesting time off. They call it Absence and after selecting the days, you will select the type of absence.
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@dustinb3403 said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
This was an HR solution I was looking at a while back. Sentrifugo
What is their income generation method?
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@black3dynamite "Victim of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Leave" this is a thing people request days off for?! :fearful_face:
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@black3dynamite said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
We use Workday and one of the features is requesting time off. They call it Absence and after selecting the days, you will select the type of absence.
Nope. No pricing listed. I have always refused to do business with a company that will not publish pricing.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
@dustinb3403 said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
This was an HR solution I was looking at a while back. Sentrifugo
What is their income generation method?
We ended up "not needing a solution" so I never even got to the point of testing it.
If I recall it's mostly support. If you don't need the support then you'd just host it yourself.
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Here is a breakdown of the top hrms solutions.
https://www.softwareadvice.com/resources/free-hr-software-catches/
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@dustinb3403 said in Looking for an Employee Vacation Calendar:
Here is a breakdown of the top hrms solutions.
https://www.softwareadvice.com/resources/free-hr-software-catches/
This list is how I found IceHRM
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Paylocity seems to work well... we are using it now and (from my end of things, it's all on HR) seems to work really well.
It has all of that stuff (vacation/PTO requests, approvals, etc.) built in.
I have no idea of the costs, but I only have good to say about it.
Now, if you are strictly talking about a company-wide public absence calendar... the one I mentioned before is now live and fully in use, and is working out really well. No complaints yet. The only issues so far are people using the incorrect username/password to enter their absences. (yes, even though it says it right there on the front page)
Here's what it looks like in-use for the one site:
