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A userfriendly solution to help HR professionals to simplify daily business: absence management, time tracking & mobile terminals, digital personell file - all combined in one tool. With absence.io users no longer need to enter data manually as the calendar is visible to both HR staff and all employees, so they can make requests for leave by clicking on certain dates. The system prevents overbooking or leave conflicts, and working schedule configuration can be easily arranged
Provider
absence.io
Located In
Germany
Foundation
2013
Open API
Yes
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Mobile Apps
iOS, Android
Training
Webinars, Live Online, Documentation
Support
FAQs/Forum, Email/Help Desk, Phone Support, Chat
absence.io is specialized for small and medium sized companies with 5 to 250 employees.
Content Source: absence.io
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absence.io Reviews
Pros
The ease of the implementation and daily use is exceptional the after service from the team is outstanding and queries are answered promptly and with expertise.
This is a great software for time tracking, vacation requests and reports. You can easily overview the whole company thanks to the very clever platform.
Price is right, I like the slack integration and my team finds it useful too, has a great support team that is always friendly and very responsive.
Overall it's a very useful tool. And as an added bonus, the integration with Slack is fantastic and fairly seamless.
Cons
Having to file a dispute now, all while employees keep emailing me that they want to book vacation but the tool isn't working, so I have NO idea how much time anyone has left now.
Customer service is non existent. None of my users can currently sign in as it says our account is temporarily suspended and to contact customer service.
Fraudulent interactions when trying to cancel.
No more paper sheets, no more waiting, the whole situation regarding my colleagues only one click away.
"Good software :)"
Overall: Lots of data, easy to use
Pros: Price is right, I like the slack integration and my team finds it useful too, has a great support team that is always friendly and very responsive.
Cons: I'm still waiting for a google cal integration, I have encountered a few annoying bugs but team has always been proactive to fix and that's to be expected from a budding company. Worth the tradeoff
"Absence is a simple and minimalistic tool for time tracking"
Overall: We have used Absence for many years, and it satisfies the needs of our small company. Perhaps a bigger company would prefer a more complex tool, but it works great for a startup. All you need to do is punch in your hours and select vacation/WFH days in the calendar when needed.
Pros: I like that Absence is very minimalistic and it's easy to navigate around the platform. There's no unnecessary features. You get emails when someone selects you as a substitute or when you need to approve someones vacation. You also get notified when your leave was approved. You can also easily see how many vacation days you have left and check the calendar of other employees.
Cons: Sometimes it can be not very straightforward when it comes to the approval process and selecting substitutes. At least in our case, I wasn't able to select someone who was working from home as my substitute. Also we're for some reason getting the German calendar instead of the Austrian one, but that might be our fault.
"It met our needs"
Pros: It was a pretty easy system to use, we liked it.
Cons: The cost ended up becoming a factor. We actually left A.io to pursue a more cost-effective option that met our needs.
Vendor Response
"Fraudulent interactions when trying to cancel"
Overall: OK until we moved to a new platform and tried to cancel. Always some new thing I had to do including signing up differently (we were using SSO via GSuite accounts) in order to be ALLOWED to cancel. Totally unacceptable and, in my opinion, fraudulent behavior.
Pros: Adequate and cheap if you are European based. Does not accommodate US or multinational policy norms for many leave types or support accruals.
Cons: Interacting with the company. Rigidity in features
"absence.io made our business life much easier"
Pros: Super easy to understand; perfect tool even as a company with ~200 employees and more; slack integration; no more need for an oldschool excel sheet; individual rights management; neat design; customizable settings; web + app usage; google calender integration
Cons: No digital personnel data management. Apparently they're working on additional features so maybe that'll improve.
