
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: 71
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- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great, easy and very helpful product! Now I can not imagine how we actually
Reviewed on 2017-11-30
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Pros
Calamari helps my company handle holidays. It allows me to easily control, monitor all absences and what is really helpful helps me to decide if I should accept holiday request, when someone in my team had requested and this request has been already accepted! That is the core functionality for me :)
I really love integrations that Calamari provides me!
At first: GSuite (by Google) - I do not have to worry about creating new accounts and I can see all of absences in my Google Calendar (this is my favorite) .
Another huge integration is with Slack, which is main messenger in my company. I can just accept and decline requests without login in into Calamari!
On the other hand I really like is Calamari support, those guys (especially Hubert) are fast as lightning, very thoughtful, proactive and they for sure will help you configure your instance. Communication with them is pleasure :)
Once Calamari is configured is maintenance-free, and very very comfy!
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Would recommend!
Reviewed on 2021-04-13
The customer service and technical assistance that I have received while working with Calamari has...
The customer service and technical assistance that I have received while working with Calamari has been unparalleled. As soon as I signed up for a free trial a representative reached out to me and answered every question I had. For weeks she had very consistent and helpful communications with me and guided me through every step of the way!
Pros
This software is clean, simple and easy to use. it integrates well with Slack and outlook calendars. It's easy for employees to use and keep track of their own time off reporting in an organized way. It's very customizable to out companies accrual rules, holidays, birthdays, working hours and PTO. I really love that our employees do not have to leave the Slack pap to request PTO and check their balance.
Cons
There is little that is missing from this software and they are always making updates! I would say if you have a lot of employees it takes some time to set them all up initially.
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It was fully integrated with Slack and they are competitive in pricing- Industry: Financial Services Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2022-04-28
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Pros
Everyone in Greece is sarcastic and loughs when he/she hears your brand name.
Cons
Absense, time management, breaks control
Response from Calamari
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.
- Industry: Airlines/Aviation
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Excellent product and a great value
Reviewed on 2023-03-22
It has been a great addition to our company overall. It is very simple to request time off, to...
It has been a great addition to our company overall. It is very simple to request time off, to approve requests, and to track coverage on any given day. The timeclock is extremely simple to use, but also offers plenty of features. We have been very pleased with our decision to implement Calamari.
Pros
We love the ease of use, the integration with other applications, and the excellent UI. The fact that Calamari can send a Slack notification every morning to inform the team who is out that day is extremely helpful. Ease of use is a critical component to get buy-in from all employees, and Calamari is great in that regard.
Cons
The areas where I can see room for improvement are mostly to do with reporting. Many companies require a signed record of timecard approval to ensure that employees are being compensated fairly. In order to achieve this, we have to export data and configure it manually. It would be great to incorporate a timecard approval workflow into the application to make this seamless.
Response from Calamari
Hello!
Thank you for your comprehensive review. I'll pass your opinion to our team to consider. In the meantime, you can stay tued about the new Calamari features on our What's New page here: https://calamari.io/whats-new
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
A good product at high price
Reviewed on 2021-03-15
I like the software technically speaking, but it seems to me expensive for what it does. A leave...
I like the software technically speaking, but it seems to me expensive for what it does. A leave management and a clock in software should be so expensive. That's why I am looking for other alternatives like OrangeHRM.
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 Software, Chat
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