Calamari

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Modern HR management, online leave and attendance tracking

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$2.00/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

Countries available

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra and 224 others

Supported Languages

English, French, German, Polish, Spanish

Pricing starting from:

US$2.00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Calamari Software - Calendar with detailed information about upcoming absences, holidays, and remote work
Calamari Software - Online Timesheets with all the details about employees working time. You have a possibility to clock in/out, call a break, add project, and notes
Calamari Software - Clock in/out and see all the details about your working day
Calamari Software - Easy management for team leaders
Calamari Software - Many possible integrations with a possibility to use our API
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Calamari Software - Calendar with detailed information about upcoming absences, holidays, and remote work
Calamari Software - Online Timesheets with all the details about employees working time. You have a possibility to clock in/out, call a break, add project, and notes
Calamari Software - Clock in/out and see all the details about your working day
Calamari Software - Easy management for team leaders
Calamari Software - Many possible integrations with a possibility to use our API

Features

Total features of Calamari: 60

  • API
  • Absence Management
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Approval Process Control
  • Approval Workflow
  • Attendance Management
  • Attendance Tracking
  • Automatic Time Capture
  • Benefits Management
  • Billable & Non-Billable Hours
  • Calendar Management
  • Clock In/Out
  • Compensation Management
  • Customisable Reports
  • Data Import/Export
  • Document Management
  • Document Storage
  • Employee Database
  • Employee Management
  • Employee Onboarding
  • Employee Profiles
  • Employee Scheduling
  • Employee Time Tracking
  • FMLA Administration
  • For Cloud
  • HR Management
  • Leave Policy Management
  • Leave Tracking
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile App
  • Multi-Location
  • Onboarding
  • Online Time Clock
  • Online Time Tracking Software
  • Overtime Calculation
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Project Time Tracking
  • Punch card
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • Search/Filter
  • Self Service Portal
  • Shift Swapping
  • Sick Leave Tracking
  • Team Calendars
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time & Attendance
  • Time Off Management
  • Time Off Requests
  • Time Tracking
  • Timesheet Management
  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Variable Workforce

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Reviews

Overall rating

4.7 /5
(570)
Value for Money
4.7/5
Features
4.5/5
Ease of Use
4.6/5
Customer Support
4.9/5

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Kamil
Kamil
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great value for money, solid software

Reviewed on 20/05/2022

Overall, I love it, easy to use, great value for money, awesome

Overall, I love it, easy to use, great value for money, awesome

Pros

I like everything - it's easy to use, works as intended

Cons

I have nothing negative to say about Calamari

Alternatives Considered

Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel

Reasons for Switching to Calamari

Great support, great value for money, no brainer purchase

Response from Calamari

Thank you for a great review!
We're glad Calamari suits your needs and we hope you will love our new features!

Toby
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Amazing product

Reviewed on 16/10/2024

Calamari has been a game-changer for us managing staff leave. The tech support has been amazing.

Calamari has been a game-changer for us managing staff leave. The tech support has been amazing.

Pros

- Calamari is simple and highly customisable
- Helpful support

Cons

- Navigation within the product is sometimes difficult to find what I am looking for

Alternatives Considered

BambooHR

Reasons for Switching to Calamari

More customisable than Bamboo, better layout.
Marlina
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Calamari Feedback for better feature

Reviewed on 17/10/2024

I hope there is a feature like, when someone submit their annual/sick leave, admin can receive the...

I hope there is a feature like, when someone submit their annual/sick leave, admin can receive the notification via email as soon as the submission published. Right now, calamari only provide the reminder approval for the request that has been submitted

Pros

They divided each project with color it's easier to check on it

Cons

They are not providing 'employee data' feature anymore, such as: address, emergency number, etc

George
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

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Reviewed on 28/04/2022

Comsi comsa

Comsi comsa

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.

Liam
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  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Good useful product

Reviewed on 16/10/2024

Overall very happy, low cost option but does lack in features.

Overall very happy, low cost option but does lack in features.

Pros

Simple to use, easy to set up and manage

Cons

features that we used to have included are now separated out and require further licencing. Also the WFM feature for breaks / lunches lacks more sophisticated features compared to others on market

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Calamari FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Calamari.

Calamari offers the following pricing plans:

14-day free trial, no credit card required. Special pricing is available for non-profit organizations.

Calamari has the following typical customers:

2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000

Calamari supports the following languages:

English, French, German, Polish, Spanish

Calamari supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

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

Calamari offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Chat

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