Sympa

About Sympa

Our goal is to free HR professionals like you from restrictive technology. Why? So you can focus on what really matters – developing your people. Every day, our customers use Sympa’s complete, global core HR solution to make the data-driven, smart decisions that lead to HR functions that support every person across their organisations.

Sympa lets you keep all your processes and HR data in one place. From this strong central foundation, you can easily build efficient and transparent HCM processes. Everyone from your HR core team to company management and employees will save time when they have a single location for all things HR. An HR system that contains all the tools that build a better world of work for everyone in your organisation.

When it comes to information, Sympa gives you a clear, aggregated overview of all your people data, and lets you manage it safely in a single, global solution – from hire to retire. With Sympa. HR no longer needs to act as the middle man when people need to access everyday information. Instead, every employee can instantly access their own data and can see relevant information related to their own development.

For team leaders, Sympa offers full insight into their team’s status, happiness, and absences, as well as the opportunity to track their team member’s skills and development. In short, it lets them understand where they can make the most impact with the support they give. With help of Sympa’s powerful performance management tools, you’ll also be able to closely follow the development of your people from the onboarding process all the way through to the end of their employment.

Make sure you have the right people in the right positions – with the right shared expectations. Sympa helps you run motivating discussions and consistent, standardised appraisals that support two-way dialogues. Sympa lets you save relevant appraisal discussion information in the system, jointly follow up on agreed steps with each employee, and help them reach their personal and company-wide goals.

When it comes to talent management, Sympa lets you build a master plan for nurturing your people. Elevate their skills and motivation by painting a full picture of their learning management, training, skills and appraisals in one place.

Supporting your people with talent development programs is simple, as all the performance targets and supporting processes are available in a single view.

Sympa’s powerful reporting and analytics tools support data-driven and smart decision making. Sympa gives you access to the information you need to create tangible reports based on any data stored in the system. Build a real-time overview of absences, sick leaves and holidays, then save it as favourite report on your own personal, customisable front page. Your front page also shows your open approval requests from team members and lets you see the status of your team in one easy overview.

Sympa helps you visualise the impact of HR investments with powerful analytics and reporting tools. With access to all the numbers you need, making correct decisions about your people has never been easier. Sympa offers unlimited integrations with more than 50 systems through pre-made connectors. Customise your core HR function to your own needs by easily connecting all your HR related software with Sympa. These integrations allow you to store data in Sympa, enabling you to create visual reports also based on data from any of your connected HR systems.

Sympa’s HR dashboards give you have access to all your key HR metrics. These fully modifiable dashboards can be adjusted to show the most important for your organisation, so you can easily navigate ever-changing demands and spot possible trends.

When it comes to system implementations, Sympa believes in making things as fast and effortless as possible. Our clear and detailed customer onboarding plan will help you and your team get up and running in no time.

Pricing starting from:

Not provided by vendor

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

Key benefits of Sympa

RECRUITMENT

• Templates for open positions and application forms
• Process all incoming applications in one system
• Simplify and track all communication with candidates
• Easy to follow overview of all applicants throughout the recruitment process

ONBOARDING

• Checklists to create a process for smooth onboarding
• Employee self-service to ensure all contact details are up to date

EMPLOYMENT

• Employment details visible and accessible by the right people
• Quick signing of contracts using eSignature
• Centralise salary, benefits and one-off payment data, both locally and internationally
• Transparent salary review process with the flexible salary review tool
• Ensure validity of tools and certificates

TALENT DEVELOPMENT

• Tools to support competency evaluation and career planning
• View and manage the complete history of trainings and certificates
• Define and track goals and achievements
• Logging and tracking one-on-ones for systematic talent development

APPRAISALS AND ONE-ON-ONES

• Set up conversations and schedules suitable for your organisation
• Get the tools for supporting a flexible and open conversation culture
• Collect and save notes in Sympa and use them to track progress
• Easily access past appraisals for future reference
• Define a shared appraisal model for the entire organisation and ensure that it is followed

GOAL SETTING

• Define personal, team or unit goals and track their progress in one place
• Set up automated actions such as salary bonuses when goals are met
• Track progress at an organisational level

SELF-CARE ASSESSMENT

• Improve the well-being of employees across all functions and locations
• Crete an actionable self-care assessment plan and help employees reflect on their performance
• Design and review a shared self-care process for the organisation

OFFBOARDING

• Improve employee experience with a standardised exit process
• Ready-made templates for reference letters and other employment documents
• Guarantee that no unnecessary data is stored with GDPR automated data removals

HR ANALYTICS

• All people data from all systems available for analysis in one secure location
• Gain instant access to your key figures in real-time
• Get insights of your people and share them with the rest of the organisation with great HR analytics tools
• Build the foundation for HR analytics with access to accurate and automatically updated information
• Report any HR data, at any time, in any format, on any level
• Gather and filter data quickly to produce the rights reports for both strategic and day-to-day management or for external partners such as payroll
• Illustrate the impact and potential impact of HR decisions with easy-to-share reports
• All users can create reports within their data permissions
• Save time, minimise the manual use of spreadsheets and ensure that data is always up-to-date
• Combine all your HR data from different software into one solution
• Easily produce custom reports, automated reports and statutory reports for regulators
• Ensure that the right data is only available for the right people with smart user rights management
• Access key figures in real-time with the customisable Sympa dashboard
• Define and keep track of your KPI’s for an overall view of the organisation
• Make your KPIs automatically visible for the right people and make HR data visible in your organisation
• Get support for ensuring that your HR processes are 100% GDPR compliant
• Enjoy easy integrations with prebuilt connectors and the flexible Sympa API
• Make sure your crucial HR master data is always up-to-date, reliable and accessible in one place
• Enter data once and information is automatically updated to your payroll, time tracking, workforce planning or wherever you need it
• Get all your reporting from a single solution – create reports in Sympa using the data from your connected systems

Typical Customers

  • Freelancers
  • Small Businesses (2-50)
  • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
  • Large enterprises (500 and more)

Deployment

  • Cloud-based
  • On-premise

Countries available

Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China and 16 others

Supported Languages

Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English and 17 others

Pricing starting from:

Not provided by vendor

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Sympa Software - Sympa offers a clear, real-time overview of all things HR related, accessible on every device imaginable. Sympa can be used from anywhere at anytime, ensuring that you have all information within arm’s reach with just a few clicks.
Sympa Software - With Sympa’s customisable reports you’ll always have a clear and real-time overview of any type of absences, sick leaves and holiday planning in your team. You can highlight any report on your customisable front page for an even better overview.
Sympa Software - Sympa's customisable frontpage allows you to highlight your favourite reports based on any data saved in the system in any format. Pending tasks and approval requests will be shown, as well as a clear view of all your team members.
Sympa Software - Access onboarding information from any place at any time.
Sympa Software - Holiday planning and absences visualised in customisable reports.
Sympa Software - Show the impact of HR through visual reports.
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Sympa Software - Sympa offers a clear, real-time overview of all things HR related, accessible on every device imaginable. Sympa can be used from anywhere at anytime, ensuring that you have all information within arm’s reach with just a few clicks.
Sympa Software - With Sympa’s customisable reports you’ll always have a clear and real-time overview of any type of absences, sick leaves and holiday planning in your team. You can highlight any report on your customisable front page for an even better overview.
Sympa Software - Sympa's customisable frontpage allows you to highlight your favourite reports based on any data saved in the system in any format. Pending tasks and approval requests will be shown, as well as a clear view of all your team members.
Sympa Software - Access onboarding information from any place at any time.
Sympa Software - Holiday planning and absences visualised in customisable reports.
Sympa Software - Show the impact of HR through visual reports.

Features

Total features of Sympa: 114

  • "What If" Scenarios
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Applicant Tracking
  • Appraisal History
  • Approval Process Control
  • Assessment Management
  • Attendance Management
  • Attendance Tracking
  • Background Screening
  • Benefits Management
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Calendar Management
  • Career Development
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Compensation Management
  • Compensation Plan Modeling
  • Competency Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Customisable Branding
  • Customisable Forms
  • Customisable Reports
  • Customisable Templates
  • Customizable Fields
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Visualisation
  • Document Management
  • Document Storage
  • Drag & Drop
  • Electronic Forms
  • Electronic Signature
  • Email Management
  • Email Reminders
  • Email Templates
  • Employee Database
  • Employee Handbook
  • Employee Management
  • Employee Onboarding
  • Employee Portal
  • Employee Profiles
  • Employee Self Service
  • Employee Time Tracking
  • Feedback Management
  • Goal Management
  • Goal Setting/Tracking
  • HR Management
  • HR Metrics Library
  • Individual Development Plans
  • Interview Scheduling
  • Job Application Management
  • Job Description Management
  • Jobs Board
  • Learning & Development
  • Learning Management
  • Leave Tracking
  • Mentorship
  • Monitoring
  • On-going Performance Tracking
  • Onboarding
  • Organisational Charting
  • Orientation Workflow Management
  • Payroll Management
  • Peer Appraisals
  • Performance Appraisal
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Metrics
  • Performance Review Management
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Progress Tracking
  • Real Time Analytics
  • Real Time Data
  • Real Time Notifications
  • Real Time Reporting
  • Real Time Updates
  • Recruitment Management
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Resume Parsing
  • Review Cycle Tracking
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Self Assessment
  • Self Service Portal
  • Sick Leave Tracking
  • Single Sign On
  • Skills Assessment
  • Skills Tracking
  • Social Media Integration
  • Succession Management
  • Succession Planning
  • Survey/Poll Management
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Talent Acquisition
  • Talent Management
  • Task Management
  • Third Party Integrations
  • Time & Attendance
  • Time Off Management
  • Time Off Requests
  • Timesheet Management
  • Training Management
  • Trend Analysis
  • Turnover Tracking
  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Weighted Performance Measures
  • Workflow Management

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Reviews

Overall rating

4.4 /5
(18)
Value for Money
4.4/5
Features
4.1/5
Ease of Use
4.4/5
Customer Support
4.3/5

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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

HR tool that makes onboarding and goal setting much simpler than I've experienced before!

Reviewed on 13/12/2021

My overall experience has been very positive. Sympa has been a really important aspect of our...

My overall experience has been very positive. Sympa has been a really important aspect of our company and the management of HR internally and getting that information out to employees. At my last company we didn't have anything like it, so it's been a huge help.

Pros

I like that the portal is completely customized for our organization. When I log in, I have access to tons of resources, a company directory (we're global so it's really helpful), and my business goals, PDP, sales quotas, etc.

Cons

The user interface could be a bit cleaner, but overall it's really great!

Wouter
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  • Industry: Sports
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great and most of all user friendly software!

Reviewed on 05/03/2020

Great experience, super to use and implemented software. Next to that we are in charge of changing...

Great experience, super to use and implemented software. Next to that we are in charge of changing the system. No super high consulting costs. What you see is what you get, and it works great!

Pros

Adaptability, Look & Feel, Implementation

Cons

Because of the enormous options, it took a while for me to have the right scope for implementation

Alternatives Considered

Visma Severa

Reasons for Choosing Sympa

Previous software didn't meet the expectations. No options to customize and because we are not a multinational, we were not an important customer for ADP.

Reasons for Switching to Sympa

Flexibility, price vs. functionality

Response from Sympa

Hi Wouter,
Thanks for your review!
And yes, you're right - Sympa HR can be implemented and configured in so many ways!

If you need any further help with development of your system, don't hesitate to contact your dedicated Customer Success Manager, who can guide you through our Best Practice site and help you pinpoint your needs.

Wouter, thanks for being with us and enjoy your smoother HR ride with Sympa!

Hanna
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  • Industry: Food Production
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

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Reviewed on 21/03/2022

Pros

software is easy to use and also for administator

Cons

Features that I need are covered well. Frequent system failures interfere from time to time.

Katri
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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

Sympa makes everyday HR-life easier

Reviewed on 23/01/2020

Sympa is well-functioning Hr-system from employee journey from start to finish. Reporting also...

Sympa is well-functioning Hr-system from employee journey from start to finish. Reporting also works.

Pros

Sympa is easily customizable to the customer's needs

Cons

Sympa does not always provide a quick response to customer's software problems. Sympa Support is wery often busy.

Response from Sympa

Hi Katri, thanks for your review!
We are really sorry to hear that your experience of our customer support has not lived up to your expectations! We're continuously developing our processes and working methods, with customer satisfaction.

We surely take your feedback seriously, thank you again for sending it.

Please remember you can also call us or contact us via the Support Chat, found from our Support Portal.
The Support Portal also contains guides regarding Sympa HR and its features and functionalities. We hope you find them useful :)

Let us know, if there's anything we could help you with. And I hope you get to enjoy your smoother HR ride with Sympa HR!

Anna
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  • Industry: Gambling & Casinos
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source

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

Sympa helped us change the way of working

Reviewed on 17/03/2020

The easy access to the system and information has helped everyone in the organization a lot.

The easy access to the system and information has helped everyone in the organization a lot.

Pros

With Sympa the time consumption of making reports and administrative tasks were reduced by at least 70 %. The managers love the easy access to all information about their employees that they needed to ask HR about before. It looks good and is easy to access. Sympa was a great help in setting up the system in the best way for our organisations needs. I fell that Sympa listens to the customers needs and is trying to develope the system frequently.

Cons

I still miss a good feature to work with appraisals. It fells a little bit edgy still and we have to invent and priorize a little to much to make the form/feature good.

Response from Sympa

Wow Anna, amazing impact in efficiency with the reduced time consumption! Very well done, and thank you for sharing these results!

Maybe the new multi-edit tool could ease some of your pain when it comes to handling appraisals?

Don't hesitate to reach out to our support or your dedicated Customer Success Manager, if you have any further questions!
Thanks for being with us and enjoy your smoother HR ride!

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Sympa offers the following pricing plans:

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  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

If you'd like to request a quote or a live demo, don't hesitate to contact us! We'll be happy to show you what Sympa can do for your company.

Sympa has the following typical customers:

51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Sympa supports the following languages:

Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Sympa supports the following devices:

Sympa integrates with the following applications:

&frankly, Actimo, Acubiz, Acute, Adobe Campaign, Assently E-Sign, Azure Active Directory, CMap, Claned, Cornerstone, Current, Dear Lucy, Deltek WorkBook, DocuSign, Efecte IT Service Management, Epicor, GENESYS, GetAccept, Gmail, Google Calendar, Lyyti, Maestro, MaxTech, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Outlook, Moodle, Nmbrs, Numeron WFM, Okta, OnShift, Qlik Sense, QlikView, Quinyx, RM5 IdM, Recruitee, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, Scrive, StoreForce, Tableau, Teamtailor, TimePlan, Totara Learn, ValueFrame PSA Pro, Visma Severa, Visma Sign, Winningtemp, WordPress, eloomi

Sympa offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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