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Eliza  S.
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What do you like best about Calamari?

Getting time off is usually a headache, but Calamari turns it into an easy process. Click, click, bam – vacation requested! Plus, it's got this cool auto-calculate thing for leaves. No more brain gymnastics trying to figure out if you've got enough days left. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Calamari?

I find it hard to pinpoint any aspects that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Calamari solving and how is that benefiting you?

Calamari excels in leave management, allowing employees to request time off with just a few clicks. The system automatically calculates accruals, taking into account various leave policies and employee-specific settings. This not only streamlines the request process but also ensures accuracy in leave tracking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Calamari Overview

What is Calamari?

Calamari makes absence & leave management easier. You can plan and track all types of vacation, paid time off, sickness. Calamari increases the efficiency of absence management by over 3 times in comparison to "paper or email absence management". Calamari answers questions from your employees: • can I take a free week in this month? • what is my current leave entitlement? • what is the history of my leave request? Calamari gives you integration with Google: • synchronize employees • import holidays • single sign-on for Google Apps users • synchronize with Google Calendar • multidomain configuration The most useful Calamari features: • birthday notifications • daily / weekly upcoming absence notifications • multilevel approval process • automatic leave calculation and absence pool estimation • enforce compliance with attendance policies • team calendars • email notifications • can be configured for multi-country organizations • requests on behalf other employees (for managers)

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German, English, French, Polish, Spanish
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Product Description

Calamari makes absence & leave management easier in IT teams. You can plan and track all types of vacation, paid time off, sickness.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Calamari is a lightweight solution for agile and rapidly growing companies. For us the most important is simply deliver solution and optimise business processes.

Calamari is excellent for distributed teams of Hi Tech companies it has a lot of useful features to simplify HR people life. Calamari is tailored for medium companies who needs to automate their processes to increase their growth.


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Chrobrus
Year Founded
2014
HQ Location
Warsaw, Poland
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Recent Calamari Reviews

Evija P.
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Evija P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The best customer support ever"
CS - the communication with Calamari team is super fast and efficient. Especially Agnieszka - the best customer support I have ever received. Alway...
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5.0 out of 5
"Great tool for tracking holidays"
It's just very simple and has all options we need.
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5.0 out of 5
"An easy solution for a small business admin headache"
As a small business, administrative tasks can be very tedious. Keeping track of employee time off has always been a headache until I found calamari...
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Calamari Media

Calamari Demo - Time tracking
Calamari time tracking with breaks and adding projects. Managers can also receive notifications about employees' work time abuses.
Calamari Demo - Absence calendar
Calamari's absence calendar for the company allows seeing upcoming absences, remote work, birthdays, and other events.
Calamari Demo - Timesheets
Managers can track employees' work time and employees can track their worked time.
Calamari Demo - Management
Accepting and denying employees' absence requests
Calamari Demo - Integrations
Calamari integrations allows to attendance and absence tracking via popular office software
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Michael P.
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What do you like best about Calamari?

As a small business, administrative tasks can be very tedious. Keeping track of employee time off has always been a headache until I found calamari. Simple set up and it integrates well with Slack so that time off can be requested. approved,other team members notified of upcoming time off of colleagues, Balances are automatically updated throughout the year. I don't even have to remember to reset everything at the beginning of the year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Calamari?

I haven't found anything that Ididn't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Calamari solving and how is that benefiting you?

Save me so much time and communication is seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Calamari?

We use the HR module in Calamari to handle vacations/sick leaves and regular employee leaves. Our team is distributed across Serbia, BiH and Jordan. Having an easy to use online platform, with fair per user pricing plans that is available to all our employees cross border was crucial. Our teams use it daily, we rely on its data to issue our service invoices. We track entitlements, vacation trends and much more. We recently integrate it via the API using an automation platform to issue invoices on a monthly basis. We rarely require customer support as the documentation is very good and clear with step by step instructions. Whenever we needed extra help the team at Calamari was amazing. The move to Clamari was easy, it took us couple of hours to setup the teams and we were good to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Calamari?

The mobile app for Calamari is functional. It can be polished a little bit more, however, it does deliver the main focus for us which allows our managers to approve/decline requests on the go especially during travel time. The platform is very stable, it had one or two outages since we started using it in January 2022 (2.5 years so far). The communication of outages or maintenance events can be enhanced. To be fair, those two incidents were solved quickly (less than a couple of hours) and it had no impact on our day to day business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Calamari solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are an SME. When we were a small 5-10 employees team a Google Sheet was sufficient to log vacation. As we grew to +50 employees we required a service that allows employees to easily request absence as well as provide us with accurate reporting on total work days. Furthermore, having 3 locations with a single online paltform made a world of difference to streamline this aspect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Evija P.
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What do you like best about Calamari?

CS - the communication with Calamari team is super fast and efficient. Especially Agnieszka - the best customer support I have ever received. Always helpful, will find any solution to any real or imaginary problem :))))) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Calamari?

Limited functionality - there are many features that would be good to have but not there yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Calamari solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solving the problem of manual tracking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Calamari?

It's just very simple and has all options we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Calamari?

It would be great if they would give us an API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Calamari solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves the issue of managing employee leave requests by allowing employees to easily submit their vacation requests. With notifications integrated into MS Teams and email, I am continuously updated on all submissions. The entire process is 100% electronic, which significantly simplifies time management. Additionally, Calamari meets legal requirements, making this format acceptable for authorities, which is a considerable advantage for our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Moriessa J.
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What do you like best about Calamari?

I like the fact that I can just enter the dates needed to take time off from work rather than going through a whole long process of completing forms and all of that extra jazz Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Calamari?

To be honest there is not much to dislike, however, I wish we were given the option of also entering when we would like our days off during our time off requests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Calamari solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem it is solving is avoiding the use of going through completing a whole form to request time off from work. You even have the option of requesting sick leaves, pretty cool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
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What do you like best about Calamari?

it is very easy to keep track of your time off. i'm only using it as a user and to be fair it's not too much different than other annual leave management software. has integrations with slack which is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Calamari?

not that i think it should be more complex, however the design seems a bit bland and boring. maybe the developers should work on making it a bit more colourful and playful or something as the logo gives me this kind of vibe Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Calamari solving and how is that benefiting you?

it's solving the problem of having to track people's annual leave. it benefits me because a lot of the time i don't even have to ask verbally for a day off, when i can just request it in the app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sergey M.
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What do you like best about Calamari?

Calamari's function is simple - to manage stuff days off. So is a Calamari itself - a simple tool without any excess features, very comprehensible and user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Calamari?

I didn't see any things that could be considered flaws in Calamari. Maybe one thing, more emotional than functional: you should use Calamari when you are sick, so sometimes it reminds you about not-so-happy times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Calamari solving and how is that benefiting you?

Thanks to Calamari you can control the number of annual leave days left. The second important thing: your team can see that you are not available and who is your substitute. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Calamari?

It is very easy to track when teammates are off, as well as see your total vs current time off entitlement. Plus, the reminder emails ensure I always get back to my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Calamari?

The Apply and Calendar pages look nearly identical and should be combined. I often find myself trying to do tasks appropriate to one on the other. The Board section itself is also redundant with the tabs on the left hand side Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Calamari:

Simple, clean interface. Very straightforward solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Calamari solving and how is that benefiting you?

Approving my direct reports' time off, and confidently allowing them to know they will have time to unplug has done wonders for making vacations reduce stress, not add Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tanicia J.
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What do you like best about Calamari?

East to track vacation days and simple to plot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Calamari?

doesnt have an option to put day offs when plotting vacation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Calamari solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps track vacation and sick days Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emilia C.
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Customer Engagement Manager
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What do you like best about Calamari?

Calamari makes it super simple to count the days you'll be off work. Whether you are sick, taking a vacation, or something else, their system helps you in a few steps to get it done and approved by your supervisor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Calamari?

I don't dislike anything about Calamari. I've been using it as a supervisor and with my own boss. It works great both ways. It's very simple to use it and it doesn't take much time like other similar softwares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Calamari solving and how is that benefiting you?

Calamari helps me speed up the process of approving days off for the people I supervise. I also use it to request my days off or sick days. It's been great to have a system instead of sending a bunch of emails back and forth that can eventually end up being lost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.