# Sapling Reviews **Vendor:** Kallidus Ltd **Category:** [Core HR Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/core-hr) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 390 ## About Sapling Sapling is now part of Kallidus Group, a full-suite Human Capital Management software and digital learning provider, offering businesses solutions across the entire employee lifecycle. As a Kallidus product, Sapling’s capabilities in onboarding, offboarding, core HR, and people operations are further elevated by Kallidus’ expertise in learning, performance, talent management, and learning content. Sapling automates your people workflows - from onboarding to offboarding and everything in between - by connecting your people data across your existing systems. Kallidus’ suite of HR and L&D software supports the entire employee lifecycle. Kallidus serves companies such as JYSK, Nestle, McDonalds, and Aston Martin, and currently has over 2 million users worldwide. ## Sapling Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Sapling's **ease of use** essential for smooth onboarding, ensuring a clear and intuitive experience. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy onboarding** process of Sapling, noting its clarity and helpfulness for new employees. (2 reviews) - Users enjoy the **smooth and structured onboarding process** of Sapling, making it easy to integrate into new organizations. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **smooth and structured onboarding workflow** of Sapling, facilitating a quick and intuitive start. (2 reviews) - Users find Sapling provides **easy management** , facilitating quick onboarding and seamless document handling, especially for remote workers. (1 reviews) - Users find Sapling **incredibly helpful** for quick onboarding and organization, especially in remote and hybrid work environments. (1 reviews) - Intuitive (1 reviews) - Intuitive Platform (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **Intercom chat widget intrusive** , taking up space and complicating the overall experience with visual confusion. (1 reviews) - Users find the **lack of chat features** in Sapling limits their communication options and feels somewhat intrusive. (1 reviews) - Users experience **navigation difficulty** , often missing notifications and struggling to find important documents. (1 reviews) - Users find the **poor design** of Sapling confusing and intrusive, with unwieldy profile pages and chat features. (1 reviews) - Users find **navigation confusing** with greyed-out sections and an intrusive chat widget impacting usability. (1 reviews) - Profile Issues (1 reviews) ## Sapling Reviews ### 1. Smooth, Intuitive Onboarding/offboarding with a Standout Timeline Feature **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad Tauseeq T. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2026 **What do you like best about Sapling?** Sapling provides a smooth and well structured onboarding workflow. The steps are clear, intuitive, and easy to follow with minimal confusion. I especially like the timeline feature that highlights the company’s history it adds a thoughtful and engaging touch to the overall experience. It clearly manage the time off and Org chart **What do you dislike about Sapling?** rofile pages could also be enhanced by allowing direct clickable links to LinkedIn or other platforms instead of requiring copy/paste. The greyed-out sections create some visual confusion. Additionally, the Intercom chat widget feels slightly intrusive, as it occupies significant space and doesn’t minimize easily. **What problems is Sapling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling streamlines and standardizes the onboarding/offboarding process, ensuring consistency for both interns and full-time employees. It creates a structured and professional introduction to the company, reducing uncertainty and making the transition smoother. As a new joiner, this clarity and organization are highly valuable. Task assignment and clear direction what to do and who will do ### 2. An excellent tool for HR management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard S. | UX and Interaction Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Sapling?** Sapling is easy to use and is really helpful when first joining an organisation (especially when remote working). It helps get onboarded quickly. As a hybrid worker I found it invaluable. It notifies me when I have documents to sign or new contracts. I have used it a lot in the current job. **What do you dislike about Sapling?** Sometimes notifications can be missed. Sometimes documents are hard to find. **What problems is Sapling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling allows us to onboard people more easily to the organisation giving checklist to get people set up. Thorughout work it allows documents to be distributed to the right person and the write time and see their interaction. ### 3. Using sapling in a L&D team **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** rosie b. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Sapling?** its easy for us to run reports and set tasks that our employees need to do. Also its very easy to use **What do you dislike about Sapling?** Often have issues with it being slow and data not migrating to kallidus **What problems is Sapling solving and how is that benefiting you?** being able to keep all of our employee details on one system which is accessible to a number of people. As well as being able to manipulate that data ### 4. Very easy and convenient for HR work, tracking employees and PTOs. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marian K. | BDR, Information Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Sapling?** Clear overview of the company and employees. **What do you dislike about Sapling?** There really is not any, it's a great tool. **What problems is Sapling solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it both for core HR and onboarding services. It helps the process be smooth and convenient for both parties - employee and employer. ### 5. A great tool for onboarding new employees **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Sapling?** Sapling does a great job of getting new employees up to speed, ensures compliance in following all key set-up steps , and helps remind them to do all necessary steps. **What do you dislike about Sapling?** Its was honestly really great. Some steps were unnecessary, and sometimes reminders came before steps could even be completed, but I think that had more to do with our specific implementation. **What problems is Sapling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ensuring consistency and a high standard of the onboarding process. Employess can mange the process of getting set-up and Sapling helps manage the challenges of communications to both work and personal email addresses. ### 6. Flexible tool that helps drive effectient HR info management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adrienne B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Sapling?** I appreciate the flexibility of the system to set up the fields and workflows I need to run HR processes and also keep track of and report on HR data. While the differentiation from competitors isn't extreme, I do think saplings flexibility with adding fields and seting up workflows is a huge benefit. **What do you dislike about Sapling?** The navigation on the back end isn't always the most user friendly. Sometimes I have to click through a few different fields to get to what I want. Also, while they have api's available and you can easily set up API keys- I know from one system in particular (knoetic) that they aren't always open and willing to work with that system to send the data in useable ways. **What problems is Sapling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling is our core HRIS and our onboarding and offboarding workflow tool. It helps us autmate much of our Hr processes and is an easy to use platform for employees for HRIS type tasks- time off, org chart, promotions, etc. **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Adrienne, Thanks for your comment on Sapling’s flexibility with fields and workflows. We’re glad Sapling is helping to automate some of your work and make your team more efficient. Regarding your comment on the navigation, did you know that Sapling is in the final stages of a fully revamped UI? With beta testing wrapped and last-minute tweaks tweaked, we will start rolling out the new Sapling to everyone over the next few weeks. Our new UI will feature consolidated Navigation with streamlined Dashboards and Tasks to make it easier than ever to get everything done, new and improved Smart Assignment to make onboarding even faster and easier, and a totally new look to make sure the new Sapling is accessible for all with WCAG 2.0 AA certification. We hope your team are as excited about this as we are! Thanks, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 7. I think its the BEST HR system that exists of the new age **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Agata Z. | Vice President, People & Culture, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Sapling?** I was able to implement this pretty much on my own over the course of a few days. We didn't have any other system to transition from. In general, the training with the team was bang on and informative. BEST THING... embedded videos ya'll. I like the simple UI. Integrates easy with Google. What I think most HR systems miss, is that they are build with the HR person as the user, but here is the thing. EMPLOYEES who can do more, will reduce the impact on HR, which is really solving the problem. The employee experience is incredible, we have all employees participating on all main purposes with no laggards, and that's saying something! **What do you dislike about Sapling?** The time off part was a bit more trickier than I would have liked, but the UI is great. Missing functionality is putting people on "leave" with appropriate workflows from there. I'm sure it's coming through. Wish they had an LMS part of the platform or some Performance stuff, issue with the performance stuff is the out of the box stuff available, rarely fits a company and is hard to develop. **Recommendations to others considering Sapling:** Please make LEAVES! **What problems is Sapling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its our source of truth for all employee related things. Employee and Manager self serve has been great with vacation time, sick time, and just general "info" people need about our employees. What I think most HR systems miss, is that they are build with the HR person as the user, but here is the thing. EMPLOYEES who can do more, will reduce the impact on HR, which is really solving the problem. The employee experience is incredible, we have all employees participating on all main purposes with no laggards, and that's saying something! **Official Response from Ciara Slattery:** > Hi Agata, Thank you so much for such a positive 5 star review. I’ve shared your feedback with our internal teams and they are delighted that implementing Sapling was so seamless for you. We’re glad you found our team so informative and helpful to work with. It’s so great for us to learn that you now have an incredible employee experience running which is reducing the workload on the HR team. Thanks for your input on the time off feature. We’re continuously improving our product so look for updates to the time off feature in the new year. Good news! Since we joined forces with our parent company, Kallidus, we’ve created integrations between Sapling for onboarding, Learn for an LMS and Perform for performance management. I’ll share a link below to our new website. Thanks again for your review, Ciara Slattery, Senior Marketing Manager ### 8. Streamlines our onboarding but difficult to manage when you scale **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christina L. | Operations Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Sapling?** Automated tasks, re-assigning tasks, reporting, sequencing tasks, customized fields and forms on employees' profiles make it an easy tool to use for onboarding. **What do you dislike about Sapling?** There are some things that could definitely be made better. With the workflows, there is no way to easily compare tasks across workflows or delete or assign the same task from/to multiple workflows. We have a lot of workflows set up, and it's difficult to manage. Also, it would be so user friendly if when you're on an employee profile, when you scroll down, it keeps the name and information at the top. I often am looking at an employees profile and, now that we're a few hundred, have to scroll all the way back up to see whose profile I'm on - very annoying. Finally, there are issues in pulling reports - I ask it to pull ALL the individuals in Sapling, and some people don't get pulled even though they're in Sapling. **What problems is Sapling solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were onboarding using gsheets previously which was super tedious and not fit for our growing needs. We have become more efficient in onboarding people, and I think employees appreciate it. We also can keep track of how far a new hire is in the onboarding process and have a record of whether a step was done or not. ### 9. Finally found a tool to manage my global workforce **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Catherine N. | Senior Manager, People Operations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Sapling?** Clean interface, easy to navigate, multifunctional for my team's profiles, time off, workflows and document management for my entire employee life cycle. **What do you dislike about Sapling?** Some integrations are limited and some features dont meet my needs such as notifications that only notify some parties. **What problems is Sapling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlined onboarding experience for my global team in EU, India and the US. It allows me to manage our headcount at any time and have a good snapshot on our activities throughout the company ### 10. Daily user **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steve T. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Sapling?** Makes onboarding simple and avoids missing steps, send reminders. **What do you dislike about Sapling?** It can be a little clunky at times, signing documents, profile editing are the things staff have issues with mostly. We require a system that does not rely on good internet signal. **What problems is Sapling solving and how is that benefiting you?** It ensures consistency, avoids emailing certificates and contracts, provides an audit trail. Allows me to issue forms to entire team in one simple step. ## Sapling Discussions - [What is Sapling HR?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-sapling-hr) - [Is a sapling a tree?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-a-sapling-a-tree) - [What is Sapling software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-sapling-software) - ["What is great about Sapling's onboarding capabilities?"](https://www.g2.com/discussions/51852-what-is-great-about-sapling-s-onboarding-capabilities) - 1 upvote - [What can I use this for trying to add users and remove?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/39043-what-can-i-use-this-for-trying-to-add-users-and-remove) - 1 upvote ## Sapling Pricing - **All in One**: Contact Us Build and customize your HCM solution and get the pricing suited for companies with large, global teams. - **Onboarding**: Contact Us Ditch the spreadsheets and automate a personalized onboarding experience for every team member. - **People Ops Platform**: Contact Us The full core HRIS experience, with Sapling as your central source of truth for all employee data. 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