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PurelyHR Overview

What is PurelyHR?

PurelyHR is powerful modular HR software for small to medium-sized businesses. Since 2010, we've helped thousands of companies worldwide save hours a week on everyday HR tasks like leave management, employee file management and onboarding, time tracking, performance management, infraction tracking, and certification management. Choose the modules you need and the number of users for an HRIS that fits your business needs and budget. Get started today with a free 21-day trial (www.purelyhr.com/trial) or a live demo.

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Product Description

PurelyHR is an online human resource information (HRIS) system for small and medium-sized companies.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

PurelyHR offers the most robust leave management system available on the market. However, this fully loaded time-off solution has evolved throughout the years and now offers additional tools to help small and medium-sized companies who are poised for growth and looking for control over their administrative needs.

What makes PurelyHR such a killer leave management application? Customization. We've continuously improved and added important features for our customers. Which allowed us to build a solution with an infinite amount of possibilities. Once our customers asked for additional HR tools, we delivered on our promise to help them reach their HR goals. PurelyHR’s modular approach has allowed teams looking for more than a leave management system to grow without having to learn and implement new systems. Add-ons can be turned on and off as they please which allows PurelyHR to better serve our customers today and tomorrow.


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Jennifer S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Time Saver In More Than One Way!"
Purely HR has saved us time, money, and stress over the last few years! My staff information is all in one centralized location - timesheets, leave...
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Thom C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"PurelyHR - Rely on it every day"
Ease of requesting time off (PTO) and managing my PTO at a glance.
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4.0 out of 5
"PurelyHR review"
Fairly easy to work with. Does not have many updates.
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PurelyHR Demo - Employee Profile in Staff
Store employee files in a secure, centralized directory with Staff. Self-serve option for employees ensures information is always up-to-date and accessible.
PurelyHR Demo - Document Storage in Staff
Upload documents to specific employees or company-wide. Include whether they require a digital signature.
PurelyHR Demo - Time-Off Request
Submit a time-off request in just a few clicks. Select your date range, submit & confirm. Approvals are just as easy!
PurelyHR Demo - Shared Calendar in Time-Off
Time-Off's shared leave calendar gives you an at-a-glance look at upcoming time-off. Calendar can also be synced with Outlook, Google, and Apple calendars.
PurelyHR Demo - Time-Sheet
Track total number of hours worked or hours spent on specific clients, projects, or tasks.
PurelyHR Demo - Time-Clock
Track arrival and departure times plus total hours worked. IP restrictions ensure employees are clocking in from an authorized location.
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What do you like best about PurelyHR?

Ease of requesting time off (PTO) and managing my PTO at a glance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

Helpful to see all employees on vacation or days out of the office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

If I am waiting on a response from a co-worker at another location, it's helpful to check if they are out of the office on any particular day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PurelyHR?

It is user friendly and guide me every step of the way. It also helps employees to keep track of his vacation and sick leaves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

I don't see anything that makes it not helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Placing in my vacation, sick request with the guide of scheduler help me better on my request at my place of work faster and easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PurelyHR?

Purely HR is very straightforward and intuitive to use. The 'Estimated Balance on a Specific Date' feature is valuable for employee's holiday planning. The 'at a glance' calendar makes seeing who is available or away quick and easy...this is essential for holiday and resource planning. The 'Time-Off Summary' function contains useful information including a summary of all time-off requests approved, pending, rejected and cancelled and can be shown for a user-selected time period. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

The only issue I have noticed is when booking a partial day off...the system is set to a standard workday (i.e., 7.5 hours), but when not all employees work the same number of hours in a standard workday, it can be somewhat confusing. For instance, if the company standard is a 7.5 hour workday, an employee's half-day is 3.75 hours, but if an employee works non standard hours (i.e., an 8 hour workday), that employee must enter 3.75 hours for a half-day even though their half-day is technically 4 hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

PurelyHR makes it easy to see at a glance who is or is planning to be away or is away on specific day(s). This information is essential to ensure the coverage of critical functions. The 'Time-Off Summary' feature makes it easy to see exactly how much time I have available both currently and at a future date, including already approved time off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gregory L.
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What do you like best about PurelyHR?

Being able to see the schedule of all of my coworkers has been a huge help. I think the system and interface of Purely HR is very simple and easy to use for everyone. I thoroughly enjoy how easy it is to make sure I am taking the correct amount of time off, how much time I have remaining, whether it is PTO, Vacation, sick time, or beravement, Purley HR has made it very simple for us to use here at Simply Business. I also enjoy every Friday submitting my time sheet, as it could not really be any easier then it is. Something that has helped me and my coworkers out a lot if the reminder email that gets sent out every Friday, if the time sheet is not submitted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

When I think of anything I dislike about Purely HR not much comes to mind. One thing that I think could be fixed would probably be the "Special Dates" section, but that maybe internal. Something else that maybe could be fixed or updated is also the documents page, as of right now, I have no need for the documents page and it is empty, maybe some documents could be uploaded in there? Again this could be for documents from my company and not Purely HR. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Some problems that Purely HR is solving for me is that I can see the schedules of other co workers to ensure PTO gets accepted. It makes it easier for me to ensure that our team is being covered when someone uses PTO. Another problem that Purerly HR is solving for me is knowing exactly how much time I have remaining off. It is easy to navigate so if I am in a pinch, I am able to see if I have maybe sick time left to use, or PTO time and submitting it to my manager for his approval could not really be any easier. I also enjoy that once my time either gets approved or rejected, I am notified right away from email, so I can ensure that I am able to get that time off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Crystal P.
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What do you like best about PurelyHR?

PurelyHR shows me all my time used and time to use, both good and bad, but clear to both my employer and me. It also shows me my tasks working with the new HR Manager easily to know what is expected of me and what I need to do specifically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

My HR manager hasn't been able to find a "trigger" feature. For instance, some of my tasks are a counterpart of someone else's tasks to complete first before I can do mine. And to work remotely and efficiently; if there were a way to trigger my job once I knew Employee "X" had finished, that would be more helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Having to ask my managers directly for time off and trying to keep track of emails, texts or just not having written documentation. It's a way of tracking time off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Desmond H.
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What do you like best about PurelyHR?

PurelyHR is definitely easy to navigate, and the overall design is pleasing to the eye. I enjoy that they send me an email a couple of days before a holiday or a day off because it's nice to have a reminder for scheduling purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

The interface itself is quite clunky. The boxes in the monthly calendar view are too small to contain all of the folks who are taking off during a common vacation time. It is difficult to visualize the scale of absences on one particular day as a result. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

At this time, PurelyHR is helping us centralize and articulate our staff time-off schedules. It is a useful tool for folks to request time off, however we still use an email method, because emails from PurelyHR are often unreliable and end up in the spam folder Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PurelyHR?

The user-friendly interface of PurelyHR makes it very easy to navigate between all the portal sections. It is very easy to manage time off, holidays and employee documents. I like the ability to receive notification to my email when the time-off is approved/rejected. Their customer support team is fantastic. Also, the best part is we can only pay for the modules we choose to go with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

Setting up a user profile in the backend takes a little time. However, once the initial setup is done, making necessary changes to the user profiles is not very hard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It eliminates the need to maintain spreadsheets to track each employee's pending time off. The calendar view provides information on how many people are not working on any given day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PurelyHR?

The user interface is delightful to interact with. Very clear and direct. Easy to use with no learning curve. It gets the job done instantly. I'm speaking as an end user, not a manager, so this experience only applies to the end user perspective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

Sometimes the login dialog is confusing. Our company uses our own sub-domain at purelyHR, but the login window still asks for a company ID, which is confusing. I think it should be automatically filled. The good news is that purelyHR remembers the preferences, so I don't need to do it often (only on a new computer). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Schedule sick leave, vacation time and business traveling time. Check colleagues' schedules and collaborate accordingly. It benefits me to save time when scheduling my work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Monica D.
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What do you like best about PurelyHR?

PurelyHR is extremely easy to use and it automates many of our business functions. We use the time-off module and the timesheet module and having the information synchronized saves us time in our payroll processing. I previously used separate programs for these functions, but the PurelyHR platform is a much better tool and a much better value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

I have little negative to say about this platform. There are some customizations I would like to see. Also, I don't like that when I add a new employee, I have to go into each existing employee's profile in order for them to be able to see the new employee's calendar. I would prefer if there was some automatic process that allowed everyone to see each other's calendar unless the admin/manager added a restriction (I'd rather have it be an opt-out feature than opt-in). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For me, PurelyHR is helping to solve the never-ending problem of "too much work, not enough time." Since I handle our business's HR/admin, I am always appreciative of multi-functional tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Campbell of PurelyHR

Hi Monica,

Wow, thank you so much for all the great feedback!

You shouldn't have to do that process manually every time you add a new employee. You can set this up in your account settings- please contact us at support@purelyhr.com so we can sort this out for you ASAP. While you're at it, we'd also love to hear about the customizations you'd like to see!

The PurelyHR team

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What do you like best about PurelyHR?

Purely HR has saved us time, money, and stress over the last few years! My staff information is all in one centralized location - timesheets, leave balances, holidays, hiring and termination dates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PurelyHR?

There are a few minor glitches in PurelyHR when inputting new staff in the system where the PTO time needs to be adjusted, but this is a very minute detail overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Purely HR is a one-stop location for all of my HR needs. I love not having to print off timesheets anymore or take hours out of my day to review individual emails from each of my 64 staff members. They simply enter their hours in the program, and it's all there and calculated for me. If I need to approve their leave, I can check their balances in a straightforward step. I appreciate the ease of this process and how it has made my job easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Campbell of PurelyHR

Hi Jennifer,

So happy to hear PurelyHR is helping you save time and stress! Thanks so much for the review and your feedback. If you'd like to send us more details on these glitches, we'd appreciate hearing more about what you're experiencing- support@purelyhr.com.

The PurelyHR team