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honeybeeBase is a cloud-based team management solution for small size businesses that allows them to track attendance, schedule tasks, clock employees in and out, communicate shifts and more. honeybeeBase allows employees to...
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- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Great tool to approve hours!
Pros
It is easy to approve hours each week and see totals worked. You can also easily add when shifts were missed so you can remember why hours were lower during a certain period.
Cons
I find it difficult to get to the actual area where I approve hours for my students. There are a lot of clicks and menus to get through before actually being able to click approve, but overall the tool works well.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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2 year review
Pros
Ease of new employee setup and also ease of employee clock in and out
Cons
I seem to have problems with the time paid off feature and keeping up with the paid time off bank. I probably didn't get it setup properly in the beginning
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BambooHRReasons for Switching to honeybeeBase
HoneyBee was a better fit for our size company at the time. Also, the cost was less.- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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A simple software for leading your team
HoneybeeBase is a nice software for leading your team. HoneybeeBase works great for small businesses, start ups, restaurants and more. There is also a mobile app. It has an easy setup and any problems are addressed immediately. There are several features such as time and attendance, task management, time of tracking and employee scheduling. For example, time and attendance is very useful as it can provide an accurate and easy to use tracking for employee hours. With task management feature you can create tasks that can be assigned and managed. Employees can be notified of their assignments and the progress of the work can be monitored.
Pros
There is an app that I can download into my phone
Accesibility and easy of use
Able to clock in off-site
There are several features that can be used such as attendance, task management, time of tracking and scheduling
The price is low
Cons
I don’t have any real dislikes about the software. Sometimes the app on my phone accidentally clocks me in. Very rarely the software freezes but afte few seconds is working ok.
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- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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MSXI Warranty Project
This software has proved crucial in implementing accurate performance management processes.
Pros
I am impressed with the ease to update the features within this software. The technical support team and knowledge base is also extremely impressive.
Cons
There are many methods to accomplish a single task. Although this can be perceived as a benefit to some, many find this cumbersome.
- Industry: Mental Health Care
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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honeybeeBase
The biggest area I have benefited from is the accrual of PTO. This used to take a significant amount of time every pay period to calculate manually. Honeybee allows us to input an employee's hire date and tell it how to calculate for each employee automatically. This has allowed us to become more efficient and also to ensure our calculations are exact with no errors.
Pros
It tracks an abundance of information. I like how you can customize it to your company's needs, such as your company's PTO policy. It made it easy to track different employees' time off accruals, which are unique to each employee depending upon date of hire, position, etc. Our employees like the fact that they can have the app on their personal smart phones so they can keep track of their own hours, requests for time off, etc. Utilizing this app has saved us money in the long run due to having to use less paper for time sheets, time off requests, and PTO updates to employees. Customer service is excellent. Anytime I've emailed or called, I've received a response in a very timely manner.
Cons
It took us quite awhile to learn how to maneuver the site. Sometimes I still get confused how to get back to a certain section. I'd like to see a more thorough instructional manual become available. Even though we've gotten used to most areas of the software that we use daily, those areas that are less frequently used still take up more time than we'd like just to remind ourselves of how to tackle certain issues. I've had to make our own HoneybeeBase instructional manual, so it would have been nice if a more thorough one was provided.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Honeybee is a valuable tool for time tracking and management
The fact that employees can visibly see their vacation/personal time, and keep track of their own schedule is a huge benefit to time spent contacting HR with questions.
Pros
It's ease of use. Once logged in, the software is user-friendly after 10 minutes of training. Hours worked, vacation/personal time, all the valuable information is right in front of you, like a dashboard. Easy to enter time off requests, messages are displayed where they are most visible.
Cons
Working with a vehicle manufacturer, the systems they have in place slow the software down. At times, you clock out for lunch, and are waiting for the software to catch up and record the time. I don't believe this is attributed to the software itself though.
- Industry: Newspapers
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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It’s just alright
I’ve not had any problems other than loading times.
Pros
It does what it’s supposed to do. Nothing more and nothing less.
Cons
I don’t like that it’s web based. Maybe I’m wrong but it just feels like a port from the website. The loading times are atrocious.
- Industry: Fund-Raising
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Honeybee- The simple and easy way to clock in employees
n/a that I know of
Pros
I love the ease of use and that everything is at your fingertips!
Cons
It is a little older and could have a cleaner UI and interface. Maybe a mobile application would be a nice feature too
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Great Dev Side - Maybe Some UI improvements
Solid. Easy for my managers to communicate, easy for clocking in and out, the application itself is quick. 9/10 just a bit too dated on the HTML/CSS/ JS side.
Pros
Well, it works. Buttons go where you need them to. Clocking in and out is the main point and it's easy to do. I've never had any api call or server errors. Everything seems up to speed.
Cons
It's a bit of an eyesore. I like the idea of a top nav with icons, but I'm not always sure which one to click on. I don't think you should have to think about a nav bar. Also, there's a lot of extra stuff on my home dashboard that I just don't need. I just need the clock in/out / break section, and the number of hours ive worked that week. The notifications on the left usually aren't that useful to me, but I can see why they're there. Beyond that, I rarely scroll to the bottom. Also the icons throughout look extremely outdated. Maybe it's the combination with the color palette? Maybe white icons? I get the honeybee idea, but I'm not sure all of the icons need to be black or with such heavy line weights.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Recommendation
I find it very easy to use. It is prompt and the layout is user friendly
Pros
Ease of use. I can easily clock myself in.
Cons
So far there is nothing that I dislike about it.
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Excellent product
Overall I am very happy with the product. The customer service is exceptional. I cannot rave enough on that. I always get a response almost immediately and that in itself makes this an awesome product.
Pros
It's very easy to use and implement. The customer service is awesome.
Cons
I cannot enter our holidays across the board for all employees. I have to enter each holiday for each employee individually which is very time consuming. Also wish there was a way to make a group punch, such as when we were closed due to power outage or because of a hurricane evacuation, etc..... and employees received admin leave with pay. I had to enter each one individually. Our employees are not allowed to enter or make adjustments on their time sheets. They can only clock in and out.
- Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Pivot
good
Pros
It is very affordable and the customer support is very responsive.
Cons
A time clock option would be a good thing to have installed
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UKG ReadyReasons for Switching to honeybeeBase
Yes- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Overall, Great!
Currently rolling out to the entire team, but it has made the vacation request & tracking extremely efficient as well as the time clock feature giving direct responsibility back to the employees.
Pros
Ease of adding employees, constantly adding updates and great customer support.
Cons
You can tell this tool is oriented towards smaller groups. For example, doing mass updates is not possible with vacation allowances or locations access. I had to manually modify the location for 67 employees 1 by 1.
When mass updating it would be a god send to be able to input hire date and employee number instead of one by one later.
While the knowledge section is a great starter, there is much left that's needed, specifically for managers , supervisors, and the account owners. There are several aspects that are missing from the tool, for example the absent function. When searching for it in the knowledge base, no results returned. How is it intended to be used?What can it be used for?
Is there a way to set specific holidays? I'm not sure at this point still. I'd hate to have to add it for 130 agents, or even add 6 different accruement policies.
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Honeybee Review
I feel that this has eased a burden on my employer for helping track time. I know that it is frustrating and time consuming on the bosses when an employees forgets to clock in.
Pros
Accessibility, ease of using the phone app. We have a lot of agents in the field, and that travel for work after hours. This program helps track their work time and helps alleviate our Workers Compensation concerns when they are not in the office. I am sure that most companies do not think about from that perspective.
Cons
The bugs in the software, when it freezes, or throws an error, which I understand sometimes is operator error.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Great Tracking!
We have been able to drastically reduce out absenteeism and tardiness, the employees are held accountable for their actions and can see it in one dashboard. Prior to this we did not have a time clock, and had tons of late employees as well as tardy employees. the point system for absences was a great way for the employees to realize the amount of call offs they made
Pros
The ease of seeing all reporting employees in one location
Cons
I had some issues when attempting to export the reports for payroll records
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Great Software
Pros
I like that I am able to setup multiple departments within a company but for many that would be different physical locations. Instead of that function I would like to see site functionality button. So I can setup different locations.
Cons
There is not much I do not like about the software. The worse part would be the breadcrumbs (the link clicking) do not always take you back to where you were.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Honeybee
All-in-all I did like this tool. Unfortunately, the company I work for lost their contract, so they did not need to use honeybee anymore. I did enjoy it for the 8 months I used it.
Pros
Ease of implementing people's daily / weekly times.
Cons
I felt like I had to click through a lot of buttons to get where I needed to go to see my whole team's timecards. I also noticed on a couple occasions that a person's day would lock up to where I couldn't edit future days. This was addressed within 12 hours of less both times it happened, which was fantastic!
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Ease of use
Easy to Access and Use. Very Intuitive software
Pros
I do like the Ease of Access of the software
Cons
I don't like the Loading Time of the software
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Easy to Train - Easy to Use - Easy to Track
We have been very pleased with the experience and support.
Pros
We feel very fortunate that we found HoneybeeBase. It has made our time tracking so much easier. We have employees in the field and in house and it has brought all that tracking into 1 very functional and easy to use program.
Cons
I would like to have the ability to delete notifications individually without opening them. I only have the ability to delete all of them.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Overall A Very Good ETC System
Overall, everyone we have interacted with has been great and at the very least has helped us come up with "work arounds" if the exact thing we were looking for isn't available yet. If we've had any questions or concerns, they have all been addressed right away!
Pros
It is relatively intuitive and simple to use for the average user. The company has been EXTREMELY helpful in setting our system up (~130 users) and working with us on understanding the finer details. Vacation scheduling is very nice, and so far seems to be working quite well for us.
Cons
It can be a little too much manual entry and set up for larger organizations (100+) as certain items may need to be altered on a per person method. However, we can see that once everything is set up properly, it will need very little ongoing maintenance.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Time Sheet
Pros
I like how easy it is to use and the ability to see my timecard and punches in real time. Being able to keep track of my hours down to the second is extremely helpful.
Cons
Sometimes the app lags however when this occurs I am always able to just login online.
- Industry: Mental Health Care
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Time saving
I love that each supervisor doesn't have to keep track of all the time sheets in the building and email or fax them to the bookkeeper once every two weeks.
Pros
I love that there is an app that is available because I usually start work long before I step foot on the property so I can log in and not worry about forgetting to log in when I get there.
Cons
Sometimes it glitches or doesn't log me when I thought it did
- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Awesome tool
Very easy setup and any questions or concerns are addressed immediately
Pros
This is a great way to communicate in house with only certain people seeing it and acknowledging they Baden it
Cons
I don’t have any dislikes about the software
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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"Tracking my students at clinical"
We did a trial semester then a full semester and now are continuing to use the product.
Pros
I could easily get a message from my students when they arrived and left clinical.
I could text back and forth with my group.
I could follow their attendance.
I could document if they were late.
Cons
My students forget to sign in or out. It needs an alarm clock reminder.
- Industry: Building Materials
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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honeybeeBase keeps track for me
Pros
Easy to use and keep track of multiple employees at multiple job sites.
Cons
Can not stay logged in on website without full username and password. Must use the app to input 4 digit login code.