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Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recruitment, employee database etc)

21 points by frosty ↗ HN
We have grown to around 25 employees and till sometime back spreadsheets were working and we didnt really have many formal processes. Wanted to have a process. The main requirements i can think of are: i) employee records ii) basic payroll iii) vacation applying/tracking iv) expense submission v) performance reviews vi) recruitment

found couple of alternatives (both sas and software). Wanted to know what you guys are using?

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frosty
There must be a bug, because I am also "frosty". I didn't post this article, but it has a red asterisk next to it.
pg
Could you please email me? pg@
frosty
hey i registered with account frosty :). i had seen one comment posted in my profile which i am sure i had not posted.

mailing you pg

tjic
remember on Apple ]['s DOS, where you could include a control character in the name of a file (thus making it impossible for someone else to run a file unless they knew the "real" name) ?

I've got a dollar riding on one of the two "frosty"s having an extra character in their name...

haseman
Our small dev house uses Harvest: http://www.getharvest.com/

It's simple, straightforward, and has a metric ton of ways to enter hours into the system. It doesn't have all the things you're looking for, but it does well for all our vacation/hour/billing/tracking needs.

mrduncan
Would you mind elaborating on what else you're looking for other than what Harvest offers?
haseman
There really isn't much I can think of offhand. It tracks hours. It might be nice if it were easier to enter notes in the 'week' entry screen. Other than that, it's a great product.
fn
http://standoutjobs.com for recruitment (disclaimer: I'm a cofounder :-P )
frosty
by recruitment what i meant was basically whenever a resume is recieved by email, i) a separate entry is created for that person.

ii) Other people can change status like hired, called for interview, telephonic done, rejected etc

iii) Other employees can add candidate feedback and other things so that everything remains in one place

frosty
actually we were really facing issues after we recieved a flood of resumes. Finally ended up a quick solution myself over the weekend. Its working for now but could be better :)
coopr
The only place you mention pricing (that I can find) is in your FAQ, and the answer is "Please contact us at 1.866.563.7748 for pricing details" - that makes me think it is WAY out of reach for the startups and smaller businesses that are on HN.

So, roughly, how much _does_ it cost?!