10 best HRIS systems in 2024

Monday.com takes a code-free approach to customizing its solutions for managing work processes, sales, CRM and development projects. While the product isn’t intended specifically as an HRIS, its HR use case includes features like onboarding, leave requests, performance reviews and a recruitment pipeline.

Monday.com’s work management software is designed to match the way your company operates while enhancing visibility into work processes and promoting collaboration among team members, managers and executives. The vendor’s free and paid plans come with more than 200 customizable templates, including several for HR services, recruitment, employee onboarding, HR requests, employee lifecycle packages and cross-company event planning.

However, Monday.com doesn’t support payroll processing, benefits administration or employee time and attendance tracking, among other features found in competing HRIS systems.

Individuals and small teams can boost their productivity without having to crack open their wallets by taking advantage of ClickUp’s free plan. It comes with unlimited tasks and custom views, 100 lists and folders per space and 100 MB of storage. It also comes with five spaces, which help represent teams, departments and projects.

Subscribers to the Unlimited plan and ClickUp’s Business and Enterprise plans can purchase the ClickUp AI add-on, which costs $5 per member per month and generates summaries and action plans based on analysis of your team’s communications, tasks and documents. ClickUp Ai provides preformatted content and suggests ways to make your writing clear and concise.

The HR management platform sold by ClickUp covers four areas: recruitment, onboarding, employee tracking and talent development.

GoCo takes a cafeteria approach to pricing its HRIS solutions that lets organizations choose only the HR features they need. The company’s custom plans let you select from a full suite of HR functions, including hiring and onboarding, employee self-service, benefits, custom HR workflows and time tracking.

GoCo’s plans feature HR advice on demand from certified HR professionals. The service promises to respond to questions within one business day and includes quarterly harassment prevention training. The company provides HR webinars, e-books, an HR glossary and employee onboarding and engagement guides.

Rippling’s cloud-based HRIS supports all HR functions, including benefits management, recruiting, performance management, time and attendance and learning management. The product’s global payroll and recruiting features are particularly noteworthy, like the ability to generate country-specific offer letters and run background checks.

The Professional Employer Organization (PEO) services sold by Rippling let small and midsize businesses outsource their HR operations. The PEO services automatically create state and local tax accounts for your business and allow employees to choose their own flex benefits and 401(k) providers.

Rippling’s global PEO services (also called Employer of Record) act as the firm’s sole legal employer rather than the co-employer relationship of domestic PEOs. An international PEO can be assigned in addition to the company’s domestic HR operations to facilitate expansion into global markets.

Learn More: Read our full Rippling review.

15Five’s HRIS solutions focus on improving the effectiveness of managers, boosting employee performance and reducing “regrettable turnover” by engaging workers in all aspects of their jobs. The company’s employee surveys can be deployed with only two clicks, and workers can complete the surveys in six minutes.

All three of 15Five’s HRIS packages include scientifically backed engagement surveys, as well as the Spark AI assistant that analyzes employee surveys and recommends specific actions based on the results.

The three packages sold by 15Five are Engage, Perform and Total Platform. They range in price from $4 per user per month to $16 per user per month. If you want features like an HR outcomes dashboard and data processing agreements, you will need to purchase the most expensive plan.

Zenefits specializes in providing HR administration, payroll services and benefits administration for companies of all sizes. Its plans start at $10 per employee per month. The lowest plan includes automated workflows, time-off tracking and approvals and other scheduling features.

If you want real-time salary comparisons and performance management features, you will need to purchase the mid-tier plan. If you would like payroll features, then you will need to purchase the most expensive plan.

All three packages provide automated onboarding that creates employee compensation and benefits packages, sends offer letters and performs other pre-hire tasks. The system allows new hires to complete the onboarding process online in minutes, so they’re ready to get to work on their first day. Employees can access and update their records from a browser or their mobile phones.

Namely sells four HRIS packages that range from Namely Now’s basic HR and payroll features to its turnkey HR solution, Namely Complete, which adds features like onboarding, recruiting, performance management, benefits administration, managed payroll and benefits services, compliance management and large group benefits.

Between Namely’s low-end Now and high-end Complete plans are Namely Plus and Namely Plus People. Namely Plus includes HR, payroll, onboarding, recruiting, performance and compliance management, benefits administration and time and attendance tracking. Namely Plus People adds managed payroll and benefits services.

Namely doesn’t publish its prices, so you have to provide your email address and request a call back to get a price quote. The company claims to offer “extremely competitive” prices, starting at $9 per employee per month for Namely Now. However, it doesn’t offer any form of direct support, relying instead on its FAQs, webinars and community support, which is accessible only through your Namely site’s Admin Tools.

SAP SuccessFactors presents its HXM solutions as the evolution of human capital management (HCM), offering “business AI for human experience management.” HXM applies AI to enhance workforce planning, improve employee engagement and manage the entire employee lifecycle.

The Core HR and payroll features in SuccessFactors HXM include Employee Central for employee communication and self-service, time and attendance tracking, global payroll management and Employee Central Service Center for employee support. Other modules cover talent management, HR analytics and workforce planning and sales performance management.

To get a sense of the system’s cost, potential SuccessFactors HXM customers have to complete a form that asks for their email address and telephone number along with other personal information and then wait to hear back from the company.

Companies looking for the best HRIS system for recruiting and onboarding will appreciate Eddy’s hiring features that let you post open positions to several top job boards – including ZipRecruiter, LinkedIn, Glassdoor and Talent.com – with a single click. You can create custom applications to focus on specific candidate qualifications and reach more than 25,000 job boards by promoting positions on JobTarget.

Eddy’s applicant-tracking features step applicants through the stages of the hiring process and automatically alert them as their application progresses. Candidates are able to schedule their own interviews and receive offer letters with little manual processing. Employers can communicate with job applicants through text or email, with all messages appearing together in the person’s profile.

Unfortunately, the company’s hiring features are included only in its high-end Premium package, which also comes with full-service payroll, onboarding and the Tablet Kiosk app that lets employees sign in using a dedicated tablet. Eddy’s hiring and payroll modules are sold as add-on services with the Starter and Growth plans.

Papaya bills itself as “the world’s first payroll OS,” providing a global payment network that allows organizations to make payments in 72 hours or fewer in any mix of 160 different currencies. The company sells payroll platform licenses and payroll-as-a-service plans for prices starting at $3 per employee per month.

The full-service payroll solution sold by Papaya costs from $12 per employee per month and includes budget tracking, anomaly detection and AI-based data verification to ensure on-time execution. The company claims that its payroll platform reduces the time spent on payroll processing by 30% and cuts costs by 12% by automating workflows and making the payroll process more efficient.

Other features include an employee app for tracking time and accessing payroll information, global health plans and Employer of Record (EOR) services for recruiting and managing workers in more than 160 countries.