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What is Cezanne HR?
Trusted by thousands of people professionals the world over, Cezanne is leading the way for modular, flexible HR and payroll software.
Cezanne’s modern solution covers the entire employee lifecycle: with integrated modules for core HR, Onboarding, Absence, Performance, Compensation planning, Pulse surveys, Timesheets, Recruitment, Career & Succession, LMS, HR analytics, managed Payroll (UK) & in-house native payroll… and that’s not all!
Cezanne’s software comes with time-saving automation, intuitive self-service and top-rated support from UK-based experts all as standard. And, with robust hosting and security, ISO27001 and GDPR-compliance and multi-language options, it’s easy to understand why Cezanne is one of the fastest growing HR & Payroll software solutions on the market today.
Who Uses Cezanne HR?
Trusted by 1000s of HR pros in mid-sized companies (50 or more employees), Cezanne is a modern, flexible & comprehensive global HR system for UK & European headquartered organisations.
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About the vendor
- Cezanne HR
- Founded in 2013
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Cezanne HR pricing
Starting Price:
- No free trial
- No free version
Cezanne HR does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial. Cezanne HR paid version starts at £180.00/month.
About the vendor
- Cezanne HR
- Founded in 2013
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- Chat
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Reviews of Cezanne HR

Good features for the price, it does what we need it to
Pros:
The forms are a nice feature as it's helped us to keep everything in one place. The approvals work nicely, especially for recruitment considering it's not an ATS.
Cons:
Not everything is logical and it's easy to get stuck sometimes when setting up new processes. The integration was not as smooth as we had hoped, but this was rectified once we raised a concern.
Alternatives Considered: Breezy, Enboarder, Moorepay (Formerly Natural HR) and Talos ATS
Reasons for Choosing Cezanne HR: PeopleHR was not giving us the functionality we needed as we grew
Switched From: Access PeopleHR
Reasons for Switching to Cezanne HR: Cezanne was the right price and was transparent with the pricing. It had an integrated ATS and HRS and it integrates with Team Tailor.
Cezanne HR Response
last year
Hi Vicky, Thanks so much for taking the time to submit a review. We're glad you find the forms and approvals useful. Thank you also for letting us know where there's room for improvement, I'll share this with the relevant teams for consideration. Kind regards, Lena
Great all Round HR system and a great support team
Comments: Overall the systems implementation has gone very smoothly, with any issues quickly being resolved by the team at Cezanne. We are now working towards BAU in the company and all of our employees have found the system to be straightfoward to use.
Pros:
The team behind Cezanne were definitely the best part of the system, they made implementation go smoothly and were always there to offer support as soon as we needed it, especially [sensitive content hidden]! I also like how much you can tailor the system to your specific company needs.
Cons:
There are a few issues, but these are mostly small issues like not being able to add signatures to forms such as the probation reviews.
Cezanne not very intuitive
Comments: Nearly a year and still trying to get to grips with it
Pros:
For the end user it's very simple and display looks good.
Cons:
To set up various processes, security functions etc it seems quite long winded and clunky
Cezanne has been a great help to the company
Comments: From the start I have had fantastic support from the team who have helped us to set up to make things work for us.
Pros:
It has simplified a lot of the HR admin that we used to do manually.
Cons:
There are occasional things that are not intuitive but the helpdesk is super quick at helping you work things out.
Alternatives Considered: Sage 100
Reasons for Choosing Cezanne HR: Sage was dreadful!! And it was a very dated app
Switched From: Sage HR
Reasons for Switching to Cezanne HR: Cezanne had the best applications and also covered training which many others didn't. I can't remember the others that we looked at.
Great System for a growing Company
Comments: Great, I cannot fault it, I cannot see a reason to need to change provider anytime soon.
Pros:
Its flexible, the customer service is great and if things do not go right, they put it right.
Cons:
InRecruiting - the module is not that dynamic for an ATS of 2024.
Alternatives Considered: BambooHR
Reasons for Switching to Cezanne HR: Preferred the offering and the price was competitive.
HR Advisor
Comments: In the beginning I found Cezanne not very user friendly and was hard to get my head around. However with Cezanne's helpdesk and video calls I am more or less up to speed with it. Overall it is a decent system that needs some updates to certain things like the limited mobile app .
Pros:
The built in analytic reports makes reporting on different departments and shifts very easy which is ideal in my job role.
Cons:
Can't set up a notification for when a employee deletes holiday. This sometimes causes an issue when we have them down as on holiday but then they say they have been working.
Excellent HR System
Comments: Excellent, easy to use and excellent customer service from the support team.
Pros:
Cezanne is easy to use, it makes my life easier every day.
Cons:
Nothing really, sometimes it take a while to remember all of the Administrator functions but once the system is set up it is fairly maintenance free,
Alternatives Considered: Salesforce Sales Cloud, Conservice ESG and Workday HCM
Reasons for Switching to Cezanne HR: Easy to use, it fit our needs perfectly, great people and good support.
Great easy to use system with lots of functionality!
Comments: A great HR system and really good support provided in terms of set up and help when you need it.
Pros:
Easy user friendly system from an administrator and employee perspective, lots of customisation options so that you can make it the right fit for the company.
Cons:
The mobile app is currently quite limited, it covers the basics though and I am sure will be built on.
Alternatives Considered: Sage HR and BrightHR
Reasons for Choosing Cezanne HR: The system was very basic and was being discontinued
Switched From: Croner Simply Personnel
Reasons for Switching to Cezanne HR: It was more easy friendly and had much more customisable options available
Cezanne HR Review
Comments: Excellent, easy to use, user friendly instant reporting and statistics.
Pros:
Simple and easy to use especially reporting.
Cons:
Adding new starters to the systems remembering all the steps!
Cezanne implementation review
Comments: Implementation went smoothly, and once the issues had been ironed out it was quite aa smooth changeover
Pros:
The ability to personalise it to specific users
Cons:
The date driven reporting process can be laborious and difficult to generate payroll from.
Opinion on Cezanne HR
Comments: Over all excellent
Pros:
Vibrant and inviting and some parts are easy to use
Cons:
Some functions are complicated to set up and when you don't use those functions every day its hard to remember as its complicated
Alternatives Considered: Bob and BambooHR
Reasons for Choosing Cezanne HR: Citation wasn't a great information system and wasn't fit for purpose anymore
Switched From: Citation Manage
Reasons for Switching to Cezanne HR: Value for money
Cezanne HR Response
2 years ago
Thanks for your review Kira, this is great feedback for us to receive. We are glad that you have found Cezanne a good quality option and have benefitted from the look & feel of certain areas, as well as finding Cezanne a cost effective solution for you. It would be great to understand a little more those areas where you have found things a little trickier to set up. Hopefully with the assistance from our Support team we can help overcome this and allow you to make full use of everything Cezanne has to offer. Looking forward to continue working together with you to provide the best possible software and service package for you and your business.
Love for Cezanne HR
Comments: Overall Cezanne HR is great, if ever there are any issues these are dealt with promptly, the support site is a huge help too, as well as our account manager who is on hand for everything and anything we need.
Pros:
The way that Cezanne can be customised is brilliant, it can be used in any way that you want it to be and tailored to suit the company needs.
Cons:
I would like more ability to change the searches and change them to how I would like them to appear, or just have a totally blank search that I can mix and match how I'd like.
User friendly
Comments: A very positive experience, user friendly.
Pros:
The reports and how clearly the information is in the form hub
Cons:
I cannot find a How To guide so always have to ask a colleague
Great experience
Comments: Very happy experience, Cezanne go above and beyond for any requests or projects we have raised with them.
Pros:
The user interface is easy to use and clear, with sensible headings making navigation simple. Like the fact the payroll module bolts on and is seamless, meaning we can successfully submit payroll on time and correctly each month.
Cons:
Initial training was quite short meaning there was a level of self training to be undertaken, but the Cezanne team have always been supportive and responsive if we have had any queries.
Cezanne HR
Comments: It has provided me with the information I need to be able to successfully do my job
Pros:
It is fairly easy to navigate once you get the hang of it. I am able to do what I need to do and have full access as a payroller to employee information
Cons:
It can be a bit difficult at first, but you can get the hang of it fairly quickly
A simple and intuitive system
Comments: A good experience - we did not have anything similar before, and it's really handy to have everything together in one place. Booking and viewing holidays is now very simple
Pros:
Nice and quick to use - very intuitive. Clear menus and several different views available (eg calendar or list views of booked holiday). Good to have everything useful together
Cons:
It signs you out a little quickly. Would like more customisation of being able to view different colleagues' holidays (rather than just your line reports and your line manager's other reports)
Cezanne Usage
Comments: Good and positive, customer service could be better.
Pros:
Recruitment module, ease of access and usage
Cons:
Lack of synchronisation / payroll function for Asia
It does the job
Comments: It's quite user friendly and easy to see calendars for yourself and your team members
Pros:
It's easy to use to book leave and overtime. The oerview calendar is useful
Cons:
It's quite hard to locate saved documents, and you have to press a few tabs to get to the page you want
Very positive
Comments: Very positive overall. Support has been very good during implementation and required.
Pros:
Ease of access, integration and setup. Support has always been very well received.
Cons:
Initial setup to how the business requires it took longer than anticipated.
It's ok for HR software
Pros:
The ability to use Single Sign On is good. The general look of the site is good.
Cons:
It's a bit clunky. I seem to get lots of notifications from colleagues and can't turn them off. API isn't working as intended and support haven't come back to me after 3 months.
Easy to use
Pros:
The interface is clean and easy to follow.
Cons:
A calendar view showing annual leave would be good
Ideal HR Software for SMEs
Comments: We have a number of flexible working patterns and using Cezanne has automated calculating holiday entitlements. It is an easy to use, one-stop shop for storing and retrieving employee information. It has also been useful for capturing document storage and gathering electronic signatures to ensure employees have read changes to procedures or other important documents.
Pros:
Cezanne was a great investment for our business as it helped to streamline and automate a number of manual processes that we had been carrying out. It is user friendly and cloud based allowing for easy use from home or on site.
Cons:
Cezanne seems to have taken on board requests for improvement over the years and it has become much easier to use than in the early days.
My experience using Cezanne
Comments: Cezanne allows a variety of report running/data inputting. It provides us with what we require.
Pros:
Once you understand how to use Cezanne it is easy and very useful to input and export data.
Cons:
I feel would be better if there was a phone line we could call rather than all email tickets - as sometimes we need things resolving asap and can take 24 hours for ticket to be raised/resolved. Email ticket responses are helpful but would be quicker and easier to have a phone call.
Good out the box option with flexibility for SME
Comments: All customer service is very swift. Good product and service for the cost.
Pros:
Everything is online and there are areas that can be customised such as work flows and processes for absence or performance management.
Cons:
Some aspects of setting up flows can be time consuming. Some times reorganising a unit or company structure can be difficult with reporting lines.
Would Recommend!
Comments: The customer service is brilliant, very helpful with queries and the platform overall is good and easy to use.
Pros:
Easy use of absence management tracking, employee records and talent related processes (mid-year, annual reviews, IDP's etc.)
Cons:
Reporting can feel clunky at times and doesn't give the information in the easiest ways.