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Breathe does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Breathe paid version starts at £18.00/month.
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- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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A Great Human Resource Software
It's a very useful software which helps for the HR management and leave tracking purposes. Not only that it can be used for personal goal setting and training activities too.
Pros
It has the option to track our goals and maintain our qualification, training , and learning which help us to keep our records up to date. In addition it has an easy process to apply for the leave and track them and get the approvals. Further the organization chart will provide the details about the organization and the relevant person whom the first tier employees need to contact for their leaves
Cons
The way how the organization chart presented need some updates
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Good for SMEs
Good value for the functionality and feels like it's been designed by actual users, rather than some bright spark with an idea.
Pros
It's quite easy to use once you're in there, and links people, function, teams etc - as well as providing different access depending on admin rights. Personal, private and public information is well set out, and the features are comprehensive, eg performance such as 1:1s, appraisals, employment details and holiday records. Holidays are easy to book and amend.
Cons
The holiday calendar display is a little clunky, but not massively detrimentally so, and the navigation generally can take a little getting used to.
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Breathe review
I have used it for multiple different companies and overall it is a very user friendly system, although it lacks the functionality of some larger systems
Pros
The easy and clear reporting that came as part of the system
Cons
The inability for it to expand with the company
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Cezanne HRReasons for Switching to Breathe
Cost predominantly, although also due to the relatively small size of the company- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Good overall
Mostly been good overall a few teething problems at all but this is expected with any system
Pros
The majority of the system is easy to use both as an administrator and also for employees. If all information is entered correctly the reminders on the system are great as well i.e passport and visa expiry reminders. Booking time off / leave requests work well
Cons
Documents and timesheets / time logs - not being able to have bulk upload functionality is really frustrating at times. The report functionality isn't great also. Not having version control and a log of version controls for documents as well is also annoying
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Voyager InfinityReasons for Switching to Breathe
I personally didnt the company decided and put it in place- Industry: Medical Practice
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Intuitive and Effective
Very positive. From a user perspective I can't seen ay reason to change for something else.
Pros
Very clear and logical layout, made it easy to track who was off when so making sure there were enough staff at any time was guaranteed. You could book off specific hours and periods, which is useful for appointments and carrying leave over, with no time getting wasted.
Cons
We only used it for booking leave and tracking absence, and I couldn't imagine a way to improve it. Perhaps other features aren't as sound, but I can't comment on those.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
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Simple, efficient, cost saving and value for money
ramsac have been using BreatheHR to manage our HR needs for our 50+ team, for the best part of two years now. I have found nothing on the market that compares in terms of functionality and price. Providing our team with a self service HR dashboard has helped us to stand out as a modern employer, whilst at the same time driving increased efficiency and ensuring a more up to date, tighter controlled HR database. We use it to manage staff details, payroll info, holidays and leave, 121s and performance meetings, expenses and more.
I particularly like the efficient way of ensuring staff have read and accepted company wide documents, as well as the easy way in which we can administer leave requests and expense claims - perfect for our very mobile work force.
It's also enabled us to make job offers and HR documentation entirely paper free - and having no paper based HR records whatsoever is really useful when managers are working away from the HQ.
Support is friendly and efficient and the cost is very attractive. I can't say enough positive things about breathehr!
Pros
Drives efficiency
Low monthly fee
Simple to use -for hr users and employees
Cloud based - no set up costs or hardware needs
Mobile
Allows for better control of documents, records and leave/expense requests
Cons
It is what it is, you can't tailor massively, but then you're comparing a product that costs £50 a month, with a bespoke database that costs £20k+ - I think the functionality is more than adequate for the vast majority of SMEs.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
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Great HR platform for growing businesses
We found BreatheHR when we were about 20 staff and it's been a godsend, it meant we could move on from holiday spreadsheets and it made us so much more organised with personnel files but those were only the basic things we were trying to 'fix', in reality lots of other benefits came with it - our team love the 'kudos' feature which mean they can say thanks / well done to each other, and we use it to help communicate business critical documents to all staff - our team have take much more responsibility for their own information and now they can access things like remaining holiday days whenever they want.
Pros
There are lots but in general this has given us a professionalism in our HR administration that we simply didn't have before at a cost that's a real no brainer.
Cons
Can't think of any, but if anything you do only get out of it what you put in so if you don't engage your staff in it and use the various features then it won't be so useful.

- Industry: Public Relations & Communications
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Good value for money
Pros
Breathe allows our employees to be more autonomous in managing their own holiday and sick leave.
Cons
It can be tricky to navigate and the customer support for the cheaper packages is not good.
Response from Centurion Management Systems
Vicki,
Thank you so much for your feedback, we really appreciate that you have taken the time to review our software and your continued commitment to Breathe, we truly value your business.
I'd love to hear more about your experiences with the support team, the level of support our customers receive should not differ based on the plan or package you have and I'm sorry if you have not received the level of support you expected.
Feel free to contact myself at [email protected] to share your experiences.
All the best,
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Basic But Effective!
The biggest benefit is the ability to centrally manage HR in a concise and simple manner, saving time for both HR managers and users alike.
Pros
Without a doubt, the best part about BreatheHR is its simplicity. For the user, the web interface is clear with all features signposted in the expected places with not an ounce of bloatware in sight. Furthermore, the features themselves are extremely easy to use, with intuitive mechanisms and design choices that mean the system is suitable for users of all abilities and backgrounds. This makes the software perfect for any sort of industry, not just those that work on computers all day.
Cons
Perhaps BreatheHR's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness. This is because the system lacks the customisability to incorporate more advanced features specific to a company, meaning sometimes it is impossible to build something into the system that supports all business specific HR policies. Furthermore, the interface is dated, and does not provide a particularly responsive experience for users.
Response from Centurion Management Systems
Thank you so much for your honest opinion Ryan.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Highly recommended HR software
IT does many things very well - tracking holiday use, 1-2-1 meetings, and the kudos system is a great way to openly provide positive feedback to colleagues..
Pros
As a manager it is easy to write notes from your 1-2-1's and review them in the future.
Cons
Sometimes it isn't clear if content you submit will be visible by those you manage.
Response from Centurion Management Systems
Chris,
Thank you so much for your feedback, we are very grateful that you have taken time out of your day to submit this review and appreciate both the pro's and cons mentioned.
We will certainly raise the point about visibility with the product team and see how this can be improved in future releases.
All the best
Carl
- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Good All Round HR System
Easy to set up and transfer over from the old system. Great functionality of the system and features galore. Much more robust than our previous HR systems, it actually replaced 2 separate software's for us.
Pros
Robust system with all features you could ask for from a HR platform. Very good value for money and offers an all in one place solution for both time management and company HR. Also offers integration into several payroll packages.
Cons
I cannot think of any cons so far to be honest! Will have to do another review in another 6 months to see if that changes!
- Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Excellent Cost-Effective HR Platform
Using Breathe has had a positive impact on our business, ensuring ease-of use and process consistency.
Pros
Breathe is a competitively-priced online HR platform which helps us to effectively manage documents, leave, absence and employee records. Reporting functions are easy to operate and offer valuable management information. The platform is popular with our employees and is widely used to capture and organise leave requests.
Cons
The process involved in setting up a new employee can be a little time-consuming, this would be easier if we could input all relevant information in one module.
Response from Centurion Management Systems
Thank you Charlie for your review. We're really happy to hear that using Breathe has had a positive impact on your business and your feedback regarding setting up a new employee is really valuable. If you have any other feedback you'd like to share with us that could help us improve Breathe, take a look at our customer portal.
Thanks again, Kayleigh
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Avoid
They illegally charged my account after cancelling their poor restrictive platform. I have emailed for resolution or explanation and been ignored. [sensitive content hidden] will promise the earth but ignore you once signed up. If you are lucky he will tell you its nothing to do with him and to contact another person in hope you tire out. The business model seems to be sign you up and give you a convoluted cancellation process to prevent cancellation. However that is not how the law of transactions work. I informed them i planned to raised a dispute. I was still ignored. I have now raised a dispute with my bank and will endeavour to spread the word of my experience as far and wide as I can to protect small independent operators being fleeced.I don't expect a representative to reach out as it s not how they operate.
Pros
The sales call promised to deliver but ultimately it was not designed or suitable for our industry. they were not honest about that with us.
Cons
Restrictive, Unhelpful, zero support, zero customer service
- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Smooth and manageable with seamless integration and user learn time minimum.
Smooth, minimal learn time, east to integrate systems with, easy to manage staff through it.
Pros
Managing expenses is so easy which can sometimes be a very difficult task. So when you simply log all the details, you could probably log an expense in less than a minute. Which I really appreciate.
Cons
I think there would be more options in the expenses categories and the diary view can be a bit blocky given modern standards of design however, if is very functional which is much more important over design.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Lets your department managers BREATHE
Overall very positive and has greatly improved efficiencies within our organisation.
Pros
Each employee has their own area, holiday / work related documents / review requests all held in one place. Our department managers are spending under 10 minutes a day on managing holiday / sickness. Not to mention the ability to attach company documents (all with read receipts)
Cons
Live chat assistance is permanently in the corner - unable to change this setting.
Response from Centurion Management Systems
David,
Thank you so much for your review, we really appreciated you taking the time to review our product and thank you for your 5 star review. We have taken your comments on board regarding the live chat appearing on the screen and will pass this back to the product development team.
Thank you for using Breathe and remember to use your refer a friend code if referring us for a chance to win prizes for your business.
Carl
- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Functional HR System
It is a good basic tool for Employee records, but getting data back out can be cumbersome
Pros
It is relatively simple to navigate the system and complete tasks quickly using the it's basic interface
Cons
It needs updating. There is no drag and drop functionality, integration with Office 365 or CRM and data cannot be exported en masses.
- Industry: Plastics
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great tool for employers and employees
Breathe is an excellent software every company should have .
Pros
Vey easy to use , can monitor staffs time keeping ect , keeping track of holidays and other functions such as company policies .
Cons
I cant fault Breathe , very good , very simple for all users .
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Easy to manage employee info/records
Pros
The ability to manage, track and control employee footprint, such as sick leave, holidays, objectives, 1-2-1's, training, documents, performance (KPI's) and much more.
Cons
For me there are no cons to this product, is does exactly what I need and have had no issues with it at all.
Response from Centurion Management Systems
Thank you so much for your review.
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Breathe HR is our HR system and helps maintain our employee leave company documents.
Pros
Easy to use, it helps streamline the HR process and save space by uploading the documents to the cloud and keeping track of employee holiday etc.
Cons
It does have limitations which would need to be formatted by their professional services team which could incur a charge.
Response from Centurion Management Systems
Thank you so much for your honest review.
- Industry: Plastics
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Great Piece of Software!
From a Manager point of view this software was great to use and keep my staff on time.
Pros
Easy to time check employees and there holidays.
Cons
Could be difficult to learn if not coming from someone who doesn't use computers.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Amazing feature-set for the value
We use BreatheHR to manage our small business HR needs. It includes so many features for its pricepoint. Its UI is easy to use and the featureset is constantly expanding. Their support team is fabulous and answers our minimal questions very fast and with ease.
Response from Centurion Management Systems
Thank you very much for your comments Alison.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Keep Breathing!
I would certainly consider it for a smaller company, perhaps as their first HR or self serve system
Pros
VERY user friendly, easy to set up, good for employees to use and navigation is obvious. It can cope with multiple currencies which is a benefit for more global orgs. There is a new recruitment module which I believe is a great addition
Cons
I struggled with the Performance Management/Appraisal approach - hopefully this will be their next target
- Industry: Computer Hardware
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Simple and functional
Pros
I used this tool prior my current employment and I can say it's very helpful if you have a small business and need track the time of you employees. It's a very functional tool, easy to manage and perfect fit for the first stage of your documentation.
Cons
I use it for a short period but didn't find any cons at that moment. Like I said, is perfect for a small business.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Great central location for employee policies/holidays etc
Pros
- Great for managing employee holiday allocation (i.e. dashboard shows employees how many days holiday they are permitted to take, request holiday, view holiday taken etc). A calendar also shows holidays scheduled for other colleagues.
- A central location for all company policies, meaning they're more likely to get read.
- Kudos feature allows you to give kudos to your colleagues with a leaderboard showing who's been awarded the most kudos (great for staff moral).
Cons
- It's pretty basic in terms of its features.
Response from Centurion Management Systems
Thank you so much for your honest review Danielle.
- Industry: Philanthropy
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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A very good system for small organisations less than 250.
Pros
Good integration with third party systems like Rota Cloud and Safety Cloud. Very good support including self service for managers and staff.
Cons
One size fits all system - so you have to accept some fields may not meet you specific needs. As with all IT systems, managers and staff will need help or training how to use the system and apps.
- Industry: Printing
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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A great HR service for tracking holiday
Pros
You can see a calendar that shows holiday for everyone in the company. This makes it easy to know who is off in any given week.
Leave requests are easy and have to be approved by a manager.
Cons
The courses and files sections are complicated to use.
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Really simple to use, easy to access form anywhere being cloud based
Very good. Happy with how simple it is to use and a big improvement over the platform we used before (Sage).
Pros
The ability to easily book holiday due to being able to see when the rest of the team are away is really useful. With the software being cloud based it is nice that it can easily be accessed on any device from anywhere.
Cons
Not a lot bad to say about it. I found it difficult to access documents that were uploaded to it for me to see as I couldnt find the correct area from my profile.
- Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
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Fantastic Time Saver
Although new to breatheHR we have found it is extremely intuitive and straight forward to set up. The support documents are so very helpful and informative and if you do not find your answers there the support team are always on hand.
Pros
Easy to use, fully functional. Our users are love being able to submit their requests any time from any device. breatheHR Support are amazing!
Here is to a lot less admin in 2019 and beyond.
Cons
There is nothing we have found that we do not like about breatheHR. The only con is now finding something else to do with all the free admin time!
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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Great so far!
Really easy to use - great platform! Would recommend for a smaller scale business and scale up within breathe as your business scales.
Pros
Easy to view profiles, manage time off, leave, training & performance etc.
Cons
Doesn't have all the features we're looking for at the moment so we do have to integrate with another

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Making HR a breeze
Using Breathe has made managing the logistics of sick time and vacations very easy and all of the other features like Kudos and document sharing are a bonus!
Response from Centurion Management Systems
Thank you so much for your comments Natasha.
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Pleasant to use HR Software with a few neat extra features.
It has very straightforward holiday management that has allowed me to properly plan my year
Pros
The ability to check the entire companies holiday dates so I can plan tasks around when people are actually in.
Cons
It is quite dull to look at and use, it feels like a program from about 7-8 years ago despite actually being a very modern package.
Response from Centurion Management Systems
Thank you so much for your review Richard
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Very User Friendly
Breathe has been recently implemented within our business and has made our HR process an easier area to deal with.
Pros
It is very easy to navigate round, it is also very simple to book holidays.
Cons
The format on some of the older internet tools (for example internet explorer) can cause the forms to not load correctly.
Perfect on all other internet platforms.
Response from Centurion Management Systems
Laura,
Thank you so much for your feedback, we really appreciate people taking the time to say what they like, as well as areas that may not be quite perfect right now.
We take all feedback on board and we will be looking at the issue on Internet explorer as soon as we can.
Thanks again.
All the best
Carl
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A great solution with a price to match
For years I have needed to use a system like BreathHR. As a smaller business, I could not justify paying the price of some of these all encompassing solutions. My back office systems did everything I needed apart from manage my HR side. For a small monthly payment, I now have the perfect system for my needs. I have been very impressed with the product and the technical support. Being able to use the free trial first was perfect but it was a no brainer for me to just sign up!
Pros
The cost is within budge. The system is easy to us for my team and for me and it has taken days of my life through the simple administration.
Cons
It doesn't do payroll but I can live with that.
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Great product, great price
We have been using BreatheHR for about 5 months now and are completely happy with the system.
It is easy to use - I never get queries from employees, and is a fantastic price.
I have seen my previous employers spend up to £50k on fancy systems, that too cumbersome, with many features left unused. BreatheHR is nice and simple and covers the vast majority of our requirements.
Pros
* price
* constant improvement & development
* good customer service
* easy to use
* easy to implement
Cons
If you're lookign for an all singing, all dancing HR system which includes recruitment, payroll, training etc then this product isn't for you.
- Industry: Philanthropy
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
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Excellent
Pros
Free for Charity, allows Holiday and leave to be calculated in hours and flexes for part time shift pattern workers.
Cons
I am finding the adding of each shift pattern quite time consuming. I also find it frustrating that the recruitment section does not seem to tell you an overview of how to use it, but you almost have to post something to work it out. I am sure there are instructions somewhere, but yet to find it.
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It saved us so much time
We are a small company and cant afford an HR person, since we use BreatheHR, the admin team saved so much time and resources keeping all employee data online, + employee retention and satisfaction has dramatically increased = great effect on our customer service!
Pros
Superbe customer service, constant updates and sweet prices
Cons
No ‘variable hours’ recording function that allows you to enter hours worked on an hourly, weekly or monthly basis.
- Industry: Farming
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Easy Software
Pros
support staff is great- very helpful, easy to get a hold of. program integrates well with our other databases
Cons
Initial training to get the ball rolling, but then it gets easier from there, may not meet the specific needs
- Industry: Plastics
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
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- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
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