Best Performance Management Systems for Freelancers
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What are Performance Management Systems for Freelancers?
Performance management systems are software platforms for assessing and developing employee performance. They typically involve setting objectives, providing feedback and measuring results in order to structure an individual's roles and responsibilities within an organization. These systems can also be used to monitor staff progress and help identify areas of improvement, as well as acknowledge hard work. Performance management systems vary from organization to organization depending on their specific goals and needs. Compare and read user reviews of the best Performance Management systems for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Folks
Folks
Folks Performance helps Canadian SMBs align individual goals with business objectives through structured, ongoing performance management. Set clear goals, track progress, schedule 360° evaluations, and run customizable review cycles — all from one platform. Managers provide continuous feedback, employees document achievements, and HR teams access a centralized record of performance history tied directly to employee profiles, training tracking, and career development plans within Folks HRIS. Customizable evaluation templates, automated reminders, and visual dashboards make reviews structured and fair. Available in English and French. Part of the Folks all-in-one HR platform alongside HRIS, ATS, and CRA-compliant payroll — trusted by 1,200+ Canadian organizations.Starting Price: $6 per employee per month -
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Paylocity
Paylocity
Paylocity delivers the most innovative technology bringing HR, payroll, and IT together in one modern, easy-to-use platform to empower teams, simplify processes, and deliver real results. The platform enables businesses to manage payroll, benefits, employee engagement, and other core HR functions while also managing non-payroll spend, including expenses, account payable, corporate cards, procurement, and headcount planning. Paylocity's integrated platform includes mobile access, workflow automation, seamless third-party integrations, and real-time insights that help businesses manage employees and business operations more effectively. Paylocity also provides dedicated customer support, implementation services, and scalable solutions designed to meet the needs of growing businesses and enterprise organizations. -
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Odoo
Odoo
Odoo is a fully integrated, customizable, open-source software packed with hundreds of expertly designed business applications. Odoo’s intuitive database is able to meet a majority of business needs, such as: CRM, Sales, Project, Manufacturing, Inventory, and Accounting, just to name a few. Odoo is an all-in-one software solution designed to meet the needs of companies, regardless of their size (or budget). The unbeatable, seamless nature of Odoo helps businesses become more efficient by reducing redundant manual processes, which helps companies save countless hours of labor. Every module is interconnected to provide a fully-integrated experience from app to app, and users can automate many processes that would’ve otherwise required manual inputs into multiple applications. Odoo keeps all business functions in one place, allowing teams to collaborate with other departments from one unified platform in the most efficient way possible.Starting Price: $25.00/month/user -
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All in one, not one size fits all. Do you have too many systems and processes for managing employees? Manual data entry, piles of payroll paperwork and poor integration across systems result in lost productivity and compliance errors. ADP Workforce Now is a cloud-based platform for HR management software, where you can easily manage all of your HR functions — payroll, HR management, workforce management, talent, and benefits — and gain insights across them all. Quickly and accurately process payroll and equip your employees with anytime, anywhere self-service access to their information. ADP Workforce Now® Payroll is the best-in-class, affordable solution that makes payroll and tax filing easy. It’s engineered to help support compliance obligations and is ready to scale as your business grows. See how ADP Workforce Now provides everything you need to get payroll right.
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Assembly
Assembly
Assembly is an automated, all-in-one communication, collaboration, and engagement hub that helps organizations engage, find meaning, stay informed, and save time at work. It's a flexible platform that brings together people, knowledge, and engagement into one secure place. From peer-to-peer recognition and nominations to announcements, wins and anonymous suggest boxes, your team will see immediate improvements in morale, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. Engage your team Building a community is challenging in today's world, and effective communication, engagement, and cross-functional collaboration are essential for retention and workplace happiness. Make collaboration seamless Get your team in sync to maximize problem-solving and decision-making. Get structured feedback, run more effective meetings, and hold team stand-ups to ensure alignment. Built-In Integrations Engage where you already work. Enjoy over 40 integrations to make work easier and seamless.Starting Price: Free -
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PerformanceHub
Cogendo
PerformanceHub is a versatile, easy to use performance management solution. With features spanning objectives, 1-to-1s, 360° feedback, development plans, probation reviews, appraisals, talent, and succession planning, it's more than just a tool—it’s a strategic asset. Purpose-built to help your organisation and everyone in it perform at their best. PerformanceHub simplifies the performance management process, helps align and focus your workforce, improves talent retention, and increases business productivity. Our platform links each employee with your organisation’s vision through a visual cascade, ensuring consistent performance and productivity. As you aim for organisational excellence, count on our unwavering support—consistently rated as outstanding by our users. Choose PerformanceHub: Streamlined. Strategic. Trusted.Starting Price: $5.00/user/year -
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Actus
Advance Change
Actus is the complete performance, learning and talent suite for organisations with 100+ employees. Highly comprehensive, Actus Performance Management Software will evolve with your organisation's needs, saving you time, money and simplifying processes for the long-term. Functionality includes objectives, appraisal, 121s, recognition, survey, onboarding, talent management, succession planning & much more.Starting Price: $1.00/month/user -
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Aiday
Aiday
Aiday enables structured feedback and actionable plans for personal development and performance management. Aiday is perfect for companies with up to 500 employees and individual contributors. The service is simple and convenient to use for administrators and regular users. Main features: - 360-degree feedback - set up reviews within minutes and track skills development in the long term with Aiday analytics tools; - performance management reviews that employees love; - actionable personal development plans with recommendations based on 360-degree feedback.Starting Price: $5/month/user -
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SuiteVal
Adaptive BIBO Innovations
Successful businesses grow their employees to encourage self-improvement and development while ensuring they are the best version of themselves so they can effectively contribute to the organization’s mission and purpose. Performance Appraisals present a vehicle for accomplishing this goal and at SuiteVal, we went above and beyond to ensure that our tool empowers you to get the job done in the simplest, most efficient manner. Our guiding principle was to ensure that when you use it, it fits like a glove. From our concierge implementation to on-going support to customization options, SuiteVal is the tool you have been looking for. SuiteVal provides customized templates, unlimited evaluations, a library of questions, assistance with developing evaluations that reflect your organization’s core values, you have everything you need to accomplish your goals. -
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FocalReview
SpiraLinks Corporation
FocalReview®, SpiraLinks’ flagship tool, helps you manage and administer your compensation planning and performance processes more efficiently. With FocalReview®, you can manage your salary, bonus, and stock plans on different timetables for different employee populations, in multiple currencies and languages. Your HR teams can budget, recommend, analyze, and approve changes in all forms and phases of compensation, even if multiple management organizations are responsible for input and review, securely in the cloud. Tie your compensation practices directly to your business strategy and align workforce rewards with employee performance. Balance merit, adjustments, lump sums, promotions, bonuses, and stocks with FocalReview®’s role-based, highly configurable Compensation Management module. Compensate in multiple languages, currencies, and pay periods, from hourly to annually and everywhere in between.Starting Price: $25.00/employee/year -
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Sageo
Sageo SIA
Sageo is a culture-first performance management platform for companies of 10 to 1,000 people. Most tools assume you already have a competency framework; most scaling companies do not. Sageo generates one from your values and levels in about an hour, then a human edits and approves it, so every review, goal, and development plan is scored against the same clear expectations. In one place, Sageo runs AI-assisted competency frameworks, 360-degree review cycles with calibrated scoring, monthly 1:1s, goals and OKRs, development plans, a live org chart, and continuous feedback and recognition. AI drafts and summarises, but people make every rating and decision. It is private by design and EU-compliant, with anonymity thresholds and role-based access. Built for founders and people leaders, Sageo reaches a first framework in about an hour, not weeks. Pricing is simple: $7 per employee per month (€6 in the EU/EEA), with self-serve signup.Starting Price: $7/month -
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FlowyTeam
Flowy
Track and Increase employees' and team performance via KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and execute your strategies effectively via OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), Task, and Project Management. Engage and Motivate via our Reward System, weekly check-in, 1-on-1s, Learning Hub, and 360-degree Review. Convert your leads into sales via our CRM tool. Create forms for customers and employee surveys and data analytic. FlowyTeam offers more features such as: KPI: real-time performance tracking Task: execute via an effective action plan Projects: track the progress of your projects Reports: easily generate real-time reports Tickets: be solution-focused Forms & Surveys: for better data analytics Attendance & time-logsStarting Price: $0 per user per month -
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BambooHR
BambooHR®
BambooHR® is an award-winning, people-first HR platform with an intuitive design that scales with your business. It centralizes all your HR data in one secure system so you can focus less on paperwork and more on what matters most: your people. With BambooHR, you can: • Hire and onboard top talent seamlessly • Manage all your employee data and records in one place • Run payroll and administer benefits with confidence • Track time, manage performance, and measure employee engagement • Gain actionable insights with AI-powered analytics and reporting • Connect your favorite tools with seamless integrations • Get expert help with HR strategy, plus managed payroll for US employees By consolidating HR processes into one intuitive system, BambooHR empowers you to elevate the employee experience, drive business growth, and simplify HR management.Starting Price: $250 per month -
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intelliHR
intelliHR
intelliHR is an Australian HR technology business that has developed a next-generation cloud-based people management and data analytics platform. Our strategic HR SaaS product helps our customers: 1. Create a culture based on employee engagement 2. Enable performance through empowering employees 3. Give leaders real-time insights and visibility over their people Our aim is to become an essential core platform for every business to manage their talent providing the necessary tools to align, manage and enable a ‘people and culture strategy’ within a company’s broader business strategy. We add value through the automation of traditionally manual HR processes, like onboarding and record management, whilst capturing critical people and performance data not typically available or visible to business today, providing deep insight into issues, trends and opportunities that HR managers can act on and use to inform strategy and decision making.Starting Price: $3.60 / employee / month -
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peopleHum
peopleHum
Introducing peopleHum, the people first platform. Hire Right, Engage Right and Nurture Right for better business results. Get Started now with the new age people platform. peopleHum is the next generation people platform, built ground up to get a single view that shows how well the people in your organization are connected. Be it candidates, employees or customers, use predictive and AI technologies to enable better people decisions. We are creating the Future of Work with peopleHum. Reduce hiring errors and cycle time by pre-screening candidates with machine learning technologies. Increase brand attractiveness and optimize hiring with an integrated lifecycle and timely communication. Give your employees a voice. An integrated toolkit, specifically crafted for the millennial generation to better engage, measure, action and improve overall engagement.Starting Price: $2/Month/User -
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AssessTEAM
Pulse Software Solutions LLC
AssessTEAM is a cloud-based employee performance management platform that helps organizations evaluate, analyze, and improve team performance in real time. Designed for businesses of all sizes, AssessTEAM combines performance evaluations, continuous feedback, 360-degree feedback, goal setting, OKRs, employee engagement, project portfolio management, and time tracking in one easy-to-use system. With AssessTEAM’s new AI-driven features, companies can convert plain job descriptions into actionable KPIs, build role-specific performance expectations, and create structured evaluations faster. Managers can also use AI to turn organizational goals into OKRs and break them down into measurable KPIs for teams and individuals, helping every employee understand what success looks like. AssessTEAM also supports AI-assisted hiring by converting job descriptions into skill and capability assessments that can be sent to candidates before formal interviews.Starting Price: $3.00/month/user -
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Zoho People
Zoho
Zoho People is a cloud-based HR software that helps businesses streamline and automate every stage of the employee lifecycle—from onboarding to offboarding. Designed for organizations of all sizes, it simplifies HR operations with features such as employee database management, attendance tracking, leave management, shift scheduling, time tracking, performance management, learning, and HR workflow automation. Employees and managers benefit from self-service tools, while HR teams gain actionable insights through customizable reports and analytics. With mobile apps, seamless integrations, and a highly customizable platform, Zoho People enables organizations to improve productivity, ensure compliance, and deliver a better employee experience. Trusted by over 50,000 businesses worldwide, Zoho People empowers HR teams to build efficient, engaged, and future-ready workplaces. -
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UKG Pro
UKG
UKG Pro is our award-winning human capital management (HCM) solution that helps simplify complex HR processes and provide powerful insights about your workforce. Marrying deep functionality and artificial intelligence (AI) technology with an intuitive, best-in-class user interface, UKG Pro makes it easier for HR and business leaders to optimize performance and improve work experiences for their people. From big-picture data to zooming in to the individual employee’s journey in a matter of seconds—UKG Pro can support even the most complex organizational needs in HR, payroll, time, and talent. Gain one, comprehensive view of all your employee data, including insight into your global teams. Discover the most powerful payroll engine in the industry today, and simplify the most complex tax processes. Deliver a personalized, candidate-centric experience to potential employees, and make it easier for recruiters to assess the right fit. -
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Empxtrack
Empxtrack
Empxtrack is a people centric software that focusses on workforce productivity. It offers easy to use self configurable HR solutions with powerful interface for all your HR needs. Comprehensive, yet easy to use platform that offers Performance Management, Recruitment, Employee Scheduling, Database, Self services and more. Trusted by over 10,000+ SMBs, Empxtrack offers ready to start products for FREE Free HR offerings include Appraisal, 360 Feedback, HR portal, Payroll and Exit, Attendance, Leave etc. at no cost. The software helps in establishing a culture of continuous performance improvement for employees. The highly customizable and configurable software encourages top performers and gets the most out of your marginal contributors. Empxtrack also offers Enterprise Solutions that are Easy-to-use, highly Configurable and Affordable, Numerous customization options, Multiple workflows, Reports & Analytics, Ready to use templates, Integrations with HR tools and more.Starting Price: Free -
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GoCo
GoCo.io, Inc.
GoCo is modern HR, benefits and payroll built with flexibility and ease-of use in mind. Built to automate your existing manual process, GoCo is on a mission to eliminate the paperwork and spreadsheets, and replace them with delightful digital experiences your HR team and employees will love. Manage records, performance, time off, onboarding, benefits, and more all in one place. GoCo is a secure, compliant hub for sending, digitally signing, and organizing your sensitive HR documents and data. Unlike other HRIS platforms, GoCo is built to be flexible enough to support existing processes, policies, and providers, so you don't have to change the way you work just to adopt a modern HR system. HR is about people, and we believe that delivering great service to small businesses starts with customer love. That’s why every GoCo customer gets a dedicated Customer Success Manager whose only job is to bend over backwards to make your team successful. -
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huminos
Huminos
Looking to crush your goals and achieve success at an accelerated pace? Look no further than huminos! This powerful OKR software makes implementing and tracking your Objectives and Key Results easier than ever, within just a few clicks. We make it easy to focus on what’s important - smashing your targets! huminos helps business owners and teams to track their company-side and individual OKRs on a quarterly, half-yearly, or annual basis. Huminos allows you to create tasks aligned with the key results, automatically calculate overall progress based on the status of the current tasks, and enable better planning. With a number of integrations using your favorite collaborative and productivity tools, such as Slack, Asana, Microsoft Teams, and many more, huminos makes the flow of data smooth and ensures a seamless experience.Starting Price: $5 -
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Dayforce
Dayforce
Dayforce is an all-in-one human capital management (HCM) platform designed to help organizations manage their workforce more efficiently. It combines HR, payroll, time tracking, talent management, and analytics into a single unified system. The platform uses AI-powered insights to improve decision-making and enhance employee experiences. With real-time data and a single employee record, businesses can streamline operations and reduce complexity. Dayforce also enables workforce optimization through scheduling, labor management, and on-demand pay features. Its analytics tools provide actionable insights to support better planning and performance tracking. Overall, Dayforce helps organizations simplify people management while improving productivity and engagement.Starting Price: $11.50 per month per employee -
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StaffCircle
StaffCircle
StaffCircle is a performance management and culture platform for your remote workforce. We provide One2One Check-In's, 360 Appraisal, Performance Review, Smart Objectives, OKRs, Real-time Feedback and Recognition linked to Values and competencies.Starting Price: $4000.00/year -
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Peoplebox
Peoplebox
It provides a single platform for performance reviews, 360-degree reviews, aligned goals (OKRs), 1:1s, surveys, KPIs, task/project management, strategic meetings and people analytics. Unlike other tools, its integration with Slack/Teams goes beyond notifications and lets you do entire performance reviews, engagement surveys, and OKR check-ins right within Slack/Teams. Another reason that makes it unique is its unmatched customization, intuitiveness and great customer support to help you tailor everything. Here are some features - Automated goal & project tracking, goal-based 360 reviews, custom weightage for goals, competency, and values, advanced formula for final rating calculation, Calibration, 9-box, personalized reminders, real-time engagement insights, KPI tracking, expert-built templates, single-form customization for different teams, and form personalization.Starting Price: $6 per employee per month -
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PurelyHR
Ironflow Technologies
PurelyHR Time-Off is a fully automated, 100% web-based software solution for managing employee leave, absence, time-off, and attendance that is developed by PurelyHR. Featuring three types of users (i.e., admins, managers, and employees), Time-Off by PurelyHR provides each user with their own access levels and permissions. Valuable features and capabilities include audit trails of all time-off requests, multi-level approvals, automatic length of service accruals, time-off reminders, bulk user imports/updates, Google Calendar and Outlook integrations, and more.Starting Price: $45.00/month -
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HRMantra
HRMantra Software
HRMantra is the World's most feature-rich HR and Payroll software helping automate the most complicated of hire-to-retire HR processes easily using its CRORES of ready-to-use features. It saves 30 min per employee per day giving over 10 times ROI. 100% project success assured. Create org hierarchies, personalize the home page & set form & report rights for each user level. Generate N number of HRIS reports using the report designer & employee search engine. Create any kind of PMS like 180 or 360 degree system based on competencies & KRAs weightages for each group & generate bell curve analysis. You may have different appraisal formats for different organizational hierarchies and user levels so as to get an accurate performance evaluation. HRMantra PMS software helps in keeping an all round tab on the performance of your employees by getting them appraised in an unbiased manner by their bosses, their subordinates, their clients, their peer group.Starting Price: $10/user/month -
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20 Dollar Eval
SVI
With its user-friendly interface, 20 Dollar Eval provides easy-to-follow prompts and automated features, requiring no technical expertise to operate. 20 Dollar Eval is powered by SVI, an organizational development company that focuses on creating irresistible companies and extraordinary people. Over the years, SVI has launched thousands of performance reviews within some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations. You can rest comfortably knowing that, while the price is low, the system and industry expertise supporting it are proven to be best-in-class.Starting Price: $20 per review -
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HRweb
HRweb Software
Create professional reviews in minutes. Self, Peer, and 360 reviews. Post jobs to your career center. Send offer/rejection letters. Integrates with ZipRecruiter®. Comprehensive HR tool that allows you to track employee contact information, job history, compensation, and benefit information. Onboarding Employees has never been easier. Create a better experience for your new employees. Document employee incidents, reward them for accomplishments, and track Training history. Since 2004, we’ve developed solutions to help small to medium sized businesses manage their people operations more efficiently. Our philosophy has been to always put our customers first. In 2017, we become part of Entrust Global Group, innovators and leaders with a proven track record of deploying top of the line solutions. We continue to work together to improve our solutions and to expand our offerings.Starting Price: $39.95 per month -
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WorkBoard
WorkBoard
Bold vision is achieved by ambitious thinking, high urgency, and sharp focus. Mobilize faster with WorkBoard. OKR software and expertise to grow your business faster. Easily align and iterate on strategic priorities and OKRs across the enterprise; enable teams to thrive wherever they work. Embed OKRs into your operating rhythm and raise the pace with automated business reviews, dashboards, and smart meeting agendas. Get OKRs right and faster results the first time with our expert services and professional certification programs for your staff. Using OKRs to align and achieve your best outcomes is quickly becoming a strategy execution norm. Don't let the OKR process obscure its purpose, or lose sight of the fact that OKRs help teams agree on what matters and focus efforts there. You need a strategy worth executing and execution worthy of your strategy.Starting Price: $588.00/year/user -
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Leapsome
Leapsome
CEOs & HR teams in forward-thinking companies such as Spotify, Trivago and Babbel use Leapsome to create a continuous cycle of performance management and personalized learning that powers employee engagement and the success of their business. As a people management platform, Leapsome combines tools for Goals & OKRs Management, Performance Reviews & 360s, Employee Learning & Onboarding, Employee Engagement Surveys, Feedback & Praise, and Meetings.Starting Price: $7 per user per month
