Overview
What is CATS ATS?
CATS is a web-based recruiting software. Users can manage the entire recruiting process including custom job applications, posting jobs, resume parsing, custom recruitment workflows, and generating customized reports. Pricing is tiered per user, per month.
The best CAT solution available on the market.
Seeking to stay small and don't need any bells or whistles - This one's for you!
Kick Started my recruiting business!
East to use ATS
Cats ATS Review
Super easy to use and implement
Decent system, but has its weaknesses
Affordable, customizable, and simple to setup and use. CATS is worth a look right meow.
Catsone #1 ATS Hands Down
Full features, highly customizable and great value
CATS is the best ATS I have ever used
CatsOne worth a look...
Easy to Use
Great Pipeline Management System
Customized ATS
Popular Features
- Email Templates (19)9.595%
- Resume Management (19)8.181%
- Applicant Tracking (19)7.676%
- Candidate Search (19)6.262%
Pricing
Annual Pro Plan
$69
Monthly Pro Plan
$99
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $69 per month
Features
Recruiting / ATS
Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.
- 9.5Job Requisition Management(17) Ratings
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
- 9.5Company Website Posting(17) Ratings
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
- 8.6Publish to Social Media(17) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites
- 10Job Search Site Posting(17) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites
- 9.5Customized Application Form(18) Ratings
Application form for applicants allowing capture of required information
- 8.1Resume Management(19) Ratings
Software allows resumes to be uploaded in bulk, and for contact information to be parsed
- 4.6Duplicate Candidate Prevention(18) Ratings
Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added
- 6.2Candidate Search(19) Ratings
Search capabilities allows candidates with certain attributes to be located
- 7.6Applicant Tracking(19) Ratings
Applicant tracking allows recruiters to assign applicants to various stages so others can see status at a glance
- 8.6Collaboration(12) Ratings
Collaboration capabilities provide the ability to share notes and evaluations
- 8.6Task Creation and Delegation(15) Ratings
Task creation is the ability to create recruitment process tasks and assign them to others
- 9.5Email Templates(19) Ratings
Software allows creation of standard email templates for communication with candidates
- 8.5User Permissions(17) Ratings
User permissions allow you to decide which information is viewable or editable by others
- 9.5Notifications and Alerts(17) Ratings
Notifications and reminders inform you of tasks to be completed
- 4.7Reporting(18) Ratings
Standard reports on key recruiting metrics such as time-to-fill
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What is CATS ATS?
CATS ATS Features
Recruiting / ATS Features
- Supported: Job Requisition Management
- Supported: Company Website Posting
- Supported: Publish to Social Media
- Supported: Job Search Site Posting
- Supported: Customized Application Form
- Supported: Resume Management
- Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
- Supported: Candidate Search
- Supported: Applicant Tracking
- Supported: Collaboration
- Supported: Task Creation and Delegation
- Supported: Email Templates
- Supported: User Permissions
- Supported: Notifications and Alerts
- Supported: Reporting
CATS ATS Screenshots
CATS ATS Integrations
- BambooHR
- Constant Contact
- Google Drive
- Mailchimp
- Slack
- DaXtra Parser
- ZipRecruiter
- Checkr
- Gmail
- Berke Assessments
- Employeereferrals.com
- PreciseHire
- Webhooks
CATS ATS Competitors
CATS ATS Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | Asia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Germany, India, Latin America, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States |
Supported Languages | English, Dutch, Spanish, German, French, Lithuanian, Arabic, Czech, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese, Hebrew, Finnish |
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(55)Community Insights
- Pros
- Cons
Simplicity and Ease of Use: Many users have found CATS to be simple to implement and use, with no need for in-house IT support or resources. They appreciate the intuitive interface that does not require extensive training or an instruction manual.
Customizability: The customizable reports, labels, fields, and applications offered by CATS have been highly praised by users. This flexibility allows them to tailor the tool to their specific needs and make it a valuable choice.
Affordability and Flexibility: Users appreciate that CATS is affordable and offers a month-to-month contract with the ability to cancel anytime. This provides them with the flexibility they need while also ensuring cost-effectiveness.
Unintuitive and poorly organized user interface: Many users have found the user interface of the system to be unintuitive and poorly organized, making it difficult to navigate and find features.
Lack of mobile-friendliness: The system's lack of mobile-friendliness has been seen as a disadvantage by users who need to access it on the go. This limitation hinders their ability to use the system effectively outside of office settings.
Difficulty in locating features: Some users have expressed frustration with certain features not being located in intuitive places, requiring them to spend time searching for them. This adds unnecessary complexity and slows down their workflow.
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Reviews
(1-25 of 28)The best CAT solution available on the market.
- Create customized fields
- Create workflows that fit your business needs
- Integrated with MS Office products
- Nothing I can think of
- Customization of record fields for different record types.
- Workflow options (if I select "this" then "this" option will appear.
- Reporting is extremely limited. Practically zero customization, outside of time periods. There are some boxed reports, but they are very general.
- Database search was difficult to work with. The filters were fine, but if you deal with a large volume of candidates, this is not the software. We had a database of over 90,000 candidates and the system was not able to handle that very well. My searches timed out almost every time. I had to adjust a filter to get the resulting number low enough for it to handle the volume. Then, I had to run the search again with a different filter to include the candidates left off on the first search. I called support multiple times on this issue and they could never give me a reason why.
- API is very limited. Getting data out of the system was not easy and it did not play well with webhooks.
- No automation.
Kick Started my recruiting business!
- Excellent trigger email solutions. Customizable and easy to configure.
- High-End presence and able to customize for specific client's needs. Client doesn't need to fit our flow, we customize for them with CATS flexibility.
- Friendly and helpful customer service team.
- More International free job site integrations.
- Integrated candidate references.
- No contract
- Well priced
- Extremely customizable, without being confusing
- Coud based and always available anywhere, including mobile
East to use ATS
- Easy candidate data entry
- Easy tracking of candidates against requisitions.
- Good search functions to find prospective candidates in the ATS
- Reporting function is lacking. Few canned reports that are of any value.
- CATS should improve the ability to generate ad hoc reports.
Cats ATS Review
- We find the add-ons very useful.
- Customer support is always friendly and helpful.
- E-mail integration and job postings save us a lot of time.
- When forwarding resumes if there is a position listed in subject it automatically adds them to a job order. This has caused a lot of confusion for us.
- E-mail integration is useful but doesn't always seem to work.
- Sometimes the site is slow.
Super easy to use and implement
- Cloud Based
- No special hardware is required
- Search feature is limited and needs improvement.
- Regular Updates
Decent system, but has its weaknesses
- The system streamlines the hiring/approval process by automatically generating emails and tasks for the necessary persons involved.
- Customer Service is quite prompt and responsive.
- CATS may be inadequate for all of our needs, but they are making major improvements.
- The system's user interface is clumsy and not organized very well.
- CATS is not mobile-friendly.
Affordable, customizable, and simple to setup and use. CATS is worth a look right meow.
- Simple to implement, SaaS based tool that needs no in-house IT support or resources
- Customizable reports, labels, fields, applications
- Affordable
- No long term contract, month-to-month with ability to cancel anytime
- Data backups are simple
- Email directly from the candidate record with response coming into Outlook is easy to configure and creates record and updates status automatically
- System isn't intuitive at all when it comes to combining things like Source when left free form - for example. Considers Indeed and indeed two different sources because one candidate capitalized and one didn't (these can be merged)
- Resumes forwarded to resume inbox invariably capture source as senders email, even if source is clearly spelled out (can be edited later)
- Importing resumes has some trouble with addresses and phone numbers with certain file types/configuration
Catsone #1 ATS Hands Down
- Easy to Use
- Simple to Set Up
- Powerful Workflow and Reporting
- None
- Custom fields for all entities of any data type let's you track what you care about. Also customizable workflow with triggers can save a ton of time in automating processes and also ensuring steps aren't missed/established processes and protocols are adhered to.
- Support is extremely responsive, knowledgeable and committed to resolving any issue.
- Integrations with LinkedIn, job boards etc. is a big time saver and helps bring it all to one place.
- I would like to see either an integration with a robust reporting tool that would allow me to design my own custom reports with a data export or more built-in reporting options.
- Mobile app is currently mostly just a look-up tool. I would like it to have the ability to do more - add tasks, update pipelines, etc.
CATS is the best ATS I have ever used
- Favorite thing about CATS - it does not disrupt how you work. It is easy to use and simply enhances what you are doing and doesn't bog you down in the technology.
- Love the one-click download of profiles from all sorts of sites, including LinkedIn.
- Mass actions are pretty common in ATS systems, but as usual CATS does it very logically and easily. I use mass actions all the time, either sending a bunch of emails, changing candidate status, etc.
- Reporting has improved over the years but could still be better. It is what I would call "semi-customizable" in terms of what I can generate a report on, but would like full customization capability.
- Mobile access is OK but not slick. Usually I don't need mobile access but every once in a while I'm out somewhere, need to grab something out of CATS and I can get it but I think there's a good opportunity to make it better.
CatsOne worth a look...
- Ease of use
- Easy to implement
- Easy to train new users
- It could search user groups and forms
- It could have a payroll function
- It could have a better CRM
Easy to Use
- Software is easy to use
- Fast technical support
- Comprehensive support website
- Greater reporting functionality
- The location of some of the features is not intuitive (you have to hunt around for it).
Great Pipeline Management System
- Easily manage your candidate pipeline
- Excellent customer service
- Collect all of your applicants into one centralized location
- Customization for individual users
- Reporting functions
Customized ATS
- CATS is great for user friendliness and customization. I have changed numerous things since I started and it is easy to customize.
- Ability to get answers to my questions.
- Always looking to improve their product -- they aren't looking to maintain their product, they are always looking for better ways and ways to make the user happy.
- Ability to keep the status the same but send another email within the log activity function.
- Ability to change things in an order that is closed.
- Launches jobs to multiple sites
- Inexpensive
- Easy to use
- There is just one report, a job order report, which can have "quick notes, job location, recruiter name, etc. added to the reports. But we need basic reports on individual recruiter productivity, and CATS doesn't offer any. Its weird because we enter the data, but there's just no quick reports to pull the information we've entered and print a simple report on a recruiter's monthly/quarterly/yearly productivity such as placements, interviews, submittals, etc.
Great ATS
- Very easy to use from a work flow perspective in adding candidates linking them to jobs and following them through the process.
- Great plugin for browsers, Outlook and Word to easily import resumes and candidate profiles.
- They are regularly updating the systems so you get ongoing improvements.
- The CRM capability for business development is just OK.
- Provide its users with robust features that even surpasses many of the largest, most expensive recruitment solutions.
- Provide a solutions that is highly customizable without having to purchase pricey add-ons. In fact, non-technical users are able to easily customize the solution.
- It is extremely user friendly and is scalable to meet the needs of growing and shrinking organizations.
- There is opportunity to continue to increase partnerships; especially with tools like TalentHook, and various resume databases.
Affordable, Intuitive, Flawed.
- It's intuitive. You don't need an instruction manual or extensive training from an implementation team. There are weekly webinars and YouTube videos in case you need additional guidance on how to do something.
- It has many of the bells and whistles of other, more expensive ATS's.
- I've had several disappointing interactions with the product support team. Don't expect much from customer service.
- It's unlikely you will pass an AAP/EEO audit with their limited reporting capability.
wonderful experience in sharing my feedback
- It was easy to track the particular applicant.
- It was was easy to use it for performance appraisals.
- It was easy to manage onboarding candidates.
- Vendor could give us mass mailing tool.
- Price should have been little less.
Very Fast & Efficient ATS That Improves Our Bottom Line
- Allows for customization of work flow and processes.
- Simple, easy to use interface, means less training and directing users where to go or what to do to accomplish a task.
- Very streamlined and clean. No clunkiness.
- Allow for company branding (user facing).
- More syndication avenues for jobs. Cast a wider net.
CATS... It works!
- CATS is mobile enabled and lets me get candidate information when I'm on the go.
- CATS also has a very strong support department. Anytime that we've had a problem a real live person has been able to help us resolve the problem and has done so quickly.
- CATS is very intuitive and allows me to manage my candidates quickly.
- The safeguard to protect your database from duplicates is absolute trash. It catches duplicates less than half of the time.
- CATS could definitely do a better job at being able to be sorted by multiple features rather than just one column at a time
CATS is for YOU
- Allows you to keep lists of companies or individuals.
- Stores thousands of databases, lists, candidates and job orders.
- Quick and thorough responses from Support and eager to help.
- I would like for old lists to be accessible, I'm unable to see all lists.
- When uploading names, not all duplicates are found, therefore, CATS can improve on eliminating duplication.
- Email integration and tracking
- Customizable contact, candidate and job order fields
- Activity tracking and status development
- I haven't had any issues or problems. They are constantly listening to their customers and creating new updates and improvements.
Great ATS Solution for Small Company with Many Jobs!
- Clean, modern, easy to use, quick to learn
- Seamlessly integrates with social media and job posting services to share your jobs with the public
- Being able to customize fields, workflows, and the job portal is the absolute best part of CATS!
- Missing functionality includes ability to organize and label documents within a candidate's profile - we host technical assessments, resumes, addt'l documents - yet they are almost always marked by CATS as resumes and thus show up in the resume preview window
- The reporting #s and activity reports have some weird quirks that need to be worked out so we can get accurate #s/reports