SimplyMerit 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

SimplyMerit

4.7

(21)

Pricing

Starting at $7,840.00 per year

About SimplyMerit

SimplyMerit engages leaders and empowers managers to optimize their merit budgets, annual bonus pools, and equity grant process. Serving US and UK organizations with multi-currency support and full GDPR compliance, SimplyMerit eliminates spreadsheet chaos with enterprise-grade security.

Most customers are LIVE IN FIVE days or less! No lengthy implementations, no complex integrations. SimplyMerit works seamlessly with your existing payroll systems—ADP, Sage, Xero, BrightPay, and more.

SimplyMerit is live and real-time. It manages currency conversions, applies automatic prorations, guides the approval workflow, and generates and distributes Total Rewards Statements. No more errors, no more headaches managing hundreds of spreadsheets, no more security worries.

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SimplyMerit Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $7,840.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Annual Plan

$7,840.00

flat rate, per year

Plan includes:

Unlimited support
5-day implementation
Merit increase processing
Compensation analytics
Total Rewards Statements

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SimplyMerit Features

Popular features found in Compensation Management
Approval Process Control
Benefits Management
Bonus Management
Compensation Statements
Employee Database
Employee Reward Programs
Payroll Management
Performance Management
Reporting/Analytics
Salary Planning
More features of SimplyMerit
Alerts/Notifications
API
Budget Management
Compensation Management
Compensation Plan Modeling
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Incentive Management
Market Data Analysis
Organizational Charting
Third-Party Integrations
Workflow Management

SimplyMerit Integrations

ADP Workforce Now

Namely

UKG Ready

Oracle PeopleSoft

HiBob

Dayforce HCM

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SimplyMerit User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

67%

33%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.9

Functionality

4.3

Have you used SimplyMerit and would like to share your experience with others?

Steven A.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Reviewed July 2020

Great product

Great experience with the product. I had it up and running within a day. Sent out to a hundred managers without training and all were able to use without an issue.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use and implementation. Very well designed with clean interface. Was up and running in days

Cons:

Lack of customization limits you to use the product as it is designed. Most things are there but would be nice to have a little more flexibility

Reasons for choosing SimplyMerit

Cost, ease of implementation, design

Vendor Response

Thank you, Steve! We recently rolled out significant advancements in customization options and will schedule time with you to share as well as solicit additional feedback.

Replied July 2020

Heidi C.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Services

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2026

Highly Recommend!

Extremely positive! The team has been super resourceful, responsive, professional and knowledgeable. This tool is one of the easiest for us to use in our bonus and merit planning cycles.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The system is incredibly easy to configure and intuitive for users - both HR admins and managers. The customer support and response time for our questions is phenomenal as well! Highly recommend.

Cons:

Our bonus planning system is complex, and it couldn't do everything, but it came really close and improved every single year.

Reasons for choosing SimplyMerit

Configurability, customer support/responsiveness and pricing.

Edward M.

Verified reviewer

Events Services

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Simple Pay Planning Tool for Large Organizations

Positive and the user interface is streamlined and easy to navigate during the times of year we access the platform for pay planning. Has improved communication between upper leadership and mid-level or front-line managers & supervisors.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

SimplyMerit is relatively easy to navigate and integrates well when doing our annual salary adjustments and planning.

Cons:

Some of the platforms designations for managers versus supervisors is complicated by how our orgnization utlizies the software with at various levels of the organization during annual pay planning.

Melanie M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

201-500 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2020

SimplyMerit - Excellent Tool for Compensation/Merit Increase Management

Excellent - [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] is fantastic. He understands how compensation/merit systems work and is a great resource when questions arise. He's very knowledgeable.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use and quick implementation time.

Cons:

Great product and they always seem to be updating it. The only request I would have is that they make it to where information can be manually entered since right now, all must be uploaded. Uploading is great when you have a lot of information to get into the system at one time, but when you just have a quick change or addition here and there, the ability to get into the program and just quickly enter a change would make a HUGE difference.

Reasons for choosing SimplyMerit

It was flexible in the merit increase process. A lot of comp programs do not have the flexibility we needed.

Vendor Response

Thank you, Melanie! We appreciate the feedback, and you'll be happy to know that your requested feature is in development right now and should be in testing this week!

Replied November 2020

Jean P.

Verified reviewer

Machinery

10000+ employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Reviewed December 2019

Best software for Merit and Bonus process!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It was the best choice our compensation department ever made. We were struggling doing the Merit and Bonus process with spreadsheets, sending hundreds of emails. And SimplyMerit does it all and much more. Great customer service and helpdesk. It's easy to use from an administrator point-of-view and end-user as well. So many features that make your Merit and Bonus process easier and safe. We saved a lot of time on the approval process.

Cons:

None. Every day I use the system I find a new applicability, a new feature that makes the process easier.

Reasons for choosing SimplyMerit

Price range, more focused on Merit and Bonus process, functionalities and responsiveness.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for the wonderful review, and being so insightful when we talk with you about your process. We really appreciate your input!

Replied January 2020

AMY S.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

201-500 employees

Used other for less than 12 months

Reviewed July 2020

Easy and quick implementation

Overall, my experience was positive. The process of implementing the system didn't take long at all. Our managers picked up on the process quickly and there was very little support needed from administrators.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The implementation process was quick and easy and was definitely better than the manual Excel spreadsheets we were using before for the merit increase process. I love that the workflow can be set and progress can be tracked. Once all merit/promotion decisions were completed, we were able to create a simple download file to import into our accounting system.

Cons:

We were able to build out for some of our exceptions, but not all. We were not able to build an automated step process in for our attorneys, they had to be moved to the next step by changing the merit percentage. It wasn't a hard process, but it was something that was done by HR before the process was sent to managers for approval.

Reasons for choosing SimplyMerit

Cost and time to implement was lower than others. SimplyMerit was able to help us build out the process for some of our exceptions.

Vendor Response

Thank you, Amy, for taking time to write such a great review.

Replied July 2020

Joe R.

Verified reviewer

Packaging and Containers

5001-10000 employees

Used other for less than 12 months

Reviewed July 2020

2020 Merit Increases

Overall the tool was such a time saver. Adjustments that took weeks to do in the past were resolved in minutes. Looking forward to learning the advances in the tool to implement those the next time we use Simply Merit.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Painless to load information into the tool. Extremely easy to navigate the tool as a manager to adjust merits amounts, review seeded metrics, and approve. Elimination of using spreadsheets and not having to always revise and send out new spreadsheets to managers was such a time saver. Ability to retrieve approvals in the matter of seconds was so instrumental in having the merit process run so smooth.

Cons:

Not having delegates able to approve for executives was a bit of a challenge. Managers not being able to sign in due to email addresses with upper case alphabets was also a thorn.

Reasons for choosing SimplyMerit

Oracle's product was labor intensive, very difficult to administer, and the cost was outrageous. Simply Merit was everything that we were looking for at the time. We were late in the game and needed a program that was not labor intensive to setup. Simply Merit also fit into our budget.

Vendor Response

Hello Joe! We are not sure if you have heard the news yet, but we wanted to let you know that your feedback has been heard and SimplyMerit now supports delegates! If serving as a delegate, or proxy, for multiple managers, it is possible to switch between different managers by selecting the dropdown menu that is located in the top right corner of the window next to the "SIGN OUT" button. Thank you again for taking the time to provide your review of SimplyMerit. Ease of use is definitely a hallmark of our design.

Replied June 2021

Verified

Reviewer

Music

501-1000 employees

Used other for less than 12 months

Reviewed July 2020

Great CMS platform

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Very user friendly and when I did have any issues I was able to call in and get an answer right away. Customized files depending on your HRIS platform made the implementation process a breeze.

Cons:

There were some cosmetic things such as names or titles of certain data points that I would have liked to have the ability to change based off of what we were used to calling them at our company. But this is just nit-picking and can be easily solved by explaining to our employees what the titles mean.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your very positive feedback! We have recently rolled out the ability to rename many of the display fields in SimplyMerit, so that should be very helpful for your next Comp cycle.

Replied July 2020

Karen C.

Verified reviewer

Packaging and Containers

5001-10000 employees

Used other for less than 2 years

Reviewed October 2020

Quick to Configure

Overall we are extremely happy with Simply Merit. The customer support has been outstanding. Whenever we had a question or issue it was addressed immediately. Also, the team listens to customer needs and shares their development plan and updates.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The system is very easy to configure in short period of time. Unlike other system that take 3-6 months to configure and test Simply Merit can be configured in a matter of days.

Cons:

Like any product there is always something you wish it could do. In our case it was around assigning delegates and the way we handle our internal annual bonus process. It has not negatively impacted how we use the system.

Reasons for choosing SimplyMerit

Price and ease of use.

Vendor Response

Hello Karen! Thank you for your feedback, and we wanted you to know that it has been heard! SimplyMerit Now Supports Delegates/Proxies! If serving as a delegate, or proxy, for multiple managers, it is possible to switch between different managers by selecting the dropdown menu that is located in the top right corner of the window next to the "SIGN OUT" button. Please let us know if you have any questions regarding this new feature!

Replied June 2021

Karen M.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

1001-5000 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2020

SimplyMerit is end user friendly.

SimplyMerit has greatly improved the communication between our HRIS system and the annual adjustment of salary. Changes can be uploaded in mass, saving time and lowering the chance of data entry error. The changes are available instantly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I like most about SimplyMerit is how user friendly it is for the managers in our association. Features are presented in a logical and intuitive way for the end user. This allows the manager to think more about the reasons behind the suggested increase than about the technicality of how to enter it. It keeps the manager focused on the important parts of the decision.

Cons:

There is room for improvement in the reports generated by the system. They would be improved by simplifying the format.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your very positive feedback, Karen! We love working with you and your team as well as supporting the mission of the Alzheimer's Association.

Replied July 2020

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