How SimplyMerit Works
SimplyMerit replaces the spreadsheets and email chains that slow down merit cycles with one simple, guided workflow.
In this short overview, you’ll see how HR and managers plan, approve, and communicate pay changes — all in one place.
The result: faster cycles, cleaner data, and more confident decisions.
Key Stages of the Merit Cycle
A Streamlined Merit Cycle in Four Stages
| Stage | What Happens | Who Benefits |
| 1. Plan | HR defines budgets, guidelines, and eligibility | HR / Comp |
| 2. Allocate | Managers make pay decisions within real-time guardrails | People Managers |
| 3. Approve | Executives and HR review and finalize changes | HR / Leaders |
| 4. Communicate | Export comp statements and notify employees | HR / Managers |
Designed for Both HR and Managers
- For HR: Full visibility into budgets, compliance, and equity — no spreadsheet merging or formula errors.
- For Managers: A clean, intuitive interface for making informed pay decisions with instant feedback on impact.
- For Finance: Real-time totals ensure the cycle stays on budget.
SimplyMerit makes every participant faster and more accurate.
The SimplyMerit Manager Experience
This video gives a high-level overview of SimplyMerit and how it streamlines merit, bonus, and equity cycles in a centralized, cloud-based platform. It highlights key admin and manager features such as customization, budget visibility, and approval workflows, showing how SimplyMerit replaces spreadsheets with a more efficient and transparent process.
This video demonstrates the manager experience in SimplyMerit for entering and submitting bonus recommendations on the My Team page. It shows how managers review bonus plans, past history, targets, proration, and performance factors while tracking bonus pool usage in real time across multiple currencies. The video also covers adding discretionary bonuses, leaving comments, and submitting bonus recommendations for approval.
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This video walks through the manager experience in SimplyMerit for entering and submitting pay adjustment recommendations. It demonstrates how managers review employee details, make salary, promotion, and other adjustment recommendations using percentages, dollar amounts, or final pay, while tracking their budget in real time. The video also covers saving changes automatically, adding comments, and submitting recommendations for approval.
This video explains the manager approval workflow in SimplyMerit, focusing on what managers of managers see when lower-level managers submit merit or salary recommendations. It demonstrates how higher-level managers review submitted recommendations, track pending approvals, and choose to approve, reject with feedback, or modify recommendations directly. The video highlights how this workflow ensures budget control, transparency, and flexibility across an entire span of control.
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