What is our primary use case?
I have been using Deel for the past two years, but for the last six months, I have stopped using Deel for some reasons.
My main use case for Deel while I was using it was specifically for my employee based in South Africa, and Deel really helped me with the global payroll and making the taxes and everything. The seamless payroll support and everything, the support with Deel was really great.
Deel helped with payroll and taxes for my South African employees significantly, as I am a UK-based company and my employee was based in South Africa, so payroll is a very important thing. With Deel, there was a platform which was built by Deel, and I used to go and upload all the details over on the platform itself. The payment and everything was seamlessly done by Deel itself, so there was no manual intervention or anything. It was a platform where I used to update the details if an employee was supposed to receive any commissions, or if there was a raise in the pay cycle or anything; it was supposed to be done through a portal itself. There were no spreadsheets or anything of that nature. I didn't have to go on meetings or calls to do all of this, and even the taxes were also managed through the portal itself.
Deel has impacted me a lot positively, as before Deel, I used to struggle a lot with my South African payroll. I used to have to go check on my employees, figure out how the taxes work over there, then the conversion rates, and all other sheets. There were a lot of things with the South African payroll, but with Deel, it was very simplified. Using one portal, I could basically deal with everything.
What is most valuable?
Deel helped with payroll and taxes for my South African employees significantly, as I am a UK-based company and my employee was based in South Africa, so payroll is a very important thing. With Deel, there was a platform which was built by Deel, and I used to go and upload all the details over on the platform itself. The payment and everything was seamlessly done by Deel itself, so there was no manual intervention or anything. It was a platform where I used to update the details if an employee was supposed to receive any commissions, or if there was a raise in the pay cycle or anything; it was supposed to be done through a portal itself. There were no spreadsheets or anything of that nature. I didn't have to go on meetings or calls to do all of this, and even the taxes were also managed through the portal itself.
In my opinion, the best features Deel offers are the global payroll, EOR, and the support related to HR. Recently, I had a conversation with the Deel team, and they were coming up with something related to the performance review on the Deel portal itself, which is really exciting news for me.
The EOR, Employer of Record feature, and the HR support helped my organization specifically through the platform provided by Deel, where updating anything related to the employee was done on the portal itself without any manual intervention. My employee also got the freedom to go and check the portal themselves, so everything is managed through a specific Deel portal. It is very efficient, as even my invoices and everything are received through it. Even if I want to make the invoice payments or anything, everything was done through a portal, so I think Deel is much more than an HR company; it is a tech-savvy, portal-based organization.
What needs improvement?
As such, I do not feel there is much room for improvement, as there is a chance for very much improvement, but in my case, it is working very smoothly and seamlessly. One thing I would like Deel to introduce is much more conversational sales support; for example, if I am writing to a support system, the query should be automatically passed to the correct representative with the help of AI. If a query is related to payroll, it should be automatically tagged to a payroll specialist, with the help of the AI.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working in my current field for the past four years.
How are customer service and support?
Recently, I had a conversation with the Deel team, and they were coming up with something related to the performance review on the Deel portal itself, which is really exciting news for me.
What was our ROI?
I think time saved and cost saved both apply thanks to using Deel.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Deel overall a nine on a scale of one to ten.
I gave it a nine because Deel has saved a lot of man-hours for me and also cost, simplifying a very complicated payroll into a very easy payroll now for me.
I would rate Deel's scalability at nine again.
I rate Deel's customer support at seven.
My advice to others looking into using Deel is to consider it the best global payroll option; if anyone has a big global payroll system or has employees based in different countries, Deel is the one-stop solution for every employee, the HR department, or the finance department.
Deel is a brilliant global payroll platform that has everything needed for doing global payroll, reducing man-hours and the cost of employees spending their time on complicated payroll. Deel is a brilliant product for HR-related needs. My overall rating for this review is nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.