A review cycle that shows who is done and who is still pending

Group reviews into a named cycle, assign each employee a reviewer, and move every appraisal from Pending through Self review and In review to Completed. The KPI cards total how many are finished and the cycle’s average rating without anyone compiling a spreadsheet.

Enterprise and White-label

Why this exists

  • A review cycle scatters across email threads, and nobody can say how many are actually finished.
  • One manager rates generously and another rates harshly, with no shared scale forcing a real comparison.
  • A completed review lives in a document that nobody can find again by the time the next cycle starts.

What it does

Group reviews into a named cycle

Create a cycle such as "H1 2026 Review" with an optional period, and set it Active, Draft or Closed. Every appraisal in that cycle rolls up into the cycle’s own completion count and average rating.

Assign a reviewer, a rating and a summary

Add an appraisal for an employee, pick who reviews them, and set an overall rating from 0 to 5 plus written feedback.

Track progress through a real lifecycle

Move each appraisal from Pending through Self review and In review to Completed, and group the list by status to see what is outstanding at a glance.

See the cycle’s health without building a report

KPI cards above the list total how many appraisals exist, how many are completed, how many are still in progress, and the cycle’s average rating.

Let the right people see it, and nobody else

The employee an appraisal is about, and the reviewer assigned to it, can open and read it. Only an owner, admin or someone with the "Manage performance appraisals" permission can write to it.

Export or clear out a finished cycle

The list carries the same CSV export and multi-select bulk delete as every other workspace list, so a manager can archive or hand off a closed cycle’s data without writing SQL.

What it does not do

The part you would otherwise find out in week three. If one of these is central to how you work, raise it before you buy rather than after.

  • "Self review" is a stage a manager moves an appraisal into, not a form the employee fills in: only an owner, admin or someone with the "Manage performance appraisals" permission can write to an appraisal at any status.
  • There is no 360-degree or peer feedback here: one appraisal has exactly one reviewer.
  • A rating does not touch Payroll or compensation on its own; turning a review into a raise is a decision and an edit your workspace makes separately.
  • Appraisals is on Enterprise; it is not included on Free or Pro.

Questions, answered

Can an employee fill in their own self-review?+

"Self review" is a status a manager or reviewer moves the appraisal into; it is not a separate form the employee fills in. The employee can open their own appraisal and read the rating and summary, but only a manager, owner, admin or someone with the appraisals permission can write to it.

Can more than one person review the same employee?+

Each appraisal record has exactly one reviewer. For more than one perspective on the same person in the same cycle, add a separate appraisal per reviewer rather than expecting a single 360-style form.

Does a low rating automatically change someone’s pay?+

No. Appraisals and compensation are separate records. If a review should change pay, that is a decision and an edit you make on the person’s compensation yourself, not something this page does for you.

Who can create or edit an appraisal?+

Owners, admins, and anyone granted the "Manage performance appraisals" permission. Everyone else, including the employee and their assigned reviewer, can open and read one but not change it.

The full product documentation for this module is at /docs/appraisals.

Try it on your own data

Free for up to 5 seats, no card required. Every module is in the same workspace, so nothing needs connecting to anything.