Effectory
Effectory · Amsterdam, Netherlands · founded 1996
What it is
Effectory is an employee feedback platform for organizations working to improve engagement and employee experience. It offers surveys for engagement, pulse feedback, onboarding, exits, retention, team development, ESG, and leadership. Its dashboard presents trends, strengths, and suggestions, along with downloadable reports and benchmarks against country, industry, and past results. The Starter package includes an action planner for follow-up. Packages differ in language coverage and coordinator capacity: Starter supports up to three languages and about five coordinators; Professional supports up to five languages and about 175 coordinators; Expert supports more than five platform and survey languages and about 500 coordinators. Professional and Expert include unlimited employee dashboard access. Effectory lists HRIS integrations for employee data syncing, a Public API, and single sign-on options. It says data is stored and processed in the European Economic Area and encrypted at rest and in transit. The platform is available on Android, iOS, and web, with API access. Pricing is on request; there is no free plan or trial.
For and against
For
- Covers engagement, pulse, onboarding, exit, and other surveys
- Dashboard includes trends, reports, and benchmarks
- Starter includes an action planner
- Lists HRIS integrations and a Public API
- Supports anonymous responses and survey benchmarking
Against
- Pricing is available on request
- No free plan or free trial
- Non-desk worker access is an add-on
The verdict
Effectory combines a broad set of employee survey options with reporting, benchmarking, and follow-up guidance. Organizations should review the package language and coordinator limits and ask the maker for pricing.
Who it suits
Effectory suits strategic HR teams seeking employee feedback across multiple survey types and organizational levels. Its listed plans provide different language and coordinator capacities for organizations with differing needs.
Plans and prices
Starter
Up to 3 languages · Approximately 5 coordinators
Read 20 Sep 2026 · effectory.com
Professional
Up to 5 languages · Approximately 175 coordinators · Unlimited employee dashboard access
Read 20 Sep 2026 · effectory.com
Expert
More than 5 platform languages · More than 5 survey languages · Approximately 500 coordinators · Unlimited employee dashboard access
Read 20 Sep 2026 · effectory.com
Expert package
Includes Starter and Professional · more than 5 of 36 platform and 60 survey languages · approx. 500 coordinators · advanced analytics
Read 4 Oct 2026 · effectory.com
Professional package
Includes Starter · up to 5 of 36 languages · approx. 175 coordinators · unlimited employee dashboard access
Read 4 Oct 2026 · effectory.com
Starter package
Standard features · up to 3 of 36 platform and survey languages · approx. 5 coordinators · Public API available upon request
Read 4 Oct 2026 · effectory.com
On the record
- Accessibility and devices
- Starter includes responsive questionnaires for mobile, tablets, and desktop, with support for visual impairment; surveys can also be completed on paper.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Action planning
- The Starter package includes an action planner for acting on survey results.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- Its results dashboard includes trends, strengths, suggestions, downloadable reports, and benchmarking against country, industry, and prior survey results.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- API and SSO
- Effectory offers a Public API to connect survey results to HR and other internal systems, and lists OpenID, Microsoft Entra ID, and SURFconext for single sign-on.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Audience and scale
- Effectory says its platform is tailor-made for strategic HR and supports more than 1,200 organizations in 110 countries.jobs.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Company history
- Effectory was founded in 1996 by Guido Heezen and Arne Barends.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Data protection
- Effectory says data is stored and processed in the European Economic Area and encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.3.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- HRIS integrations
- Effectory lists integrations including Personio, Workday, SAP, BambooHR, Rippling, and others for automatic employee data syncing.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Notable package limit
- Non-desk worker survey access is an add-on, allowing surveys and results to be shared with employees without an email address.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Effectory provides employee feedback surveys, analytics, and guidance to help organizations improve engagement and employee experience.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Security certifications
- The Security Center states that Effectory is ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certified and successfully audited for SOC 2 Type 2.security.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- Effectory provides survey experts and strategy consultants during surveys, plus follow-up guidance and support that can include consulting, training, or coaching depending on the plan.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Survey types
- Its offerings include employee engagement, pulse, onboarding, exit, retention, team development, ESG, and leadership feedback solutions.effectory.com · read 4 Oct 2026
