# Collage review (2026): is it worth $14 a month? > Canadian HR and payroll software with a built-in HR advice line Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Collage is an HR platform sold to Canadian businesses, combining an employee database, time off, timesheets, recruiting and performance reviews. A higher tier adds payroll with CRA remittances, and access to HR advisers comes with both. Prices are per employee per month in Canadian dollars. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** Collage - **Website:** https://www.collage.co - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you're outside Canada, as it's built around CRA remittances and T4s. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Collage is a paid product, starting at CA$14 per employee / month. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | HR Premium | CA$14 per employee / month | Onboarding, employee records, training, engagement surveys, HR analytics, time off, AI recruiting, time tracking, clock-in, performance reviews and expert HR advice. | | HR and Payroll | CA$18 per employee / month | Everything in HR Premium plus payroll, CRA remittances, pay stubs and T4s, and expense management. | | Enterprise | Custom | Custom packages and pricing, quoted on request. | Read from https://www.collage.co/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Collage before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **10% off to switch or buy Canadian** (Other savings): The pricing page mentions a 10% discount for businesses that switch or buy Canadian, and says volume and nonprofit discounts are available. Source: https://www.collage.co/pricing ## Key features - **Employee records and onboarding:** Stores employment history and documents with e-signatures, and runs onboarding and offboarding task lists. - **Time off and timesheets:** Custom leave policies, approvals and balances, with timesheets and geofenced clock-in that feed payroll. - **Recruiting:** An applicant tracking system with a job board, a resume screener and offer letters. - **Payroll:** On the HR and Payroll tier, payroll runs with CRA remittances, pay stubs and T4s. - **HR on Call:** Phone and email access to HR advisers, plus a library of 100+ policy and document templates. - **Performance and surveys:** Review templates, manager and self reviews, engagement surveys and HR analytics. ## Good for - Canadian employers that want HR and payroll under one login - Small teams without an in-house HR specialist - Companies that want to keep their own payroll or benefits provider and connect it ## Worth knowing - Built for Canada: the pricing page lists CRA remittances and T4s, and prices are in Canadian dollars. - The page does not state a free plan or a free trial; it offers a free demo. - Payroll is only on the higher HR and Payroll tier. - The pricing page does not say whether per-employee prices are for monthly or yearly billing. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Collage is Canadian HR and payroll software, CA$14 an employee a month for HR Premium and CA$18 with payroll, with an HR advice line built in. Prices are in Canadian dollars, with no free plan or trial, only a free demo. - **Value for money: C.** CA$14 an employee a month, about US$10, which sits in the dearer quarter of this category, so C. Payroll takes CA$18. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial is listed. It offers a free demo only. - **Features: C.** HR records and Canadian payroll, but the listing says payroll is on the higher tier and the pages are built around CRA remittances and T4s. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and you'd set it up with your own people data first, so it's an ordinary C. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with six listed integrations. No mobile or desktop app named. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Collage's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - Collage's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 22 of the 101 other HR software we grade, and level with 33. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 34 of 101) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hr-software ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Collage you would be making payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 46 of the 101 other HR software grade higher. - You could make: Employee records, time off, applicant tracking, expense tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. - You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Slack, Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Slack, Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, Indeed, Greenhouse, JazzHR **Tags:** Employee records, Time off, Time clock, Applicant tracking, Payroll, Expense tracking, Reports ## Alternatives - [BambooHR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bamboohr): HR records, hiring, time off and reviews, with US payroll as an add-on. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-collage) - [BrightHR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/brighthr): HR software with holiday, rota and absence tools and advice lines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/brighthr-vs-collage) - [Zoho People](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoho-people): Low-cost HR records, attendance, shifts and reviews from Zoho. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/collage-vs-zoho-people) - [CharlieHR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/charliehr): HR software for UK small businesses, priced by team-size bracket. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/charliehr-vs-collage) - [Factorial](https://toolgpa.com/tools/factorial): HR, time, shifts, expenses and IT for small firms, quoted by module. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/collage-vs-factorial) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.collage.co/ - https://www.collage.co/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/collage Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).