Digital Arrow vs Breezy HR: ATS, Video and Operations Compared

Answer first: Breezy HR and Digital Arrow are approachable applicant-tracking products with different adjacent strengths. Breezy Hire publishes deeper interviewing: distribution, stage automation, communication, scheduling, scorecards, offers and one-way and live video on paid plans. Digital Arrow has a simpler pipeline and video add-on, plus project time, leave, contracts, onboarding assignments and client invoices created through manual timesheet selection. Breezy fits ATS-first interview workflows; Digital Arrow is distinctive for those operating modules.

Reviewed July 26, 2026. Breezy facts were checked against current Breezy-owned pages. “Unknown” means those sources do not support a definite claim. Verify plan eligibility, limits and integrations in writing.

Who each platform is for

Digital Arrow targets recruiters, staffing teams, agencies and growing companies needing public jobs, flexible applications and a visible pipeline. It also gives employees time and leave tools and operators a client-invoice PDF workflow.

Breezy describes Breezy Hire as an ATS for advertising jobs and managing candidates. Its official introduction and pricing page cover distribution, careers sites, pipelines, automation, questionnaires, scheduling, communication, scorecards, offers and reporting. Paid tiers differ; onboarding is a separate add-on.

Dated capability comparison

Capability	Digital Arrow	Breezy HR
Applicant tracking	Native: structured jobs, registered or guest applications, candidate profiles, search and stages configured separately for each job.	Native: candidate profiles, per-position pipelines, resume parsing and candidate management are part of Breezy Hire.
Distribution and automation	Native, manual workflow: publishes Digital Arrow jobs and lets recruiters move cards. Multi-board syndication and automatic stage actions are not claimed.	Native, tier-dependent: Breezy publishes job-board distribution and recruiting workflows, including stage actions on applicable plans.
Questionnaires and evaluation	Native questionnaires: text, single-choice, multiple-choice and optional recorded video. No interview scorecard, rubric or automatic score is claimed.	Native: questionnaires and scorecards are part of the published recruiting workflow. Buyers should test the scoring model they intend to use.
One-way recorded video	Add-on: a timed browser-recorded question, assigned to an applicant or external recipient and reviewed by a person.	Native on paid plans: Breezy’s Video Responses guide says candidates record questionnaire answers in the browser; allowable duration varies by plan.
Live video	Not claimed: no live meeting room, calendar scheduling or live recording.	Native on paid plans, with integrations: Breezy’s Video Interviews guide documents browser-based live meetings and external meeting integrations; recording depends on tier.
Offers, documents and onboarding	Native, separate modules: multi-party contracts plus PDF/video onboarding assignments and scored quizzes. They are not automatically linked to applicant records.	Native and add-on mix: eDocuments and offer capabilities depend on paid tier. Breezy Onboard is a separate paid add-on with information collection, documents, tasks, reminders and progress.
ATS-to-onboarding handoff	Manual / unlinked: no automatic candidate-to-contract or candidate-to-onboarding record is claimed.	Native when Onboard is enabled: Breezy’s stage-action guide documents exporting candidate details and profile documents to Breezy Onboard.
Project time and leave	Native: manual or timer-based project entries, notes, summaries, PDF, read-only sharing and separate time-off decisions. Time rows have no approval state.	External integration: Breezy’s Deputy integration guide sends hired candidates to a separate scheduling and timesheet service; native Breezy timesheets are not disclosed in the cited pages.
Client invoices	Native with manual import: choose a person, date range and time entries, type an hourly rate and review editable invoice lines before PDF export.	Unknown: the cited Breezy Hire, Onboard, pricing and integration pages do not disclose client invoice generation.
Roles and permissions	Native, preset: Manager has full company access; Employee has personal time and leave only.	Native, tier-dependent: default company and position roles are available; Breezy’s permissions guide documents custom roles on higher tiers.

Digital Arrow’s exact current behavior

A Digital Arrow employer publishes a structured role and accepts saved-CV or guest applications using a CV file or LinkedIn profile. Recruiters configure stages per job and move cards by drag and drop. Search finds existing applicants. The ATS does not claim multi-board distribution, stage automation, AI matching or ranking, scorecards, scheduling, sequences or synchronized message history.

Questionnaires combine text and choice prompts. With the Video Interviews add-on, a recruiter sends a timed video question to an applicant or external candidate. A human reviews the browser recording. There is no live room, transcript, AI video analysis, automatic score or rubric.

Project time is entered manually or with a timer and grouped by project. Managers inspect and export it, but cannot approve, reject or comment on ordinary entries. Only leave requests have decisions. For invoices, the operator chooses the candidate, dates and entries, enters a rate and reviews editable rows. Contracts, onboarding, applicants, time and invoices remain separate. Manager and Employee are fixed roles.

Where Breezy’s ATS is broader

Breezy reaches farther inside recruiting. Pipelines can use stage actions; teams can schedule, communicate and use scorecards. Video Responses add recorded questionnaire answers, while Breezy Video provides live browser meetings. Recording and response duration vary by tier. Do not treat Digital Arrow’s one-way add-on as equivalent to Breezy’s full video scope.

Breezy Onboard creates a clearer post-offer handoff when purchased. Its official overview describes a separate product requiring Breezy Hire, and stage actions can transfer candidate data. HRIS, payroll, scheduling and timesheets rely on integrations such as Deputy, making eligibility and external contracts important.

Decision checklist

• Do you need native live video, interview scheduling and scorecards, or only an occasional recorded screening prompt?
• Which Breezy tier provides the automation, response length, recording, documents, offer approvals and custom roles you need?
• Is onboarding a required add-on, and must applicant data transfer into it automatically?
• Do you need employee attendance through an external HRIS partner or project/task time inside the same workspace?
• Must time entries feed a client invoice? Digital Arrow supports a manual selection-and-rate workflow, not automatic billing.
• Will two fixed Digital Arrow company roles be sufficient, or are custom hiring and position permissions essential?
• Test every external integration for plan eligibility, data ownership, support and additional contract requirements.

What Digital Arrow does today

Reviewed 2026-09-03. Every row below is a shipped module in the product, described specifically enough to check in a demo. Where a step is done by a person rather than automatically, the row says so.

Capability	What it does
Applicant tracking	Native: Structured public job postings, applications from registered users or guests with a CV file or LinkedIn URL, and per-job pipeline stages a team creates, renames, colours, reorders and moves cards between. Stage changes are recorded as events with the stage name stored alongside the id, so renaming a stage later does not rewrite past history.
Interview scorecards	Native: Scorecard templates per job, filled in from the pipeline board. Other interviewers' scores stay hidden until you submit your own, so the first score posted does not anchor the rest. The summary reports the spread and flags a split panel rather than averaging disagreement away.
Interview scheduling	Native: Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook connections. Busy time is merged across both providers, so a meeting in either blocks the slot, and the database refuses two overlapping interviews for one host rather than relying on the application to check. Invitations go out as iCalendar attachments, which is how the invite reaches Apple Calendar without an Apple API.
Screening questionnaires	Native: Reusable questionnaires with text, single-choice, multiple-choice and timed video-answer questions. Candidates record in the browser; reviewers open the response from the assignment.
Candidate email and replies	Native: Each company connects its own SMTP and IMAP, so candidate mail is sent from that company's domain and never from ours. Replies are polled and threaded back to the candidate using the RFC 5322 header chain rather than the From address, so a candidate replying from a second address still lands in the right thread.
E-signature contracts	Native: Rich-text or PDF contracts with multiple signing parties and configurable fields.
Onboarding	Native: PDF or video onboarding material with manual or AI-generated quiz questions, tracking completion, score and pass status.
Timesheets and time off	Native: Manual or timer entry organised by project, date-range totals, PDF export, and time-off requests with approval. Approval applies to time off; time entries are edited rather than approved.
Client invoicing	Native with a manual step: Branded PDF invoices with client, issuer, bank, tax and line-item detail. Lines can be built from a contractor's tracked time over a date range at an hourly rate, but the entries are selected by a person rather than pulled automatically, and invoice status is set by hand.
Placements and margin	Native: A placement records the bill rate charged to the client and the pay rate paid to the contractor, both snapshotted so a later rate change does not rewrite last quarter's margin. Margin and markup are reported by client and by contractor, weighted by the hours actually logged rather than by averaging each placement's percentage — which would give a four-hour engagement the same weight as a four-hundred-hour one.
Careers page and job feed	Native: A branded careers page per company on its own address, server-rendered so the roles are in the HTML a crawler receives. Each company also gets an Indeed-format XML feed to submit to Indeed, Adzuna and Jooble, with closed and expired postings excluded automatically.
Public API and webhooks	Native: Company-scoped API keys with per-key scopes and rate limits, so another system can post jobs in and read applications back. Outbound webhooks are signed and retried, and an endpoint that stops answering disables itself instead of retrying forever.
Recruiting analytics	Native: Funnel counts and time-in-stage from recorded pipeline events, reporting the median next to the mean because a handful of very old candidates pull an average far away from the typical case.
Consent and retention	Native: Consent captured on the application form, retention policies measured from last activity rather than creation date, and erasure records that let you answer whether a named person's data was removed without keeping the data to prove it.
Roles and permissions	Native, narrow claim: Preset roles rather than custom permission sets. A Manager has full company access; an Employee sees their own timesheet and time-off tools only.

What Digital Arrow does not do

Listed because an evaluation surfaces them anyway, and reading them here costs less than discovering them later.

• No LinkedIn Recruiter integration and no LinkedIn job posting API. Both require LinkedIn Talent Solutions partner approval, which Digital Arrow does not hold.
• No sourcing browser extension for capturing profiles from LinkedIn or GitHub.
• No contact database or outbound sequence automation.
• No SSO or SAML.
• No built-in candidate SMS.
• Custom permission sets beyond the Manager and Employee presets.

FAQ

Is Breezy HR’s ATS broader than Digital Arrow’s?

In several recruiting areas, yes. Breezy publishes job distribution, stage automations, scheduling, communication, scorecards, offers and reporting that Digital Arrow does not currently claim.

Which product includes recorded video?

Digital Arrow offers timed video questions through a Video Interviews add-on. Breezy includes Video Responses on paid plans, with duration options varying by tier.

Does Digital Arrow offer live video interviews?

No. Its feature is asynchronous browser recording for later human review. Breezy separately publishes live browser video and meeting-platform integrations on paid plans.

Does either product score video with AI?

This comparison makes no such claim. Digital Arrow explicitly relies on human review and has no AI video scoring. Breezy’s cited Video Responses page supports recording; buyers should not infer an AI score from that.

Is Breezy Onboard included in Breezy Hire?

It is presented as a separate paid add-on that requires a Breezy Hire subscription. Confirm the current package and transfer workflow in the proposal.

Can Digital Arrow invoice client work from timesheets?

Yes, manually. The user selects entries and dates, enters the hourly rate and reviews editable invoice rows. There is no approval-to-invoice automation.

Does Breezy include native project timesheets or client invoices?

The official pages cited here do not disclose those native workflows. Breezy documents external HRIS and scheduling integrations, so treat time and invoicing as demonstration questions.