Your frontline shouldn’t be your communication blind spot.
Barkly Connect brings frontline teams together with targeted announcements, employee feedback, and document acknowledgments. Keep people informed with communication and permissions built around the way your organization actually works.
Your organization. Your structure. Your permissions.
Your teams, reporting relationships, and responsibilities are unique. Barkly Connect follows your locations, departments, job titles, and ad hoc groups, so communication and access reflect how your company actually works.
Built for detailed controlSet permissions down to the individual.
Your structureYour languageYour permissionsYour process
Three connected products
Employee communication, feedback, and documents in one place.
Choose Communication, Feedback, or Documentation to fit your team's needs. Each product follows the same people, locations, reporting relationships, and permissions, keeping frontline employees connected across your organization.
01Communication
Reach your frontline. Know who acknowledged.
Send employee announcements to the right locations, departments, teams, or individuals. Track views and acknowledgments separately, and follow up with the people who still need to respond.
01Reach exactly who needs itTarget the whole organization or a precise group without creating noise for everyone else.
Entire organizationShare one consistent announcement with every employee.
Locations and departmentsReach one building, several locations, a department, or any combination.
Roles and reporting groupsSend information based on job title, responsibility, or reporting line.
Ad hoc groupsCreate a temporary audience across departments for committees, projects, or events.
Selected individualsChoose specific people when a message should stay focused.
Audience previewConfirm exactly who will receive the message before it is published.
02Build the right messageChoose the format, tone, priority, and next step that fit the situation.
Announcements and messagesShare a formal organization update or a focused team message.
Clear priority levelsMark communication as standard, important, or urgent so readers understand its weight.
Attachments and next stepsInclude supporting files, links, instructions, and a clear action for the reader.
Powered by Talk2Barkly.aiDraft, simplify, shorten, expand, adjust tone, check grammar, or translate while keeping a person in control.
03Control when it appearsPlan communication around the work instead of depending on someone to remember to post it.
Publish now or laterPost immediately or choose a future date and time.
Due datesShow when a required review or acknowledgment must be completed.
Expiration datesRemove time-sensitive information from the active view when it is no longer useful.
Automatic archivingPreserve past communication without leaving outdated items in the current feed.
04Know it was receivedMove from hoping people saw a message to having a clear, respectful follow-up process.
View trackingSee who opened an announcement and who has not viewed it yet.
Required acknowledgmentsAsk recipients to confirm they received and reviewed important information.
Focused remindersRemind only the people who still need to respond.
Follow-up reportsRun a clear list of completed, pending, and overdue responses.
Discussion around the messageEncourage useful questions and conversation without losing the original announcement.
02Feedback
Employee feedback that leads to follow-through.
Hear from frontline employees through polls, pulse checks, and shift feedback. Turn responses that need attention into assigned follow-up, with clear ownership and progress through resolution.
01Ask questions that fit the workUse the right feedback format instead of forcing every question into the same survey.
Quick pollsAsk one focused question and make it easy to respond.
Pulse checksMeasure how informed, supported, or connected employees feel.
Shift FeedbackCapture observations close to when and where the work happened.
Role-specific formsCreate different questions for employees with different responsibilities.
Reusable form designsBuild a consistent feedback process that can be used again when needed.
02Invite the right voicesChoose who should respond, when the form opens, and how long it remains available.
Flexible audiencesInvite the organization, locations, departments, roles, ad hoc groups, or selected individuals.
Scheduled openingsPrepare feedback in advance and release it at the right time.
Response deadlinesGive participants a clear date for completing their response.
Approval before launchRoute a form to a supervisor or designated reviewer before it becomes active.
One active form by job titleKeep the current Shift Feedback form clear while preserving older versions in the archive.
03Understand what people are sayingSee participation, results, comments, and trends without manually combining spreadsheets.
Participation trackingSee response rates and identify where additional outreach may be needed.
Clear result summariesReview totals, percentages, ratings, and written comments together.
Filtered insightsUnderstand results by the appropriate location, department, role, or group.
Comparisons over timeSee whether recurring questions are improving, holding steady, or moving in the wrong direction.
Reminders for nonrespondersFollow up without repeatedly notifying people who already participated.
04Turn feedback into actionMake meaningful feedback visible, assignable, and trackable through completion.
Create a BarkTurn a response that needs attention into a tracked follow-up item.
Assign ownershipIdentify the person responsible for the next step.
Priority, status, and due dateShow what matters, where it stands, and when action is expected.
Activity TrailKeep updates, decisions, and progress together from the first response through resolution.
Close the loopShow employees that their feedback was heard, addressed, or recognized.
03Documentation
Share employee documents. Track every acknowledgment.
Give employees access to the policies and documents that apply to them. Keep version history, request acknowledgments or signatures, and see what is complete, pending, or overdue.
01Organize and control accessGive people one dependable place to find the documentation that applies to them.
Folders and subfoldersCreate a structure by location, department, subject, compliance area, or document type.
Protected folder changesCreate, rename, and move folders while preventing deletion until a folder is empty.
Targeted accessAssign documents by organization, location, department, role, group, or individual.
Search and filtersFind current or archived records by title, keyword, date, status, or audience.
Role-aware permissionsControl who may create, edit, approve, publish, assign, archive, or view sensitive records.
02Keep one trusted versionMake the current document unmistakable while preserving the complete history behind it.
One current versionClearly identify the document employees should rely on today.
Complete version controlRecord the version number, author, approver, publication date, and effective date for each revision.
Prior versions preservedKeep earlier content and its related acknowledgments instead of overwriting the history.
New acknowledgment after revisionRequire a fresh review when a meaningful change creates a new version.
Review, expiration, and archive datesSchedule maintenance and move outdated material out of active use.
03Collect defensible electronic signaturesConnect every signing event to the person, the action, and the exact record they received.
Clear intent to signUse a deliberate signing step that is separate from simply viewing or acknowledging a record.
Signature tied to the exact versionAssociate the signer, date and time, and signature event with the precise document presented.
Immutable completed formsLock submitted or signed records so they cannot be silently changed or overwritten.
Controlled correctionsCreate a new version, amendment, or addendum while keeping the original completed record intact.
Designed to support E-SIGN and UETA workflowsSupport intentional signing, accurate retention, authorized access, and later reproduction. Requirements can vary by document and jurisdiction.
04Track and prove completionSee the difference between delivery, viewing, acknowledgment, completion, and signature.
Distinct completion statusesNever treat opening a record as an acknowledgment—or an acknowledgment as a signature.
Deadlines and focused remindersSet due dates and notify only the people who still need to act.
Compliance-ready reportsReview completed, pending, and overdue requirements without maintaining a separate spreadsheet.
Downloadable evidenceProduce the finalized record with its version, signer details, timestamp, and audit history.
Accessible retentionPreserve authorized access to an accurately reproducible record for the required retention period.