PayrollHero REVIEW

PayrollHero is an employee management solution with support for facial recognition to ensure that the right person is present at the right time. It allows tracking time, scheduling, attendance, and analytics all using a single platform. It eliminates the need of punch clocks, which often lead to time-theft and manual reconciliation.

The software provides organizations with accurate data and analytics. Picture and facial recognition ensures that the intended person is clocking in at the right time, while schedules can be created in no time through cloud technology and the software’s interconnectivity. It also allows collection of time and attendance data from multiple locations with accuracy and ease, and helps organizations ensure they never lose important data in the deep sea of paperwork.

One of the biggest benefits of PayrollHero is that it can be accessed from any device or location, as it’s a cloud-based solution. It’s also scalable, requires no investment in on-premise hardware, and only works with nothing but a browser and internet connection. It provides ease of access, secure communication, unlimited storage, and backup recovery in case something goes wrong. Native iPhone and iOS apps further increase usability and allows employees to easily and quickly clock in by taking a selfie. The software also features app for Android and a Google Chrome Web plug-in.

The solution helps businesses eliminate their operational and HR costs by streamlining time, scheduling, attendance, analytics and HRIS. Its facial recognition technology eliminates ghost employees and buddy punching, and reduces costs related to labor intensive HR tasks. The cloud-based interface allows seamless sync of schedules and attendance across all devices.

The scheduling features eliminate the cost and hassle related to manual scheduling, and allows employees to view the master schedule of the entire company as well as of a single employee. Employees are automatically notified in case there is a change in the schedule.

‘Worksites’ comes handy for organizations spread across multiple locations, as this geo-fencing tool helps define where the employees can clock in and out. The feature is also integrated with other schedules, meaning different employees can be assigned to different locations for better operational optimization.

The HR Information System provides a platform to maintain accurate directory of employees and makes searching easier. Employee profiles contain their detailed work history, contact info, salaries, emergency contacts and other related information. The HRIS module also allows effectively managing company assets that employees are holding. The Multi Insert tool allows large companies to perform mass updates of employee data, schedule massive changes and supports data import from Excel sheets.

PayrollHero offers both SMB and enterprise pricing plans to meet the needs of different clients. These are the details:

Small business – $3.5/user/month + $100 implementation fee (one-time)

• Selfie clocks
• Facebook sharing of selfies
• Flex Schedules
• Worksites
• Attendance report
• iOS/ Android/Chrome applications
• Mass import from spreadsheet

Enterprise – $4.5/user/month + $500 implementation fee (one-time)

• All features from the Small Business Plan
• Selfie verification
• Customizable scheduling (including multiple schedules in one day)
• Attendance resolution
• Email templates and notifications
• Analytics
• Smart counts (Graces, Company average)
• Shifts
• Schedule templates
• Separation codes
• Time Zone per employee
• “Flagged” tab on employee
• Flag Wall
• Leave Application

Annual subscriptions are also available, in which case the company gets a free-of-cost 13th month.