Pacific Timesheet and, of course, we had to talk about Kronos…
Posted by: Jason DeGraw In: Product face-off
There are a few companies that do a great job at time and attendance tracking. Most provide, at a minimum, the following benefits:
- No paper time sheets!
- Web based applications
- Better control over employee attendance and the ability to track unemployment costs
- The ability to integrate complex rules to manage employees groups
- A client/server architecture solution, if you want to manage centrally.
The big name is, of course, Kronos. They have automated time and attendance software that can improve reporting accuracy, which will go a long way to increasing your business’s productivity. Kronos has 30 years of experience, and they’ve worked with all sorts of industries from gaming to health, manufacturing to retail. Their mission statement is to empower small and mid-size organizations to effectively manage their workforce.
Kronos provides different time and attendance tracking software solutions which are appropriate for different business sizes and staffing requirements. The four major products in their Workforce Central Suite are Workforce Timekeeper, Timekeeper Central, ISeries Time Keeper and WebTA. They even provide a guide to help choose which offering is right for your payroll processing and labor management.
Another recommended product is Pacific Timesheet, which offers payroll (Lawson, Intuit, etc) and iPhone sign-in support, and is a web-based software solution rather than a client/server solution. Pacific integrates with a few hundred different payroll systems, from the specific and obscure to a few industry-standard ones. Pacific Timesheet’s customers include a few Fortune 500 companies, middle market, emerging growth and small cap firms. They have similar industry-covarge to Kronos. The best part is that they have a demo version, and the best way to figure out if you’ll like it is to go and give it a try!