About Powerpay People

Spend less time on administration and more time on your business

Replace high volumes of manual paperwork and outdated HR processes. Powerpay gives you a simpler, more streamlined way to manage your employees with an online HR system that integrates with your payroll. You'll have easy access to your employee information and documentation in one central online location. With less time spent on form filling and tracking, both you and your employees will have more time in your day.

Person Record

Key features

  • A single system and record for tracking all details around employees along with editing, historical view, multiple concurrent users, and more.

  • Employee qualifications, training and certifications are directly on the employee file to help you make decisions quickly.

Key benefits

  • Improve accuracy of decisions and speed up operational efficiency with all information centralized.

  • Reduce the risks and errors associated with manual paperwork management with a central automated system.

Documents

Key features

  • A central repository for critical company HR documents such as employee handbooks, company policies, or employee certifications.

  • Document expiry alerts you when certifications, training, or other critical documents need to be renewed.

  • Documents can be signed off online to prove and track acceptance ensuring you have documented your company's compliance efforts.

Key benefits

  • Reduce the risk from manual paperwork by giving employees online access to current company policies, setting consistent expectations and improving compliance.

  • Save more time by having employees upload their own documents and forms.

  • Provide a single location for company policies and maintain an official record of when and how policies have changed.

Onboarding

Get and keep the people you need to help you run your business

Connect and engage your employees right from the start. Onboarding fast tracks employee set up and helps you connect new employees to your business right away. Modernizing the onboarding process will save on administrative time for HR personnel as well as reducing risk from human error. You've invested time to find the right person for the job - here's an easy way to help you keep them.

Key features

  • Online document and form fill to eliminate paperwork and waste.

  • Customizable welcome package to better communicate your company culture and goals.

  • Helpful reminders for tasks from the New Hire wizard for improved productivity from day one.

Key benefits

  • Decrease the administrative time it takes for HR personnel to bring a new employee into your company.

  • Improve employee productivity to get them up and running more quickly and efficiently.

  • Engage your employees from day one to connect them to your business and what makes your company great.

Time Off Requests

Key benefits

A time off request is a formal request from an employee to take time off. There can be many reasons for a time off request including vacation, personal time, bereavement, and jury duty. Powerpay’s time off request feature:

  • provides a standardized system for submitting and approving requests.

  • empowers your employees to manage their time off requests, anytime and anywhere using Powerpay Self Service on a computer, tablet, or smartphone.

  • automatically notifies the employee via email of the status of their time off request.

  • streamlines your employees’ experience, allowing them to create requests, review balances, select reasons, add comments, and submit the request to their manager.

  • routes the request to the right person and reduces admin time by allowing managers and payroll administrators to rapidly review, approve or reject time off.

  • optionally updates your employee timesheets with the approved requests for payroll integration.

  • eliminates errors by automatically calculating time taken using the employee’s normal working days and hours, public holidays and automatically updating accruals.

  • allows you to:

    • customize time off policies such as negative accrual balances, unlimited balances, and carryover rules.

    • create customized entitlements such as vacation, volunteer days, and jury duty.

    • track time for employees without a permanent rate or salary by creating a custom entitlement not linked to a pay code. E.g. Commission employees

  • provides a centralized calendar with:

    • visibility to all approved, pending and denied requests.

    • a customizable holiday calendar, including special event days.

Note: Time off requests are only processed with Regular runs.

Daily Hours

Key benefits

The daily hours feature saves you time by empowering your hourly employees to enter their daily hours worked (Regular and Overtime hours per day) in Self Service (web and mobile).

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