All-in-One Cloud-Based System Now Provides Three Flexible Payroll Options; New Dashboards Provide Holistic View of Business Performance
LAS VEGAS, STAFFING WORLD – October 13th, 2010 - Akken, provider of the cloud-based All-in-One business management suite for staffing and recruitment firms, today announced that it has added net payroll processing capability to Akken Staffing, in addition to its existing integration with QuickBooks and third party payroll service providers. Akken Staffing now provides the most complete and flexible set of options for payroll management. To improve visibility into business operations, Akken also introduced new customizable dashboards that aggregate and present front to back office performance metrics in graphical form. Akken will demonstrate Akken Staffing with these new capabilities at the ASA Staffing World Conference booth 620.
"After conducting in depth evaluations of the leading staffing software solutions, we selected Akken's all-in-one system because it is user-friendly, flexible, and contains everything we need to operate our business and be more productive," said Scott Fleckenstein, Owner of Ascend Personnel Services, a leading Professional Hiring Organization with locations throughout the US. "Since AKKEN integrates both our front and back office management operations, the addition of payroll processing to the system eliminates the need for us to make double entries of payroll data and makes payroll administration a seamless component of existing workflows. This capability will be a big time saver for us."
Cut Payroll Processing Costs.
To reduce the cost associated with payroll processing, Akken Staffing now provides built-in capabilities to handle this time consuming process. Since Akken provides integrated front and back office management capabilities, payroll processing becomes a seamless component of existing workflows and erases the need to make double entries of payroll data. Akken Staffing also automatically processes federal, state, county, city, and school taxes to avoid pay errors which can occur when temporary workers are assigned to different employers within the same pay period.
The net payroll processing function within Akken Staffing complements its existing integration with Intuit QuickBooks software and third party payroll service providers, and provides the most complete and flexible choice of payroll processing alternatives for staffing firms. The Akken Staffing QuickBooks Sync automatically exports and synchronizes payroll data in Akken Staffing with the popular small business accounting program. For companies that prefer to outsource the payroll processing function to a third party, with a single click Akken Staffing generates a customized report that is sent to payroll service providers and payroll funding companies.
"Payroll processing is one of the most costly and time consuming operations for staffing and recruitment firms, which must keep track of large populations of workers who are assigned to companies in different states, counties, and cities - sometimes in the same week," said Giridhar Akkineni, CEO of Akken. "Akken Staffing eliminates the need to manually enter payroll data in a separate accounting package or generate reports for payroll service providers. Our new capabilities seamlessly integrate payroll processing as part of the normal workflow of managing a staffing business, with no additional steps required."
360 Degree View of Performance
To help staffing and recruitment firms dynamically manage their business, identify trends, and address internal problems and market opportunities, Akken Staffing has added customizable performance management dashboards to its existing report generation capabilities. The new dashboard functionality provides graphical end-to-end visibility into business performance by gathering, aggregating, and presenting data from both front to back office activity in a single view.
"Akken's all-in-one cloud-based system is easy to use, flexible, and contains everything we need to run our business more efficiently and profitably," said Jim Wong, Partner at Clear Focus Financial Search, a leading recruitment firm for finance and accounting professionals. "The addition of performance management dashboards will allow us to get a visual view of all the leading indicators from our front and back office operations. This snapshot of key performance metrics will enable us to proactively identify trends and issues so that we can better manage the business."
Users can track and investigate any number of key business performance metrics including: sales pipeline forecast, job order pipeline, job fills, candidate submissions, new candidate sources, user activity, time to fill, gross margin trend, pay/bill trend, and more. The dashboards and underlying business data they can be used to view are governed by Akken Staffing's centralized access control system. This capability enables management to only allow authorized users to gain access to the dashboards and limit which data they can see based on their role within the company.
Pricing and Availability
Akken Staffing with net payroll processing and business performance management dashboards is available immediately for beta users, and will be generally available at the end of this quarter. Pricing starts at $89 per user per month.
About Akken
Akken is the staffing efficiency improvement specialist that helps staffing and recruiting companies to increase their revenue, decrease costs and manage their risk. Thousands of staffing and recruiting companies are struggling to manage several point solutions to run their business and suffering by losing valuable time and resources by using these point solutions. Akken’s vision is to provide its cloud-based all-in-one platform to these companies to centralize their information, improve performance and profitability by automating their “fill-to-bill” process. Hundreds of staffing and recruitment firms are successfully running their businesses on the Akken Staffing™ platform. For more information please visit www.akken.com or call 1-866-590-6695. Join us on LinkedIn.
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