One of the best business decisions I made 8 years ago
What do you like best?
1. Intuitive so its easy to get started and you can tune the fine points later
2. You can add fields for regulatory requirements such as medical, fingerprinting, etc.
3.. Diversity, Worker's Comp, Location, and Departments are easy to enter and generate quick reports later.
4. Its easy to send a group email to a department or to the entire staff team.
5. With pay cards, everyone can be placed on direct deposit immediately and avoid labor costs of check distribution.
6. Its easy to assign part of salary to various departments and easy to change those proportions mid year.
7. Its far better than ADP if you are a manager who needs to check on an occasional basis because the data is so easy to access.
8. Eselfserve reduces the need to help employees because they have their paystubs and information online
What do you dislike?
1. The appraisal forms cannot be edited but must be completely reconstructed if changes are needed
2. I wish it locked to Blackbaud so that the internal control of locking payroll to accounting was complete and removes an audit verification step (unlikely since Blackbaud is also a competitor)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
We looked at 6 packages. Ease of use and strong internal controls were key requirements for us.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We were making significant errors with ADP since we only have 150 employees. The ADP interface seems to work ok if you have a dedicated payroll person for a larger company. The intuitive approach of APS makes it easy to avoid payroll errors.
We try to avoid office assistants and APS cedes more power to department managers.