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How Payroll Software Benefits Your Care Organisation
Managing payroll and labour costs can be an arduous, time-consuming task for any care provider. It can take up a lot of resources and time, which could be better spent on other areas such as improving the overall quality of care delivered. However, fortunately, it doesn’t have to be this way – digital payroll for care homes can make the task so much easier.
Care home payroll software is a type of software that enables care providers to manage their payroll in real-time all with a few clicks of a button. It’s a digital solution that simplifies the entire process of payroll management. With many benefits – such as improving efficiency and helping you potentially make cost savings – payroll software is an excellent idea for care providers.
In this blog, we explore what care home payroll software is and how it can benefit your organisation, as well as look at how we can help at Care Control – so keep reading to learn more.
What is Payroll Software?
Keeping on track of payroll can be challenging for any care provider – big or small – particularly if the way that your payroll is currently managed is with messy paperwork and confusing spreadsheets. This is where payroll software comes in – this is a digital solution that allows you to oversee payroll management via an easy-to-use software programme.
Payroll software makes managing your payroll much smoother and more straightforward. It is designed for care homes and healthcare providers, providing them with real-time access to daily labour costs, monthly payroll totals, mileage pay and other fundamental metrics. All of this information is available in seconds at the click of a button.
There are many reasons to choose Care Control’s payroll software. The first being that it identifies discrepancies and anomalies via its built-in system audits. This reduces the risk of errors in your payroll management. Secondly, our software can perform complex pay calculations quickly and easily – for example, breaks and salaries.
It also lets you see the sign-in and sign-out times of your whole workforce, as well as check-in and check-out data including GPS locations. What’s more, journey times and costs are integrated into the system, so you won’t need to do any additional calculations.
The Benefits of Payroll software for Care Homes
Using payroll software has a wealth of benefits for care homes. A major benefit of payroll software is that it allows the automation of payroll processes such as calculating employee wages, tracking hours worked and much more. This automation will help streamline the payroll process and make your care organisation more efficient as a result. There will be less time, resources and costs needed for managing your payroll.
Another huge benefit is that payroll software can make your payroll management more accurate, by reducing the risk of human errors which are incredibly common with manual payroll systems. Manually entering payroll data can result in an array of errors that are time-consuming to rectify. This won’t happen with a digital solution.
Overall, integrating payroll software into your care business will result in massive savings. It will save time for employees – reducing the amount of time spent on payroll management. As it allows you to analyse labour costs and get a detailed view of your payroll system, it’ll also help you make big cost savings for your business too.
No matter whether you’re managing an individual care home, domiciliary agency or a supported living organisation, care home payroll software is an excellent solution that will benefit your business in a vast number of ways.
Interested in going digital for your care home’s payroll?
If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your payroll management, and are interested in our all-in-one payroll solution, then please do not hesitate to contact us today. You can call us on 01822 738100 to speak with a member of the Care Control team.
Alternatively, if you’d like to book a demo and learn how our payroll software could be integrated into your business, please fill out the online contact form on our website. We’re always happy to help, answer any questions you have and provide you with further information about our digital payroll solution.