TimeFiler helps IMS Payroll up the ante

TimeFiler helps IMS Payroll up the ante

Enables employers to provide their employees with online access to timesheets, rosters and leave requests

Press release, Enfinit Software and IMS Payroll, New Zealand, 23-Feb-2009. Leading New Zealand payroll provider IMS Payroll has formed a strategic alliance with Christchurch based Enfinit Software to offer its customers extended functionality with an affordable and fully integrated payroll and employee time management solution.

The partnership opens new opportunities for both companies and offers IMS’s 10,000 payroll customers a sophisticated new level of functionality – the ability to provide their employees with online access to their timesheets, rosters and leave requests. This functionality is what employers have been crying out for but, until now, has not been available on the market as an affordable option.

Ian Johnson Enfinit CEO says, “IMS Payroll is used to pay a large percentage of the New Zealand workforce and IMS recognised that TimeFiler would be the ideal solution for their customers without having to reinvent the wheel. We agreed and quickly integrated our timesheeting application and developed a web-front end to IMS Payroll that enables customers to give online access for staff to their timesheets, leave requests and rosters. This is a significant opportunity for us, as we anticipate a five fold increase in new clients to result from our alliance. Naturally we are very excited to be working with IMS.”

IMS is also projecting an increase in customers this year by as much as 10%, and is equally delighted that they can offer customers the extended functionality they’ve been looking for without needing to change their existing system.

Patrick Hegarty, IMS Sales Manager says, “While there are applications on the market that try to provide a one-stop-shop for all payroll and HR requirements, most are too expensive, offer limited functionality, and don’t interface particularly well. The cost of developing and maintaining add-on functionality that is not core to the original application has to be passed on to the customer. By seamlessly integrating our payroll software with best-of-breed applications like TimeFiler we can offer customers the functionality they want at an affordable price. It’s a win win solution all round – especially for our customers and their staff.”

Enfinit Software is housed at the Canterbury Innovation Incubator in Christchurch and commercialised its innovative TimeFiler timesheeting software in August 2008. Since its release customers including TNS Asia Pacific, Solid Energy, Colmar Brunton, Canterbury Meat Packers, NZ Aviation Security, Mercy Hospital, Christchurch International Airport and iDesign have been quick to implement TimeFiler onto their payroll system and/or accounting system and reallocate valuable resource to more constructive projects.

Mercy Hospital, for example, recently ended their war on paper-timesheets when it installed TimeFiler in November 2008. They estimate they are saving 16.5 minutes in HR administration per employee, or roughly 50 hours per fortnightly payroll thanks to TimeFiler. Hospital staff are also very happy that they can now access their timesheets, leave requests and rosters online.

“We anticipate strong demand for the new combined IMS Payroll and TimeFiler solution,” says Patrick Hegarty. “More and more organisations are looking at ways to reduce costs and increase efficiency and accountability of their departments. TimeFiler achieves this for both HR and payroll resulting in a positive response from all staff in the organisation. As a centralised and flexible application for managing employee timesheets with a scaled fee structure, it was a no brainer to ask the team at Enfinit if they could develop a user-friendly interface that would integrate seamlessly with IMS Payroll. Although we are not launching the combined solution to our customers and reseller network until next month, we’ve already attracted massive interest from our client base, with two customers already up and running and a number of orders on the table.”

About Enfinit Software Ltd
www.timefiler.com

Founded in 2005, Enfinit Software is based in the Canterbury Innovation Incubator in Christchurch and currently employs four full-time employees. Enfinit’s flagship product, TimeFiler, is a flexible timesheet management application featuring 100% online access, automated data entry, payroll integration, customisable rules and layouts, real-time reporting, and email alerts. TimeFiler provides companies of any size with a single solution for roster, leave and timesheet management accessible from any computer with an internet connection.

Enfinit’s client list includes TNS Asia Pacific, Solid Energy, Avsec, Canterbury Meat Packers, Mercy Hospital, Christchurch International Airport, and iDesign among others.

About IMS Payroll
www.imspayroll.co.nz

IMS was founded by Kevin Atkinson in 1983 to produce custom designed software. Two years later IMS Payroll quickly became the flagship product. The 20 staff based in Hastings New Zealand pride themselves on developing high quality, cost effective and well supported software. The company has 100 resellers selling and servicing IMS Payroll throughout NZ and the Pacific and regularly maintains and updates the software to meet its client requirements. Close links with other software providers allow IMS to maintain General Ledger & Job Costing interfaces with most of the Accounting & Financial Systems available on the NZ market.

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