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HotSchedules and Fourth Payroll and Benefits

Score8 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

What is HotSchedules and Fourth Payroll and Benefits?

The Payroll and Benefits solution from HotSchedules, now powered by Fourth, is built specifically for restaurants and hospitality, and allows users to manage multiple employments, varying pay rates, shift work, variable hours, temporary staff, and PTO. Users may optionally outsource payroll to HotSchedules & Fourth.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Pay calculation

    Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.

    Category average: 9

  • Salary revision and increment management

    Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

Restaurant End User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used as a restaurant manager, mostly using with HR module for secure and organized storage of employee personal and employment information, along with document storage such as the right to work, return to work, health questionnaires, and meeting notes and letters. Also heavily used for sales forecasting and scheduling, with the system forecasting prediction feature used weekly; good rota management with live costing.

Pros

  • Personal Information Storage
  • Forecasting
  • Labour Costing

Cons

  • Quicker Sales Data Importing
  • Easier Access to Employee Documents
  • Holiday information on employee end

Most Important Features

  • Labour Productivity
  • Sales Forecasting
  • Labour Costing Breakdowns

Return on Investment

  • More Accurate Forecasting
  • Better Daily Labour Control
  • Holiday Planning

Other Software Used

Talos, powered by 360, Webexpenses, PayPal Zettle