Certified Payroll & Whole Payroll Process
I have been doing payroll for a civil construction company based in California for nearly a decade now and my entire life used to revolve around getting our guys paid and making sure we were compliant. I LOVE Hammr because I finally I got my nights and weekends back and I took my longest vacation in 8 years with my
family, so it has been a HUGE personal win for me!! We tried different payroll providers and and time tracking systems in the past and none of them were ever a true "one stop shop" for us, a lot of the other ones we tried were a nightmare actually.
Before Hammr, I was calculating all rates, fringes, allowable fringe deductions and expirations using an excel spreadsheet. I was even using a spreadsheet to track PTO balances because I didn't trust Intuit to do it accurately. All our certified payrolls and prevailing wage projects were all handled manually, which was a
nightmare for us. Hammr is the first company that actually gets these things right.
We can use multiple prevailing wage classifications, multiple worker's comp codes, and all of them are accurate for our payroll. Certified payroll, for one project, for one week, used to take me about 2.5 hours and now it takes about 30 seconds inside Hammr!
One of my other big wins was when our GC requested 6 weeks of certified payroll reports for a project I was backlogged on, and I completed it within minutes. We
got a hand delivered check the next morning! That normally would have derailed my entire week and meant hours of overtime for me. I can't begin to tell you how happy that made me AND our owner.
The mobile app is also great, our guys range from super tech savvy to "I barely got a smartphone this year" and they can all use it. They can see their PTO, sick balances, and paystubs right in the app, so they're not coming to me asking at 4PM on a Sunday. Onboarding has also been a dream. I was doing things so archaically in the past but the onboarding is totally customizable and allows us to enter new employees and get them on our jobsites quickly. Gone are the days of them driving to the office, physical papers, handwriting things and scanning documents manually.
It has made my life so much easier and it's a WIN WIN for me in the office and for our field guys.