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Yeah, my company has 3 overlapping products now. Zenefits, zenpayroll, and indinero (bookkeeping / accounting). They all offer some sort of employee onboardin
by tarr11 11y ago
Yeah, my company has 3 overlapping products now.
Zenefits, zenpayroll, and indinero (bookkeeping / accounting). They all offer some sort of employee onboarding and have their hands in payroll to a certain degree.
We seem to spend a lot of time syncing our employee records between all 3, it is not great.
Of those, I probably need zenefits the least of all of those, and I would consider switching to gusto's service just to eliminate the complexity.
- edawerd 11y agoOne of the main benefits of a truly integrated payroll, benefits, and compliance product is that you don't have to worry about the syncing of employee records across these systems. We intentionally wanted to start at the lowest, most fundamental layer (payroll) and build these other pieces into a single product.
- elsewhen 11y agoif you knew all along that you were going to expand to these other services, why did you name the company 'zenpayroll' to begin with. without more context, this sounds like a rewriting of history.
- brazzledazzle 11y agoOr to be more charitable they wanted a name that conveyed the one thing they were doing and didn't want to prematurely optimize for something they couldn't be 100% certain they'd execute on or what timeline they could accomplish it in. I think HN needs another "be nice" post from management.
- burnallofit 11y agoTo an employee, the actual benefit offerings are the primary consideration. If one provider had great payroll but so-so benefits, that's not worth a slight reduction in management overhead.
- jayzalowitz 11y agoSimplyinsured (also a yc company) does health insurance, if thats the only thing you are using zenefits for.. They can get you off zenefits in like an hour if you call them.
- GolfyMcG 11y agoIDK how small your company is but I HIGHLY recommend switching to JustWorks. We were able to remove a lot of duplicated services by just using them. It's got a brilliant interface and is super user friendly for our employees. We simply didn't need the level of functionality required in other software applications, which were clearly built for small to medium sized companies with an actual HR department. We wanted to hire employees and contractors, manage their payroll, manage time off, and give employees other basic benefits, like Healthcare and transportation. Only downside to JustWorks is that it costs more than Zenefits which is free. Can't speak to Gusto's capabilities and pricing though.
- wdewind 11y agoThanks for the kind words, GolfyMcG :)