Forestdale Apartments, a multifamily property management company, turned to Fingercheck’s property management payroll software to gain control of timekeeping and keep payroll costs under control. After implementing Fingercheck’s time-tracking and payroll tools, the team cut monthly payroll processing time from up to an hour to 15 minutes, reduced unplanned overtime by roughly 10%, and estimated annual cost savings of $5,000 to $10,000.
5–10 hrs
saved per week
75%
reduction in monthly payroll processing time
~10%
reduction in unplanned overtime costs
The challenge: Managing hourly staff across a multifamily portfolio
Property management companies run lean. With a workforce of hourly employees spread across residential buildings, maintenance, leasing, and support staff, tracking time accurately and keeping overtime in check is a constant pressure. For Forestdale Apartments, the combination of manual timecard oversight and a payroll process that could stretch to an hour each month created both administrative drag and cost exposure. They needed something affordable, accessible, and easy enough for staff to actually use.
The solution: Time tracking and payroll in one platform
Fingercheck gave the Forestdale team centralized access to employee timecards and automated the flow of data into payroll. Hourly staff clock in and out through Fingercheck’s mobile app, which removed the back-and-forth of manual time collection and gave managers real-time visibility into hours before they hit a pay run. That visibility is what made the overtime improvement possible, catching hours before they became a problem rather than after.
What the customer said
User- and web-friendly. Navigation through the site is not complicated. The product should have been out years ago.
Manager, Forestdale Apartments
The results: Payroll down to 15 minutes, overtime under control
- Payroll processing time dropped from up to 1 hour per month to 15 minutes, a roughly 75% reduction per pay cycle.
- Unplanned overtime fell approximately 10% after the team gained real-time timecard visibility through Fingercheck.
- Estimated annual cost savings of $5,000–$10,000, attributed primarily to reduced overtime and payroll administration.
- Timekeeping errors and missed punches decreased after switching to app-based clock-ins.
- 5–10 hours per week were returned to the management team that had previously handled manual HR and payroll tasks.
SEASONAL PAYROLL, ONE FLAT FEE
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