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How We Helped a Cannabis Start-Up Find Ease in Payroll and Become HR Compliant

Our Client

7Points is a cannabis cultivating company in Woodlake, California. They seek to offer their customers a continuously unique and pleasurable experience with their product.

Their Challenge

7Points is a start-up looking to grow quickly and needed systems and processes that were smooth, compliant and reliable from the start. They turned to CorpStrat for their Payroll and HR needs and received just what they were looking for.

Recommendation + Results

Instead of paper timesheets, 7Points employees are now using biometric timeclocks that sync directly into payroll. They are now able to avoid any timekeeping discrepancies and have saved endless time now that their hours are no longer manually entered.

In addition, 7Points turned to CorpStrat HR to make sure they were in compliance with all their HR-related needs. The first item on the agenda was the NEW California State required Sexual Harassment Training for all employees. 7Points can now have confidence in their policies and procedures when it comes to employees who are consistently compliant with State and Federal laws.

Cannabis-related companies have traditionally had a difficult time establishing banking and payroll practices. Contact the team at CorpStrat to help your company deploy best practices in benefits, compliance, learning, HR and technology.

How We Helped ProActive Streamline Their Process

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Our Client

Located in Los Angeles California, ProActive Work Health Services is a leader in the healthcare industry. ProActive, providing the full continuum of services, ensure their clients’ employees have immediate access to all levels of care under one umbrella – a convenient, cost-effective approach. From treatment of simple lacerations to complex back injuries, employees receive specialized care for their work-related injuries, with control of all treatment and follow-up.

Their Challenge

ProActive has been in ultimate growth mode! Opening more than 3 new locations in the last year, they needed a system that would streamline their efforts. Not only do their 150+ employees across their 10 locations still receive hard checks, but staying compliant with new labor laws and collecting reliable time and attendance records from their employees has proven to be a nightmare.

As they scale and double in size over the next year, they need to have a system that saves them time and helps them streamline their processes, rather than get in the way of their day to day business.

Recommendation

CorpStrat recommended their branded “21^st Century Payroll and HR Solution” which includes dedicated advisors for ProActive. This system will not only help streamline their payroll and onboarding processes but will also provide an outlet for their ongoing compliance inquiries.

Results

CorpStrat’s fully integrated 21^st Century Payroll and HR solution helped save ProActive hours every pay period when it comes to capturing pay and employee data. Rather than hand-delivering each employee a hard check, employees who choose to receive direct deposit are now able to receive their paychecks quicker and more reliably. Employees can review relevant PTO data on their employee portal, and send time-off requests with ease.

Additionally, ProActive now has the peace of mind that they are limiting their HR liability as they scale.

“Thank you so much for making this happen! CorpStrat has literally cut my time issuing payroll in half. I wish I moved over sooner. Your team has been great!”

– Michelle Alcarez, Director of HR

To learn more about CorpStrat’s 21’st Century HR Solution and how it can benefit your business, contact their offices at (818) 377-7260.

Helping Clients Attract and Retain Top Talent

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Our Client

Kovel Fuller is a full-service advertising firm located in Culver City CA. The agency has served and created content and media for some of the most well-known brands in the world: Nintendo, Warner Brothers, Mercury Insurance, and CashCall. Ever evolving, the agency specializes in breakthrough creative, buzz-driving PR, and performance media. Kovel Fuller has a longstanding partnership and relationship with CorpStrat.

The Problem + Solution

In a climate where talent is hard to attract and retain, CorpStrat Sr. VP Sarena Warner has worked closely with management at KF to build a benefits package that rivals any agency or Media Company.

CorpStrat helped KF build a medical, dental, vision, RX, Life and voluntary benefits platform to cater to a diverse population of employees, which ultimately helps the agency attract and retain talent. KF helped partners support their business agreements by protecting their principals with business key man insurance coverages as well.

Denese Hebert, KF director of HR, cites the relationship with CorpStrat:

“CS is one of the most important, resourceful and reliable business relationships we have. I know I can depend on the team to handle all of our needs, and resolve each issue with intensity and attention my staff expects. They go above and beyond the call of duty to help us through the maze of insurance”

Does this sound like our solutions are the right fit for your company? Give us a call and let us know. CorpStrat can tell you how we can help you bring your payroll, benefits, and HR for the 21^st century.

Find a Strategic Partner

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Our Client

Located in Los Angeles, California, Motolease LLC is changing the motorsport finance industry. Motolease is a financial services company that offers unique consumer leasing programs through Motolease authorized dealers. It designs solutions exclusively for the motorcycle and powersports markets to help even the most credit-challenged riders. While its dealers benefit from serving an untapped market segment, it provides a much needed second chance to those who are underserved by the traditional financial solutions. As a result of over 90% approval rate, their dealers gain a huge competitive advantage in its market.

Their Challenge

Unlike other financial services out there, Motolease is a very progressive company! With its forward-thinking, Motolease is constantly looking for new ways to streamline its current processes, while also remaining compliant to the HR guidelines. Because of this, they find it extremely important to not just have a payroll and HR provider but also a strategic partner.

From the beginning of its relationship with its previous payroll company, Motolease was finding it difficult to get its employees’ attention. Daily calls would go unanswered and emails were forgotten and left without a response for several weeks. It seemed as if Motolease was constantly trying to put out fires without any help, leaving no room for strategizing a new plan for the future. This is where CorpStrat stepped in.

Our Recommendation

CorpStrat recommended its branded “21^stCentury Payroll and HR Solution,” which includes dedicated advisors for Motolease. These dedicated advisors allow Motolease to reach out to its point of contact and strategize its various goals from a payroll, HR, and business process perspective.

“I need to let you know how exceptional Angela Adams is. She is on top of her work, provides exemplary payroll service, has an answer for everything, is extremely organized and—on top of all that—she is very personable and professional. I’ve been in HR for 15 years and employees of Angela’s quality are like unicorns – they are extremely rare,” said Roz Gamble, Vice President of Corporate Operations.

The Results

When fully implemented, CorpStrat’s fully integrated 21^stCentury Payroll and HR solution helps to save Motolease hours of every pay period, especially when it comes to capturing pay and employee data. We also were able to totally revamp its employee handbook and provide a resource for any Human Capital Management questions it will receive in the future. Discover your company’s level of HR Efficiency today with this simple test here.

To learn more about CorpStrat’s 21^stCentury HR Solution, email us at communications@www.corpstrat.com or give us a call at (818) 377.7260.

MediaStratX and The 21st Century HR Solution

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Our Client

Located in Santa Ana, California, MediaStratX is at the forefront of the automotive warranty market. Tripling in size this last year, they seek to provide auto protection plans that help solve the rising costs of repairs for the consumer. MediaStratX brings to the table friendly customer service, while also being able to expand coverage protection plans to meet their customer demands.

Their Challenge

Because of MediaStratX’s rapid growth, they never took a step back to analyze their processes when it came to HR. Manual processes that worked when they had ~30 employees – like Payroll Entry, Onboarding Employees, and Employee Handbook Acknowledgements – were starting to get extremely cumbersome and tedious as they grew. For example, due to their large expansion, MediaStratX was distributing 5-10 hard copy, new hire packets every week, collecting them, and then manually entering employee data into their system. This daunting task alone took 3+ hours every week for the HR team.

The Solution

CorpStrat recommended their branded “21^stCentury HR Solution” which is comprised of a dedicated on-site Human Resource Consultant, as well as a fully integrated Payroll and Human Resource Information Software System to completely streamline MediaStratX’s Human Capital Management.

“Before we learned about the CorpStrat 21^stCentury HR Solution, we were completely lost! We knew the ins and outs of our industry but didn’t really know how to navigate the constantly changing landscape of HR in Southern California. We couldn’t be happier that CorpStrat showed us the way!” – Jacquelyn Le, COO, MediaStratX

The Results

When fully implemented, CorpStrat’s fully integrated 21^stCentury HR Solution helped save MediaStratX’s HR team countless hours of administrative work every week that were previously wasted on simple HR tasks. Not only are employees able to log into their employee portal to fill out new hire paperwork, enter hours, acknowledge company policies, and request time off, but now MediaStratX has a partner that will help them, and their employees grow in a streamlined, compliant fashion when it comes to HR.

To learn more about CorpStrat’s 21’st Century HR Solution contact their offices at (818) 377.7260.