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HelloWe are Cascade, an ever evolving HR software solution, used by thousands of HR and Payroll professionals everyday. Let’s see how we can help your HR Flow.

OUR SOFTWARE IS USED BY THOUSANDS OF HR AND PAYROLL PROFESSIONALS EVERYDAY

In a crowded technology marketplace it can be difficult to find what you’re

looking for. So why not work with an experienced, proactive supplier, that can

deliver a proven HR, or integrated HR and payroll software solution, moulded

to suit your business? Cascade focuses on

making the impossible possible.

We relieve administrative burdens,

instigate positive change, drive financial

improvements and raise the profile

of HR and payroll teams throughout

the country. We evolve alongside your

business to ensure your investment is

future-proofed, giving added peace of

mind.

So whether you have 25 employees, or

several thousand, talk to our team of

HR and payroll software experts. We’re

here to help.

WELCOME TO CASCADEHuman resources & payroll systems

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OUR HR MODULES& Optional Modules Guide

WHAT CAN CASCADE DO FOR YOU?

• Efficiently manage processes

• Roll out best practices

• Reduce administration

• Minimise possible errors

• Increase profitability

• Manage change effectively

• Invest in your future

SUITED TO YOUR NEEDS

Cascade can suit any sized organisation

and has the capability to adapt as your

HR and Payroll requirements change.

We will work with you, listening to your

needs, wants, issues and challenges

and fit Cascade to suit you. So, if you

want to start out with the core HR

module and add on modules over time

you can; Cascade can grow and adapt

with you.

WHY PUT UP WITH PROBLEMATIC AND INFLEXIBLE SOFTWARE TO MANAGE YOUR EMPLOYEE RECORDS? Cascade is here to help! Providing you with an integrated, simple to use, 100% browser based HR and HMRC recognised Payroll software solution.

All our staff are based in the UK and are experts in their field; meaning you receive the best possible product and support services.

HR MODULE

Core HR is a powerful, proactive module that

offers a huge amount of personnel management

functionality.

ON & OFFLINE RECRUITMENT

Ensure you have the capabilities to source, select and

recruit the best possible candidates

for new job roles.

WORKFLOW MODULE

Establish best practice procedures which

proactively guide the right people, to carry out

the right tasks, at the right time.

PAYROLLMODULE

Best-practice, legislatively compliant

and fully-integrated payroll functionality, with

single data entry.

EXPENSES MODULE

Free up administrative burden by allowing

employees to submit their own expenses and mileage claims.

SELF-SERVICE MODULE

Empower managers and give employees

responsibility for their own personal

information.

MOBILE APPLICATIONS

Enhance employee engagement by

enabling them to use Cascade whilst on the

move.

TIMESHEET MODULE

Submit timesheets online - creating

efficient, easy-to-manage authorisation processes with zero

paperwork.

AUTO ENROLMENT MODULE

Ensure continuous eligibility checks,

ongoing compliance and the accurate and

timely payment of pension contributions.

We offer a suite of intelligent software modules – each designed

to satisfy different human resources and payroll requirements –

enabling us to create a solution tailored perfectly to your brief. If you

need to introduce new functionality in future, you can incorporate

additional modules, when the time is right.

TAKE A LOOK AT OUR RANGE OF MODULES...

TRAINING

Encourage employees to meet their

full potential by effectively managing

their learning and development plans.

CORE HR MODULE WORKFLOW MODULE

KEY FEATURES:

• User specific dashboard

• Attendance and holiday management

• Organisational charts

• Query builder and report tools

• Document management

• Skills matching

• Reporting

KEY FEATURES:

• Best practice workflows

• Manage KPI workflows

• Create efficiencies

• Guarantee completion of tasks

• Integrate mail merge and surveys

With a huge amount of standard functionality, our Core HR

Module is a very powerful tool.

When a user logs into Cascade’s HR software, they are presented with a

welcoming, easy-to-digest and point-in-time dashboard, tailored to your

organisation. They’ll see charts, tables and reminders, relevant to them as

individuals, from which they can take any necessary actions. From the very

outset, our priority is to engage.

Even without any of our optional modules, Cascade’s Core HR software

provides a comprehensive and powerful management tool for any Human

Resources team, as standard.

You can create your own workflows personalised to your needs. This

tool enables you to devise a start to finish route for all tasks: whether

that be managing holiday requests via authorisation routes or the new

starter process.

The benefits of making work flow in your organisation are fundamental

to business success. That’s why Cascade created this module,

empowering clients to consider their departmental or business

objectives, before setting up processes that will help them achieve

their goals. Workflow is easy to use, so once you’ve set up one new

automated process, you’ll already be excitedly thinking about the next!

“Cascade has allowed us to adopt a truly professional approach to our HR function. It is efficient, easy to use and overall a great investment.”

HELEN RATCLIFFE Head Of Human Resources, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Limited

“The Workflow Module is really easy to use, and has offered great benefit to our company. It has allowed us to send reminders to the HR Team when tasks are due, with ample time for them to be carried out. It has also allowed us to send information directly to Line Managers, preventing the need for manual tasks to be conducted by the HR Administrators.”

FAITH KEEBLEHR AdministratorMorgan Sindall

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SELF SERVICE MODULEPAYROLL MODULE

KEY FEATURES:

• Record absences

• Update personal details

• Complete appraisal forms

• Request training courses

KEY FEATURES:

• RTI compliant

• Single point of entry

• Online payslips displayed via

Self Service and Mobile Apps

• Flexible pay cycles

• Bureau service available

When it comes to Self Service HR software, our people are equally as

important as our technology. 

As HR and payroll teams throughout the UK strive to work ever-smarter,

it’s perhaps no surprise that that secure Self Service functionality is in

such high demand. The tool puts employees and managers in control

of their own HR data, relieving the administrative pressures placed on

human resources and payroll professionals, and creating opportunities

for them to undertake more strategic activities, whilst heightening

engagement and communication levels in the process.

With Cascade, you can enjoy the benefits of 100% browser based

HR software and payroll software, each designed by the most

knowledgeable professionals in their respective fields, but developed

to facilitate complete integration between the two.

Recognised by the HMRC, our payroll software is continuously

adjusted to reflect legislative changes, meaning that’s one less thing

for you to worry about. You are reassured of ongoing compliance, and

the accurate and timely remuneration of staff, however much the

payroll, national insurance or tax landscape continues to evolve.

“The Self Service Module was the biggest win for us and helped us to get buy-in to implementing the system. Now we are several years into our Cascade experience and line managers almost can’t remember how they coped without the information it gives them!”

KATE GLEDHILL Group HR Manager,Acorn Mobility Services Ltd

“The Payroll Module is user friendly and Cascade keeps the system right up to date. The implementation of RTI went through without a hitch.”

LIN BANKS Payroll Administrator, Prodrive

RECRUITMENT & ONLINE RECRUITMENT MODULE

TIMESHEETS MODULE

KEY FEATURES:

• Integrate onto your website

• Use your company’s branding

• Upload vacancies

• Create application forms

• C.V. and skills search

KEY FEATURES:

• Payroll integration

• Zero paperwork

• Maximum control

• Authorisation routes for review and sign off

• Links to third party T&A systems

Stand alone as a “back office” recruitment solution or combined with

our Online Recruitment Module, Cascade Recruitment delivers a

comprehensive and powerful recruitment solution designed to reduce

administration and ensure best practice is followed, whilst maximising

your opportunity to recruit the very best staff available to you.

You can tailor this module to suit your organisation’s needs; whether a

line manager edits group timesheets or you combine with Self Service

to allow employees to submit their own.

If you have many members of staff, complex working patterns, busy

workloads, remote/field-based employees or flexitime arrangements,

the collation of timesheets can be extremely time consuming.

We understand the frustrations you face and the amount of time you’ll

waste unnecessarily, which is exactly why we’ve developed our own

online Timesheets software.

“This has freed up an enormous amount of time within the recruitment team as managers can view online the current status of candidates that are attached to the vacancies within their department. Less admin for the recruitment team in responding to emails requesting status updates enables them to spend more time actually recruiting!”

SUZY SIMONS HR Manager,Merlin Information Systems

“Timesheets have always been a nightmare to keep track of for Renew. Now that timesheets are on Cascade and workflows attached to them, staff are reminded to complete timesheets as well as HR and Managers being able to track their team members’ times and flexi time balance.”

DANIEL HAYNES Projects, Renew

EXPENSES MODULE TRAINING MODULE

KEY FEATURES:

• Calculate VAT

• Paid via Payroll or BACS

• Manager authorisation

• Create reports on expenses data

• Limit triggers and notifications

KEY FEATURES:

• Measure ROI on training costs/budgeting

• Improve communication between workforce

• Role based competencies

• Course scheduling

• Evaluations

This module has been purposefully designed so that

it is quick and easy to use.

When combined with Self Service, employees can submit their own

expenses and mileage claims. This frees up work time by removing

administrative processes and reducing possible errors.

The clever browser based module is an extension of Cascade’s

Self Service software, so there’s no need for a complex or resource-heavy

roll out and implementation. You simply add the license, configure your

system, and start benefitting from our new expenses functionality.

You can improve staff retention and employee development with the aid

of our Training Module. Skills can be assessed and development plans

created, allowing personal development and creating career paths for

employees.

“The Cascade Expenses Module has given us greater control of the expense claiming process and gave us the opportunity to put in tighter controls on what our staff are allowed to claim. In using the module we now have all our staff using the same process ensuring consistency across our Group.” PHIL SILVER HR Operations Manager, Punter Southall Group

“It enables us to work towards becoming a paperless organisation as our appraisals are now carried out electronically through workflows and staff are sent automatic reminders that these meetings need to take place.”

CATHERINE BAKERHR Assistant, IFS University College

MOBILE APPS MODULE AUTO ENROLMENT MODULE

KEY FEATURES:

• Access tasks

• Book holidays

• Check payslips KEY FEATURES:

• Conduct pre-stage user training

• Identify employees based on eligibility criteria

• Use mail merge feature to inform people who

have been enrolled

• Store historical opt-in and opt-out records

via a timeline feature

• Deduct pension contribution rates

(via Cascade’s Payroll module)

• Report on all data

Enhance employee engagement with Cascade’s Mobile Apps, which

can be used on the move with web enabled devices. This module is

perfect for employees who aren’t office based such as field sales,

construction, and distribution workers etc.

The Mobile App is convenient, engaging and simple-to-use – it suits

the needs of busy managers and employees.

This module eases the complex processes of Auto Enrolment, guiding

departments through their tasks whilst encouraging legislative

compliance.

All of your Auto Enrolment information is stored in one place, so

our colour-coded graphics illustrate who you need to assess, enrol

or communicate with during each pay reference period. You’re then

guided through what to do next, and all date-based records are stored

so you have an audit of your activity.

“Our operatives do not get to use a computer in their working day but can access their information via their PDAs or mobile phones. Again, they feel much more in control.”

LISA BEDFORD Project Manager & HR Governance, First Wessex

“It has been very simple to use. The employees like it, they can see where we’re up to, they can access all the letters we’ve sent them about the Auto Enrolment, so it’s made our life a lot easier.”

SIMON SHERIFF Compensation & Benefits Advisor, Jerrold Holdings

AFTER SALES SERVICES

TRAINING SERVICES

SUPPORT SERVICE “HOW DO I”

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT SERVICE

At Cascade we don’t just provide you with the software, we go the extra mile…

• Dedicated Project Manager and a team of consultants will manage the implementation of your solution

• Software installation on your chosen purchase option

• Our Data Migration team will manage the data transfer process

• Implementation days where we will help you personalise your software with document templates, sickness

schemes and authorisation

It is essential that our clients understand how

to get the best from their Cascade solution.

That’s why we provide a full range of training

courses. Your training will be delivered on your

site, on your system to meet your real world

needs - not as a generic classroom course.

EXAMPLE TRAINING INCLUDES:

• Core HR Training

• Payroll Training

• Learning & Development Training

• System Designer Training

• Workflow Training

and much more!

We know it can be daunting rolling out a new

software solution, so we have a dedicated,

in-house Service Desk to answer all your

questions; from simple queries through

to complex configuration or operational

assistance.

That’s not all... We also have a range of resources

to assist you and develop your understanding of

how to fully utilise your new software.

• User group membership

• Access to a customer portal / ‘How to guides’

• Ability to submit your ideas via our change lab

• Dedicated account manager & site visits

• Software upgrades

TESTIMONIALSCASCADE HR“Cascade is very much an integral part of our

personnel management – the software really is the

backbone of our HR department, just as we wanted

it to be… Now the exciting thing is that we know we

have the power to do so much more with Cascade.

Even our managers and employees are thinking

about how Cascade can help them work smarter!”

Clare Archibald, HR Manager,

Everton Football Club

PROJECT SERVICE“The project implementation was straightforward

and structured, all our questions were responded

to in a timely manner and Cascade was

extremely helpful.”

Kerry Gibson-Yates,

West Mercia Women’s Aid

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT“Mark is always very happy to speak to us, and

will look at any issues we are experiencing that

are not appropriate to raise via the Service Desk.

He understands what we require with very little

explanation, because his knowledge of the system

is so vast. Mark has recently helped us to arrange a

system upgrade and will be visiting us onsite to talk

about Auto Enrolment.”

Faith Keeble, HR Administrator,

Morgan Sindall PLC

SUPPORT SERVICE“All of the staff I have dealt with are always very

helpful, extremely pleasant and friendly. Whatever

your question or query they are never condescending

and do their utmost to reach a resolution.”

Karen Timbrell, HR Administration,

Wales Council for Voluntary Action

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SO WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

There’s lots of handy info on there to help you get started in your

search for HR software

You can tailor Cascade to suit your needs

We’ll show you how Cascade can benefit your business

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OF YOUR NEW HR SYSTEM!

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