The next PayrollHero Bootcamp is on November 14th 2013 in Fort Bonifacio, Philippines. This free event is a great way to learn all there is to know about the PayrollHero platform. Registration is very limited so be sure to register here.
The Inaugural Restaurant Technology Meetup Manila took place tonight in The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Boardroom at the top of the Muji/Gap building on High Street in Fort Bonifacio.
The event was a big success. There were 40 restaurant owners/managers that registered to attend the event, which usually means you get about 25, but we had over 40 show up.
I presented for the opening meetup on the topic of “10 Tech Tools Your Restaurant Should be Using“, which was a general overview of some of the tools that I think are important for restaurants to think about using within their business.
In no particular order, I covered:
1. SEO (search engine optimization)
2. Google Local
3. MunchPunch.com
4. TripAdvisor.com
5. Your Own Website
6. Twitter
7. Instagram
8. Facebook
9. Zap.com.ph
10. so much more….
Do you fee like you missed out? Don’t worry, we will continue to run the Restaurant Technology Meetup around the Philippines. Register now to be notified of the next meetup.
You can see the slides here:
Want to see all of the photos from the meetup… head over to our Facebook page for the collection.
The Restaurant Technology Meetup is a gathering of restaurant owners, managers, payroll and HR professionals who are interested in learning more about how technology can help grow and streamline their business operations.
No sales pitches… just a free learning environment designed to foster networking and learning amongst restaurant professionals.
Geeks On A Beach – Boracay Island, Philippines – Tina Amper of TechTalks.ph put together a fantastic conference on one of the most beautiful islands in the world last week. The event was the first of its kind for the Philippines and was a big success. Over 300 geeks, investors and speakers descended on the white beaches of Boracay for 2 days of learning, networking and sun.
While there we some nay sayers suggesting a beach location was not the right fit for an event like this, I found it perfect. (Boracay is SEAsia’s Las Vegas) It attracted attendees from all over the world, into a very cost effective location (when compared to places like Singapore) that provided a quality venue, attractions outside of the conference and plenty of hotel options. Overall the event was a big success and hopefully will run next year and many after that.
I was invited to be a guest on a panel with Jack Madrid (President DCOM) moderating the “Philippine Startup Success Stories” along with Mark (CEO, Caresharing), Alvin (Director, Microsoft) and Stefano (TwitMusic.com). It was a fun panel discussion. You can see the video of the panel below.
How you commute to Boracay
Geeks On A Beach, Boracay Island, Philippines
Ronald Maravilla, a native of the Philippines has been working with Mike Stephenson and myself since 2009. When Ron joined us it was for Ubertor, our real estate software company. When PayrollHero got off the ground a year and a half ago, Ron moved over to PayrollHero and joined as the second engineer building out the first stages of the platform.
Today is a big day!
Ron has been accepted into Canada under the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program and will be moving to our Whistler office as part of his #AdventureEngineering dream.
What is an #AdventureEngineer you ask? It is a term we coined as part of our offering to attract smart, hard working, talented enginners who wanted to work hard and play hard. This video sums it up:
Part of what PayrollHero offers to new team members is help with immigration into Canada. Interested in a job, you can see our available roles here – (Ruby) (iOS)
Join us!
The weather in Southeast Asia plays havoc with businesses, but specifically with restaurants and retail businesses every rainy season. It is common that businesses don’t open, close down early or operate with less staff than required. Today is no exception in the Philippines.
A weather storm has been on its way towards the Philippines for the last couple of days and as government, businesses and citizens prepare to deal with the consequences of the storm (read: massive flooding) I wanted to take a moment and share how PayrollHero is working to use data to help businesses cope with challenging weather systems.
As an example, take these three restaurants that are side by side in Fort Bonifacio; Da.u.de, TokyoTokyo and Wildflour. The first 2 are closed and Wildflour is open but closing early.
Now there are many reasons why businesses close during storms. Staff can’t make it to work, staff need to deal with issues at home, road flooding, Government advisory, etc. While it is good to keep that in mind, what I’m referring to here is using data within a restaurant or retail business to better understand your staffing needs.
Wildflour is quite busy today (which is normal for them) but if you look at the options for people who want food in their specific area, they are the only choice because they were the only one open today. They are closing early, which the manager said was because they wanted to give the staff enough time to get home as many come from far distances.
What is the cost of being closed on a day like this? two days? three?
If you could find a way to be open, what is the profit? especially if your competition is closed?
So what does this have to do with PayrollHero?
When we first built PayrollHero we saw the trend of how weather effects employees time and attendance as well as how employee commute distance effects their time and attendance. We decided that we could use data and see if we could track the correlation between those items and employee attendance.
Within every PayrollHero account there is an “Analytics” tab (beta) that shows management as well as employees how their time and attendance stacks up against their colleagues. But one part of the analytics is built specifically for situations like this.
Weather
PayrollHero pulls in the weather for your office location and showcases it against employee time and attendance. The idea is to give you an accurate idea of how weather effects your business. Here are a couple examples:
As we continue to expand on the data, the idea is that PayrollHero can help you anticipate how the upcoming weather will effect your workforce as well as enable employees to make travel decisions based on the weather.
Imagine if you could call extra workers in to replace workers who have not even called in to say they can’t make it to work.
Commute Distance
The other data set we work with is the employees commute distance. PayrollHero knows where the employee lives, as we need that data for payroll, but we use that data to correlate how far away an employee lives from their place of work and how that distance effects their time and attendance.
Employers and employees can see the data and the idea is to help them both make better decisions on where to live, where to work, etc.
There are many companies in Southeast Asia that pay a proximity bonus to employees who live closer to work as the employer knows that the closer they live, the less likely they are to miss work due to traffic, weather, etc. In PayrollHero, we show this data to help everyone make better decisions on where to work and where to live.
Imagine you knew a storm was coming in and you could contact workers who live close to work to take the shifts so that you can stay open, keep your employee safe (ie. they don’t have to try and commute via flooded streets) and profit when others are closed!
Interested to learn more? Contact us as we would be pleased to setup a personal demo of PayrollHero. (signup here for a free, no obligation personal demo)
#StaySafe
As you may have noticed we have been filming quite a few videos for PayrollHero. Videos showcasing how the platform works, testimonials as well as a couple recruiting videos.
While shooting these videos, we decided to interview a few business owners and investors on why they have chosen the Philippines for their businesses. We stitched them together for your viewing pleasure. You can see the video below.
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Pavan Challa, Co-Founder of FourEyes.com.ph takes a moment to talk about his experience with PayrollHero for his Philippine based company. Four Eyes is the first online eyewear store in the Philippines and was in need of a time, attendance, scheduling and Philippine payroll solution for their growing business.
Payroll in the Philippines can be a difficult thing to manage. But with PayrollHero’s Philippine payroll platform, the job of resolving attendance, handling schedules and running payroll just became much easier. Check out this new video explaining how PayrollHero can help your Philippine business.
Faburrito Fresh Mexican Grills became PayrollHero clients a few months ago and their team has been really enjoying it. PayrollHero’s platform helps the Faburrito team take care of their time, attendance, scheduling and Philippine payroll. As you can see from some of the employee’s clock in photos – they really enjoy the process! (just look at some of their clock in photos)
Do you have a restaurant in the Philippines that needs a payroll solution? Do you want to utilize PayrollHero’s time, attendance, scheduling and payroll platform within your restaurant business? Reach out to our client happiness team for more details.