Empower Software Solutions provides innovative HR and workforce solutions for thousands of organizations, from small and medium businesses to some of the world’s largest retailers, manufacturers, and financial services companies.  With integrated solution suites featuring payroll and HR management, tax software and outsourcing, workforce management, and talent management, Empower Software provides the most flexible solutions and superior technology, backed by the industry’s best service. Whether cloud-based or on-premise, via laptop or mobile device, Empower helps organizations achieve their people-powered objectives by creating a passionate, energized workforce.

Retail Solutions

Store operations and personnel are facing varied demands in today’s market, as manual processes, high turnover and ineffective scheduling are taking valuable time from the front end of stores where managers and personnel could be developing employees, helping customers and improving the shopping experience.

At Empower, we offer EmpowerWFM, EmpowerTax and EmpowerTime, a solution set integrated to give retailers the power to remain competitive and compliant while streamlining human capital and workforce processes, giving time back to the retailer. This includes features such as workforce scheduling, forecasting, time and attendance, tax processing, garnishments and more.

These products are highly configurable, powerful and simple to use, eliminating the need for expensive customizations.  Wall-to-wall schedules can be developed in just minutes and configurable role-based dashboards get the right information to the right people.  All this provides retailers with the agility to enhance the most important aspects of the business, such as improved customer service, greater conversion rates and a more consistent store experience.

EmpowerWFM

Workforce optimization is delivered in real-time with flexible integrated solutions using EmpowerWFM. Coordinate a labor plan within a budget, accurately construct sales plans with proven models, and develop the largest schedules in minutes. A single application dashboard gives management the tools to make decisions in real-time and mobile solutions give employees instant access to schedules and more. With greater agility to control labor expense, improve customer service and compliance, EmpowerWFM enables managers and employees to create a consistent shopping experience with higher conversion rates at lower expense levels.

Download The EmpowerWFM Request For Proposal (RFP) Template
This RFP Template is designed to capture the baseline requirements commonly reflected in most retail and grocery operations. The tool is editable to allow tailoring for any unique requirements specific to your organization.

EmpowerTax

Retailers are given resources to better comply with thousands of payroll tax regulations at federal, state and agency levels using EmpowerTax. Automating the payroll tax compliance process minimizes the risk of penalty and interest charges, which can reach 10 percent for individual payroll tax deposits. Repetition is reduced with a solution that simplifies the labor-intensive process, giving personnel the ability to refocus on corporate goals.

EmpowerTime

Retailers have different time and attendance needs based on their size, stores and culture. EmpowerTime was built to meet all of them. This powerful, highly configurable tool is user friendly with real-time access and calculations, accurate tracking for complex transactions, simple integration and a robust calculation engine including a wide range of report categories. EmpowerTime gets you on the track to ROI faster, with greater efficiency and accuracy in time tracking to control labor expense and give management more time to develop employees and develop strategy.

EmpowerOne

Happy employees are essential to success. Study after study proves it yet few companies are taking the necessary steps to increase employee engagement, especially in hourly workforce environments such as retail and manufacturing.

EmpowerOne puts the power of communication, collaboration, and celebration in the hands of every employee. Designed from the employee’s point of view, but with all the configurability and security that enterprises require, EmpowerOne enables every employee to communicate electronically; one to one, team to team, up and down within the organization.