This document provides information about Cascade HR software. It summarizes the key features and benefits of their various modules, including Core HR, Workflow, Self Service, Payroll, Recruitment, Timesheets, Expenses, Training, Mobile Apps, and Auto Enrollment. It also describes their implementation, training, and ongoing support services. The overall message is that Cascade provides a comprehensive and customizable HR and payroll software solution to help organizations efficiently manage their HR processes.

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We are Cascade, an ever evolving
HR software solution, used by
thousands of HR and Payroll
professionals everyday. Let’s see
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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 CASCADE
Human resources & payroll systems
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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.
PAYROLL
MODULE
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.

4. 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 KEEBLE
HR Administrator
Morgan 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

6. 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

7. 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 BAKER
HR Assistant,
IFS University College

8. 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

9. 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
TESTIMONIALS
CASCADE 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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