Case Study: 3 Promise Labor Services cuts payroll processing from three days to five hours with DataBlend and PopdockAI

3 Promise Labor Services cuts payroll from 24 hours to 5 with DataBlend

3 Promise Labor Services (3pls), a provider of skilled construction labor, faced a significant challenge with its highly manual payroll process. Handwritten timecards from dozens of job sites required staff to manually enter data into spreadsheets and then again into ADP, a process that consumed three days each week and was prone to errors. Seeking to automate this workflow, the company turned to the vendor DataBlend.

DataBlend, alongside PopdockAI, automated the entire payroll process by extracting data from photos of timecards, validating it against ADP, and applying business rules for per diem calculations. This solution implemented by DataBlend reduced hands-on payroll work by 80%, cutting processing time from 24 hours to just 5 hours per week and saving nearly 1,000 hours annually. This efficiency gain eliminated the need to hire an additional payroll staff member and allowed the HR team to refocus on strategic growth activities.

3 Promise Labor Services (3pls)