Case Study: Zerella Fresh cuts payroll processing time by 50% with Employment Hero

How Zerella Fresh cut payroll processing time by 50% and reduced hiring costs

Zerella Fresh, a South Australian fresh produce supplier with 450+ employees, needed a better way to manage payroll, rostering, recruitment and compliance across a large hourly workforce. Before working with Employment Hero, the team relied on manual processes, outdated systems and lots of paperwork, which created delays, errors and extra back-and-forth over timesheets and pay discrepancies. They used Employment Hero’s Payroll Premium and HR Platinum products to modernise their workforce operations.

With Employment Hero, Zerella Fresh cut payroll processing time by 50%, saving eight to ten hours per pay cycle and freeing the team to focus on higher-value HR work. The platform also improved rostering, reporting and onboarding, while reducing advertising spend on recruitment by 50% through its ATS and job posting tools. Overall, Employment Hero helped Zerella Fresh streamline payroll, reduce hiring costs and improve employee satisfaction through faster, more accurate pay and self-service HR access.

Zerella Fresh

Majid Ali

Zerella Fresh