Case Study: Systems Tech Fire Protection achieves compliant, customizable payroll for prevailing‑wage projects with Foundation Software

A Prevailing Wage Contractor Gets the Payroll Features It Needs

Systems Tech Fire Protection, a California fire‑protection contractor founded in 1985, needed new accounting software but found many so‑called construction programs fell short. Common issues included restrictive job‑number fields and, more critically, inadequate certified‑payroll features that couldn’t handle California’s varied agency requirements or the individual wage, fringe and deduction differences for each employee.

FOUNDATION delivered a customizable payroll system that pulls default pay and fringe rates by job, trade and employee so timecards can be entered simply while the software calculates wages, benefits, taxes and deductions automatically. Its date‑sensitive database lets Kathy Rambo generate or retroactively run flexible certified‑payroll reports to meet changing state and local requirements—resulting in accurate reporting, major time savings and a solution the team calls a game changer.

Systems Tech Fire Protection

Kathy Rambo

Office Manager