Case Study: CoasterStone reduces payroll prep from hours to 10 minutes with Lathem's PayClock Online

Specialty retailer now prepares employees' time for payroll in minutes instead of hours with PayClock Online employee time and attendance system

CoasterStone is a specialty retailer and natural stone manufacturer founded in 1983 that produces more than 2,000 coaster and promotional designs and employs about 35 people. The company’s legacy time-and-attendance system was slow and server-dependent—managers had to pull and review punches one-by-one, which made payroll preparation take at least an hour and offered little in the way of detailed reporting or remote access.

CoasterStone implemented Lathem’s CloudTouch biometric/badge reader paired with PayClock Online, a cloud-based system with built-in Wi‑Fi and a smartphone app. Real-time data and mobile access let supervisors make adjustments from anywhere; payroll prep is now about 10 minutes (saving roughly one hour per week, ~50 hours a year). The system also delivers fast, detailed reporting, easier holiday-pay adjustments, multiple clock-in options (fingerprint, badge, PIN), and improved cost control.

CoasterStone

David Glenn

President