Case Study: Carolina Meadows achieves 87% lower payroll expenses with Net at Work and Sage Abra Payroll

Retirement Community Reduces Monthly Payroll Expenses by 87% with Sage Software’s Abra Payroll Solution

Carolina Meadows, a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, needed an easy-to-use, scalable in-house payroll and time clock solution that could integrate with accounting and HR. The organization had been outsourcing payroll, but rising costs and delays in updating the system created ongoing frustration. Net at Work helped Carolina Meadows evaluate and implement Sage Abra Payroll, HR Attendance, and Unitime Time and Attendance.

Net at Work’s solution was fully operational in under six months and replaced outsourced payroll with an enterprise-wide in-house system. The results were significant: Carolina Meadows reduced monthly payroll expenses by 87% and gained access to real-time, customizable reports, while also keeping interest on state unemployment taxes instead of its outsourcing vendor.

Carolina Meadows

Kevin McLeod

Chief Financial Officer