Case Study: Northshore Christian Academy streamlines HR and payroll with PayNorthwest

Northshore Christian Academy Streamlines HR & Payroll with PayNorthwest’s Cloud-based Platform

Northshore Christian Academy, a faith-based school serving 1,100 children and more than 200 employees in Everett, Washington, needed a better way to handle payroll and HR. Its existing processes were cumbersome, expensive, and not user-friendly, leaving HR staff buried in tactical work and employees without direct access to their payroll information. PayNorthwest’s cloud-based platform was selected to replace the school’s labor-intensive in-house and prior outsourced processes.

PayNorthwest implemented a single, paperless HR and payroll platform that worked with Northshore Christian Academy’s existing Great Plains accounting system. The new solution streamlined payroll reporting, improved accuracy, and gave employees 100% self-service access to their own information. Northshore Christian Academy reported 50% time savings on a normal staff recruitment cycle, 60–75% savings on typical payroll processing time, smoother online data transitions, and a dramatic increase in staff productivity.

Northshore Christian Academy

Sherry Brown

Human Resources Manager