Case Study: Snelson Companies achieves rapid, paperless payroll and daily labor-cost visibility with Viewpoint Spectrum Payroll

Snelson Companies Stays A Step Ahead With Spectrum Payroll

Snelson Companies, a construction firm based in Sedro‑Woolley, WA, was struggling with a paper‑heavy payroll process: field timesheets from multiple jobs were manually re‑entered into Spectrum’s pre‑time entry, causing duplicate work, errors and long delays in getting labor costs to project managers. The slow workflow often meant payroll took a week or more to process and left managers without timely visibility into labor, which represents 60–70% of job costs.

Snelson implemented Spectrum Data Exchange and Spectrum’s time entry workbook so field staff and supervisors can enter time daily and import it directly into Spectrum. The change cut payroll processing from about a week to 1–2 hours, reduced paper and errors, lowered overhead, and delivered next‑day labor cost visibility for project managers; it also improved HR tracking for training, certifications and compliance.

Snelson Companies

Aimee Johnson

Snelson’s accounting system and P-card administrator