Sequoia One Features
Core HR (6)
Organization Management
Organizes employees in an org structure that can be used throughout the application for reporting, permissions, etc.
Time, Attendance, and PTO
Tracks time, attendance, paid time-off (PTO), sick time, schedules, and other workforce-related information.
Expense Management
Contains functionality for employees to submit expenses reports and track reimbursments
Salary Structures
Manages position descriptions and pay grades/structures for each role
Compliance
Helps protect risk areas by ensuring compliance standards are met through tracking and reporting
Benefits Administration
Enables employees to manage their benefit plans by viewing plans, make changes during open enrollement, and for life event changes. Employers can report and manage payroll deductions based on selected plan options
Platform (15)
Customization
As reported in 11 Sequoia One reviews. Allows administrators to customize to accommodate their unique processes. Includes ability to create custom objects, fields, rules, calculations, and views.
Integration APIs
Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications. This feature was mentioned in 11 Sequoia One reviews.
Internationalization
Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.
User, Role, and Access Management
Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, and groups.
Performance
Is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks reliably.
Mobility
Is accessible from a mobile device and by users on the go.
Reporting
Provides analytics tools that reveal important business metrics and track progress.
Dashboards
Creates dashboards to track information like open positions, current headcount, and recruiting pipeline.
Reporting and Dashboards
Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards.
User, Role, and Access Management
Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.
Performance and Reliability
Software is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the software to respond to an action they took.
Scalability
Allows administrator to easily add employees and grow payroll process as their company grows.
Tools
Tools that manage time tracking, payroll, benefits, and compliance.
Management
Optimize employee life cycle management from onboarding to retirement.
Access
Access to a comprehensive range of services across HR, talent, benefits, and compliance.
Employee Self Service (3)
Web Portal
Allows employees to access current and past pay stubs, W-2 forms, and additional salary information.
Benefits Manager
Allows employees to answer or update questions pertaining to benefits and receive information about benefit providers.
Mobile
Allows employees to view pay stub and W-2 information via a smartphone app or mobile optimized website.
Administration (9)
Payroll Entry
Allows administrator to enter payroll for all employees based on salary or total hours worked.
Time Off Accrual
Calculation and tracking of sick and vacation days.
Direct Deposit
Automatically deposits paychecks into employees' bank accounts.
Expense Reimbursement
Allows administrator to reimburse employees for business-related purchases.
Pre-tax Deductions
Automatically deducts wages for health care, 401(k) plans, etc. from paychecks.
Wage Garnishment
Allows administrator to set up for wage garnishments to be deducted automatically from employers' paychecks.
Approvals
Administrator can submit payroll approval request and the approver can approve, deny, or re-assign it to the appropriate approver.
Check/W-2 Printing
Allows administrators to print valid paychecks and W-2 forms.
Check/W-2 Delivery
Sends printed checks to administrator to distribute to employees.
Taxes (3)
Tax Calculation
Calculates taxes due and may include resources or tools for federal and state tax compliance.
Tax Filing
Files payroll tax forms automatically for federal, state, and local taxes.
Automatic Tax Payment
Allows payroll vendor, via power of attorney, to make electronic payments of withheld taxes to government.
Integration (4)
API / Integration
Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.
Time Tracking Integration
Enables administrator to import hours from time tracking systems.
Accounting Integration
Provides standard integration with third party accounting software.
Core HR Integration
Provides standard integration with third party core HR software.
Benefits Administration Platform Features (20)
Benefits Record Management
Track and manage employee benefits information and eligibility information within a centralized database. This feature was mentioned in 10 Sequoia One reviews.
Enrollment Planning
Based on 10 Sequoia One reviews. Facilitate employee enrollment in health insurance plans during open enrollment and special enrollment periods. Make changes to benefits data in real time.
Third-Party Carrier Integration
Access a unique marketplace of benefits products provided by third-party carriers. Select from pre-built bundles or customize your own bundles within the system to offer to your employees.
Document Management
Store and organize on-boarding benefits documents such as I-9s, W-4s, W-9s, and other employee agreements. This feature was mentioned in 10 Sequoia One reviews.
Total Compensation Statements
Based on 10 Sequoia One reviews. Prepare ad-hoc and historical total compensation statements for employees. Employees can access statements to find a comprehensive view of their compensation, including benefits, wages, and stock options.
Self-Service Portal
Based on 10 Sequoia One reviews. Allow employees to log in and review the details of their employee benefits program elections 24/7 and make changes and enroll in benefits as required.
Regulatory Compliance
Ensure compliance with federal and state benefits regulations, including the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act (COBRA), Affordable Care Act (ACA), and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This feature was mentioned in 10 Sequoia One reviews.
Mobile Benefits Access
Provide access to employee benefits information including ID numbers, deductibles, in- and out-of-network costs, and more.
Benefits Record Management
Based on 10 Sequoia One reviews. Track and manage employee benefits information and eligibility information within a centralized database.
Enrollment Planning
Based on 10 Sequoia One reviews. Facilitate employee enrollment in health insurance plans during open enrollment and special enrollment periods. Make changes to benefits data in real time.
Third-Party Carrier Integration
Access a unique marketplace of benefits products provided by third-party carriers. Select from pre-built bundles or customize your own bundles within the system to offer to your employees.
Document Management
Store and organize on-boarding benefits documents such as I-9s, W-4s, W-9s, and other employee agreements. 10 reviewers of Sequoia One have provided feedback on this feature.
Total Compensation Statements
As reported in 10 Sequoia One reviews. Prepare ad-hoc and historical total compensation statements for employees. Employees can access statements to find a comprehensive view of their compensation, including benefits, wages, and stock options.
Self-Service Portal
Based on 10 Sequoia One reviews. Allow employees to log in and review the details of their employee benefits program elections 24/7 and make changes and enroll in benefits as required.
Regulatory Compliance
Ensure compliance with federal and state benefits regulations, including the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act (COBRA), Affordable Care Act (ACA), and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This feature was mentioned in 10 Sequoia One reviews.
Benefits Dashboards
An easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status and historical trends of benefits data to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance.
Mobile Benefits Access
Provide access to employee benefits information including ID numbers, deductibles, in- and out-of-network costs, and more.
Integrations / APIs
The platform can integrate with HR and payroll software to manage employee data such as new hires, general profiles, salary changes, benefit deductions, and terminations into a single system of record.
Internationalization
Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.
Mobility
Is accessible from a mobile device and by users on the go.
Compliance (2)
Compliance Support
Compliance support for employer liability, HR best practices, legal and workplace risks and liabilities.
Safety Program
Safety program that follows OSHA regulations, limits regulatory penalties, and includes a dedicated safety representative.
Support (7)
Scale
Scale PEO services to match every business's needs.
Specialist Guidance
Specialists provide guidance to help businesses evaluate all PEO service options.
Consulting
HR consulting provides additional support and guidance around best practices when dealing with leaves of absence, terminating employees, corporate wellness, and managing overtime.
Invoicing
Detailed invoicing itemizes all costs and services.
Implementation
Implementation services to help set up account, import data, and learn how to use associated platform.
Support
Administrator and employee access to help and support resources.
Assistance
Access to HR and payroll advice, support, and educational assistance.
Logistics (5)
Integration
Offers integration to a wide variety of HR software solutions.
Analytics
Provide analytics such as head count and budgeting.
Export
Export list from Excel.
Upload
Ability to manually upload the employee roster name by name
Employee Directory
Offers a way for users to create and organize a staff directory that is entirely searchable.
Editing & Design (5)
Drag-and-Drop
Offer drag-and-drop capabilities for editing the org chart.
Update
Offer the ability to update the list as a business grows.
Customize
Enable users to customize the design of the org chart.
Details
Allow users to indicate different roles and departments on the chart.
Restructure
Provide the ability to rearrange an exisiting chart in case of company restructure.
Platform Basics (8)
Interoperability
Connects to external systems and applications as needed to complete workflows.
Performance
Is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks reliably.
Interoperability
Connects to external systems and applications as needed to complete team workflows.
Performance
Is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks reliably.
Program Management
Tools that implement, manage, and administer corporate wellness programs.
Reporting
Provides analytics tools that reveal important business metrics and track progress.
Interoperability
Connects to external systems and applications as needed to complete team workflows.
Performance
Is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks reliably.
Platform Data (7)
Visualization
Contains tools to visalize data sets or workflows.
Platform Search
Find important content or files using keywords, metadata, tags, etc.
Alerts and Notifications
Self-monitors important metrics and sends notifications to users in-app or through email, text message or otherwise.
Visualization
Contains tools to visalize data sets or workflows.
Platform Search
Find important content or files using keywords, metadata, tags, etc.
Alerts and Notifications
Self-monitors important metrics and sends notifications to users in-app or through email, text message or otherwise.
Dashboard & Reporting
Reporting and analytics that report on activity and program effectiveness.
Platform Content (10)
Automation
Automates some or all operation related tasks.
File Sharing
Provides robust sharing options for communication with employees.
Content Library
Provides users with a pre-built library of useable HR compliance content.
Education
Educational tools that provide including planning, budgeting, and tips on how to improve wellness.
Mobile Tools
Mobile applications or mobile-optimized websites for access corporate wellness solutions.
Additional Features
Tools for budget creation, assets tracking, goal setting, and corporate wellness management progress tracking.
Enrollment Planning
Facilitate employee enrollment in health insurance plans during open enrollment and special enrollment periods. Make changes to benefits data in real time.
Dashboard
Has a centralized dashboard for users to interact with
Education
Provides educational materials to help employees make informed decisions about their benefits.
Benefits Record Management
Track and manage employee benefits information and eligibility information within a centralized database.
Platform Additional Functionality (7)
Education
Provides access to wellness education classes and seminars.
Services
Provides wellness services.
Employee Portal
Employee portal lets employees log into the system to help employees track wellness.
Gamification
Gamification tools for company-wide health and wellness.
Mobility
Is accessible from a mobile device and by users on the go.
Regulatory Compliance
Ensure compliance with federal and state benefits regulations, including the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act (COBRA), Affordable Care Act (ACA), and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Third-Party Carrier Integration
Access a unique marketplace of benefits products provided by third-party carriers. Select from pre-built bundles or customize your own bundles within the system to offer to your employees.
Platform Performance (2)
Reporting
Provides pre-built or customizable performance reports
Monitoring
Contains application performance monitoring capabilities
Basic Features (2)
High level regression analysis
Compares cohorts with complex, customizable logic for deeper analysis.
Dashboard
Contains customizable dashboard enabling users to visualize pay gaps.
Risk Mitigation (4)
Budgeting
Forecasts potential budgets necessary to remediate pay inequities.
Legislation
Tracks legislative updates and provides reporting necessary for local, regional, or international government authorities.
Regression analysis
Facilitates the creation of a step-by-step action plan to correct potential legal breeches, mitigate risk, and provide DEI training to employees.
Reporting
Prepares reporting for EEO-1, ACA compliance, OFCCP, and other industry audits.
Analytics (2)
Benchmarking
Provides industry benchmarks and comparative reports.
Retention
Analyzes turnover and retention in relation to diversity intiatives.
Reports (4)
Score Cards
Score cards visually track key performance indicators (KPIs)
Customizability
Reports can be customized based on the intended audience, available data, length, and depth
Graphs and Charts
The outputs of reports are customizable in using graphs and charts
Dashboards
Real-time up to date outputs can be created to provide information to decision makers and leadership
Cleaning (3)
Filtering
Raw data is able to be filtered into outputs with only the data useful for the analysis
Levels of Measurement
Data structured as ratio, interval, ordinal, or nominal can be interpreted with the appropriate outputs
Transformation
Change the data format into csv., html, xml, etc.
Generative AI (10)
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
AI Image-to-Text
Converts images into a textual description, identifying key elements.
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
AI Text-to-Image
Provides the ability to generate images from a text prompt.
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
AI Image-to-Text
Converts images into a textual description, identifying key elements.
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
Core Features - Salary Benchmarking Software (3)
Dashboard
Presents customizable compensation dashboards with data visualizations.
Industry Benchmarking
Sets compensation benchmarks based on data from industry competitors.
Hierarchy
Includes pay or crediting rules to organize salary structure into relevant hierarchy.
Auditing - Salary Benchmarking Software (2)
Reporting
Enables users to create customized reports on compensation packages for auditing purposes.
Accuracy
Checks accuracy and transparency of data for auditing purposes.
Advanced Features - Salary Benchmarking Software (5)
Structure
Includes pay rules to organize salary structure into relevant hierarchy.
Offer Letter
Automaticaly generates an offer letter or autofills an offer letter template containing appropriate salary and benefits details.
Salary Survey
Generates internal or external surveys for organizations to conduct indepedent salary reach when determing benchmarks.
Equity
Provides equity benchmarking for organizations that offer such benefits.
AI
Uses AI to project an appropriate salary based on job description or other datasets.
Platform - Compensation Planning (6)
Compensation Budgeting
Structures compensation pools and pay brackets that include the pay rules to facilitate continual planning for the organization.
Merit Cycle Planning
Manages compensation for merit cycles and transparently shares payscales when employees are eligible for raises and bonuses.
Pay Transparency
Provides open access when it comes to company salary ranges, as well as displaying reasoning for salary decisions from management.
Automated Compliance
Maintains compliance with corporate policies, state mandates, and federal regulations regarding compensation with builtin compliance features, including automated identification and flagging of unapproved behaviors.
Reward Structuring
Defines the various components of compensation packages, allowance plans, base pay, bonuses, and equity.
Compensation History
Accesses employee compensation history and talent records when evaluating compensation planning strategies.
Additional Features - Compensation Planning (3)
Reporting Capabilities
Creates standard reports on compensation data from the company, as well as graphical representations of data displayed by analytics dashboards.
Workflow Automation
Streamlines compensation planning processes by establishing triggers and alerts that automatically notify users when their input is required.
Integrations
Intergrates with other pay tools such as compensation management, salary and benchmarking, and pay equity software - as well as other HR solutions.
Agentic AI - Org Chart (2)
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
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