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HR & Payroll Software for Restaurants

Fully integrated HR & Payroll software, purpose-built for the hospitality industry, that ensures your business runs efficiently and stays compliant.

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Give Managers and Workers a Better Experience

Fragmented Human Resource and Payroll practices leave businesses vulnerable to inaccuracies and inefficiencies. Improve speed and accuracy with fully integrated HR and Payroll software from Fourth.

Self-serve your own HR & Payroll, with our intuitive software interface, or let our payroll experts do the heavy-lifting for you.

Its time to ease your administrative burden and risk – and get back more time to supporting your people and growing your business.

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HR software for hospitality

Manage employees in a single HR Hub built specifically for Hospitality operators. It gives you everything you need to be efficient, accurate, transparent and compliant.

  • Create and maintain a full HR record for each employee, with all their critical information stored in one place.
  • Seamless integration of employee HR data into Fourth’s payroll, employee scheduling software and inventory management solutions.
  • Manage employee roles and pay grade changes to ensure payroll accuracy.
  • Log and monitor staff absenteeism, sick days, and holidays.
  • Keep track of employee eligibility to work information and other key documents including contracts.

Payroll software built for precision

Your business deserves better payroll systems for a better employee experience. Streamline tedious processes, reduce risk, eliminate errors and ensure you stay compliant.

  • Reduce effort and time through automated payroll processing.
  • Automatically enrol employees into your pension scheme.
  • Increase payroll accuracy with a fully integrated system that syncs with HR, scheduling and tronc.
  • Remove the complexity of manually calculating deductions, holiday pay, expenses, and pension contributions across staff working variable shift patterns.

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Fourth Payroll Bureau Services

Focus on your people, not the paperwork

Rest easy knowing you have Fourth’s dedicated payroll specialists from our center of excellence in Macclesfield UK handling all your payroll processing. CIPP & PAS accredited with deep expertise in the Hospitality industry, Fourth not only seamlessly manages payroll services across your organisation but also serves as a payroll partner to ensure you’re on track and able to better grow your business.  

  • Make pensions seamless thanks to built-in compliance with auto pension enrolment directly linked to your payroll service ensures pension payments start at the right time and are calculated accurately  
  • Simplify tax deductions through faster payroll processing without unnecessary administrative assistance  
  • Generate pay slips in minutes with easy and secure access for employees  
  • Automatically record and track worked hours and wage costs for every employee 

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What are the benefits of an HR software for businesses?
    • Workforce management software like Fourth connects HR, scheduling, time and attendance, and payroll into a single ecosystem — eliminating fragmented data, reducing manual entry, and significantly lowering the risk of payroll errors or compliance gaps.

      Beyond automation, the real advantage is visibility. Centralised employee records and real-time labour data give businesses tighter control over labour costs, working time compliance, and contractual obligations — particularly valuable in hospitality and retail where margins are thin and workforce complexity is high.

      For employees, mobile access to payslips, rotas, and self-service updates reduces friction and improves engagement. For managers, automated workflows free up time to focus on performance and service delivery rather than admin.

      As businesses scale, standardised processes ensure compliance and data consistency across locations without proportionally increasing HR headcount. The result is a workforce management function that is measurable, controlled, and directly aligned to business performance.

  • Is my payroll data secure with Fourth?
    • Yes, payroll data within Fourth is designed to be secure through the use of encrypted cloud infrastructure, controlled access permissions, and monitored environments that protect sensitive employee and pay information both in transit and at rest. Role based access controls ensure only authorised users can view or amend payroll data, while audit trails track activity to support compliance and accountability. As an enterprise workforce platform operating in regulated environments, Fourth aligns with modern data protection standards such as GDPR, but security is not just about the system itself, it also depends on how your organisation manages user access, authentication, and internal governance. When configured and managed correctly, Fourth provides a secure, compliant environment for payroll processing while maintaining the operational efficiency of a fully integrated HR and workforce management platform.
  • Does Fourth offer support with my payroll processes?
    • Yes, Fourth offers dedicated support through its payroll bureau service, providing businesses with an outsourced payroll solution that works directly within the Fourth ecosystem. Rather than simply supplying software, the payroll bureau manages the end to end payroll process on your behalf, using integrated time, attendance, and workforce data to ensure accurate calculations of pay, overtime, premiums, and statutory payments. This reduces the need for in house payroll expertise, lowers the risk of errors, and helps ensure compliance with current legislation. Because the bureau operates within the same platform as HR and workforce management, data flows seamlessly without rekeying or manual reconciliation, improving efficiency and auditability. For businesses that want to minimise administrative burden while maintaining control and visibility, Fourth’s payroll bureau provides both operational support and regulatory confidence.
  • How does HR software support your restaurant business?
    • HR software supports a restaurant business by bringing control, visibility, and consistency to what is typically a high turnover, labour intensive environment. In restaurants, people cost is one of the largest expenses, and without integrated HR and workforce systems, you are relying on manual processes that create errors, compliance risk, and margin leakage.

      A platform like Fourth connects HR, scheduling, time and attendance, and payroll so that employee data flows seamlessly from onboarding through to pay. That means new starters can complete documentation digitally, contracts are stored centrally, right to work compliance is tracked, and employee records remain accurate across multiple sites. This reduces administrative burden and protects the business from regulatory risk.

      On the operational side, integrated scheduling and time capture help control labour costs by aligning rotas with demand and ensuring payroll is based on actual hours worked. Automated pay rules reduce overpayments, and managers gain real time visibility of labour spend versus budget. In a sector where small percentage variances can wipe out profit, that level of control matters.

      HR software also improves retention and engagement. Employees can access rotas, payslips, and personal details through self service tools, reducing friction and unnecessary manager intervention. Structured onboarding and clear communication improve early experience, which is critical in an industry where attrition is high.

      Ultimately, HR software in a restaurant business is not about digitising paperwork. It is about protecting margin, reducing compliance risk, improving manager efficiency, and creating a more stable workforce in an environment that is operationally complex and commercially unforgiving.

  • Do I need HR software in a small business​?
    • You do not strictly need HR software to run a small business, especially if you have a very small, stable team and simple pay structures, but as soon as you begin hiring regularly, managing shift based staff, tracking holiday and overtime, or dealing with compliance requirements such as right to work and statutory pay, manual processes quickly become fragile and time consuming. HR software centralises employee records, automates documentation and compliance tracking, reduces payroll errors, and removes reliance on spreadsheets or one individual holding all the knowledge, which protects both your time and your margins. For growing small businesses in particular, it is less about adding complexity and more about putting scalable structure in place before mistakes, disputes, or regulatory issues become costly.

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Save time, reduce costs, and increase profitability with Fourth’s intelligent solutions.

  • Reduce labour costs with accurate demand forecasting that eliminates over and understaffing.
  • Eliminate your HR burden with HR and payroll services that manage it for you.
  • Lower your COGS and drive increased profitability with inventory management solutions.

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