You are great at matching clients with candidates using your own strategy, but operating a temporary staffing business is operationally intense, and it gets harder as you expand across states and countries.

You need professional and general liability insurance with high limits, workers' compensation insurance, state registrations, and working knowledge of payroll and other HR laws, plus the many operations required to run a staffing firm smoothly.

Building that back office in-house means hiring payroll, compliance, and finance staff before the placements are there to pay for them.

Instead of worrying about becoming your candidates' employer, Ascen's Employer of Record for staffing agencies handles onboarding, payroll, benefits, and insurance in an affordable, pay-as-you-go solution.

• Compliant Onboarding and Payroll in the US and Canada
• All Required Insurance Coverage (Workers' Comp/General/Professional)
•  Health and Other Benefits (Vision, Dental, Life, Disability, 401(k))
• HR Compliance and Guidance
• Background Checks and Drug Tests

A staffing organization needs more than an Employer of Record built for end clients, because you also have to handle the pay-bill and back-office work of a staffing company, and the platform keeps every step branded as yours rather than as Ascen's.

• White-label, Rules-based Onboarding
• One-click and No-click Timesheet and Expense Management
• White-label Payroll and Portal for Candidates and Clients
• Real-time and Custom Reporting
• Full API Access for all operations

This is where a staffing-specific platform separates from a generic or global EOR. Generic EORs are built to employ a company's own headcount, so they stop at onboarding and payroll for the end client. Ascen adds the pay-bill layer, timecard approvals, and client billing that contract staffing runs on.

Temporary staffing requires large amounts of capital, because pay is due weekly or bi-weekly while clients pay in net 30 days or more, which leaves a gap of several weeks between when you pay workers and when you collect. Many staffing firms turn to lenders or factoring companies to close that gap.

• Funding built into the EOR
• No need to post invoices to the factoring firm and manage cash
• No need to manage collections
• No personal guarantees

For a firm adding ten new contractors at a $30 hourly pay rate, that funding gap can run into tens of thousands of dollars before the first client invoice clears. Embedded funding covers payroll during that window so you can take the placement instead of turning it down.