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What makes implementation with Avanti different?

Payroll, just the way you like it

With our flexible in-house payroll solution, you have complete control over how you want your system set up.

You’re in good hands

We assign one main contact to your project for your entire implementation journey. Your dedicated project manager is always in your corner.

Learn before you leap

Once you kick off your implementation, you’ll have access to extensive self-serve and guided learning resources to help you during implementation.

Count on our Canadian expertise

Access to knowledgeable, certified Canadian payroll experts before, during, and after your implementation. With Avanti, you’re never in it alone.

Your HCM partner

Thank you for taking the first step in reaching out to our team of experts to discuss how Avanti can help you and your team. We understand that switching HCM providers or investing in HCM software for the first time can feel intimidating, so we want to help you navigate the change and ensure your organization is prepared to take on the challenge for a smooth transition.

Amin Lalani

CO-CEO

Change can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be

We put together several helpful resources to support you during this transition, including change management best practices. These will walk you through getting your team in the right mindset for change and ensuring you have the right tools and people in place for a successful implementation.

How to get organizationally ready:

Your implementation team

Your team in transitioning to our HCM solution. We offer resources and change management best practices to support you every step of the way. Our focus is ensuring you have the right tools and people in place for a successful implementation.

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Avanti’s implementation at a glance

Your implementation journey is important to us. We want you to fully understand the process before we begin, so you have the right tools and people in place to succeed.

Each implementation project follows a series of tried-and-true steps

Organizational Readiness

Working together, our teams will plan out the timeline for your implementation journey, outline your goals, and ensure that we’ve identified and mitigated any potential risks or dependencies.

Discovery

This is where we dive deeper to drive value. To get a better understanding of your organizational needs, we send you a series of workbooks with detailed questions. Once you’ve completed these workbooks, we help you to identify and mitigate any potential risks or dependencies for your project. This step is crucial for configuring a product that meets your company's unique needs.

Configuration

Based on the findings from discovery, our experience, and industry best practices, we set up a production environment designed to meet your specific needs.

Scenario Testing

To ensure the unique complexities of your product are functioning the way you need them to, we’ll conduct several tests to validate our configuration using a testing environment. We test day-in-the-life situations that are unique to your organization and ensure the desired results are met.

Parallel Testing

In this testing phase your Avanti team will work together with you to ensure your results from previous pay runs are the same as what you’ve got when processing pay through Avanti. This ensures your employees are being paid the correct amount and calculations are correct before sending your files to the bank.

Training

This is a crucial step in any implementation. Training and knowledge transfer are critical to your organization’s long-term success and satisfaction with Avanti. At this stage, we’ll walk you through curated learning streams for your admin users and data managers. For the most part, Avanti training is self-paced, but our team is only a call away to help answer questions. We’ll never leave you hanging.

Go Live

The time has come! An uneventful Go-Live is exactly what we’re aiming for. When the project team is completely satisfied with our testing, your comfort level with Avanti, and your organization's overall readiness, will we formally Go-Live. Our team will guide and support you through three full pay cycles before transitioning you to our amazing Client Care team.

Ongoing Client Care

Once you’ve gone live, you’re in good hands with the Avanti Client Care team. Any questions, issues, or feedback will be addressed in a timely manner. We’re always here to help.

Successful implementation

Our team of experts will guide you through a smooth transition when switching HCM providers or investing in HCM software for the first time.

The Avanti team was knowledgeable and focused on resolving any issues that arose in a timely way, worked hard alongside our internal project team to keep the project moving forward amidst tight deadlines, and were responsive to feedback and requests for changes to the process.

Nancy Gustafson

Project Manager,
Canadian Mennonite University

Our implementation process has been going great thus far. Our project required a creative approach to ensure we were able to meet drop dead timelines and the Avanti team has responded to our needs.

Tarah Middleton

Director of Human Resources,
Child and Family Services of Grande Erie

I want to thank Avanti again for all of your hard work on getting us to the finish line with this project. Kudos to both parties on getting through these challenges and getting us to where we all wanted to be and that is with a state-of-the-art system that we can continue to grow with in the future.

Mike Bastow

Chief Operating Officer and Vice President Finance,
Alexandra Hospital Ingersoll (Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital)

It's a lot of work to get to the "go live" day as it is so customized, but that time is so worth the effort to enjoy the end product. Stop hesitating and sign up! This is so worth the effort.

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See Avanti in action

Learn how Avanti can help you easily onboard, schedule, and run payroll in this in-depth 20-minute demo. You’ll love our automated workflows, and anytime, anywhere employee access.

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In this demo, you’ll get a walkthrough of:

New hire onboarding

Creating and approving schedules

Using the Avanti GO mobile app

Canadian payroll processing

Frequently Asked Questions

Your time is precious, let’s save you a few clicks. Here are some of our most asked questions.

How long does it typically take to implement all modules with Avanti?

Implementation timelines vary depending on multiple factors. We usually see clients successfully implement all modules in about 6 months. Things like build complexity and resource allocation can affect that timeline.

What are the license types in Avanti? How many of each do I have?

There are three types of licenses in Avanti:

Class A: Your Avanti ‘superusers,’ or anyone who has access to the desktop application and web.
Class B: Your managers who have access to time data on the web.
Class C: Your everyday employees who access the web to view personal information and request time off.

You can check how many licenses you have at any time by following the instructions here.

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How do I access the desktop application?

Your Avanti team will need to give you access first, but don’t worry, this will be done at the beginning of implementation. If you already went through this with your team and forgot a step, please follow these instructions.

We will have the same project team throughout implementation?

Yes, we try to keep the project team the same from start to finish. There may be instances in which that’s not possible due to unforeseen circumstances, but we try our best to provide consistency.

What are workbooks and how many do I need to fill out during this project?

Workbooks are information-gathering documents our team use to configure your Avanti solution. We ask for information like pay groups, entitlements, and positions in these workbooks, so your unique Avanti build meets your needs as an organization. There are three Payroll workbooks, one Time and Attendance workbook, and one Human Resources and Recruiting and Onboarding workbook.

What is SFTP and why does Avanti use it?

SFTP stands for Secure File Transfer Protocol. It’s a secure way for both Avanti and your team to send files back and forth. Due to the nature of these implementations, we’re usually sending confidential data between our teams and it’s important we provide an additional layer of secure to ensure your information is safe.

Can my logo be added to my organization's Avanti Self-Service Portal and Career Connector site?

Absolutely! Once your project team is assigned, they will ask for your company logo (guidelines will be sent for size and format) and your preferred URL for both sites.