Temporary staffing software
Temporary staffing software for agencies that need more than an ATS
Temporary staffing agencies do not stop working once a candidate applies.
You still need to screen applicants, check credentials, manage availability, fill client jobs, coordinate shifts, collect timesheets, apply pay and bill rules, and prepare clean data for payroll and accounting.
Scissors is temporary staffing software for agencies that need those moving parts in one branded platform for workers, clients, and recruiters.
It helps your team manage the operational work that often sits between an ATS, scheduling tools, spreadsheets, timesheet systems, client communication, and payroll-ready exports.
Why temporary staffing needs different software
An ATS can be useful when your main job is tracking applicants through a hiring pipeline.
Temporary staffing is different.
Your agency is not only finding candidates. You are managing active workers, recurring client needs, shift-based jobs, compliance requirements, timesheets, approvals, rate rules, and back-office handoff.
That creates a different kind of workload:
- workers need to set availability and receive job details;
- clients may need to request jobs, review workers, and approve timesheets;
- recruiters need to know who is qualified, available, and suitable;
- compliance documents and credentials need to stay current;
- timesheets need to be checked before payroll and billing;
- pay and charge rates may vary by client, worker level, time of day, or day of week;
- payroll and accounting systems need clean export-ready data.
Many agencies start by managing this with spreadsheets, email, SMS, paper forms, an ATS, a timesheet tool, and a few manual workarounds. That can work for a while. As the agency grows, the handoffs become harder to see and easier to drop.
Scissors is designed for that temporary staffing workload.
For a real example, see how MediHire used Scissors to connect healthcare staffing operations across screening, compliance, scheduling, timesheets, and export handoff.
The middle-office work of temporary staffing
The hardest part of temporary staffing is often the work after application and before payroll.
That is the middle-office work: applicant screening, worker eligibility, client job requests, scheduling, availability, compliance, timesheets, rates, approvals, and exports.
It is where a lot of agency time disappears.
Scissors helps agencies bring that work into a connected staffing workflow so recruiters, clients, and workers are not relying on separate tools to understand the same job.
You can think of Scissors as an operating layer for temporary staffing. It does not replace every specialist system. It connects the staffing workflow so your agency can prepare cleaner information for the systems you already use.
What Scissors helps temporary staffing agencies manage
Applicant screening and onboarding
Use custom digital intake forms, multi-stage screening workflows, reference requests, applicant chat, document uploads, PDF-backed forms, and digital signature capture on forms.
Credentials and compliance tracking
Collect worker documents, track credential expiry dates, set talent pool eligibility rules, and help recruiters see whether workers meet requirements before they are placed.
Scissors helps agencies manage and enforce compliance requirements. It does not verify credentials automatically or perform background checks.
Candidate and worker app
Give workers a mobile and web app to manage availability, view job details, accept or decline work, upload documents, submit timesheets, submit expenses where enabled, receive notifications, and communicate around jobs.
Client portal and self-service
Give clients controlled self-service for job creation, candidate visibility, timesheet approval, expenses where enabled, job communication, favourites, and agency-moderated reviews.
The agency stays in control of what clients can see and do.
Job creation and workforce scheduling
Create shift-based jobs with dates, times, talent pools, locations, and worker requirements. Use calendars and scheduling views to keep the team aligned.
Qualification-based candidate filtering
Filter workers by visibility, active status, talent pool membership, credential requirements, availability, overlap rules, organisation type, and distance.
Where enabled, eligible candidates can then be ranked to help recruiters review invite options. Recruiters or authorised client users still make the final selection.
Timesheets and approvals
Use digital timesheets with worker submission, client approval, admin processing, and export preparation. GPS clock-in and clock-out can be supported where enabled.
Pay and bill rules
Support configurable pay and bill rules across talent pools, skill levels, pay levels, charge levels, timing tags, surcharges, bounties, and promotions where configured.
Payroll-ready and accounting-ready exports
Prepare export-ready data for payroll and accounting systems. Scissors supports CSV export workflows for systems such as Crystal Payroll, Payspace, Xero, and generic formats, plus a genuine iPayroll API integration where relevant in New Zealand.
Scissors is not a payroll or accounting replacement.
Reviews and feedback
Use internal, agency-moderated feedback and ratings between workers and clients where enabled. Reviews are tied to completed jobs and help support human staffing decisions.
Branded app experience
Give workers and clients an agency-branded mobile and web app experience, with your agency name, logo, colours, and support details.
How temporary staffing software compares to common tools
| Tool type | Usually good for | Where it can fall short for temporary staffing | Where Scissors fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATS | Applicant tracking, hiring stages, resumes, and recruitment pipelines | Often stops before scheduling, timesheets, compliance enforcement, client self-service, and export handoff | Scissors includes applicant screening, then supports the post-application staffing workflow. |
| Recruitment CRM | Business development, candidate sourcing, and relationship management | Usually not built for shift-based operations, timesheets, worker app workflows, or pay and bill rules | Scissors starts where the operational staffing work begins. |
| Scheduling or rostering software | Planning shifts and rosters | May not manage applicant intake, credentials, rate rules, timesheets, exports, or branded client and worker portals | Scissors connects scheduling with staffing-specific workflows. |
| Timesheet tool | Capturing hours and approvals | Usually separate from worker eligibility, client job requests, rate rules, and export preparation | Scissors keeps timesheets closer to jobs, clients, workers, and rates. |
| Payroll system | Processing pay, tax, and payslips | Not designed to run staffing operations before payroll | Scissors prepares payroll-ready data for the systems your agency already uses. |
| Accounting system | Invoicing, reconciliation, and financial reporting | Not designed for workforce operations | Scissors prepares billing-ready export data for accounting handoff. |
| Form builder | Collecting information through forms | Often disconnected from applicant stages, compliance tracking, and job eligibility | Scissors forms sit inside a staffing workflow. |
| Marketplace platform | Matching buyers and workers inside someone else's marketplace | The agency may lose control of brand, relationships, and operating model | Scissors is agency-controlled software for your own clients and workers. |
| Scissors temporary staffing software | Applicant intake, compliance, job filling, scheduling, timesheets, rates, exports, client self-service, and branded apps | It still works with specialist payroll, accounting, and finance systems rather than replacing them | Scissors helps connect the middle-office workflow of temporary staffing. |
Is Scissors a good fit for your temporary staffing agency?
Scissors is strongest when your agency has real operational complexity.
It may be a strong fit if your agency:
- places temporary, casual, contract, or shift-based workers;
- manages recurring client job requests;
- needs workers to use a mobile or web app;
- needs clients to request jobs, review workers, approve timesheets, or communicate inside a controlled portal;
- tracks credentials, compliance documents, expiry dates, or worker eligibility;
- works in healthcare, nursing, aged care, education, ECE, care, hospitality, events, security, logistics, industrial, cleaning, or similar sectors;
- manages complex pay and bill rules;
- prepares payroll-ready or billing-ready exports;
- wants a branded app experience for workers and clients;
- has enough worker, client, compliance, timesheet, or rate complexity that spreadsheets and separate tools are slowing the team down.
As a broad guide, Scissors is often more relevant once an agency is managing dozens or hundreds of active workers, multiple clients, recurring jobs, or compliance-heavy workflows.
It may not be the right fit if your agency:
- only does permanent placement;
- mainly needs a recruitment CRM for business development;
- needs a full payroll or accounting replacement;
- wants to operate as a marketplace;
- is very small and simple, with only a handful of workers and clients;
- is not ready to configure workflows, rates, documents, and operational rules.
The best way to assess fit is to bring your real workflow to a demo.
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See how Scissors could fit your temporary staffing agency
The most useful demo starts with your current process.
Bring your applicant workflow, credential requirements, scheduling process, client approvals, timesheets, pay and bill rules, and export needs. We will walk through where Scissors could make the work clearer.
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