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Temporary staffing software
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.
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:
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 healthcare staffing example, read the MediHire case study on 53% more weekly shifts filled across screening, compliance, scheduling, timesheets, and export handoff.
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.
Use custom digital intake forms, multi-stage screening workflows, reference requests, applicant chat, document uploads, PDF-backed forms, and digital signature capture on forms.
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.
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.
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.
Create shift-based jobs with dates, times, talent pools, locations, and worker requirements. Use calendars and scheduling views to keep the team aligned.
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.
Use digital timesheets with worker submission, client approval, admin processing, and export preparation. GPS clock-in and clock-out can be supported where enabled.
Support configurable pay and bill rules across talent pools, skill levels, pay levels, charge levels, timing tags, surcharges, bounties, and promotions where configured.
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.
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.
Give workers and clients an agency-branded mobile and web app experience, with your agency name, logo, colours, and support details.
| 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. |
Scissors is strongest when your agency has real operational complexity.
It may be a strong fit if your agency:
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:
The best way to assess fit is to bring your real workflow to a demo.
Healthcare staffing proof
MediHire used Scissors to connect healthcare staffing workflows across applicant screening, compliance, scheduling, complex rates, timesheets, and CSV exports, then reported faster shift filling and invoicing reduced to 4 hours.
Temporary staffing software helps agencies manage the operational work of placing temporary, casual, contract, or shift-based workers. That can include applicant screening, worker availability, credential tracking, client job requests, scheduling, timesheets, approvals, pay and bill rules, and payroll-ready exports.
Scissors includes applicant screening and onboarding workflows, but it is not mainly a permanent placement ATS. It is built for temporary staffing operations after application, across workers, clients, jobs, compliance, timesheets, and export handoff.
An ATS usually manages applicants, resumes, hiring stages, and recruitment pipelines. Temporary staffing software also needs to support active workers, recurring client jobs, availability, compliance, scheduling, timesheets, client approvals, rates, and payroll-ready exports.
No. Scissors is not a payroll system. It prepares export-ready data for your payroll provider or finance workflow. Agencies still use their own payroll system to process pay.
No. Scissors helps agencies collect, review, track, and enforce credential requirements. Human recruiters or agency staff approve each verification.
Yes. Scissors supports a client portal where authorised client users can create jobs, manage job details, review candidates where allowed, approve timesheets, communicate, and use other self-service workflows controlled by the agency.
Yes. Scissors supports mobile and web app workflows for workers, including availability, job details, job responses, documents, timesheets, expenses where enabled, chat, notifications, and reviews where enabled.
Yes. Agencies can use their own branded mobile and web app experience, including agency name, logo, colours, support details, and app identity. This keeps routine worker and client interactions connected to the agency's brand across web and mobile.
No. Candidate eligibility is handled through configured rules and filters, and recruiters or authorised client users make the final selection.
Scissors is well suited to temporary, casual, contract, and shift-based agencies in sectors such as healthcare, nursing, aged care, residential care, education, ECE, hospitality, events, security, logistics, industrial, cleaning, and similar sectors with recurring jobs and operational complexity.
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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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