Best staffing software for security & event companies

Mobile app loved by thousands

Proven to be easy and accessible by thousands of staff. Build trust with your team by letting them self-schedule and see their earnings. Clients can also track shifts, stay informed about coverage, and receive automatic alerts to react fast.

Most flexible scheduling on the market

Bulk shift creation, shift patterns for complex rotas, and event-based staff scheduling – ensuring optimal staffing for every shift. Clients stay updated while staff enjoy the freedom to manage their schedules.

Reliable pay, billing, and client management

Secure every penny of profit with instant access to salary information, invoices, and client data. Filters help you find what you need in seconds, keeping finances and relationships in perfect order.

Scheduling

Bulk shifts creation

Parim offers multiple ways to schedule months in seconds. It can be done via patterns, select mode or event copying to suit any shift rota.

Event-based scheduling

From scheduling to staffing and cost tracking, manage every aspect of your event and temp projects efficiently and stress-free. Create events along the shifts in seconds or upload them in bulk.

Self-scheduling

Allow your team to apply for new open shifts that match their skills to cover shifts quickly.

Highlight scheduling conflicts

Never worry about assigning a shift to someone who is absent or lacks the skills, let the system automatically warn you if someone is not right for the shift.

Shift task lists

Assign tasks to your shifts to make sure the shift duties are completed.

Time & attendance

Real-time clock in and breaks

See if your team starts and ends their shifts at the right time and takes proper breaks to stay compliant.

Payroll-ready timesheets

Generate timesheets as soon as the shift ends. See all hours worked and pay info for every shift for any given period, position, team or location.

Geofence clock-in

Reduce time-theft by using geofence. For an easier workflow, let shifts start automatically when staff reach the site.

Clock in via mob app, call or SMS

Set clock in via the app, SMS, or phone calls for maximum flexibility across locations and shifts.

Pay & charge

Pay & charge data for every shift

Let staff and clients access per-shift pay details, reducing back-and-forth.

Custom pay and charge rates

Automate rates to pay your team as well as to charge your clients. Set the rates based on a position, contract type, client, location or person. For more advanced rates, use age range, shift hours, days of the week or hours of the day.

Invoice-ready data

Export finance data in one click and easily upload it to your payroll system.

Holiday pay & charge

Provide fair compensation and compliance with flexible holiday pay and charge rates.

Pay lock

Lock/ unlock timesheets, expenses, absences, and jobs when they are ready to be paid out.

Priority list for pay & charge rules

Define the order in which the system applies rules to shifts. For instance, you can prioritize rules based on position or location to determine which one holds more weight.

Role-based access

Secure pay data by granting access solely to authorised managers.

Timesheets & approvals

Accurate timesheets

The system will automatically create real-time timesheets based on clock in and break stamps, displaying work hours and payroll data for any period, position, team, or location.

Timesheets approval chain

Require approval from supervisors, clients, or assignees to confirm all stakeholders are aligned with the timesheets.

Customisable timesheet views

Review and confirm timesheets in your preferred format – choose between a table or a list for a clearer, more efficient workflow.

Smart filtering and quick export

Apply filters to timesheets by position, location, approval, and other criteria, and export them with just one click.

Absence management

Custom absences and holidays

Set custom absence types and national holidays with designated pay rates. Define annual and maximum holiday allowances to comply with local regulations.

Absence requests

Allow your team to mark their unavailabilities and request days off directly via the mob app. Get instant notifications for quick approvals.

Absence reporting

Gain clear visibility into your team’s absence and ensure everyone is taking time off to stay compliant with labour laws.

Filter and export

Filter your team’s absences by department, time period or absences type and export them instantly.

Compliance

Qualifications and certificates

Get immediate notifications if any of the qualifications, certificates, visas or any other documents are about to expire.

Work & rest time rules

Set clear rest and work time rules to keep your team in line with working time regulations.

Fair and compliant pay rates

Customise pay rules to match national minimum wage, age-based rates, or shift-specific requirements.

Incident reporting

Accurate, real-time logs with instant alerts and synced shift data.

Mobile app

Time clock

An accurate time clock for up-to-the-minute time tracking and timesheets. Review all clock ins in real time: late, running and upcoming.

Manage shifts on the go

Create, unpublish or confirm shifts and absences – do it all from your phone.

App push notifications

Be aware of any cancellation, overtime or missed clock-ins absence requests, timesheets approvals and more.

Access people data

See your staff data in the app even if it’s thousands. Always have access to their details, shifts and timesheets.

Communication

Group messaging in the system

Send out emails and SMS messages to multiple employees at once directly in the system.

Alerts & reminders

Decide what and when your staff gets notified about, from shift reminders to important updates, improving attendance.

Notifications via app, email and SMS

Choose the type of notification that suits a specific shift, location or client. Always be aware if your team is at the right place and time for their shifts.

Open push notifications

Reduce scheduling gaps by sending real-time notifications to the right staff about new shifts.

Staff database

Unlimited database

No per-user fees, add as many employees as needed to keep every shift staffed.

Upload people in bulk

Add thousands of employees to the system via a CSV file.

Agile filtering & export

Filter staff based on qualifications, roles, availability, and other key attributes. Easily export any filtered group.

Employment types & departments

Classify your teams into departments and assign specific employment types for better organisation and business operations.

Employee insights

Stay informed on employee retention, shift distribution, vacation use, and other key metrics.

Client portal

Client app

Provide your clients with access to the app to view shift details, their progress, and approve timesheets.

Automated notifications

Keep clients always informed via app or email notifications, minimising repetitive communication and follow-ups.

Selective data control

Control the visibility of data for your clients in the app, including options to hide shift charge info, timesheets, or checkpoints.

Checkpoints client view

Foster stronger client relationships and trust by offering access to completed checkpoints and guard tours.

Check calls

Safety check-ins via call, SMS or app

Your employees can log safety check-ins via mobile app, call or SMS to meet any compliance standard.

Custom check-in & alert intervals

Adjust check-in intervals and alert times to align with shift requirements, location or client preferences.

Instant notifications for missed check-ins

If a safety check-in or an alert has been missed or triggered, assigned managers will be instantly notified via mobile push notification, email or SMS.

Agile filtering

Filter out shifts with missed safety check-ins or alarms.

Guard tours (checkpoints)

NFC tech for guard tours

Set up NFC checkpoint routes for security teams for accurate tracking and verification of each patrol.

Tour insights for clients

Offer access to checkpoints tours to your clients directly in the client app.

Detailed reporting

Capture tour details with automatic reports detailing shift, locations, and key timestamps.

Reports hub

Smart filtering for all reports

All reports offer multiple filtering by department, certain employees, time periods, location, client and even more.

Employee trends

Stay updated on retention rates, shift distribution, vacation usage, and other critical workforce metrics.

Time & attendance insights

Track actual clock-ins, clock-outs and breaks, quickly detect lateness, early leaves or overtime.

Absences report

Review employee absences by type, period, specific staff, or company-wide statistics.

Pay & charge reporting

Adjust the report to show scheduled or actual shifts. Export as a CSV file for easy import into payroll software.

Position coverage

Compare planned positions with actual allocations, tracking hours, rates, and charges. Evaluate coverage by rate range, location, or event, and review planned gross margin using schedule data.

Revenue summary

Monitor charges by day, week, month, or location, based on actual shift hours.

Tour data report

Automatically capture shift, location, and timestamp details for each tour.

Subcontractors management

Manage subcontractor shifts

Bundle shifts for subcontractors and receive confirmation for each.

Statement of work

Create a statement of work and match it against the subcontractor's incoming invoice.

Assets management

Asset tracking

Add thousands of assets and track their entire history, including usage and updates.

Instant return forms

Enter asset info, and the system creates return forms for you.

Write-off records

Keep asset records accessible for future reference, even after they’ve been written off.

Dashboard

Action required events

The system flags the list of key action items like shift applications and timesheets to review, absence requests, expiring visas and much more.

Upcoming shifts chart

View how many shifts are open, requested and confirmed for each day of the current week.

Latest actions list

See what your team is working on and if scheduling goes as planned.

Birthdays and work anniversaries

Never miss an important date of your employees and allow a system to send out an automated congratulation message.

Action history log

Every action recorded

Never lose a single piece of information, automatically record every action taken by supervisors and managers.

Filtering

Filter the action history by date or a certain person. Find out who made what change in the system and when.

Documents hub

Easy bulk upload

Upload multiple documents, images to the system.

Customise visibility

Make documents visible only to specific people, clients or locations.

Quick filtering

Filter documents by name, client, or location to find the right one.

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