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Companies looking for a simple, self-service employee portal

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Last updated: November 2025

Instaff overview

What is Instaff?

Empower your team with InStaff's employee self-service portal, compatible with your existing ERP and payroll software (e.g. Sage ERPs, Viewpoint Vista, Spectrum, QuickBooks, and more). Features include paystub & taxform viewing, timesheets/timetracking, digital time clock/punch-clocks, document & file management, employee directory, announcements, private files storage, and vacation/time-off requests. Say goodbye to manual paperwork with InStaff!"

Key benefits of using Instaff

- Provide employees with a self service portal
- Deliver pay stubs & tax forms online and allow employees to access their entire pay history within the portal.
- document sharing, storage, and access for both company documents, such as manuals, policies, request forms, and more, and private files such as contracts and performance reviews that only they can see.
- Searchable employee directory to find other employees and access details such as their contact information, office location, job role, and any personalized comments that the employee may add.
- Track time within InStaff with the ability to customize time entry forms and add custom fields. Time off can also be requested through the employee portal. Custom workflows can be setup to approve timesheets and time off requests.
- Digital timeclock/punch clock system
- Integrate with payroll and ERP solutions such as Sage, Quickbooks Online, Vista by Viewpoint, and more to synchronize data across platforms and streamline the entire payroll and accounting process.

Starting price

0.25per user /
per month

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Ease of use rating:

Instaff pros, cons and reviews insights

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Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

 
 
 
1-2(1)
3-4(14)
5(34)

What do users say about Instaff?

The development team continues to expand InStaff portal functionality, such as PTO calendar integration with Outlook.

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Who uses Instaff?

Based on 49 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Accounting
Construction
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Food & Beverages
Others

Use cases

Payroll
Online HR
HR Software for Nonprofits

Instaff's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Instaff users:

Self service portal
Payroll management
Vacation/Leave tracking
Time tracking
Access controls/permissions
Data import/export

All Instaff features

Features rating:

Time off requests
Time off management
Employee database
Calendar management
Labor forecasting
Lockout periods
Mobile access
Multiple billing rates
Online time tracking
Overtime calculation
Payroll integration
Payroll reporting
Project time tracking
Real-Time reporting
Reminders
Reporting/Analytics
Sick leave tracking
Task management
Tax compliance
Third-Party integrations
Timesheet management
Workflow management
Workforce management
Accounting
Accounting integration
Activity dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
API
Approval process control
Attendance tracking
Billable & non-billable hours
Billing & invoicing
Clock in/out
Customizable branding
Customizable reports
Customizable templates
Document management
Employee engagement
Employee management
Employee portal
Employee profiles
Employee time tracking
HR management
Labor cost reporting

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Instaff pricing

Value for money rating:

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
Free trial
Subscription

Time Tracking

3

/user

Per month

Features included:

  • time tracking
  • timesheets
  • time clock
  • time and attendance
  • time off

Online Paystubs & Tax Forms

0.38

Per month

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Time-Off Requests

0.25

/user

Per month

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Announcements

0.25

/user

Per month

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Digital Documents

0.25

/user

Per month

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Certifications and Licenses Manager

0.25

/user

Per month

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User opinions about Instaff price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Instaff's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“Support staff was amazing in helping us getting set up. We are only using it for publishing paystubs and it works great for that.”
KR

Katja R.

Bookkeeper

“I like how user friendly the software is, it makes explaining to clients how to use the portal really straight forward and uploading documents is very easy.”
MK

Megan K.

Accounting Technician

Instaff integrations (9)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 49 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Instaff integrations and how users feel about them.

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Sage 300

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

I actually use Sage 300 - not the Cloud version. This is where I produce paychecks every 2 weeks.

SS

Steven S.

Controller

Instaff support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Phone Support
Email/Help Desk
Chat
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base

Training options

Live Online
Documentation
Webinars
Videos

Instaff FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Instaff?

Instaff has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business

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Q. What languages does Instaff support?

Instaff supports the following languages:
English, French, Spanish


Q. Does Instaff offer an API?

Yes, Instaff has an API available for use.


Q. What level of support does Instaff offer?

Instaff offers the following support options:
Phone Support, Email/Help Desk, Chat, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base

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