For Finance & Operations Directors

Before this month's payroll is approved, you'll already know what it will say.

With the National Living Wage rising to £12.50 and NIC increases in April 2026, labour is your largest controllable expense. Stop waiting for month-end P&L reports to find out that overtime has spiked. Control your margins in real time, before payroll runs.

  • Recover up to 2.5% of gross payroll annually
  • Clean exports into Sage, SAP, Iris & Cascade
  • One supplier: software, hardware, engineers
The Invisible Payroll Leak

The 2.5% nobody put on the P&L.

Are you building headcount scenarios in Excel because you don't trust the overtime baseline? Imprecise timekeeping, early finishes, and buddy punching represent a significant, hidden leak in your largest cost line.

Organisations that implement Synergy with biometric verification typically save up to 2.5% of gross payroll annually. For a business with a £2m payroll, that's £50,000 a year, often enough to pay for the system in its first year.

  • Biometric verification eliminates buddy punching
  • Shift completion tracked to the minute, not the honour system
  • Rounding, rules, and overtime calculated by machine, not memory
2.5%
of gross payroll
Where is it going?
Imprecise clocking. Manual errors. Time theft.
Flawless Payroll Execution

Eliminate the Friday Afternoon Tax.

Capturing when an employee clocks in is easy. Converting raw data into perfectly calculated, export-ready payroll is the hard part. Shift differentials, annualised hours, overtime thresholds applied correctly: that's where most teams lose Friday afternoons.

01

The Rules Engine

Your shift differentials, annualised hours, overtime thresholds, and union agreements are applied automatically. Raw clock data becomes perfectly calculated net-hours, before it reaches payroll.

02

Clean Data Exports

Calculated hours flow directly into Sage, SAP, Iris, Pegasus, and Cascade. No CSV massaging, no manual reconciliation, no end-of-period scramble.

03

Zero Reconciliation

Move payroll processing from a weekly calculation exercise to a simple review-and-approve workflow. Your team gets hours back; your data gets audit-ready.

Native integrations
SageSAPIrisPegasusCascadeBusiness Central
Margin Defence & Job Costing

Track the work, not just the clock.

In manufacturing and logistics, knowing a worker clocked in for an 8-hour shift only gives you half the picture. Synergy Projects bridges the gap between hours paid and hours productively allocated.

Move beyond "how long did they work" to "what did they work on". Allocate labour hours to specific production lines, tasks, or cost centres. Identify exactly where margin is leaking.

Lines
production-level cost allocation
Tasks
time-on-task vs standard
Margin
leak visible per cost centre
Week 47 · Labour allocation
Production Facility · Leeds
Live
Hours paid
2,847
Allocated
2,612
Line A: Assembly 847 hrs
Line B: Finishing 612 hrs
QA & Rework 1,153 hrs
Unallocated
235 hrs ≈ £5,200
Your margin is leaking here.
Case Study

How Wren Kitchens cut payroll variance for 4,000 employees

We reduced our payroll variance significantly and achieved full payback on the system faster than projected.
WK
Finance & Operations Director
Wren Kitchens
4,000
employees across the UK
< 1yr
full system payback
100%
labour cost visibility
Read the full financial impact
Total Cost of Ownership

End-to-end accountability. No hidden costs.

The workforce management market is fragmented. Software vendors blame third-party installers when hardware fails. Hardware resellers lack the technical depth to configure complex payroll rules. You pay for the gaps.

Typical vendor stack
  • Cloud software vendor
  • Separate hardware reseller
  • Third-party installer
  • Separate break-fix contractor
"When a terminal fails, who do I call?"
Synel
  • Own cloud software
  • Own UK-manufactured hardware
  • Own in-house UK engineers
  • Own support team
One number. One answer. One predictable cost.
Build Your Business Case

Don't take our word for it. Run your own numbers.

Input your actual headcount, average wage, and current payroll process to build a custom financial model. Generate a board-ready PDF export showing your exact breakeven month and projected annual saving, ready for the next capex meeting.

Run the ROI Calculator

Takes under three minutes. No email required to see your number.

2.5% of gross payroll,
recovered annually
£2m payroll £50,000 / yr
£5m payroll £125,000 / yr
£10m payroll £250,000 / yr
Ready when you are

Ready to defend your margins?

Run your own numbers, or book a 30-minute review with our financial model specialists.