Is NETtime a Utility?

Grant Cline
Product Manager

We depend on the utility companies to help us through the day. Water, Electricity, and Gas are the three most common utilities that we use daily, should NETtime be in that group? We use NETtime everyday to help make our lives easier, but that in it self isn’t what makes a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution like NETtime similar to a utility. So, what is it?

If you keep your house at 78° in the winter, your gas bill will probably be higher than it is in the summer when the heat is off. Similarly, in April when the weather is nice and the air conditioning is off, your electric bill will probably be less than it is in August when you have the air conditioning running every day. Could you imagine paying the gas company as much in August as you do in January, even though you aren’t using as much in August?

Paying for something you aren’t using often happens with companies that claim to offer a “SaaS solution.” These providers will say they are a ‘SaaS solution’ and then they require you to pay for 60 “licenses” when you only have 48 employees with time in the system, just in case your business grows. Or, they charge you a software maintenance fee, on top of the “SaaS licenses” that they sold you. The companies that sell you licenses and software maintenance as part of their “SaaS solution” are probably not running a true SaaS application.

With NETtime, like the electricity in your home, you only pay for what you use. If you have 48 employees with punch data, you will pay for 48 employees. We don’t charge you for 50 or 60 employees, “just in case your business grows.” When your business grows to 60 employees, then you pay for 60 employees, and not a moment sooner.

It isn’t shocking to see why NETtime is growing at such an explosive rate!

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