HR Symphony

Name

HR Symphony

Legal name

ALTRES

Website

https://hr-symphony.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1969

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

HR Symphony is a cloud-based, single sign-on HR administration platform — covering payroll, benefits, recruiting, onboarding, and employee records — sold exclusively through ALTRES to Hawaii employers across SMB and mid-market segments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HR & Payroll Software

NAICS

Professional Employer Organizations (561330)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Core HR & HRIS (BPACAPAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

HR Operations Administration (HRIS Admin, Records, Employee Data Mgmt) (BPACAKAC), HRIS/HCM Managed Services & Support (BPAEAGAF), HR Policy, Forms & Case Management (Ticketing/Workflows) (BPAAAIAJ)

Keywords

• HR management software
• Payroll processing platform
• Applicant tracking system
• Benefits administration software
• Time and attendance

Headquarters

HQ city

Honolulu

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. HR Software Subscription: HR Symphony is provided as part of partnership with ALTRES, suggesting a subscription-based SaaS model for HR administration services including payroll, benefits, recruiting, and employee management

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

HR Symphony is a fully-integrated, cloud-based HR administration platform with single sign-on access that unifies payroll processing, time and attendance tracking, applicant tracking, benefits administration, employee onboarding, and electronic employee records into a single system. It is offered exclusively through ALTRES, a Hawaii-based HR and staffing company, to employers seeking to consolidate fragmented HR functions into one ecosystem.

Product overview

HR Symphony is a single unified HR platform offered by ALTRES through their simplicityHR division, serving Hawaii's employers as an all-in-one HR ecosystem. The platform comprises a core unified platform (HR Symphony) with integrated modules including Payroll, QuickHire (onboarding), Benefits, Recruiting & Hiring, and Human Resources management. All modules share a single sign-on architecture and are designed to eliminate double entry and manual calculations by integrating with each other through a centralized database.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• QuickHire: Paperless new hire onboarding system within HR Symphony platform

Products and services

• HR Symphony A fully-integrated HR administration platform serving as the central ecosystem for all HR needs — from recruiting and hiring to payroll processing, benefits administration, and employee management — for Hawaii employers.
• QuickHire Paperless onboarding system enabling newly hired and re-hired employees to complete required paperwork online so they can begin work on their first day.
• Payroll Full-featured payroll engine integrated with time and attendance, handling calculations for leave/absence, time and labor, overtime, bonuses, commissions, deductions, and state and federal taxes.
• Benefits Comprehensive benefits management including a Benefits Library with summaries, side-by-side health plan comparisons, flex spending accounts, retirement plans, and lifestyle benefits from Hawaii's leading companies.
• Recruiting & Hiring Applicant tracking system enabling creation and management of job descriptions, candidate tracking, customized careers pages, offer letter management, and hiring workflow, with native integration to Indeed.
• Human Resources Electronic employee file cabinet storing personal details, payroll data, benefits, skills, work assignments, labor cost allocations, photos, and documents, with employment data analytics and real-time reporting.

Named customers6 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• IndeedcoreTechnology or IntegrationHR Symphony is integrated with Indeed, enabling job postings created in HR Symphony to be directly published on Indeed. Completed applications and candidate information seamlessly sync back into HR Symphony, keeping all recruitment data organized in one place.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Workday: Enterprise HCM suite covering HR, payroll, time, benefits, and analytics — adjacent incumbent benchmark for where HR Symphony's integrated HR/payroll architecture could evolve over time as customers grow.
• ADP Run: Incumbent payroll giant's SMB suite (ADP Run) bundling payroll, HR, time, and benefits for small businesses — broader incumbent competitor that can also serve Hawaii-based customers remotely.

Direct peers

• Rippling: Unified HRIS combining payroll, benefits, time tracking, ATS, employee records, and learning on one platform — competes head-on with HR Symphony's single sign-on integrated architecture for growing and established SMBs.
• Paycor: SMB-focused HR and payroll platform covering payroll, time, benefits, talent management, and reporting — comparable product scope and similar go-to-market against mid-market and established SMB customers.
• Gusto: Cloud-based payroll, benefits, and HR platform purpose-built for U.S. SMBs, offering payroll processing, time tracking, benefits administration, and HR tools in an integrated suite — directly comparable in product scope and customer size to HR Symphony.
• Zenefits: SMB HR platform bundling payroll, benefits, time tracking, and HR administration with a single login — directly comparable in target customer, all-in-one positioning, and module-based upsell motion.
• Insperity: PEO offering co-employment HR outsourcing including payroll, benefits, and HR technology for SMBs — directly comparable to the ALTRES/HR Symphony service-plus-software bundle.
• BambooHR: SMB HRIS focused on employee records, onboarding, time tracking, and reporting — comparable in targeting smaller employers with a clean, integrated employee data and onboarding experience.
• Justworks: PEO-style platform providing payroll, benefits, HR support, and compliance as a bundled service for SMBs — comparable business model of bundling HR admin with technology for SMB employers.
• Paychex: Long-established payroll and HR services provider focused on SMBs with bundled payroll, HR, benefits, and retirement offerings — the closest mainland analog to ALTRES' integrated HR/payroll/benefits/401(k) stack.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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