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Your PMS Knows Your Rooms. Your POS Knows Your Tabs. Why Doesn’t Your Payroll Know Your Hotels?
Covington, LA — March 25, 2026— Most payroll platforms treat a 47-room Comfort Inn and a 200-room full-service Marriott the same way they treat an accounting firm. Same onboarding. Same time tracking. Same support queue. Same “we integrate with everything” promise that ends with your controller reconciling spreadsheets at midnight.
Hotel owners know better. Your housekeeping team clocks in at 6am and needs a punch option that works without a desk. Your front desk runs 24/7 and has questions about PTO policy at 11pm — in Spanish. Your restaurant inside the hotel has tipped employees on a completely different pay structure than the rest of the property. And when you’re running three, five, or fifteen rooftops, every one of those complexities multiplies.
This is the reality Netchex was built for. And this April, we’re bringing it to Philadelphia.
Netchex Is an Allied Member of AAHOA — and We’ll Be at AAHOACON26
Netchex was recently named an Official Allied Member of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) — the largest hotel owners association in the country, representing nearly 20,000 members who collectively own more than 60% of the hotels in the United States.
The partnership wasn’t a logo swap. It reflects a commitment Netchex has already made: today, we support more than 1,000 hospitality properties and 7,500+ clients nationwide, serving AAHOA members, ownership groups, and management companies operating everything from single properties to portfolios of 100+ hotels.
We’ll be on the trade show floor at AAHOACON26 — April 8–10 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. Stop by Booth #3012 to see the platform live, talk to our hospitality team, learn about exclusive AAHOA member pricing — and enter to win our Core Package free for your entire company for 5 years (details below).
What AAHOA Hotel Owners See When They Evaluate Netchex
Deep Integrations With the Systems You Already Run
This is where most payroll vendors lose hotel owners — in the gap between “we can import a CSV” and actual operational integration.
Netchex connects directly with M3, InnFlow, HIA, Hotel Effectiveness, Actable, and other platforms hotels depend on for financial management, labor planning, and operations. We push employee updates into your ERP, pull time and pay data back automatically, and send GL data without manual effort.
If your hotel has a restaurant, we integrate with Toast, R365, Oracle MICROS, Xenial, and other POS systems — pushing employee data into your POS and pulling time and pay data back so your team can move between the lobby and the dining room without creating a data reconciliation headache.
No spreadsheet exports. No duplicate entry. One source of truth from clock-in to close of shift.
OneScreen Payroll™ — Confidence Across Every Property
Running payroll across multiple rooftops means managing multiple timelines, multiple managers, and multiple opportunities for something to slip through. OneScreen Payroll puts everything in one centralized dashboard — unapproved timecards, missing punches, pending tasks — with real-time readiness tracking across every property.
You know exactly where things stand before you hit submit. No bouncing between systems. No scrambling at the last minute.
AskHR — Answers at 11pm, in Any Language
Your front desk runs 24/7. So does AskHR.
Netchex’s AI assistant lets employees ask HR questions in plain language and get immediate, accurate answers — at any hour, in their preferred language — drawn directly from your own company documentation. Your property SOPs. Your employee handbook. Your PTO policy. Your escalation procedures.
A housekeeper who needs to know the early checkout linen protocol at 6am gets an answer without calling a manager. A front desk agent with a benefits question at midnight gets it resolved without filing a ticket.
For a hospitality workforce where English may not be the first language and shifts don’t end at 5pm, this isn’t a nice-to-have — it’s operational infrastructure.
AI-Powered Hiring Built Into Payroll
In an industry where unfilled shifts directly impact guest experience and revenue, a slow hiring process is a revenue problem. Netchex combines recruiting, onboarding, and payroll in a single connected flow:
- AI-powered candidate screening with automated text outreach
- Instant interview scheduling that fits around your managers’ operational hours
- Best-in-class candidate visibility through our Indeed Platinum Partnership
- Multi-location hiring workflows that work across your entire organization
- Rehire flagging and shared talent pools across rooftops
New hires complete all paperwork digitally — with e-signatures — before they ever show up as active in your system. No-shows stay separate, so your records stay clean. The flow from offer letter to first paycheck is seamless.
Time Tracking That Fits Every Role
Hotels don’t have one type of employee in one type of location. Netchex gives you the flexibility to match punch methods to roles — kiosk, mobile, badge, geofencing, or biometric facial recognition — without sacrificing accuracy or fraud prevention.
Real-time attendance tracking automatically assigns violation points for tardiness, no-shows, and unapproved absences, feeding directly into performance management with a clear historical trail. Schedules from Hotel Effectiveness can be fed directly into Netchex, giving managers a real-time view of who’s on the clock, who’s late, and who hasn’t shown up — all measured against the schedule your property already runs on.
Payroll Built for How Hotels Actually Pay
Native support for the payroll complexity hospitality creates: multiple pay rates, shift differentials, tips, tip shortfall calculations, overtime, and bonuses — built into every layer of the platform, not bolted on after the fact.
Multi-state and local tax compliance is built in. Centralized payroll across properties and brands runs from one platform. Audit-ready reporting comes standard.
Built for Hourly Teams — Including a Mobile App They’ll Actually Use
Over 80% of Netchex employees adopt the mobile app. That matters when your workforce doesn’t sit at desks.
From the app, employees can access Earned Wage Access, check pay stubs, manage benefits, request time off, read company documents, and get instant HR answers through AskHR — all in their native language. No training required.
Financial wellness tools — including paycards for unbanked staff and Buy Now Pay Later — give hotel employees the kind of benefits that drive retention in high-turnover roles.
Support That Understands Hospitality
When hotel owners call Netchex, they don’t reach a generic call center. They connect with support professionals who understand shift differentials, split shifts, tipped shortfall, multi-rate payroll, and the compliance challenges hospitality operators navigate daily.
90% of customer support calls are answered in under one minute. No scripts. No ticket queues. Real answers to hotel-specific questions from people who know the business.
As one hospitality HR leader put it:
“Netchex strives to grow and be better by really listening to their clients’ needs. We have grown alongside Netchex and it’s exciting to see our progress together.” — Tabitha Lehman, HR Generalist, Northwest x Southern Hospitality
AAHOA Members Get Exclusive Pricing
As an Official Allied Member of AAHOA, Netchex offers preferred pricing and hospitality-focused packages exclusively for AAHOA members — not available to the general market. New AAHOA members who joined within the last 12 months may also qualify for additional incentives.
🎁 Booth #3012 Giveaway: Free Netchex for 5 Years
You read that right. We’re giving away our Core Package — free for your entire company for 5 years — to one lucky winner at AAHOACON26.
No catch. No asterisks. Just payroll and HR built for hotels, on us, for half a decade.
To enter: Visit us at Booth #3012 and scan your badge. That’s it.
Whether you’re running a single property or managing a portfolio, this is the kind of giveaway that actually impacts your bottom line. Come say hello — and you might walk away with the best ROI of the entire convention.
Come See Us in Philadelphia
AAHOACON26 | April 8–10, 2026 | Pennsylvania Convention Center | Philadelphia, PA | Booth #3012
More than 6,000 hotel owners and 500+ exhibitors will be there. So will the Netchex team — ready to show you how AI-powered recruiting, OneScreen Payroll, deep hotel integrations, and AskHR work together in one platform built specifically for hospitality.
Hotels don’t struggle because payroll is hard. They struggle because labor is fragmented — disconnected systems, disconnected data, disconnected support. Netchex brings it all together.
Stop by Booth #3012 or request a demo before the show →
AAHOA members: learn about your exclusive pricing →
Netchex is an Official Allied Member of AAHOA and supports more than 1,000 hospitality properties nationwide. Trusted by operators managing properties under Hilton, Marriott, IHG, Hyatt, Wyndham, Best Western, Choice Hotels, Sonesta, and Accor brands.
About Netchex
HR and payroll shouldn’t slow you down. Netchex helps you move forward. Born from the frustration of clunky software and disappearing support, Netchex delivers a better way to manage your hourly workers and salaried teams.
Netchex is a people-first HCM platform built for hourly teams and mobile workforces. It brings hiring, scheduling, payroll, and compliance into one seamless system that your team can actually use on the go. Whether you’re running a busy restaurant, a hotel, a multi-location gym, or a high-compliance healthcare center, we simplify the admin work so you can focus on your people.
With intuitive tools that streamline your systems, Netchex gives you time back and confidence moving forward. But we’re more than just software. With Netchex, you get real, U.S.-based people who know your name, answer the phone, and stick with you from Day 1. No call centers. No surprises. Just the best support in the HCM industry and smart technology that keep your team connected and your operations moving.
Industries We Serve
- Automotive Dealerships
- Banking & Insurance
- Commercial Services
- Fitness & Recreation
- Food & Beverage
- Franchises
- Healthcare
- Hospitality & Lodging
- Building Services
- Education
- Retail
- Non profits
- Professional services
- Multi-Location Businesses
Customers save an average of 16 hours a week. We see 80% employee engagement. And our 97% satisfaction rate comes from showing up when it matters.
With smart insights and AI that actually help—not overwhelm—Netchex takes the load off your team so they can focus on people, not process.
Ready for HR and payroll that keep up with your business?
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www.netchex.com
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