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Escape Technology, now part of Frontline Education

HR, Finance and Payroll software built for California COEs, districts and schools

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“I am so pleased that we chose Escape for our financial software system. The product itself is excellent, but it is the kind and supportive staff at Escape that made this an outstanding choice for our county!”

Deputy Superintendent, Business Services

“Escape Online is GREAT! The streamlining of our processes here is very exciting. The Escape staff has been with us step by step and has made the entire process very smooth.”

Fiscal Services Supervisor

“I love that I can go from the Finance module to the Payroll module with just a click or two. I don’t have to go all the way out and then turn around and log all the way back into something. It is really simple to use. It really truly is.”

Chief Business Officer

Elevate your impact

Break Down Siloes

Break Down Siloes

Ensure you’re always making the best use of time and being a good steward of district resources by integrating your district and COE information. Eliminate duplication and error-prone processes when HR setup defines payroll processing, and payroll & HR data loads into budget.

inform decisions rapidly

Inform Decisions Rapidly

Swiftly make data-driven decisions across districts and fiscal years with automated and audited HR, Finance & Payroll information, and proven state/federal reporting.

Make the Software Work for You

Software that Works for You

Experience next-gen financial insight and control out of a single role-based integrated system of record– everything from simulated budget scenarios to customizable workflows, as well as district and COE-wide reporting.

 

One comprehensive solution designed specifically for districts and COEs:

HR Management

Manage the employee lifecycle with ease

    Manage critical employee information, including:

  • Credentials
  • Seniority
  • Education
  • Employment requirements
  • Evaluations
  • Bargaining unit requirements
  • Automated advancement from one year to the next
  • And so much more!

Position Management

Your very own robust personnel playbook

  • Organize staffing needs for now and the future with date-based records that track FTE changes year-to-year
  • Achieve flexibility with employees having one or multiple positions, and positions having any number of employees
  • Keep security and budget accountability at the forefront with sophisticated multi-year and site-based budgeting
  • Track position changes with extensive auditing and workflow approvals

Compensation Management

Handle every employee’s unique scenario with ease

  • Provide web-based access to supervisors and employees
  • Control stipends from coaching to educational milestones
  • Keep up with your employees’ growing experience with step increment processing
  • Calculate leave balances in real time, taking into account FTE and longevity
  • Manage unlimited salary schedules, using automated % increases, in a matrix for complete flexibility
  • Roll forward and maintain position assignments year-to-year

Benefits Management

Increase transparency across your district

    Staff will be able to view:

  • Important benefits package information
  • ACA and Healthy Families Act compliance
  • And more!

Finance & Payroll Management

Dive deeper behind every dollar spent

  • Fully SACS compliant, including reporting for all periods, original budget, actuals, and interims
  • Link fiscal year account structure year-to-year with historical and account detail
  • Be confident in financial allocations with simulated budgeting scenarios
  • Track key performance indicators, like LCAP
  • Seamlessly forecast funding and expenses without skipping a beat
  • Dynamically document the audit trail and supporting materials without snail mail or paper
  • Contextualize journal entries with notes, attachments, and images making data more meaningful
  • Automate contract pay/stipends and balance teachers’ paid time VS worked time with a unified compensation and payroll system
  • Pay is always calculated, increasing consistency and eliminating dependency on manual intervention
  • Automate retroactive pay increases with multiple “what-ifs” for changes to salary schedules or off-schedule percentage-based adjustments
  • Automatic year end closing in a matter of days rather than weeks or months

Procurement Management

Make the absolute best use of district funding

  • Confidently process purchasing requests by building compliance routing and rules into the software
  • Rest assured that students, staff, and projects are supported with materials and services that are fair and auditable
  • Keep staff informed and on task with 2-way notifications for purchase orders, requisitions, vendor management and more
  • Seamlessly reconcile from requisition to receiving items and making payments

Digital Document Management

Manage the people without the paperwork

  • Maximize new hire efficiency with streamlined, digital onboarding
  • Provide permissions-based visibility to employee records
  • Ensure forms are completed and approved on time, by the right people
  • Efficiently manage annual contract renewals online

Employee Web-Based Access

  • Send documents to employees for review/acknowledgement
  • Pay stubs, AP Payments and W-2s (multiple years)
  • What-if Payroll Calculator
  • W4 and DE4 Submission
  • Timesheet Data Entry
  • Supervisor Approvals

User Web-Based Access

  • Approvals
  • Requisition submissions
  • Reports
  • And more!

Reporting and Integrations

Quickly access your information when you need it

  • Rest easy knowing that state and federal reporting is handled
  • Create and save comprehensive searches as favorites
  • Hundreds of standard reports and exports, including ability to integrate custom reports
  • Schedule, email and automate reports using report favorites
  • Tax files, bank files (including ACH), quarterly reporting, ACA and other regulatory data files are generated as each payroll is processed.

Frontline Escape - HR Management

Frontline Escape - Position Management

Frontline Escape - Compensation Management

Frontline Escape - Benefits Management

Frontline Escape - Finance & Payroll Management

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Frontline Escape - Employee Web-Based Access

Frontline Escape - User Web-Based Access

Frontline Escape - Reporting and Integrations

Surprise parties are great! Surprise audits, fines and bad PR are not.

Manual or siloed processes don’t help with rapidly evolving district needs:

  • Data quickly becomes stale and inaccurate
  • Decision-making and resources come to a screeching halt
  • District-wide reporting becomes time-consuming and error-prone
  • COEs lose sight of district-level data

It’s hard to achieve clarity when you’re trapped in the weeds of manual, siloed processes.

Rekindle the connections between HR, Finance and Payroll to support your district’s vision for outstanding education.

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School ERP Software Explained:

Learn everything you need to know about school district ERP software in our comprehensive guide.

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Gain district-wide control over funding and expenses without losing organizational flexibility.

Countless critical data points spanning Human Resources, Finance and Payroll are consistently changing. How many different places do you have to search and update before you can make sound financial decisions for your students and staff?

You deserve to have the information you need, when you need it. Period.

That’s why more California COEs trust Escape Online than any other business software. We serve more than 25 COEs and their districts, as well as individual districts and schools – over 500 K-12 organizations in total!

When everything you need is in one comprehensive system, you never have to worry about stale information and your processes can be as nimble as your school district needs them to be!

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