Sectors · Recruitment agencies
Earned-wage access for recruitment and staffing agencies
Temp and zero-hours workers pick up shifts, work them, then wait for the run to clear. Wagecrew lets them draw the pay they have already earned before payday, up to a cap you set, from one accountable vendor layered on the payroll you already run.
The problem
The agency workforce feels every pay-run gap first
Temporary and zero-hours workers feel the gap to payday more than most. The cadence that saves the agency money is the cadence that stretches their wait, and it is the question your consultants and payroll field between runs.
Weekly to monthly stretches the wait
Moving to monthly pay runs cuts your processing cost, but stretches the gap a worker waits through from days to weeks. For people paid by the shift, that gap is the thing they ask about.
"When does the money land?"
It is the question a worker asks once the shift is worked and the hours are in. Between pay runs there is little you can tell them beyond the date on the calendar.
Rolled-up holiday pay and a tangled stack
Rolled-up holiday pay, umbrella arrangements and multiple rota sources make the pay picture complex. A benefit bolted on by a second vendor makes it worse, not better.
How Wagecrew fits
One vendor, layered on the flow you already run
It reads the hours from your rota source and sits behind your payroll. Nothing about how you pay people changes.
Rota to payroll, unchanged
Timesheets flow from your rota source - Wagecrew connects to Ubeya, among others - and every draw nets into one deduction file. See the integrations.
A cap you control
Set the cap as a percentage of earned wages, the minimum draw, the allowed withdrawals per period and the pay-period shape. Draws stay within approved hours.
One accountable vendor
Not a two-vendor split where the funder and the front-end tell you different things. One team owns the money movement, the reconciliation and the support.
Reconciled before the run
The Payroll Verifier checks every draw against the actual payroll before money moves, so the deduction file lands clean at your next run. Recovery is just the amount drawn - nothing added.
Agency eligibility: AWR and umbrella pay
Agency Worker Regulations and umbrella-company pay change how, and when, some workers are paid. Whether earned-wage access fits a particular arrangement depends on how each worker is engaged and paid, so we work through your workforce mix during scoping rather than promise blanket coverage here.
The worker's view
What it looks like for the workers you place
A worker you have booked opens the app, sees what they have earned so far this period across the assignments they have worked for your agency, and requests a draw from the minimum you set up to your cap. The money is paid by Faster Payments - typically within seconds - to their own bank account.
- Free for the worker to use. The agency funds it.
- No credit check and no credit-score impact for this model.
- Passwordless sign-in by magic link, and every draw is a manual request.
The field
Built for the agency workforce, not adapted to it
Much of the field is built for large, permanent headcounts and sold through a wellbeing suite. Wagecrew is built the other way round: for the workforces agencies actually run, from one accountable vendor, with the cap in your hands.
Across the field, many providers charge the worker a per-draw fee to reach money they have already earned. With Wagecrew, one team owns the money movement, the reconciliation and the support.
Trust
Live in production, moving real money
How it runs
Wagecrew moves real wages on a rota-to-payroll flow, which is the shape this page describes. Every draw is verified against the actual payroll before money moves, payment is paid by Faster Payments - typically within seconds - and the period nets into a single deduction file at your run. Read how we approach security.
FAQ
Earned-wage access for agencies, answered
Does earned-wage access work for temp and zero-hours agency workers?
We moved from weekly to monthly pay runs. Can this bridge the gap for our workers?
Do we have to move payroll or rota systems?
Is it a loan, and does it affect a worker's credit?
What does it cost the worker?
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Keep the workers you place, between every pay run
See the worker app, the controls you set and the payroll deduction file in one short call.