Employee Portals
Your Team. One Platform.
What We Do
Your employees waste time every week looking for information that should be findable in seconds: the current PTO policy, the right expense form, the onboarding checklist for the new hire, the IT request process. That time is not trivial. Across a team of 50, it compounds into hundreds of hours per month of lost productivity.
An employee portal consolidates everything your team needs to find, submit, and access into a single searchable platform that is actually maintained and organized. HR resources, company announcements, internal workflows, knowledge base articles, onboarding materials, and forms that submit to the right place automatically. We build portals your employees actually use because they work better than whatever they are using now.
How We Work
We begin with an audit of how information currently flows inside your organization: what lives in email threads, what is buried in shared drives, what gets communicated through Slack and immediately forgotten, and what requires someone to contact HR to answer. That audit produces a content and feature inventory. We then design the information architecture: how the portal is organized, what the navigation structure is, and how search is prioritized.
Integration with your identity provider enables single sign-on so employees do not need another set of credentials. HR system integration populates employee-specific information like PTO balances and benefits elections automatically. Workflow tools for PTO requests, expense submissions, and IT tickets replace the email chains that currently handle those processes.
Why Running Start Digital
Pricing
From $8,000
Typical turnaround: 6-12 weeks
Includes
Frequently Asked Questions
Off-the-shelf tools require your processes to fit their structure. A custom portal is built around your workflows, integrates with your existing systems, and provides exactly the experience your team needs.
Yes. We support SAML, OAuth, and OIDC integration with Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, and other identity providers. One login for everything.
Yes. We build approval workflows for PTO, expenses, purchase requests, and any other process that currently lives in email or spreadsheets.
Role-based access controls at the department, team, and individual level. Sensitive HR documents, executive communications, and department-specific resources are visible only to authorized users.
A focused portal covering HR resources, announcements, and basic workflow tools takes 6 to 10 weeks. Full intranet platforms with knowledge bases, custom workflows, and multiple system integrations take 3 to 5 months.
We build content management tools that designated owners, typically in HR, operations, or department leadership, can use without technical help. Regular content review workflows can be configured to flag stale pages for update.
Yes. Employee portals are fully responsive and work on smartphones and tablets. For organizations where employees work primarily on mobile, we can build a progressive web app that installs like a native app.
Ready to get started?
Start with a $4,000 deposit. Balance due on delivery.