All features are included in every plan. No add-ons, no feature gating, no surprises.
Not a name in a spreadsheet row — a financial record. One FTE, one budgeted cost, one department, one status. Everything below is built from records like this one.
A permanent catalog number for the seat — independent of who fills it, or whether anyone does.
What the seat is, not who's in it.
Which budget this position rolls up into — the thread that runs through every scale below.
What fraction of a full-time seat this is. Most are 1.0. Some aren't.
The number every actual dollar gets reconciled against — whether the seat is filled or not.
Filled (by whom), or vacant (for how long). Both are tracked — a vacancy is data, not an absence of it.
Accounting: eight full-time desks, two part-time seats, two openings. PowerPCS doesn't just count them — it adds them up, and checks the total against what was budgeted.
Accounting is 1.0 FTE under budget for the year — and $2,000 over.
Two open seats saved $53,000. Raises on the other ten cost $55,000 — enough to flip the department over budget anyway. Headcount would have told you Accounting was fine.
93.5 budgeted positions across seven departments, added the same way Accounting was — one position, then one department, now one company.
Company‑wide, that's $188,000 under budget. Drill into Accounting, and one department tells the opposite story.
Roll‑ups hide exactly what drill‑down finds. PowerPCS keeps both, at every level — one position, one department, one company — always reconciled, never rounded off.
Start your free trial →Every position in your organization gets its own record — independent of the people who fill it. Define its classification, budget target, organizational placement, and effective dates.
Positions persist through turnover. When an incumbent leaves, the position goes vacant. When a new incumbent is assigned, it goes filled. The position itself never disappears.
Assign employees to positions with FTE amounts, effective start and end dates, compensation data, and pay rate type. The system tracks the full history of who held every position and for how long.
One employee can hold multiple positions simultaneously. One position can have multiple incumbents — as long as their combined FTE doesn't exceed the budgeted amount.
The position-to-company view above is built on this: budgeted vs. actual FTE and cost, reconciled and rolled up at any level of the org.
Map your organization across up to eight levels. Label them whatever your organization uses — Division, Department, Unit, Cost Center, Program, Grant Fund, School Site, or anything else.
Positions are slotted into the hierarchy. Reports, filters, and budget rollups all follow the same structure.
Build reports with the columns you need and the filters that matter to you. Save your report configurations. Export to CSV for any downstream use in finance, payroll, or board reporting.
Every change to every position and incumbent is recorded permanently: what changed, what it changed from and to, who made the change, and when. Nothing is ever quietly overwritten.
When your auditor, board, or Finance asks what the headcount looked like 18 months ago — you have the answer.
Sign up, import your data, upgrade, downgrade, and cancel — all without talking to anyone. Billing is handled securely through Stripe. Your data is exportable any time, in a format you can use.
All PowerPCS features are included regardless of which tier you're on. You're paying for position capacity, not feature access.