Auris for the Higley Group

Every new company. One system underneath it.

You acquire local businesses and let them keep their name and their crew. Auris built this specifically for how BlackEdge Ventures grows — one payroll and HR system underneath every shop, without forcing Superior Door to run like S&D Automotive.

Recruit→ Hire→ Onboard→ Schedule→ Manage→ Pay→ Develop→ Retain→ Retire

Auris (an Acrisure company) runs payroll, benefits, hiring, onboarding, time, and HR in one connected system for more than 50,000 small and mid-sized businesses. Every account gets a dedicated specialist who knows the business, not a ticket queue.

50,000+
Businesses on Auris
<2 hrs
Typical support response
Hours, not weeks
To switch and go live

Built for companies like these

Trades & construction

Superior Door, TCG

Manufacturing

TrailMax, Charmac

Automotive service

Limited Auto Group, Deep Creek Auto Repair, S&D Automotive, Bill's Automotive & Muffler

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HR platform

Why we fit

One system. Every company you own.

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You grow by acquiring and stewarding local businesses — a garage door company, a construction firm, two trailer manufacturers, and four independent auto shops, so far. Every new acquisition brings its own payroll setup, its own HR process, and its own employee records to fold in. Auris isn't just payroll for one of your companies — it's the system that lets you bring each new business on cleanly, without disrupting the local shop you just bought.

  • • Employee records, centralized across every entity as you acquire them
  • • HR documents and policies, standardized instead of ad hoc per company
  • • Reporting and HR visibility rolled up for your leadership team
  • • Built to support multi-entity, multi-agency companies — separate legal and tax setups underneath, one unified employee experience and reporting layer on top
  • • Stuck fighting your system for the report you need? Auris builds custom reports that pull exactly what you're looking for, every time — not a fixed template you're forced to make work
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Recruiting & onboarding

Recruiting, HR, WOTC, payroll. One flow.

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Auris Hire and Auris Onboarding put your recruiting and onboarding in one flow — the same process whether the new hire is at S&D Automotive or the next shop you bring on.

Applicant tracking→ Offer accepted→ Onboarding link→ Employee info→ Tax / direct deposit→ WOTC screening→ Employee record→ Ready for scheduling→ Payroll
  • • Applicant tracking, so recruiting starts inside the same system instead of a separate tool
  • • Digital onboarding, same process at every Higley Group company
  • • Recruiting tools feeding directly into the employee record, ready for payroll on day one
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WOTC tax credits

Real money

Are you getting your Work Opportunity Tax Credits?

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Trailer welders, service technicians, install crews — hourly, hands-on hiring across every shop you run is exactly the hiring profile where WOTC pays off. Credits run up to $9,600 per eligible new hire, and if screening isn't built into your hiring process, that money simply never gets claimed. Across eight companies and however many more you acquire, that adds up fast.

  • • WOTC screening runs automatically inside the onboarding flow, at every location
  • • No extra process for your HR team to manage on top of hiring
  • • Credits captured across every Higley Group company instead of being missed shop by shop
  • • Credits can carry forward up to 20 years, even against a net operating loss
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Implementation & easy transfer

Painless. With your own dedicated rep.

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Switching shouldn't cost you disruption. Most Auris clients are set up in hours, not weeks, with a personally assigned implementation rep who migrates your data and runs payroll alongside you until it feels familiar.

  • • A personally assigned implementation rep, not a shared queue
  • • A guided, easy-to-transfer process from your current provider
  • • Built to bring multiple entities onto one system without forcing a single rigid process on every company
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Scheduling & time

Time, attendance, PTO. One record.

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  • • Time & attendance tracking
  • • Scheduling by location, job, and manager
  • • PTO and attendance management
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Payroll

The foundation under everything else.

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Once HR, onboarding, and scheduling run on one record, payroll is simply the natural next step built on top of it — accurate, compliant, and verified by a real person before it runs.

  • • Full payroll tax liability assumption
  • • Off-cycle runs and state tax reconciliations handled
  • • One payroll engine across every entity in the group
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Benefits, 401(k) & workers' comp

We're agnostic on provider — keep yours, or we'll recommend one.

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You don't have to change benefits providers to get this. Auris is happy to work with whoever you already have, or recommend someone if you're interested in a change. And with shops full of technicians on their feet all day, pay-as-you-go workers' comp keeps that cost tied to actual payroll instead of a lump-sum estimate.

  • • Benefits administration, agnostic to provider
  • • 401(k) integration
  • • ZayZoon earned wage access for employees
  • • Pay-as-you-go workers' comp, synced with every payroll run — no lump-sum premium or year-end audit surprises
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Employee experience & support

Self-service for them. A real person for you.

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Consolidating onto one platform shouldn't mean losing the personal service each company is used to. Auris support is based out of Cleveland and Oklahoma City, but every account is assigned a rep for your region, with typical response times under two hours.

  • • Employee self-service portal
  • • Performance and goals tracking
  • • A support rep assigned to your region, not a rotating queue

Let's put one system under every company you own.

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Chris Smith · Auris
chrissmith@auris.io · 801-885-8755

Auris — the workforce operating platform connecting the employee lifecycle across every company under the Higley Group roof