Why hourly workers get left out of traditional pretax benefits
Traditional office-worker pretax benefit companies where you pay up front and manually manage enrollment and payroll on your own assume two things: that employees can predict 12 months of commuting in advance, and that they can afford to lose money if they over-elect and underspend. Neither is true for restaurant servers, hospital aides, transit operators, retail associates, warehouse staff, or anyone whose schedule changes week to week.
Alice was designed around the opposite assumption. Employees swipe the Alice Card at parking garages, parking lots, parking meters, parking apps, the transit turnstile, or in the rideshare app for eligible vanpool rides. Eligible spend is reclassified as pretax through payroll automatically. No election form, no shoebox of receipts, no forfeitures at year end.
What "no manual open enrollment" actually means
With Alice, there is no open enrollment window the HR team has to chase. New hires can start using their card on day one. If someone moves, switches shifts, or stops commuting for a month, the pretax calculation just follows what they actually spend. The employer never fronts the money. There is no employee pre-funding required and only a small reserve deposit from the employer.
Built for the payroll systems frontline employers actually use
Alice has connections to ADP, UKG, Paylocity, Paycom, Paychex, Toast, Workday, and 25+ others, including the systems most common in restaurants, healthcare, transit, and retail. The payroll connection is what makes the pretax reclassification work automatically every cycle.
Who Alice is for
- Restaurant and food service operators
- Hospitals, clinics, and long-term care
- Retail and grocery
- Transit, logistics, and warehousing
- Building services, hospitality, and any employer where most of the team is hourly