The Single-Record HRIS vs TriblockHR

The TriblockHR alternative with the track record and real Caribbean clients behind it. Meet Workzoom.

Workzoom runs HR, payroll, workforce, and talent across Canada, the US, and the Bahamas on one employee record, with HR and Talent built to handle the wider Caribbean and the UK. Named live Bahamas customers include Cable Bahamas and Island Luck.

Workzoom unified HR and payroll dashboard, compared with TriblockHR

AThe short answer

Workzoom vs TriblockHR is the authority-vs-novelty Caribbean HRIS comparison: Workzoom was founded in 2000 (Linda Woolley's HR/payroll career dates to 1974) and has been processing live Bahamas payroll since 2021, two years before TriblockHR formally launched as a product in January 2023. Plato Alpha Design, TriblockHR's parent company, was incorporated in 2020, the same year Workzoom entered the Caribbean. Workzoom publishes named Bahamas client outcomes: Cable Bahamas (850 employees, payroll cut from 5 days to 1.5 days), Island Luck (850 employees, 60+ gaming locations, 8 payrolls per week), AML Foods (900 employees). Workzoom is $16 all-in vs TriblockHR at $20, covers Canada and the US on the same database, and includes six modules TriblockHR does not offer.

Plato Alpha Design, the parent company behind TriblockHR, was incorporated in 2020. The TriblockHR product formally launched in January 2023. TriblockHR's published pricing is $5 per module per month with a $500 monthly minimum (per TriblockHR's website). Workzoom prices all four suites at $16 per employee per month, with a $400 to $700 monthly floor for small teams that includes implementation, data migration, training, and support, and runs live payroll in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas on one employee record.

Workzoom was founded in 2000 and has been processing live Bahamas payroll since 2021, two years before TriblockHR launched as a product. Linda Woolley's HR and payroll career dates to 1974. Workzoom costs $4 per suite, includes six modules TriblockHR does not offer, and runs live payroll in Canada, the US, and the Bahamas from one system, with statutory engines built to handle the wider Caribbean and HR and Talent for the UK. Named Bahamas clients are published with verified employee counts and production metrics: Cable Bahamas 850 employees with payroll cut from 5 days to 1.5 days, Island Luck 850 employees across 60+ gaming locations running 8 payrolls per week.

"3 people deal with close to 1,000 people. It has been seamless integration of our timekeeping, our HR and payroll systems. No need for manual data transfer."
Workzoom in production, the unified alternative to TriblockHR

Lineage comparison

Founded the same year. Different histories.

Workzoom entered the Caribbean in 2020. Plato Alpha Design, the parent company behind TriblockHR, was incorporated the same year. While TriblockHR spent those years building a product, Workzoom spent them processing payroll for hundreds of Caribbean employees at three named organizations.

1974 Start of Linda Woolley's HR/payroll career
2020 Plato Alpha Design incorporated
Workzoom was processing payroll at Cable Bahamas (850 employees, NIB compliance automated) while TriblockHR was still being built. Workzoom has more Caribbean production history than TriblockHR has company history.
Year Workzoom TriblockHR / Plato Alpha
1974 Linda Woolley builds her first payroll system at High Line Data Systems Inc. The foundations of what becomes Workzoom begin here. Not yet founded.
2000 Nortek Solutions Inc. incorporated in Toronto, Ontario. Enterprise HR and payroll software development begins. Not yet founded.
2009–10 Rebuilds the platform on cloud-native, multi-tenant architecture from the ground up. Linda and Andy Woolley architect the Curos Technology Platform, the engine Workzoom runs on today. Not yet founded.
2020 Workzoom brand launches on Nortek's 20th anniversary. Caribbean market entry begins. Plato Alpha Design incorporated. TriblockHR product in planning.
2021 Cable Bahamas live: 850 employees, payroll processing cut from 5 days to 1.5 days. NIB compliance automated. TriblockHR product in development.
2022–23 Nassau Airport Development in implementation. AML Foods (900 employees) live. TriblockHR brand formally launched January 2023. First client deployments begin.
2024 Island Luck live: 850 employees, 60+ gaming locations, 8 payrolls per week, facial recognition clocking at every site. Jamaica and Barbados compliance in active development. Scaling first clients across Caribbean territories.

Sources: TriblockHR parent company (Plato Alpha Design) founding and TriblockHR brand launch (January 2023) from public LinkedIn company profiles. Workzoom Caribbean deployments from client case studies and signed reference letters on file.

01 Feature comparison

How they compare.

TriblockHR is a real Caribbean HR and payroll vendor, and this is an honest comparison. The pattern below is simple: every Workzoom claim links to an independent source; every TriblockHR claim links to TriblockHR's own site, with the date we checked it. Read the footnotes.

Feature Workzoom TriblockHR
Price and value
Published priceTriblockHR lists $5 per employee per module per month with a $500 monthly minimum. Workzoom is $4 per suite with no platform minimum, so a 60-person HR-only team is $240/month on Workzoom against TriblockHR's $500 floor. Full platform: $16 vs $20 per employee per month. $4 / suite, no minimum $5 / module + $500/mo min1
Modules includedTriblockHR publishes four modules: Core HR, Payroll, Workforce, Talent. Workzoom adds benefits, compensation, pension, health and safety, succession, and engagement surveys on the same employee record. 10 modules 4 modules1
Coverage and risk
Live payroll countriesTriblockHR's territory map shows 5 active Caribbean territories and 3 marked coming soon; Canada, the US, and the UK are not on the roadmap. Workzoom runs live payroll in the Bahamas, Canada, and the US on one employee record, so a group with cross-border staff does not run two systems. Bahamas, Canada, US Caribbean only1
Caribbean complianceBoth build Caribbean statutory rules natively. TriblockHR lists NIB, NIS, and PAYE across its active territories; Workzoom runs NIB, the insurable-earnings ceiling, and C10 in production at Cable Bahamas and Island Luck. This one is a genuine match, not a Workzoom-only win. Native Native1
Proof and trust
Published track recordTriblockHR's site publishes no founding year or company history. Workzoom was founded in 2000, with a registered Canadian trademark. Founded 2000; registered Canadian trademark No founding year published1
Independent reviewsTriblockHR cites no third-party reviews. Workzoom holds 50 reviews at a 4.5 average across G2 and Capterra. 50 reviews, 4.5 avg None cited1
Client proof depthTriblockHR shows a client logo wall with self-reported testimonials and a self-reported, undated '15,000+ employees' figure. Workzoom publishes named clients with audited metrics: Cable Bahamas 850 employees, payroll cut from 5 days to 1.5. Named clients + audited metrics Logos, self-reported1
Security certificationTriblockHR states 'SOC2 Certified' with no certificate or date shown. Workzoom holds its own ISO 27701 privacy certificate (valid to November 2028) and runs on AWS's SOC 2 / ISO 27001 infrastructure, with reports available under NDA. ISO 27701 cert (to 2028) + AWS "SOC2" asserted, no certificate1

08 Independent verification

Three records you can verify right now.

Government funding records, a registered trademark, and an independent analyst endorsement from an expert who has evaluated 150+ HR platforms. These are public, permanent, and specific to Workzoom.

Registered trademark

TMA1364694

WORKZOOM registered Canadian trademark. Registered 2025-12-05, valid through 2035-12-05.

Verify at CIPO

Independent analyst

“Of the 150+ HCM/HRTech solution vendors that have engaged me as an advisor or briefed me as an industry analyst, Workzoom's approach is notably efficient. I wish I had encountered …”

Steve Goldberg, Founder, SBG Consulting and Distinguished Advisor at 3Sixty Insights.

Read the essay

Customer-verified

CBL2112

Cable Bahamas Ltd. (~850 employees) runs on Workzoom. Their public careers page funnels into curos.ca.

See Cable Bahamas Ltd. careers
Why Workzoom

Where Workzoom stands out.

25+ years of production payroll

Workzoom has been processing payroll since 2000 through regulatory changes, economic shifts, and client growth across multiple countries. TriblockHR's parent company Plato Alpha Design was founded May 2020 and launched the TriblockHR product in January 2023. Three years of production history versus twenty-five.

Multi-country from one system

TriblockHR covers six Caribbean territories: the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Turks and Caicos, and St. Lucia. Guyana and Antigua are marked Coming Soon. Canada, the US, and the UK are not on the roadmap. Workzoom runs live payroll in Canada, the US, and the Bahamas on one database, with statutory engines built to handle the wider Caribbean and HR and Talent for the UK. Operators with cross-border employees would otherwise pay for two systems.

Lower price, more modules

Both platforms use per-employee-per-month pricing. Workzoom charges $4 per suite, $16 for the full platform. TriblockHR charges $5 per module, $20 for the full platform, with a $500/month minimum that prices out single-module SMB buyers under 100 employees. Workzoom includes six additional modules: benefits, compensation, pension, health and safety, succession, and engagement surveys.

Proof depth: named employee counts and verified metrics

TriblockHR lists logos including Bahamasair, the Bahamas Telecommunications Company, the National Insurance Board, Airport Authority, Caribbean Bottling, and Myers Group as clients (per triblockhr.com, June 2026). None are paired with public payroll-cycle-time, error-rate, or scale outcomes. Workzoom publishes named employee counts and verified production metrics: Cable Bahamas (850 employees, 5 days to 1.5 days), Island Luck (850 employees across 60+ locations, 8 payrolls per week), AML Foods (900 employees), Sun Oil (525).

Implementation that protects your timeline

How fast you go live is set by your team, not our marketing. The biggest factor is one owner who can make decisions and hand over clean data. Give the project that focus and a suite is live in weeks; treat it as a side-of-desk task and it slips, with any provider. What you are actually choosing is the model: the same Workzoom specialists who configure your NIB rules, pay groups, and workflows are included in the price and stay on your account after go-live, rather than a consultant billing a full-time rate to learn your organization, configure it, and leave. One of those reaches a correct first pay run faster and keeps the knowledge in the building.

A security certificate you can actually name

Workzoom holds its own ISO 27701 privacy certificate, valid to November 2028, and runs on AWS infrastructure that is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audited, with reports available under NDA. TriblockHR states it is SOC2 certified but does not show a certificate or date on its site (per triblockhr.com, June 2026). A named, dated certificate a buyer can request is easier to verify in procurement than a badge shown without one.

Live on Workzoom right now. North America and the Caribbean.

03Pricing

Transparent pricing, no surprises.

Workzoom

$4–$16

per employee / month

$4 per suite per month. All four suites = $16/employee/month. No setup fees, no contracts.

TriblockHR

$5

per employee / module / month

$5/employee/month per module. Full platform (all 4 modules) = $20/employee/month. $500/month minimum applies.

Source: triblockhr.com · Verified June 2026

Workzoom pricing is exact and publicly listed. TriblockHR pricing shown above is based on publicly available information only. It does not reflect private deals, volume discounts, or negotiated enterprise rates. If you have a TriblockHR quote, bring it to your walkthrough and we will compare it directly.

The honest fit

Who Workzoom is for, and who it is not.

Picking the right system is as much about ruling out a wrong fit as finding a right one. Here is where Workzoom fits, and where it does not.

Built for you

Workzoom is the right call if

  • You have 50 to 5,000 employees and want HR, payroll, workforce, and talent on one employee record.

  • You operate across the Caribbean, Canada, the US, or some mix of them, and want one system instead of two.

  • You want your own team running payroll, with Workzoom specialists configuring your statutory rules and staying on after go-live.

  • You want published, predictable per-employee pricing you can model on day one.

  • You want named-client proof with real production numbers, not a logo wall.

Be honest with yourself

Workzoom is not the fit if

  • You want payroll handled for you by a bureau.

    Workzoom is the platform your own team runs: it calculates and prepares statutory output, and your team submits. If you would rather hand payroll off entirely, a managed-payroll service is the better fit, not us.

  • You are a 20,000-plus employee global enterprise needing deep multi-entity configuration and a large consultant programme.

    That is Workday and SAP SuccessFactors territory, and we are honest about it. Workzoom is built for the 50 to 5,000 range where fit, speed, and a real relationship beat raw configuration depth.

04 Switching

How do you switch from TriblockHR?

Most teams are live within 4 to 8 weeks with dedicated implementation support.

01
Export from TriblockHR
Export your employee records, pay history, and compliance data from TriblockHR. We handle the import into Workzoom.
02
Configure and validate
We verify your Caribbean compliance setup and configure any additional countries, including Canada and the US, if needed.
03
Go live
Your team validates the data, runs parallel payroll if needed, and goes live. Typical timeline is 30-60 days.

The TriblockHR alternative, answered

Specifics on switching from TriblockHR to Workzoom: pricing, data migration, timeline, and what is actually different in day-to-day use.

Workzoom was founded in 2000 under the name Nortek Solutions Inc. Linda Woolley's HR and payroll career, which directly informs the platform, dates to 1974. Workzoom has been processing live Bahamas payroll since 2021. Plato Alpha Design, the parent company behind TriblockHR, was incorporated in 2020. The TriblockHR product formally launched in January 2023. Workzoom has been serving Caribbean clients for as long as TriblockHR has existed as a company.
Workzoom entered the Caribbean market in 2020 and has been processing live Bahamas payroll since 2021. Cable Bahamas (850 employees) went live in 2021, with payroll processing time reduced from 5 days to 1.5 days. AML Foods (900 employees) went live in 2023. Island Luck (850 employees, 60+ gaming locations, 8 weekly payrolls) went live in 2024. TriblockHR as a product launched in January 2023.
If you need payroll processing, scheduling, or talent management alongside HR, or any operations outside the Caribbean, yes. TriblockHR runs six Caribbean territories including St. Lucia, with Guyana and Antigua coming soon. Workzoom runs live payroll in Canada, the US, and the Bahamas on one database, with statutory engines built to handle the wider Caribbean and HR and Talent for the UK, plus 25 years of company history and live Bahamas payroll since 2021, two years before TriblockHR launched as a product.
Yes. Workzoom builds NIB in Bahamas, NIS + NHT + Education Tax + HEART in Jamaica, NIS + Health Surcharge in Trinidad, and NIS + PAYE in Barbados into the payroll engine.
Yes. Workzoom runs live payroll in Canada, the US, and the Bahamas from a single login, with statutory engines built to handle the wider Caribbean. This is a key advantage for companies with cross-border operations.
TriblockHR's site lists logos including Bahamasair, the Bahamas Telecommunications Company, the National Insurance Board, Airport Authority, Caribbean Bottling Company, and Myers Group (per triblockhr.com, June 2026), shown without published employee counts or production metrics. Workzoom publishes named Caribbean clients with verified employee counts and production outcomes: Cable Bahamas (850 employees, payroll processing reduced from 5 days to 1.5 days), Island Luck (850 employees across 60+ gaming locations, 8 payrolls per week), AML Foods (900), Sun Oil (525). The difference is proof depth: named logos versus named, measured outcomes.
TriblockHR charges $5 per module per month with a published $500 per month platform minimum, which prices out single-module SMB buyers under roughly 100 employees. Workzoom is $4 per employee per month per suite with no platform minimum, so a 60-person HR-only deployment costs $240 per month on Workzoom against the $500 floor on TriblockHR. Buyers running the full platform pay $16 per employee on Workzoom versus $20 per employee on TriblockHR.
Workzoom includes benefits administration, compensation planning, pension administration, health and safety, succession planning, and engagement surveys on the same employee record as HR, payroll, scheduling, and talent. These are not part of TriblockHR's published module list. Caribbean operators consolidating pension administration, total-rewards modelling, or engagement surveys with payroll do not need a second system to cover the gap.

Deep dive

Workzoom vs TriblockHR, the TriblockHR alternative.

01

Workzoom vs TriblockHR: strengths and trade-offs

TriblockHR is a Caribbean-built HR and payroll platform from Plato Alpha Design, which was incorporated in 2020. The TriblockHR product formally launched in January 2023. TriblockHR's site lists 15,000+ employees across 60+ clients in 5 Caribbean territories (the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and Turks and Caicos). Workzoom publishes named client case studies with verified outcomes (Cable Bahamas cut payroll from 5 days to 1.5), carries 50 third-party reviews at 4.5 across G2 and Capterra, runs live payroll in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas on one employee record, and has run HR and payroll as its core business for 25 years.

The Workzoom vs TriblockHR trade-offs are scope and depth. TriblockHR covers the core HR and payroll surfaces well, but the broader suite, scheduling depth, learning, talent development, and operations beyond the Caribbean, is thinner. Canada, the US, and the UK are not on the roadmap. The named-client list is meaningful, but it is not paired with public production metrics: payroll-cycle-time reductions, error rates, or scale outcomes are not published for Bahamasair, BTC, or any other named client. Workzoom was already processing live Bahamas payroll at Cable Bahamas before TriblockHR launched as a product.

02

Workzoom vs TriblockHR: the expanded Caribbean envelope

Workzoom runs live payroll in The Bahamas, with statutory engines built to handle the wider Caribbean (Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, and Anguilla) at the same architectural depth as the Canadian and US payroll engines. The platform reads Caribbean compliance natively rather than as an extension of a North American product.

Beyond payroll, Workzoom's Workforce suite covers shift scheduling and multi-site timekeeping at depth that matters for Caribbean operators with retail, hospitality, gaming, and telecom workforces. The Talent suite ships performance, learning, and succession planning on the same employee record. The architectural advantage of unified scope compounds for any Caribbean operator beyond the SMB tier.

03

Multi-island, multi-jurisdiction operations

Caribbean operators often run across multiple islands and sometimes multiple jurisdictions. Workzoom's single-employee-record model handles this natively, one employee, one record, with the platform handling jurisdiction-specific payroll rules where applicable. The architectural pattern that lets the same Workzoom instance serve Cable Bahamas in Nassau, Island Luck across 60+ locations, and any Caribbean operator with regional spread.

TriblockHR covers six Caribbean territories including St. Lucia, with Guyana and Antigua marked Coming Soon. For operators whose footprint stays inside that envelope, TriblockHR is a credible regional alternative. The moment the group adds Canada, the US, the UK, or a second Caribbean territory with cross-border employees, the platform stops covering the org chart on one database. Workzoom runs live payroll in Canada, the US, and the Bahamas on one employee record, with statutory engines built to handle the wider Caribbean and HR and Talent for the UK.

04

Workzoom vs TriblockHR pricing transparency

Workzoom's $4 per suite per month is the published unit cost. Caribbean operators evaluating the full HR-and-payroll envelope pay the same transparent rate Canadian and US customers pay, with no Caribbean premium and no per-jurisdiction add-ons. TriblockHR pricing is $5 per module with a $500 monthly floor that prices out SMB single-module buyers.

For Caribbean operators currently on TriblockHR evaluating the full Workzoom envelope, HR, Workforce, Payroll, and Talent, the all-in Workzoom vs TriblockHR math frequently surprises buyers who expected enterprise-grade scope to cost enterprise-grade pricing.

05

When does Workzoom vs TriblockHR still favour TriblockHR?

Caribbean operators where Bahamian-built, Bahamian-staffed procurement is a hard requirement, particularly government and Bahamian-owned-procurement buyers, may find TriblockHR a strong fit. The platform's Caribbean focus is genuine, and the company's local presence is a meaningful advantage in those evaluations.

For multi-jurisdiction operators with Canadian, US, or UK employees alongside the Caribbean, for any operator whose operational scope extends beyond core HR-and-payroll into scheduling depth, learning, and talent management, or for any buyer whose evaluation criteria include published named-client production metrics, Workzoom is the unified alternative. Cable Bahamas, Island Luck, AML Foods, and Sun Oil are the working proof points, paired with payroll-cycle-time, location count, and processing frequency that the system has run in production.

06

Operational maturity at Caribbean scale

Operational maturity in Caribbean HR and payroll is harder to evaluate from the outside than vendors usually present. Compliance depth across multiple jurisdictions, banking integration across regional rails, the cadence of regulatory updates, the support relationship when something goes wrong at end of pay cycle, these are the things that matter operationally but rarely show up cleanly in feature comparison tables. Workzoom's Caribbean customer base, from Cable Bahamas in Nassau to Island Luck across 60+ Bahamian locations, generates the operational scar tissue that makes the platform reliable in production rather than promising in evaluation.

TriblockHR has its own operational maturity built up through its Caribbean customer base since launching in January 2023, and that experience is real. The question for any Caribbean operator evaluating between the two platforms is whether two years of TriblockHR production plus a Caribbean-only roadmap, or twenty-five years of Workzoom production plus a Canada, US, UK, and Caribbean roadmap, better matches the next five years of operational requirements. The answer depends on the trajectory of the business, not just the snapshot of today's organization.

Sources

Every claim about TriblockHR on this page links to its primary source, with the date we last verified it.

  1. 1 TriblockHR — pricing, modules, territories, clients, and security claims (vendor site). https://triblockhr.com/ · Verified June 2026
  2. 2 Workzoom — published pricing, ISO 27701 certificate, G2 + Capterra reviews, and named-client case studies. https://www.workzoom.com/pricing/ · Verified June 2026
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