Features
Everything between “you’re hired” and a great first shift.
Most onboarding tools are digital filing cabinets. Corkboard runs the whole pre-day-one window — email created, agreement signed, training done, mentor assigned — automatically.
The headline act
Corkboard creates their company email. You don’t touch the admin console.
Hourly and seasonal hires usually have no work email until someone makes one. Corkboard connects to your Google Workspace, creates the account, and delivers the login to their personal inbox — before day one. Microsoft 365 is next.
Without Corkboard
- 1Offer accepted over text
- 2Owner remembers to open the Google Admin console
- 3Creates the account, copies a temp password
- 4Texts the password to the hire (and hopes)
- 5Hire shows up day one, locked out anyway
With Corkboard
- 1Offer accepted — hire added to Corkboard by personal email
- 2Corkboard creates their Google Workspace account
- 3Login lands in their personal inbox automatically
- 4They sign in before their first shift
Email accounts only, by design — no device management, no SSO sprawl. Your Google bill stays yours; we just do the clicking.
Onboarding flow builder
Build the path once. Every hire walks it.
Assemble documents, tasks, links, training, and sign-offs into a flow — then assign it to every hire and watch progress in real time. Start from a template for your vertical and publish in minutes.
- Drag-together steps: tasks, links, acknowledgements, documents, training
- Templates for gyms, hospitality, events, and seasonal crews
- Draft and publish — hires only ever see the finished version
- Each hire's checklist is snapshotted at assignment, so mid-season edits never scramble someone halfway through
E-signature, built in
Agreements signed before the first shift — no per-envelope fees.
Click-to-sign with a hashed, timestamped audit trail and a flattened PDF for your records. Valid for routine employment agreements under ESIGN/UETA and Ontario's Electronic Commerce Act.
- No DocuSign bill, ever — signatures are part of the flat price
- SHA-256 hash, timestamp, and IP recorded per signature
- Signed PDFs stored and downloadable
Training
Handbook, videos, and quizzes — done before day one.
Turn tribal knowledge into lessons hires actually finish on their phones: short videos, must-read policies with acknowledgement, and quizzes that prove it stuck.
- Video lessons hosted for you
- Read-and-acknowledge policy steps
- Quizzes with pass tracking
Mentorship
Nobody's first shift should feel like a first day.
Assign every hire a mentor, prompt check-ins on a cadence (day 1, week 1, week 2, month 1), and keep two feedback streams — one the hire sees, one just for managers.
- Mentor assignment per hire
- Scheduled check-in prompts
- Dual-visibility feedback: encouragement for the hire, candor for the manager
Manager dashboard
Who's ready, who's stuck, who starts Saturday.
One screen shows every active onboarding: progress, overdue steps, and who hasn't signed in yet — so nothing surfaces for the first time mid-shift.
- Live progress per hire and per flow
- Overdue flags tied to start dates
- Full audit trail of every completed step
Welcome wall
Make day one feel like joining a team, not filling out forms.
New hires get welcomed by name on a wall the whole team can react to. Small thing; it's the difference between a roster entry and a teammate.
- Automatic welcome posts for new hires
- Reactions from the team
- No chat to moderate — posts and reactions only
Three people have to love it. So it’s built for all three.
For owners
Stop re-explaining the same first day. Set the flow once, and every hire — May or November — gets the same complete onboarding without you in the room.
For managers
See exactly who's ready before the schedule goes up. No more discovering an unsigned agreement or an untrained newcomer at line-up.
For new hires
Everything on their phone, before day one: their company email, the handbook, their mentor's name. No work email required to start — just a personal address.
The honest comparison
Your real competitor is a binder and a group chat.
Paper, spreadsheets & texts
Free until it isn’t: unsigned agreements, retrained no-shows, and a manager spending a shift re-explaining the handbook every time a season starts. Nobody knows who’s actually ready.
Office onboarding suites
Built for salaried desk staff with corporate email on day zero, priced per seat so every seasonal hire costs you more. Corkboard assumes the opposite: personal email, a phone, and a first shift on Saturday.
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