Recommendations for payroll software

I've worked with Paychex, ADP, and Paylocity. I found that Paylocity has the best mix of price, customer service and software capabilities. However most of my issues of the others come from the complications of a multi-entity environment. Paychex we had almost 5 years ago, their HR and payroll modules were not built together and ended up having disconnects between the two that made it unreliable for us (they may have fixed it now). ADP we were on their old customer service model where we didn't have a dedicated rep therefore our service calls end up having my payroll person explain what their software does to their first level tech. She was always passed along to higher level techs,and it took a LONG time (phone tag mostly) to get issues resolved. I've heard they have changed this model so you might compare.

Paylocity is still our current favorite. When we costed it out it was than both Paychex and ADP while offering the same (Paychex) or better (ADP) service. The software capabilities change/improve quarterly as they really take customer comments seriously and have great improvement to the software. It was built all together so the HR/payroll functions are very tightly integrated while still providing segregations if you need to split the functions. My payroll person finds this to be the best in class for actual data entry and completion of the payroll cycle. You can preview your report BEFORE you submit (it can often take quite a while to get submitted reports back from Paychex and ADP so you can see your errors). You can also make on the fly corrections where in many other software you have to have all your employee corrections (pay rate, medical changes, etc) done before you start your batch. If you don't have all change made to your employee before you start you will have to scrap your current batch, go make the changes to the employee then start over again...a lot of wasted time during the payroll process. FYI, ADP's HR module is still my payroll clerks favorite HR module but it doesn't outweigh the payroll module benefits of the Paylocity suite.

I would outsource it. It just isn't worth the effort to do this yourself for this size of company. We have had good luck with ADP and Paychex. Besides the processing of payrolls, you also are able to tap their knowledge when complex issues come up.

If you offer health insurance to your employees and your broker is a trusted-advisor, you may want to ask them for a recommendation. The more progressive brokers are partnering with payroll and HR providers to help their clients centralize and manage these areas more efficiently. In addition, some brokers will even subsidize a significant portion of the fees out of the commissions they make.

If your broker does not have a recommendaton or is not a trusted-advisor, contact Triton HR (www.tritonhr.com) and they can either work with your broker or with you directly.

Paylocity sounds like a good choice. I have used Ceridian, ADP and Paychex (along with their HRM) as well yet a new player in the space can be more responsive to market. The decision to own, lease or outsource should tie into overall business strategy of which business services are strategic, high risk and need to be controlled in-house coupled with a breakeven analysis. You want a well integrated solution that accommodates accounting, benefits, payroll and HR.

Used ADP in the past, didn't have much luck with them. Check out Paycor and Paylocity. Both were less expensive than ADP, more intuitive features and better customer service. We are reviewing Paycor internally now.

Don't try to do this yourself. Use one of the services mentioned above such as Paylocity, ADP, or Paychex.

We are actually looking at Paycom and Paycor now. Anyone have any experience with them?

I am also looking for recommendations for some of the newer payroll service providers, like Paycom, Paylocity, Inova. Currently have 2 locations with time and attendance, 130 employees, tired of ADP and their annual price increases.

For the SMB, I like regional players; they want and need your business and will make the relationship work.

As far as the accounting system, a G/L template and the payroll report of choice and about 10 minutes records the payroll. For everyone sans Manufacturing it works like a dream. It will work for those who also do Job Costing, although the 10 minute rule is out the window depending on number of jobs, number of employees.

Obviously at some point some type of integration is needed.

Unless you have both the staff and expertise, I'm no longer willing to do payroll in-house (which includes using QB or Xero or another system which offers payroll. While the mechanics may work, the knowledge needed to properly do payroll to both Federal, State and Local laws/rules isn't in the software.

I haven't seen anyone mention Paychoice. We have been looking at their services and contemplating outsourcing it. They were much more cost effective than ADP for our size business.

We have had Paycor since 2012 and have been very happy! Very user friendly system and have not had any issues.

You can check Nitso Payroll. It offers a easy & user friendly payroll solution for all type of enterprises in India. This payroll management system, offers user defined Earning / Deduction / Loan Heads & Component Master.

Modules of Nitso Payroll
- Employee Management
- Leave Management
- Increments
- Arrears Calculation
- Loan/Advance
- PF, ESIC, Prof. Tax, TDS, LWF
- Employee wise Asset Tracking
- Supplementary Payment
- Email Payslip & Tax Projection
- Leave Encashment
- Import/Export data from Excel
- Gratuity Calculation
- Reminders for B’day, Confirmation
- Reimbursements
- Reports writer’s Summery & Details
- Full & Final Settlement
- Monthly Data Lock/Unlock
- Bonus Calculation
- Letter’s Generation
- Can be Link with Attendance Machine

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