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Payroll Software for Small Business

Small Business Payroll software helps small businesses automate the management of employee salaries, wages, bonuses, and deductions. Some payroll systems may also track time off, vacation accrual, benefits, and retirement accounts. These applications allow small businesses to keep the payroll process in-house.

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Gusto is the all-in-one HR & payroll platform for growing businesses—one place to hire, pay, insure, and manage your hardworking team.
Fast, accurate, and effortless payroll. Running payroll for your small business on Gusto couldn’t be easier. With Gusto, you get modern HR features like payroll, benefits, hiring, management resources, and more — all in one place. Gusto is proud to serve more than 300,000 businesses across the US with a single trusted system, competitive compensation tools, and expert guidance to help you empower your team. Because when your people thrive, your business thrives too. Learn more about Gusto

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Basic Payroll: $17/mo + $4 per employee or contractor. Full Service Payroll with tax filing: $37/mo + $4 per employee or contractor.
For USA business owners with 1-500 employees. Basic Payroll: $17/mo + $4 per employee or contractor. Full Service Payroll with tax filing: $37/mo + $4 per employee or contractor. You run payroll, but let us handle the payroll deposits and tax filings. Free 2-day direct deposit, or print paychecks right from your software. Learn more about Patriot Payroll

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Use Vagaro® management software to get found, booked, & paid. Start your FREE trial today, and grow your business the easy way!
Build your business on the award winning salon, spa & fitness software, Vagaro®, trusted by 220k+ professionals. Get found, booked & paid 24/7. Manage appointments, payments, payroll, inventory, & much more on any device. Stand out from competition with a custom logo, website, online store & branded app. Attract new customers on the Vagaro® free Marketplace & and integrate it with social media booking tools. Retain customers & boost sales with AI-powered text & email marketing tools. Stop no-shows with deposits and automated reminders. Earn more and get paid anytime, anywhere, with Vagaro® payment processing. Try Vagaro® 30 days for FREE and set up your account in minutes with Vagaro® AI. Learn more about Vagaro

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
With a 100% error-free guarantee, compliance automation, and endless configurability, Rippling runs payroll in minutes, no manual work.
Simplify payroll with Rippling—an all-in-one system to manage and pay employees and contractors, no matter where they are located. Rippling lets you run payroll in less than 90 seconds, ensuring timely and accurate pay runs every time. When an employee’s role, compensation, or benefits change, payroll is automatically updated, eliminating manual work and human error. Rippling also automatically calculates your payroll taxes and files them with the right federal, state, and local agencies at the right time, every time. Fully customizable and flexible, Rippling Payroll can support your business’s unique needs and scales with your business. Learn more about Rippling

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Streamline HR and payroll processes and get fast access to employee data using one intuitive platform.
Paycor is a comprehensive HR and talent platform that combines operational efficiency with powerful employee development tools. Our unified HCM experience centralizes all workforce data, eliminating the need for multiple systems and providing seamless access to critical information. Paycor empowers leaders with innovative tools to coach, develop, and upskill their teams, driving engagement and retention. Leaders rely on Paycor to automate routine tasks, ensure compliance, and gain valuable insights, while fostering a culture of continuous growth and talent optimization. Learn more about Paycor

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Manage payroll, online or in-house, and save money on time tracking, reports, and processing payroll.
Paychex Flex is an all-in-one Payroll & HR solution that you can build on as your business grows or changes. Use it to run payroll and integrate your HR administration, retirement, and insurance management with service the way you want it and our expert knowledge of the regulations that could affect your business. Get 6 months of free payroll processing for a limited time. Click the link for more details. Learn more about Paychex Flex

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Automate key invoicing & bookkeeping tasks and get more time for what you love with Wave’s small business software. Try for free today!
Sick of bookkeeping blues, cash flow woes, or tax time terror? With Wave’s small business software, you can automate the most tedious bookkeeping tasks, create professional invoices, get paid fast online, and simplify tax prep. Unlike other software, Wave offers easy-to-use bookkeeping tools that work together, all in one place, so there’s no need to endlessly google solutions or switch between software. Here’s more on what Wave can do for you: Get more time for what you love: Say bye-bye to manual data-entry by automatically importing and categorizing your bank transactions with our Pro Plan. Be the wiz of your biz: Make smart business decisions with helpful financial reports. Plus, track payments, view customer info, and manage cash flow with our dashboard and mobile app. Beat imposter syndrome: Always look and feel like a pro, now and as you grow. Wave is the only solution committed to offering plans for every business stage. Try Wave for free today! Learn more about Wave

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Hubstaff boosts productivity with time tracking, payroll, and more, ensuring efficient workdays and improved outcomes.
Hubstaff is a premier workforce analytics solution designed for maximizing productivity in remote, hybrid, and in-house teams. Integrating with over 30 apps, it offers time tracking, automated payroll, activity monitoring, GPS, and more, across platforms like Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. Aimed at transforming workplace efficiency, Hubstaff has led to a 5% productivity increase, saved the equivalent of 10 personnel, and significantly reduced project costs. With zero downtime and streamlined payroll processes, it enhances operational efficiency, elevates customer value by 30%, and promotes strategic resource allocation. Hubstaff empowers businesses to achieve peak performance without compromising employee satisfaction, proving to be an invaluable tool in driving success and embracing the future of work. Learn more about Hubstaff

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
7shifts centralizes onboarding, scheduling, time clocking, compliance, tips, and payroll for your restaurant team. Free for 14 days!
7shifts Payroll is designed to address restaurant challenges like tips, labor compliance, union fees, and onboarding. You can sync your 7shifts tip data directly to Payroll for automatic tax deductions and tip credit top-ups. Improve efficiency and accuracy with a solution that replaces the need to export or manually enter information into another non-integrated system. Employees will appreciate having one single place to send paperwork and understand their pay with the 7shifts mobile app. Learn more about 7shifts

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
All-in-one, modern HR and payroll solutions that make real-time smart recommendations to help you drive better business outcomes.
Our all-in-one HR & payroll software solutions help reduce time spent on administrative tasks, allowing you to return your focus towards strategic initiatives that propel your organization forward. Attract top talent, improve productivity, and reduce employee turnover with tools that create an engaging company culture that fosters connection, collaboration, and belonging. Real-time data insights help to understand the needs of your workforce, make informed decisions, and get to know your people. Learn more about Paylocity

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Eliminate the stress and complexity of HR administration for you and your employees.
Zenefits is a SaaS cloud-based HR platform that helps small and mid-sized companies empower their workforce, manage change and stay compliant. Zenefits' People Platform delivers the most comprehensive, intuitive HR experience in the market. Its HR, Benefits, Payroll and Performance apps combine with advisory services and integrated partner apps to radically simplify HR administration reducing paperwork and complexity so companies can focus on starting, running and growing their businesses. Learn more about TriNet Zenefits

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
RUN simplifies payroll and HR with a comprehensive set of easy-to-use tools, all backed by ADPs small business expertise.
Get what you need, when you need it, with industry-leading HR tools and services that make it easier to go all-in on your business. With the RUN Powered by ADP solution, you can process payroll from anywhere in minutes, and even put recurring payroll on autopilot. With RUN, you can stay ahead of state and federal tax laws and HR regulations with automatic updates covering all 50 states. Also get more peace of mind with 24/7 support from certified payroll experts. Learn more about RUN Powered by ADP

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Start, run, and grow a business with access to big-company benefits, automated payroll, compliance support, and HR tools in one place.
Justworks is your go-to partner for payroll, HR, compliance, and benefits. Small business owners and their employees get access to a suite of products that offer big-company benefits, automated payroll, get compliance support, and HR tools all in one place. Get started today with 3 months free! Learn more about Justworks

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
We make payroll and HR easier for our SMB customers.
Automatic Payroll Systems (APS) has a mission: to make payroll and HR easier. We design our unified solution to simplify workforce management tasks for mid-market organizations. We provide our clients and partners with personalized service and support to accomplish their goals. Streamline payroll processing, automate HR workflows, and elevate the employee lifecycle with a single-system platform. We are APS, your workforce partner. Learn more about APS Payroll

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Full service payroll platform that lets users pay their team in a few clicks and manage their business from a unified platform.
The company that made it easy to accept credit cards now makes it easy to pay your team. Square Payroll is a full-service payroll product available online or via free mobile app (iOS and Android). Pay W-2 employees, 1099 contractors, or both. Unlimited pay runs and all tax filings included for just $35/month plus $5/person paid. Square handles all payroll tax calculations and payments. You can also access employee benefits like health insurance and retirement savings plans. Available nationwide. Learn more about Square Payroll

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
OnPay's award-winning payroll and HR saves business owners over 15 hours a month and frees them up to focus on what's most important.
Growing businesses love OnPay for its flexible payroll and HR. It gets top customer ratings from Capterra, PCMag Editors' Choice, and was named the "Best Payroll Service for Small Businesses" by the experts at Forbes. Pay employees in minutes, automate taxes, and add payroll to QuickBooks or Xero. Starting at just $40 plus $6 per person each month for payroll, HR tools, and the option to add benefits in all 50 states -- the best value among premium payroll providers. Learn more about OnPay

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
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Bright provides a suite of industry-leading software solutions for accountants, bookkeepers and SMEs across the UK and Ireland.
Bright provides a suite of industry-leading software solutions for accountants, bookkeepers and SMEs across the UK and Ireland. Our multi-award-winning, user-friendly and innovative products let users support clients while profitably running their practices, with the backing of exceptional support. Our product suite includes: • BrightPay (Payroll software) • BrightManager (Practice management software) • BrightPropose (Proposal and pricing software) • BrightTax (Tax and accounts software for the UK only) • BrightCosec (Company secretarial software for the UK only) • BrightAccountsProduction (Accounts production software for IE only) • BrightBooks (Bookkeeping software for IE only) Learn more about Bright

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
SurePayroll simplifies payroll for 1-10 employees. Save time, run payroll on your schedule.
Small Business Payroll by SurePayroll is a leading online payroll service for small businesses nationwide. Perfect for businesses with 1-10 employees, our award-winning U.S.-based customer care team offers personalized support via phone, email, and chat. We simplify and guarantee the payroll process, allowing you to file easily from anywhere at any time. Learn more about SurePayroll

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
greytHR is a full-suite HRMS platform designed to expedite complex, recurring, and critical HRand payroll functions
greytHR is a full-suite HRMS platform designed to expedite complex, recurring, and critical HR and payroll functions in a compliant and secure manner. The flexibility of greytHR makes it suitable for a wide range of organizations, from small and medium-sized enterprises to large corporations. It is adaptable for various industries, including information technology, manufacturing, healthcare, banking, hospitality, education, and retail. This flexibility allows businesses with employee counts ranging from 5 to 500,000 to utilize the platform effectively. With over 27,000 organizations and 2.5 million users across more than 25 countries, greytHR has established itself as a trusted HRMS solution in regions such as India, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Learn more about greytHR

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Dayforce Powerpay modernizes the payroll and HR experience by enabling you to pay and manage your employees quickly and accurately.
Dayforce Powerpay is an easy-to-use payroll and HR software solution for Canadian small businesses. Using Powerpay, you can help reduce risk by cutting through compliance complexity, streamline processes, and take advantage of automatic calculations and remittances. Powerpay includes features such as payroll processing, reporting, self-service, record management, onboarding, time-off requests, managed payroll, HR advisory, integrations, and time and attendance. As a Powerpay customer, you also have access to a world-class, award-winning customer service team that is NPI-trained and ready to help you in real-time Learn more about Dayforce Powerpay

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Simple online payroll software built for small businesses in Canada and the accountants and bookkeepers who support them.
Wagepoint is on a mission to simplify payroll and help small business owners get more time in their day. Direct deposit, automatic tax calculations and remittance payments, an online employee portal, year-end reporting, T4s/ROEs, integrations with QuickBooks Online and support from the world’s friendliest team. Trust in simple, fair and transparent pricing. Our pricing is based on a monthly subscription model. Choose the plan that best suits your business depending on how often you run payroll. Learn more about Wagepoint

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Asure's Payroll is an all-in-one solution that automates payroll & tax, streamlines HR, maintains compliance and fuels growth.
Asure Software’s Payroll & Tax Management Platform automates payroll management to ensure accurate, timely wages, full tax compliance, and cost savings. Our all-in-one solution handles everything from tax calculations, direct deposits to garnishments, keeping you compliant while freeing up your time to focus on growing your business. With a user-friendly interface and innovative features like real-time reporting, employee self-service, time & attendance tracking, and general ledger integration, managing payroll has never been easier. Access and manage your payroll anytime, anywhere with our intuitive online platform. Learn more about Asure Payroll & Tax Management

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Comprehensive HR, Payroll, and People Management. Automate HR tasks, streamline payroll, and the entire employment lifecycle.
We are Australia's first all-in-one HR, Payroll and benefits platform for employers and employees. With native integration to XERO, MYOB & Keypay, you can streamline admin heavy tasks and spend more time on the things that are important to you. Over 4,500 Australian businesses use Employment Hero and together we collectively manage over 125,000 employees. Visit our website to learn more. Learn more about Employment Hero

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
A cloud-based HRIS system that helps employers manage the employee lifecycle from recruitment to retirement.
Netchex is a leading cloud-based payroll and human capital management (HCM) solution designed for small and mid-market businesses. With key features that include payroll, recruiting and onboarding, performance management, time and attendance, benefits administration and reporting and analytics, thousands of companies trust Netchex to manage all aspects of their HR needs. Learn more about Netchex

Features

  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses
Powerful payroll software that fits the needs of accountants and small to medium-size businesses.
Payroll Mate is a comprehensive payroll software that fits the needs of accountants and small to medium size businesses. Payroll Mate automatically calculates net pay, federal tax withholding, Social Security tax, Medicare tax, and calculates user defined state and local taxes. Payroll Mate also supports different types of pay periods, prints payroll checks, prepares forms 941, 944, 943, 940, W2 and W3. This payroll software also supports user-defined Income, Tax, and Deduction categories. Learn more about Payroll Mate

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  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Tax Compliance
  • Employee Database
  • Compensation Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Payroll Reporting
  • Payroll Management
  • For Small Businesses