No more Microsoft Accounting

A few days ago Microsoft announced it would stop selling its Office Accounting package claiming that Excel is a better option for small businesses. This is a significant move that underlines the value of hosted services. Office Accounting was tied to the desktop which doesn't match how we use services today. We tote netbooks and update our Facebook pages from our iPhones - relying on cloud services to get our work done.

Think about how you run your business today. You're probably pointing clients to your website and juggling a lot of email each day. Having to install software on a desktop just to get your accounting done seems so ... so 1998. Using cloud-based services frees you up - you no longer need to "patch" your accounting software and as rules change, the cloud service incorporates those changes faster than you can reboot your netbook.

Payroll is well suited for this cloud service wave - no small business really wants to worry about the complexity of payroll deductions, government remittances, keeping employee records etc. By moving this service to the cloud, we can take advantage of up-to-minute changes to payroll rules, process payroll from anywhere without having to install something, and give employees access to their own pay histories. It's the freedom we've all come to expect now applied to payroll.

If you're looking for a life raft after jumping ship from Office Accounting - check out cloud-based payroll from PaymentEvolution.

Free?! Really?

I've had a few folks ask me if PaymentEvolution really offers free payroll processing. The short answer is yes.

We do it because we believe small businesses should have a choice for their financial services. In fact, many of our friends who started their own businesses complained about the lack of choice when it came to processing their employee payroll. As one entrepreneur put it -

we can get outsourced expensive payroll or we can decide to do it ourselves cheaper - but we don't have time to process everything ourselves!

That's one of the reasons we created PaymentEvolution. You can use our service online from anywhere to do your payroll run and not have to worry about tracking government remittances in a spreadsheet somewhere. The service does all this for you. Our current version has the ability to print your own cheques just like you probably already do. Your employees get their own login to view their paystubs and payroll history - making your job very simple.

For months we've offered a free online payroll calculator

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which expands on the Canadian Revenue Agency's limited version. Think of our payroll service as yet another enhancement - only now you can process your full payroll on the site (for free).

So, yes, the service is free - and we're working hard to add enhancements to the site to make it even easier to process your payroll and give your employees a secure way to access their pay history.

Let us know how you find the service and let us know how to make it better for you.

Welcome!

Hi - I'm Sam.

We started PaymentEvolution to help small businesses like you break free from costly financial transactions like running your employee payroll. Think about it - why would you pay to pay someone? Paying your employees and remitting taxes should not be a burden - and that's why we started this service. Our goal is to provide you simple, free, online and secured financial services like payroll. Go ahead - try it - login and start using the service at no cost.

Why would we offer payroll for free? Mostly because we are a small business like you. We know how expensive it can get to do simple things like issue cheques to our employees. We originally created the software to solve our own payroll needs and have evolved it over the past several years to become a robust web-based system that any small business can use.

We keep the system up to date with the latest Government of Canada tax tables and even give you a simple way for your employees to access their own paystubs. It's all hosted in secure data centers where we are super paranoid about keeping your data secure and private.

We also support data portability meaning that your data is your data. We give you an easy way to extract your payroll information and history for your own use. Don't like what you see? It's ok - take your data with you (though I hope you'll tell me how we can improve!)



Give it a try and let us know how you're using the service to save yourself money.

Why pay to pay!