Integration with Kashoo

We’re excited to welcome our latest integration partner – Kashoo! 

Kashoo is simple, powerful online accounting software for your small business. Built for the way we work today – the service is cloud-based and accessible from any modern web browser. With Kashoo you’re able to track expenses, send invoices, create reports – all the essential tasks of any small business.

And now, we’re bringing full-featured Canadian payroll services to one of the best online accounting apps available. Stating today, all existing Kashoo clients will get free payroll services from PaymentEvolution. Check it out – you’ll see a new PAYROLL link in your Kashoo session. Just click it to start integrating payroll.

And all existing PaymentEvolution clients will also get free online accounting software from Kashoo. It’s our small way of saying thank you for being loyal Kashoo and PaymentEvolution clients.

Not using Kashoo or PaymentEvolution yet? We’ve got you covered too! Sign up before Feb 29, 2012 and you’ll get Kashoo Entrepreneur and PaymentEvolution Payroll for free. This is the first truly free online accounting service with payroll available in Canada.

With PaymentEvolution Payroll you’ll get easy to use yet full-featured payroll that can grow with your small business:

• Payroll calculations effortlessly done for you
• True custom deductions, benefits and earnings – run your payroll the way you like
• Always up to date with full record keeping 
• A super employee site where they can get their full pay history and even tax information like T4 slips – all electronic!
• Integration with Kashoo for easy posting of all your payroll transactions

Grab it now – the first truly free online accounting and payroll service for your small business.

Thanks to Jim, Chuck, Scott and the amazing team at Kashoo for championing the idea of giving great software tools to Canadian small businesses.

Free payroll for your micro-business – and the features you need as you grow

When we launched PaymentEvolution Payroll almost 2 years ago we wanted to give micro and small businesses the tools they needed to quickly and easily pay their employees. Since then, thousands of businesses across Canada have joined us in solving their payroll frustrations. 

We’ve taken a complex problem and made it really simple for small business owners, entrepreneurs, accountants and bookkeepers to get payroll done – in a as little as 30 seconds. Oh, did I mention? It’s free.

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It’s full-featured payroll – and you won’t get stuck in the waves of a payroll service that can’t grow with you. We built the service with super-advanced functions that are always available when you need them – but not, when you don’t. 

We’re honest about pricing and we don’t sell your data or target you with ads. After all, we’re one of the earliest advocates of the data portability movement and have a strict privacy policy. We know we’re dealing with sensitive financial information and treat your data with the respect it deserves.

And we’re serious about features – stuff that you need now and stuff you’ll need as you grow your business. For example, we have simple integration with online accounting services – your payroll transactions can be posted in your bookkeeping service. If you’ve ever run your own books, you’ll love this automated posting. 

More advanced features are also included at no extra cost:

• Always up to date tax calculations – no more “updates”, patches etc
• True reverse or “gross-up” calculations – very useful if all you want to do is pay someone and determine your tax obligations. If you’ve ever had a pay a nanny, you’ll love the feature.
• Secure, online employee portal with their full pay history, electronic paystubs, tax information etc
• T4 slips, records of employment and many other advanced services – all included and easy to do
• True calculations of your remittance amounts – and automated payment to the government if needed
• Fully flexible available payment services including direct deposit. Pay your staff the way they want to get paid for less than the cost of a stamp. No more cheques!

If you’re serious about payroll and integration with your books, you’ll love our simple to use service with all the features you need and none of the complexity you don’t.

Get it now and let us know what you think

PayChequer

Today we're launching an exciting new addition to the PaymentEvolution payroll platform - an employee self-service portal and financial planning tool: PayChequer.com

PayChequer is your home for up to date information about your pay. You can use the service to check your most recent pay stub, see a history of all your previous payments and gather the data you need for tax or financial planning. Employers can use the service to provide their staff full electronic pay information and provide their employees an easy way to update personal information through the self-serve web app. Best of all - the service is free!

A few weeks ago we commissioned a study with Harris/Decima (the same folks who do political polling) to find out what employees really want when they view their pay statements. A surprising number of employees never received a proper statement or lost their statements because they were provided only on paper to them. More importantly, the vast majority of employees have difficulty understanding the arcane codes and abbreviations often used on their statements.

We knew we could do better. PayChequer gives employees a fresh view of their statements by presenting the most important information right up front (Net Pay!). We also provide useful data like vacation days and RRSP contributions to help make personal and financial planning easier.We worked with several beta testers to ensure we presented meaningful data and made it easier for them to "glance" at their statement and get the information they needed.

In addition to presenting a better paystub, the service allows employees to securely change their address, access their pay history, print statements and receive important tax related documents like T4 / T4a statements. Employers no longer need to absorb the expense of sending paper documents, tracking tax documents etc. PaymentEvolution's PayChequer does it for them.

Our beta testers have told us they love getting their statements this way. We think of it as an employee retention and attraction tool - if your staff is happy with how you present their pay, they'll be more productive and view you as a progressive employer. Give PayChequer a spin and let us know what you think in our feedback and support community.

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.