Archive for June, 2009

Choose a Payroll Processing Company

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Outsourcing is a big decision, and Priority Pay Payroll wants to help you make sure you make the right decision. It’s important to choose a payroll processing company that gives your business exactly what it needs at the right price. You might think this is difficult to find, and it can be if you’re not sure how to compare companies and to know what to look for.

Many smaller businesses are outsourcing these days, and they’re not just outsourcing payroll. IT services, marketing, sales, administrative help, customer service and a number of business activities that larger companies might have a separate department for are services that smaller business have started outsourcing with great success.

Priority Pay Payroll handles payroll services for a number of small and medium-sized business, as well as some large clients, and brings over 30 years of professional payroll processing to these tasks. You should settle for no less from a company, regardless of the tasks you’re outsourcing. Do you want to risk the operation of your business to a company with anything less than years and years of experience?

You should also consider the type of experience. If you have a medium-sized business and you’ve decided that outsourcing payroll is more cost-efficient that having a department for it, is the company you’re looking at ready to handle the needs of a company your size? Companies that handle only large, corporate clients might offer a set of services that are far beyond what your company needs, with a price to match.

But some companies are less well-equipped to handle the payroll needs of a company your size, and if used to handling only new or small businesses may not include many of the things your growing company needs. Priority Pay Payroll specializes in small and medium-sized business but has large clients also, so your growing business will be covered as you become more and more successful.

Priority Pay Payroll has a bundled approach to services, as well, with a core service that offers everything your company needs and other options available that can be added to your service package. You won’t ever be surprised at hidden fees or requirements, and rest assured that the tax filing, reports, documentation and other services you need like check stuffing and sealing, check signing and more are included at no extra cost.

When you choose a payroll company, make sure that you choose a company and a set of services that makes accountability clear. Make sure the company you choose is reliable and will file taxes on time, report new hires by your state’s deadline and get your payroll checks to you on time, every time. Late reporting can cost you in penalties and fines.

With Priority Pay Payroll and the full tax package, you no longer have to worry about IRS notices as you’ve outsourced complete responsibility for this reporting and commitment, and accuracy and reliability is assured. Priority Pay Payroll is accountable for the accuracy and timelines of all the payroll-related tasks so you can spend time running your business instead.

Outsourcing with Priority Pay Payroll

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Priority Pay Payroll is a company that focuses on the payroll processing needs of small and medium-sized businesses. We understand that knowing what to outsource and when can be difficult especially for business that are just getting started or that may have never outsourced anything before. Outsourcing used to be something that was chiefly done by larger businesses that didn’t have an employee or department that was specially trained to do certain tasks like Internet marketing or SEO work. But today, more and more smaller businesses are outsourcing their non-core business functions to companies like Priority Pay Payroll.

Why is it a good idea to outsource payroll processing? First, payroll isn’t just something that must be done to get your employees paid. There’s much more to the process than that. Just tax filing alone, which depends completely on the accuracy of your weekly or bi-weekly payroll figures, can cause numerous problems for a company. If the numbers are incorrect or the filing itself is done incorrectly, late penalties and other fees can accumulate and cause problems.

A company like Priority Pay Payroll handles each pay period with an eye toward the annual filing to make sure that everything is accurate. So when you outsource your payroll processing, you’re not only getting a tedious and non-core task off your plate, you’re handing it over to experts who know exactly how to handle it for your company.

And since tax filing is essential when it comes to payroll processing, Priority Pay Payroll includes it in their payroll processing package. You won’t ever be charged extra for those features like tax filing, direct deposit, custom reports and other important options because Priority Pay Payroll has a true bundled pricing approach so you can make sure you’re getting everything you need. Some other companies offer impressively low prices but charge extra for these things. This gives you an inaccurate picture of your true annual outsourcing costs.

While we have low, competitive prices, we offer those bundled prices so that there’s full disclosure and you won’t ever be surprised by an extra fee for something you need. And we also operate under full accountability. If tax questions or problems arise and we handled the tax filing, we’ll take care of the problem. With Priority Pay Payroll, your tax filings will be done accurately and on-time, eliminating just one more thing for you to worry about.

You’ll also be kept abreast of everything through general ledger reporting. We’ll send you a highly detailed report and a summary so you can see what’s going at a glance. You have three options for the report to make it compatible with your version of Quickbooks software, and we’ll send it in basic ASCII as well. You can opt to have your checks delivered via UPS, or you can choose paperless payroll and have them arrive via email in Adobe Acrobat format so you can print them yourself.

No matter which options you choose, outsourcing with Priority Pay Payroll makes sure that your payroll is done accurately and on time.

Benefits of Outsourcing to Priority Pay Payroll

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Small and medium-sized businesses can greatly benefit by outsourcing their payroll duties to a company like Priority Pay Payroll. The obvious benefit and a main reason that companies do outsource payroll is that it’s a repetitive and time-consuming task that doesn’t directly contribute to the core of the business. It’s a necessary task, but it doesn’t generate new business or income. Outsourcing frees up employees, managers or owners to do other things.

And while that alone is reason enough to use a company like Priority Pay Payroll, the benefits go far beyond that. For instance, with sick leaves, maternity leaves, leaves of absence, furloughs, vacations and other things that affect time and pay, situations can sometimes get complicated. This can be a huge time drain. But if you’ve outsourced your payroll, it no longer affects your day-to-day business. These things are handled and resolved for you.

Payroll deductions in themselves can be complicated and time-consuming, and make payroll much more complicated. Once again, no HR employee or other employee has to try to find the answers when you have a company like Priority Pay Payroll handling your payroll processing. And if problems crop up or it seems that a situation will cause problems in the future, the company you’ve outsourced to will advise you of these issues and help you resolve them.

Because a quality company like Priority Pay Payroll uses special payroll software, there’s much less chance of errors when it comes to pay records, tax records and insurance deductions. While any company can purchase payroll software, if the software is used incorrectly any number of problems can occur. There’s no need to train employees on complicated software when you outsource these tasks and you can rest assured the numbers, deductions and tax records will be accurate.

The annual reports and tasks that can be a huge hassle will be handled by the payroll processor. Choose a company that bundles services into convenient packages so that you know what you’ll get at what cost, and make sure they don’t charge extra for every report and schedule. Priority Pay Payroll has true service bundling with easily understandable packages and rates.

Another option you can use to simplify your payroll processing is to purchase payroll software. But this is a large investment not only for the software license but the hours spent learning to use it. And though software simplifies the task, nothing simplifies it more than outsourcing it completely. You’ll still be paying someone to use the software to generate payroll, and those hours could be better spent generating income for the company.

And even with payroll software, the person using it must still understand the laws regarding deductions, insurance and tax compliance. It’s also easy to overpay for software by purchasing a suite that’s far too complicated for your business’ needs. It’s best to leave the complicated and time-consuming payroll processing to the professionals like those at Priority Pay Payroll to make sure it’s accurate and in compliance with the law.

Help Your Company Go Green with Priority Pay Payroll

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Going green is something that individuals and companies are striving to do today, and Priority Pay Payroll can make it easy and cost-efficient for your company to do it, too. First of all, simply deciding to outsource your payroll will show your company a savings when it comes to paper and ink. While it’s not a green solution, it does help your company’s bottom line. You won’t use paper and ink on payroll, and that savings adds up over time.

But if you choose paperless payroll with Priority Pay Payroll, the use of all that paper and ink isn’t simply transferred somewhere else. Your company is using a truly green solution in this case, because your checks, stubs and reports are sent electronically without using even a single sheet of paper or drop of ink.

Priority Pay Payroll provides check stock for you to print employee paychecks right in your office, and because all of the stubs and documents are emailed as well you can pick and choose which you need to print. This lets you print only what’s necessary and eliminates unneeded paper and ink waste.

Many companies today go green by trying to use less paper, use both sides of paper for things that will just be thrown away, and by recycling paper. Recycling is definitely a step in the right direction, but it still has drawbacks when compared to a system like Priority Pay Payroll’s paperless payroll. First, the trees to make the paper still have to be cut down. Recycling doesn’t stop the initial loss of trees or the pollution that results during the paper manufacturing.

And though it does save many trees because the paper is recycle, limiting the need for more trees to be cut down, the recycling factories still contribute some pollution. And much more new paper than recycled is purchased. So while it helps, paperless payroll from Priority Pay Payroll is a better solution because there’s no initial output of paper and the pollution necessary to manufacture and recycle it.

Also, printer toner and ink are special environmental hazards that need to be recycled. This recycling creates pollution, as does the fact that despite manufacturer’s pleas for people to return these things for recycling, many still end up in landfills leaching dangerous toxins into the ground. Paperless payroll from Priority Pay Payroll drastically cuts down on the amount of ink used. It also cuts down on the wear and tear on printers, prolonging their life and seeing fewer end up in landfills.

Another way paperless payroll helps your company go green is that since all the documents are mailed to you, they’re not sent by UPS as paper checks are. This saves on gas and the pollution that burning it creates. And if you want to go even greener and eliminate the need to even print checks, you can choose direct deposit along with your Priority Pay Payroll paperless payroll. This helps the environment even more while offering your employees a convenient service.

Obstacles to Building Your Business

Friday, June 26th, 2009

When you’re building a small business, there are a number of obstacles that can stand in the way of true growth and Priority Pay Payroll understands how common these obstacles are. Unfortunately, a large percentage of small business do well and maintain their business level, but never make the bold push to a new level of success that takes them beyond small business into a larger, more profitable venture.

The companies that overcome these obstacles and keep moving forward are the ones that allow owners to see the most returns and achieve the most. And Priority Pay Payroll can eliminate one of those major obstacles by handling your payroll processing needs.

Today’s small and medium-sized businesses have more competition than ever before. Gone are the days of setting up shop and having to compete with one or two local businesses. Modern business is global, with the Internet making it possible for more and more people to get started in the world of commerce, and making it harder and harder for individual companies to get ahead thanks to the widespread competition.

But even in those businesses that do so well that they could easily pull ahead of the pack and see amazing growth, the unwillingness to delegate often holds them back. It’s a common problem that keeps many companies small and steady. Company owners work so hard to build a business and when it hits a successful point, the tendency is to keep doing the same thing to maintain that success. The idea of hiring companies like Priority Pay Payroll for outsourcing certain tasks seems like too big a change, too big an expense, and just unnecessary when the owner’s been handling just fine for a while.

Often an owner understands the wisdom of delegating this tedious task, but does it himself to avoid an employee knowing these sensitive details about payroll and to make sure it’s done correctly. This is an obstacle, because in order for a successful small business to keep growing, it’s necessary for the owner to spend more time on broad tasks like business-building ideas within the company, and to delegate more business operations both within the company and by outsourcing. Hiring more staff, outsourcing and expanding are necessary to keep growing, but often owners feel that to do something right they must do it themselves and this unwittingly holds companies back.

Priority Pay Payroll specializes in small and medium-sized business but also handles large clients, and has the experience and technology to handle payroll processing for a small business that grows into a large one. But as long as the owner insists on handling many non-core tasks, it holds the business back.

Entrepreneurs need to concentrate on ideas for building the business, expanding the business and improving it. Time spent doing payroll and other tasks that don’t relate to income-generation, while important to business operation, are simply a waste of an entrepreneur’s time when payroll could be handled by professionals like Priority Pay Payroll , and that time could be spend helping the business succeed.

How to Outsource with Priority Pay Payroll

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

If you’re ready to outsource your payroll, Priority Pay Payroll can help you by making it a smooth transition and offering a commitment of excellent customer service. There are a number of payroll processors available today, and you should compare several so you have an idea of what to expect. Don’t be fooled by the lowest prices, as often features that you need like reporting and tax filing will cost you extra.

Priority Pay Payroll includes these at no extra charge. In fact, you can choose the package that your business needs so that you’re not paying for things you don’t need and you won’t be charged extra for those services that are necessary. A truly bundled approach helps you know exactly what your costs will be so there are no surprises.

If you’re looking at a national company, compare the services they offer to Priority Pay Payroll. You’ll see that you can get the same services at a better price, without those extra tacked on fees for things that you need. Direct deposit services, laser signature check signing, check stuffing and sealing to protect your employee’s privacy, complete tax filing, custom reports, and even things to keep you in compliance with federal and state laws like new hire reporting are available. Just choose the package that contains the things you need and get them at one price.

There’s no need to wait until a certain date. You can start anytime, because Priority Pay Payroll will do a complete audit of your payroll records for that year to make sure all the necessary information is there for year-end tax filings and other documentation. Once the account is audited, it takes from 2 to 4 days for your payroll records to be converted into the company’s system. And you can rest assured that all the data is carefully examined for errors.

Priority Pay Payroll clients who have opted for the full tax services when choosing a package never need worry about IRS notices or problems again. That is completely turned over so that the hassle of worrying about tax communications is completely gone so you can concentrate on your business instead.

If you’ve never outsourced before, you might be concerned about signing a contract and committing to something that you’re unsure of. That’s why Priority Pay Payroll offers a 90-Day Money-Back Guarantee. You should never commit and sign a contract with a company that you haven’t tried, because you could be setting yourself up for disaster if they don’t deliver the services you need correctly and in a timely manner.

Ninety days gives your company time to experience several pay periods so you can make sure you’re happy with the features and services in your package. If you’re not, you can get a full refund. If things need to be adjusted or you feel you need more or fewer features, this is the ideal time to discover it and make adjustments so that you’re completely happy with the services provided by Priority Pay Payroll.

Paperless Payroll

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Paperless payroll will allow you to significantly cut down on desk clutter. Paperless payroll allows you to work via e-mail rather than dealing in paper forms for all of your payroll documents. You may even be able to receive a CD-ROM copy of your payroll documents offering a complete history of all of your past payroll.

These days, everyone seems to be going paperless. There are many processes within your organization that will be significantly streamlined if you take them online rather than using up more paper. Paper payroll may be how they did things in the past, but today, there really is no reason to keep all of your payroll processes in paper, when it is much simpler and straighter forward to complete all of your payroll information online. Rather than printing out payroll sheets and trying to keep accurate files and a neat and organized desk, what you can do is take advantage of paperless payroll, using e-mail to receive your payroll documents or even storing your payroll documents on CD-ROM in order to keep them safe and organized without all of the clutter.

Paperless Payroll is not ideal for everyone. Different businesses operate better in different ways, so make sure if you are considering paperless payroll that you determine whether or not it is actually going to help you. If you work best on paper, then taking your payroll to a paperless level may not actually be the best move for you. If you are feeling overwhelmed by clutter, overwhelming stacks of files and an inability to find what you are looking for in your office, then going paperless might be a good idea when it comes to your payroll processing endeavor.

Paperless payroll means that you will be using today’s technologies in order to pay your employees without having to print or distribute paper advices and paper checks. Although electronic payroll plays an integral role in the concept of paperless payroll, there are a number of other essential components that are capable of collectively offering the prospect to your organization of eliminating every single piece of employee directed paper that surrounds the entire payroll process.

There are benefits both for the employer and for the employee when it comes to paperless payroll. There are numerous benefits associated with paperless pay initiatives. Cost reduction exists in the production as well as the delivery of pay to the organization’s employees, and this is a key driver behind many organizations. Service levels of employees are also boosted as employees are granted secure access to their personal payment information. Paperless payroll is the way to handle payroll now that it offers such a wide mix of different options, eliminating much of the unnecessary paperwork that chokes up and stalls the payroll process on a regular basis.

If your company is looking to significantly streamline your payroll process, then paperless payroll is absolutely essential to your organization.

Payroll Outsourcing with Priority Pay Payroll

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Outsourcing with a company like Priority Pay Payroll might seem like an unnecessary expense, and something that might be all right for a different company but not something that’s really a good idea for yours. Maybe you handle your payroll just fine and your reason that it doesn’t take that many hours a week. Or you may already be paying an employee who fits doing the payroll into his or her busy schedule. So you figure why should you pay someone else to do it when you’re already getting along just fine?

First, if outsourcing to Priority Pay Payroll doesn’t seem like something even worth considering for your company, you’re probably not really aware of the benefits outsourcing can have for your company. If you’re the one doing your company’s payroll, you should sit down and figure up how many hours per week you spend doing payroll. Don’t forget to add in any hours spent learning payroll software and system, hours spent learning tax laws and making sure you’re in compliance with federal and state regulations, and hours spent getting everything ready for annual tax filing time. Add up any time spend with any related to payroll.

What is your time worth? What is your hourly rate of worth as the owner of the company? So multiply that times the hours you spend on payroll and you can immediately see one advantage to outsourcing to a company like Priority Pay Payroll. Look at the amount of worth and the amount of time you’ll save. You can apply those hours in other ways once you outsource, whether it’s solving other problems within your company, finding new clients, hanging on to existing clients, creating new products and services, and in general building your business.

If you pay an employee to handle your payroll, once you determine how many hours that employee spends on payroll, picture those hours spend rainmaking or producing income. How can that benefit your company’s bottom line? And consider that payroll is a tedious and monotonous task. It’s all problems, complicated situation and by the numbers work. That employee who no longer has to make time for such tasks can now spent that time in more creative pursuits. Even if that person’s job is chiefly handling other such tasks within a company, he or she may now have the time to come up with better and more creative solutions.

By turning over payroll processing to a company like Priority Pay Payroll, you can even foster a better attitude. Not having to do a time-draining task like payroll can even boost an employee’s morale and make the time they spend at work overall more productive. And if you’ve been doing it, the freedom of not having to do so anymore and knowing that experts are handling the complicated tasks can boost your morale too, and get you back to creatively building your business.

Those hours can be spent making money, and that doesn’t even count the money you save on paper and ink once you outsource to Priority Pay Payroll.

Priority Pay Payroll

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Priority Pay Payroll specializes in the payroll needs of small and medium-sized business. Outsourcing can be tricky, and sometimes finding the company that matches your needs best isn’t easy. But we bundle the services your business needs into one package so you’ll never pay extra for things like tax filings, custom reports, and other services that you need to have full-featured payroll services. The basic necessities of small and medium-sized business payroll processing are including in one package to make the choice easy for you.

Tax filing is something every business must do, which is why Priority Pay Payroll includes this basic service in a processing package. You no longer have to worry about keeping track of payroll taxes, or following the tax law changes to make sure you stay in compliance. Each payroll is handled with the eventual year-end tax filings in mind so that everything stays in order and ready to go when annual reporting time comes around.

Some payroll processing companies charge extra for year-end reporting and tax filing. Often, companies will give you a rock-bottom fee for payroll services, but then charge you separately for services like this one which are necessary to the efficient running of your business. At Priority Pay Payroll, we have competitive pricing but we include this needed service and refuse to trick clients into paying extra for things that they need. And once we handle the filings for you, we’re accountable if IRS problems or questions arise. Not only can you rest assured that the filings will be handled on time, you can rest easy knowing they’re done correctly. Never have to worry about late fees, tax penalties or IRS inquiries again.

Priority Pay Payroll also offers convenient options to help you follow what we’re doing with your payroll. We give you both highly detailed and summary general ledger reporting, so you can go in depth or see what’s happening at a glance. We provide the file in basic ASCII format, and have it available in 3 different formats to work with your Quickbooks software.

Another service offered by Priority Pay Payroll is laser check signing. Combine this with the stuffing and sealing service, and keep the amounts of your employees’ paychecks confidential. They’re sent UPS Next Business Day the same way, so you’ll always receive them on time.

You can also take advantage of EasyChoicesm, which makes Worker’s Compensation insurance easy and hassle-free for you. With this program, you’re not required to make an advance lump sum payment as you are with many other programs. Instead, your insurance burden is based on actual payroll and the payments are spread out as payrolls occur. This gives your business better cash flow, allows you to have more cash available, and can make budgeting easier.

Paperless payroll is an option that will not only save you money, it helps the environment, too. Priority Pay Payroll offers these and many more services so that you can leave the payroll to us and spend time on your business instead.

Priority Pay Payroll for New and Small Business

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Priority Pay Payroll is a payroll processing firm that, while handling the payroll for some large firms, specializes in small and medium-sized business. Understanding the special needs of smaller businesses is important, and the skilled professionals within the company bring over 30 years of experience to your payroll processing.

If you’ve looked at payroll processors before and decided they were too expensive with too many added fees, then you need to look at Priority Pay Payroll for your small business. All services are bundled into packages so that the services you need are included, and you’re not charged extra for ever service like you might with a different payroll company.

Tax filing and annual reporting and filing are included. You even get new hire reporting at no extra charge. This is one of the details that can be overlooked or done incorrectly when you do payroll in-house. Anyone handling payroll has to be educated in the laws and regulations, even if you have expensive software to help simplify the process. And federal law requires new hires to be reported properly to a designed state agency. Someone who once worked for your company who left and has been rehired must be reported, also.

This type of reporting, if omitted or done incorrectly, costs your company in hours and even possible fines. The law requires each person’s social security number, address and name be reported with the employer’s name and address, and a federal employer ID number. Each state can have a different deadline for when you must have reported this to them, so it’s important that you’re aware of that deadline limit in your state.

And each state can require different additional information, like hire date, birth date and other options they may choose. State’s can change these requirements at any time, and you must adapt to comply with them. This can cause problems and require more time spent on payroll issues as employees must learn the new guidelines.

Priority Pay Payroll includes new hire reporting along with payroll process. In fact, it’s done automatically. You no longer have to worry about changes in state standards and requirements for reporting, or your state deadlines. A weekly report is generated listing new hires and rehires. And for companies that don’t pay employees weekly, you can inform Priority Pay Payroll of new hires between pay periods so you can be sure to not miss that compliance deadline.

The reports you receive are automatically forwarded to the proper agency in your state. This time-consuming task is now completely hassle-free for you, and all part of your payroll processing bundle. There are many other aspects of payroll processing that require specialized knowledge of changing laws and standards, but when you outsource you no longer have to concern yourself with them.

New businesses can greatly benefit from this type of outsourcing by eliminating the need to spend the time on a payroll system and a method of all types of reporting. Priority Pay Payroll can handle these tasks for you and make sure you stay in compliance from day one.