Payroll Mate Software

Pros

This software helps you complete your payroll in a timely manner and it help you by making sure before you print a check that it's correct

Cons

What I like least about this software is that. If you have a person name in the file listed it forms a new name instead of correcting the original name

Automation of payroll in the easiest of ways. Very, very useful to every business small and large!

Pros

There's so many things you can do that it is so worth every penny you pay. Reports are very easy to generate and understand.

Cons

The layout can be a bit of an eyesore and workflows are sometimes hard to understand in the beginning.

Pros

Payroll Mate is so easy to use. It is easy to set up. The reports are thorough. It is pretty much a no-frills program which makes it less complicated than some. There is a yearly fee - which gives you an entirely new program - but the transition is painless. The data from the previous year automatically transfers over so no new data input. The direct deposit function is great and easy to use too.

Cons

There are a few little things that I wish the software did. One of them is the ability to email check stubs to all of the employees at once when you are using direct deposit. Having to either print check stubs and distribute them or save each stub as a separate .pdf and email them individually kind of defeats the purpose of direct deposit.

Pros

The product is very user friendly. Great customer support that is very fast and friendly. I would recommend this product whole heartedly.

Cons

Would like to be able to pay employees across multiple states. We have found a way to pay the same employee for multiple states, but we do have to do extra calculations for our 941s at the end of the quarter.

ease of use

Pros

easy of use for Federal taxes and checks. The ability to do direct deposit and still print check stubs for the employees.

Cons

The fact that the state of Michigan taxes are not supported. It would much easier to pay my payroll taxes through the program.

Pros

For a small church this works perfectly. Everything we need to keep up with 4-5 people. With option one everything for federal reporting.

Affordable payroll solution for smaller companies. Ease of use

Pros

This is probably one of the easiest, affordable payroll solutions I have found. It will download new updates when needed. Once you have all your information provided for the company and employees, it quite simple to use and create paychecks. I really like it.

Cons

When creating reports and forms for a specific period you need to remember to use the drop down menu to find the correct period or quarter you are looking for.

I am able to offer payroll service

Pros

PRACTICAL . easy to use... user friendly,, simple interface, looks friendly on the eye,, easy to backup

Cons

limited in robust features;
I am a CPA office providing service to many clients> some of them are restaurants with multiple locations. I need to have the ability to print reports by DEPARTMENT; also, I would like to professionalize my service and add a "self mailer machine" to my process. This means that I need to be able to custom format the printing in order to print checks in this machine

easy payroll preparation and manage more clients.

Pros

Easy to use and good reports for clients information. Also easy to pay 941 and 940 tax returns. In general this is a great payroll software that satisfy small business needs

Cons

have to be purchases every instead of paying a fee for updating the current software and version..jut need to add more years to the current calendar.

Pros

The program is very easy to use. I have had no problems with it. The reports are easy to use. I would recommend the program.

Cons

A feature needs to be added for the family medical leave act for NYS. Besides that I have had no problems.

Pros

All tax related figures in one place. Easy to generate reports. Tax withholding amounts automatically done.

Cons

I can not coordinate the payroll check numbers with the check numbers I use in my check printing program. I use Shepherd's Staff and because we have so few employees I don't do an import I just use the figures Payroll Mate generates.
As a church we do not do any withholding for our Pastor so when I generate the Quarterly Federal Tax deposit I have to edit the 941 form to include his wages.

Pros

Ease of input of information and ability to edit payroll items. Reports are easy to read and understand.

Cons

Unable to input or track items like dependant care deductions or employee benefits. These items
are becoming important to todays clients.

Pros

The most important thing about this program is that it works. I have used a few other payroll programs in the past that do calculations incorrectly or create reports that contradict each other, but this program does everything the way it is supposed to.

Cons

Very basic layout and the somewhat clunky workflow often gives me headaches, but they are applying updates fairly regularly that fix a functional problem every few weeks.

The usual expected benefits except for a lengthier process time

Pros

I like the fact that it is not an internet based process. This offers more company privacy for employee information, (names, addresses, SSN's) pay rates and other data.

Cons

In their list of features PM makes it sound as if each feature was included as they normally are in other payroll programs. But they are add-ons that require additional purchase. Kind of nickel and dimeing customers. But their worse feature is the requirement of processing one employee then returning to the screen to select the next employee. With 90 employees this is a very time consuming task. Surely with the technology PM has they could improve this feature.

Pros

I have used this program for over 3 years now and love it! It simplified my payroll and made my book keeping for payroll so efficient. My accountant loves the reports which I provide him. Excellent support staff to!!

Pros

The software is so easy to use and is full functioning. We are a small business and have no problems using this software.

Cons

I do have to integrate the information into Quickbooks, which is time consuming. If it were a smoother process I would be ecstatic.

It totally eliminate worrying about errors. The figures are always correct.

Pros

Easy to use and can start out each new year with little time involved. I send my weekly payroll journal to our CPA in pdf form and they commented it just what they need.

I have been using Payroll Mate for a few years in my business and other firms that I do payroll and 1099's for. What a wonderful product. The easiness of using the product is the best I have found. I have only had to call support a couple of times over this course of time and found them to be wonderful and of course get me up and running quickly. I would highly recommend to use this product. I wish more software would run this easy and accurately. A plus to this - just your annual fee and your done. No monthly fees to use their software. Highly recommend this product to businesses that have the responsibility of payroll. I give them an A+++.

Pros

No monthly fees, easiness of use. Even a lay person can learn this.

Cons

I have found that bringing it into Quickbooks is a little tricky. Since I'm experienced in payroll I just bring it into my Quickbooks ledger manual and it works great.

I use the program biweekly for the maintenance men and management personnel of a 250 unit homeowner association. The program is very easy to use. The only improvement I would like to see is inputting payroll. Now you input one, go back to the main screen and repeat. A pain. Why not before going back to the main screen there is an option to input payroll for another employee. Would be a lot quicker.

This has been easy to use and understand. I have been using Payroll Mate for quite a few year now. I will be using it for many more.

Pros

easy to use