Free Small Business Payroll Accounting Software

Best Simple Payroll Check and Tax Software Download Review

Jan 11, 2010
Chen Nanyang

Payroll Accounting Software - Chen Nanyang

A review and comparison of cheap or free payroll accounting services for small business and home users.

Payroll software helps people automate payroll accounting management in in-house computers or online. They integrate the functions of payroll check and tax software. With them business owners can create paychecks, pay employee taxes, fill tax forms, and report tax records in an easy way.

Best Free Online Web Based Payroll Service Solutions

Web-based online payroll services providers, like Sage Full-Service Payroll and SurePayroll, offer a simple and easy-to-use way for payroll check and tax accounting. With these services a user can do accurate federal, state, and local tax payments and filings, create online paychecks and payroll reports, and do paychecks printing on his printer or send them to employees as PDF or DOC documents. They can be low-cost or even free.

The costs of online payroll service are different depending on different software companies and the number of employees. For example, If a small construction business owner have 21 employees in 2 states, he should pay his Intuit Online Payroll Plus service $39/month as a basic fee (include 1 employee), $30/month for permission to manage payroll of other 20 employees, and $12 for dealing with paychecks in an additional state. The total price is $81 per month.
At the same time, there are a few kinds of free online payroll services available in Internet. For example, Payroo is free online payroll software mainly designed for UK users. It guarantees five years of free usage and supports up to 50 employees for payroll accounting management in one company.

Best Free Employee Payroll Accounting Software Download

Commercial small business payroll programs usually cost tens or hundreds of US dollars. For example, the well-known small business payroll software Quickbooks is priced at around $200 and Myob Payroll at around $300.

On the other hand, there are a lot of free payroll accounting software available for download online. They include:

NolaPro is free web based ERP, accounting, inventory, and payroll software. It includes the functional modules of tax accounting, order management, inventory tracking, payroll accounting, Point of Sale (POS), and editable shopping cart. It allows multiple sets for different companies, unlimited simultaneous users, and no data restrictions.
CKZ Time Clock is a free payroll time clock software solution. It helps small business owners manage pay time and attendance of employees by generating automated payroll reports.
PayPunch Lite is free employee payroll tracking and attendance software. It helps managers track employees’ attendance time, automate payroll processing, and generate payroll reports.

Freeware doesn’t mean being free forever. Sometimes the technological supports of free software are costly too. Under this circumstance, easy-to-use free payroll software are better than full-function but difficult ones.

Comments

Apr 17, 2010 12:19 AM

swifttime :

The Swifttime is an electronic web based application making it easy for employees and managers to improve work efficiency. Best suited for firms with remote employees and companies with hourly employees where proper documentation of working hours are required. This application can be accessed from any web based device like mobile devices(Blackberry or iphone). It has following advantages:

·Provides a menu driven user interface.
·High accuracy in payroll management.
· Employees and managers can easily access this application via Internet or mobile devices.
·No start-up cost is required.
·Nightly backups of all data.
·Helps to ensure compliance with federal wage and hour laws.
·Advanced reporting module.
·Integrated billing and invoicing module.
·Data can be exported to Excel spreadsheets for further processing.
·Integration with payroll programs like ADP, Quick Books, Peach tree and others available