Square Payroll
What Is Square Payroll?
The company that made it easy to accept credit cards now makes it easy to pay your team. Square Payroll is a full-service payroll product available online or via free mobile app (iOS and Android). Pay W-2 employees, 1099 contractors, or both. Unlimited pay runs and all tax filings included for just $35/month plus $5/person paid. Square handles all payroll tax calculations and payments. You can also access employee benefits like health insurance and retirement savings plans. Available nationwide.
Who Uses Square Payroll?
Small to medium size business employers with up to 100 employees. Salaried or hourly employees. Pay W-2 employees, 1099 contractors, or both.
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Reviews of Square Payroll
Troy
Square Payroll makes Payroll easy
Pros:
The Direct Deposit feature of Square Payroll makes paying employees a very streamlined and simple procedure. The W-2 Preparation features makes tax season a breeze. Sending employees W2s is all within the app. Vacation/Leave Tracking has truly increased the productivity of payroll and bookkeeping. This is the ultimate feature for this application.
Cons:
I feel as though with time Square Payroll will rollout a more aesthetically pleasing interface but I do not find any cons.
Bryan
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The Perfect Solution for a Small Business Owner
Comments: We could not be happier with the Value of Square Payroll for our small business. It was exactly what our business needed and we love it. We were very nervous about taxes and getting folks paid correctly not being business owners before. Square Payroll made it incredibly easy to get setup, and then they just take care of it all. Then we get nice reports to get to my accountant, and all of the information you may need you can dowload at any time. It's an incredible value.
Pros:
The ease of use and setup of Square Payroll was incredible. It honestly is a plug and play type of software. Being a new small business owner Square Payroll was exactly what we were looking for. It's also great to have a one stop shop. We use Square Point of Sale in our shop, and to be able to get all of the sales information as well as payroll information from the same place is incredibly convenient.
Cons:
Our small business runs payroll once a month. We wanted to run payroll on the 15th of each month. Changing/customizing the date on the monthly payroll was not an option (monthly runs on the 1st of each month). Not a show stopper by any means.
Laura
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Great in some ways, very expensive in others
Comments: I loved this software, ease of use, money paid UNTIL I had a change in employee status and found out, after 3 months and 3 different customer service agents, that you cannot go from using payroll, to not using it without completely closing the account. And if you close the account, you won't get the tax forms.
Pros:
The ease of paying employees when I want to and knowing all the tax forms are done for me is great!
Cons:
Lack of flexibility. You cannot open/close your payroll account more than once. If you have part of the year you don't run payroll or have employees for, you must keep the account open the entire year, until January of the next year if you want your tax forms. If you then bring employees back, after closing the account, you cannot reactivate it. The second thing I have issue with is lack of customer service. They respond in 3-5 days, with a stock response, and it took me 3 agents before this was explained to me. I have no employees for 6 months, but I have to pay the $45/month if I want my tax forms at years end.
Shannon
Square Payroll is perfect for my small business
Comments: It's a fanstastic and solid product. I've used square payroll for over 7 years after using several other services like Quickbooks, paychex, ADP and nothing beats it in terms of price and quality.
Pros:
We use square for our POS, scheduling employees, and payroll. It's a fantastic all in one product for a small business.
Cons:
I've used so many other products and I don't find anything about this one I don't like or that I feel like it needs in addition to what it already provides.
Barbara
Our 100% Go-To payroll software!
Comments: We have tried other payroll programs and always come back to Square!
Pros:
So quick and easy to use. Set up is quick and easy! Reports are perfect! Payrolls are always timely and accurate. Agency reporting at state, local and federal level have always been accurate and timely
Cons:
WE NEED AN ACCOUNTANT LOGIN FEATURE!!!!!!! Need a way to customize the weekly summary to load into the client bookkeeping! One sheet that explains the Federal and local withholdings for bookkeeping purposes. For example (a breakdown of EMPLOYER FICA and Employee Fica, Federal unemployment, State unemployment and state withholding need to be printed on the summary sheet)
