Why Outsource?

Outsourcing your payroll can save time, money, and a whole lot of unnecessary aggravation. Most importantly, it enables you to focus your time and resources on running your business and making it more successful.

When you outsource your payroll to a service provider:

• Your service provider has local, experienced payroll professionals to help solve problems with personalized attention. As a result, they will come to know you and your company. Many software packages are supported by customer service people located thousands of miles away and it's very unlikely that you'll ever speak to the same person twice.
• Handling turnover or time off is much easier. If your payroll person leaves your organization or takes a day off, service providers make the transition easy while maintaining a personal touch to get you through the unexpected.
• Your service provider will make sure that you'll be kept informed when something changes such as new hire reporting, mag media filing, EFTPS, tax changes, etc., and offer solutions to take care of your needs.
• As your needs grow, your payroll service provider has the options and tools available for you when you need them.
• Service providers can be flexible and tailor their service to fit your requirements. A stand-alone software package may not match your unique needs.
• A service provider can also give you the control that you may find appealing with software by providing their own remote entry capabilities while giving you the comfort of local personalized, professional payroll support.
• Many service providers can help take care of more than payroll. Many offer time keeping services, human resources, benefits, employee self-service, and many other administrative services designed to make things easier for you.
• Keeping your payroll confidential in the office is easy.
• There is no need for a large initial capital investments required by many software applications.

Outsourcing offers many advantages no matter what your size or what your industry. Online Employer offers you access to the best! Is outsourcing right for your business?

Here are some points to consider:

• Evaluate the complexity of your payroll. Do you have employees that work in multiple departments and have several pay rates? Do you have a distributed workforce across multiple states? Do you understand the intricacies of paying payroll taxes?
• Are you spending too much time and money paying employees and taking care of the payroll taxes? Do you feel rushed to get payroll completed on-time?
• Evaluate the reliability of your current payroll method. Are you delivering pay checks on time each pay period? Are employees finding errors in their pay checks?
• Have you ever had to pay a tax penalty because the amount of taxes were incorrect or not paid on time?
• Would you like to offer employees benefits that you don't have today such as direct deposit, debit cards, garnishment checks?
• Consider the reporting capabilities you have. Are you effectively managing employee vacation/sick accruals? Do you need improved Human Resources management and tracking? Would better reports enable you to better manage your payroll expense?
• Is reporting information to other third parties such as your 401K provider, your accountant, your insurance company, garnishment agencies, etc. as easy as you would like?