Checklist: Choosing your payroll software solution

As your business grows, your people will ultimately decide how successful you will be. Good things happen if your team is happy and getting the payroll right is a great first step.

Good payroll is more than just paying your employees. The right software allows you to dig into data to help make business decisions and keep on top of your admin.

And to top this, your payroll data gets complicated as your workforce grows. It’s harder to make sure you’re getting everything right when it comes to compliance.

So, why cloud payroll software? 2 reasons

1. Manual data entry errors are bound to happen. Excel spreadsheets, full of numbers, are enough to drive someone to the walls as it takes sooo much time. And who has the time, right?
2. Using cloud software for your payroll can automate many of those small and admin-intensive tasks, leaving you time for more valuable business activities—which are much less boring!

Your checklist for choosing your cloud payroll software

1. What are your requirements?

Carefully work out and document your needs.
Talk to people in finance, payroll, HR, and related departments across the business.
Want to integrate payroll with CRM? Talk to sales.
Do you need new purchase requisition processes? Talk to accounts payable.
Do you need it to integrate with the Employee Self-Service software? Talk to HR.

2. Identify your top priorities and challenges

Determine which benefits are must-haves versus nice-to-haves.
Rank benefits to select the system that best fits your team’s needs.

3. Do your research

Go online and shortlist competing offerings.
Look through independent research and reviews.
Get social with LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to discover what customers already using payroll products.
Get in touch with a Sage business partner, such as AWCape, to help you with your options and needs analysis.

4. Arrange a demo

Carefully evaluate the user experience.
Look at how things work at the admin level.

5. Check references, score, and select.

Screen cloud payroll provider references carefully.
Make sure they provide access to happy and successful customers.
Look at online forums.

Check out the free product tour for Sage 300 People here.

Need help?  Get in touch with our team to make sure you select the best HR and Payroll solution for your business.

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