Company Owners---PAYROLL help or recommendations

I recently received the Trucknpro Professional Business Business Manager from Foglinesoftware (www.foglinesoftware.com). I have been using their software for a number of years. The newest version has a payroll feature where you can do payroll as you put in each load. It will do all the calculations for pay by the hour, mileage or percentage. The software doesn't have tax tables in the program. You will still need to use a tax table and then plug in the numbers to the software. If you keep up your bookkeeping on the loads, it should not take long to do your payroll. You are not limited as to the number of trucks. As far as using a spreadsheet, you could copy the tax tables into your spreadsheet then key in the gross pay and as long as the formulas are correct, you should see the net amount and all deductions instantly. You could then just transfer those numbers to the Trucknpro software and you can print out their pay and deductions. It will keep track of the pay and deductions and at the end of the year all you need to do is print a report on each driver. You can go to their website and download it for a trial. I think it is 15 days.

There is another I used to recommend, but they now have a monthly fee attached and everything is done offsite. With the Foglinesoftware, you keep everything on your own computer system. They have a training video you can also download first, which explains how the program works.

 

I just thought of something else, maria. I believe Quickbooks Pro has software that will do your payroll. I believe the payroll is a separate module or has a monthly fee attached. While it isn't specific to the trucking industry, the software will do your books. How many trucks do you have? Are you primarily interesting in something to do your payroll or all of your bookkeeping?

 

Chase bank will do it, of you have Business acc with them.Very easy. And you can monitor everything online....

 

Outsource it. My bank (Wells Fargo) does it for me. I enter the gross pay in less than a minute and I'm done. They do all the periodic tax deposits and filings, along with direct deposits for the payroll. I get a Fedex envelope each week with pay stubs for everyone and a summary report to fill a box with. Some might say I'm paying too much, but I'm happy with it. It's a headache I don't have to deal with at all.

Another outfit I know of is Paychex. I hear their ads on the XM news channels often. Not an endorsement by me, as I have never used them nor know anyone that has.

 

Stay away from Paychex. Constant computer glitches, sudden premium spikes, CSRs with intelligence of a pack of mayo

 

http://www.adp.com/

ADP maybe ???