Payroll Software for Small Business
Run quick, seamless payroll with Patriot's Basic Payroll Software
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Streamline Your Payroll Management
Flexible & Customizable Payroll
Create customizable deductions and contributions for your 401(k), health insurance, garnishments, and more.
Printable W-2s
Print W-2s at the end of the year. Use plain 8.5 x 11 office paper or W-2 forms. The choice is yours!
Free Employee Portal
Give your employees secure access to their paystubs, pay history, and payroll information.
Time-off Accruals
Have a PTO policy you want to automate? Set up time-off accrual rules that will automatically calculate time-off hours with each payroll.
Multiple Pay Rates
Add up to five pay rates for each hourly employee. You can differentiate pay rates for employees by adding a description to each rate.
HR Center
Get timely alerts and emails for federal, state, and local compliance. Plus, assess your company's HR strengths and potential risks with an HR assessment.
Lots of Payroll Reports ... with filtering, sorting, and exporting capabilities.
Current Pay Rates
Who’s getting paid what? How often? In what department? Our handy Current Pay Rates report is the perfect snapshot of what your employees are being paid right now. And if you add our HR software, we’ll display the effective dates of the current pay rates, so you’ll have all of your questions answered at a glance.
Departments in Payroll
Need help with decision-making for cost allocation, resource planning, or answering the ever-burning question: "What are the payroll costs for each department?" You'll love our Departments in Payroll Report!
Payroll Register
This shows all of the payroll you have run for all employees in the software, broken down easily by pay date. View details like employee hours, earnings, taxes withheld, and deductions, as well as employer taxes owed and contributions.
Individual Paycheck History
The payroll details you need for individual paychecks are processed in our software. View an employee’s payroll details like hours, earnings, employee taxes withheld, employer taxes owed, deductions, and contributions.
Payroll Details
Your go-to report for breaking down year-to-date details by employee, location, totals, or checks. Plus, we give you easy ways to download the report either with a PDF or CSV file.
Check/Deposit Payment Detail
See all payments made to all employees with this report. Select one or all employees for a specific payday range to see payment type (whether you paid them with a check or direct deposit), amount, and account type.
Manage Time Off
Managing time off has never been easier. View time off balances for vacation, sick, or personal time. To get started tracking employees’ used and available time off, set up the hour codes you want to use.
W-2 Summary Report
Preview Form W-2 details to ensure information is accurate before printing. Use the W-2 Preview report at the end of the year (or throughout the year) to confirm that the reported income is correct.
W-2 Preview Report
Want to get ahead of the end-of-the-year rush? Preview W-2 Form report allows you to view each employee’s W-2 with all data entered to date and ensure accuracy. After that, year-end will be a piece of cake.
Assigned Deductions
Look ahead to see future payroll deductions you have scheduled. This report groups employees under specific deductions (e.g., medical). And, you can filter by deductions or status (e.g., active). Again, this report shows future—not historical—deductions.
Deduction History
Access all of your deductions from previous payrolls. Choose a time period to view employee payroll deductions that have already been deducted. Use this report to show individual and total deductions.
Assigned Contributions
View a summary of all future employer contributions scheduled. This report groups employees under specific employer contributions (e.g., 401(k) match). And, you can filter by contributions or status. This report shows future—not historical—contributions.
Contribution History
Your go-to report when reconciling benefit invoices or preparing to send your 401(k) contributions. This report gives a breakdown of all of the employer contributions you have made to your employees.
Payroll Tax Liabilities
How much do you owe to the state or on your FUTA taxes? With this report, you see your payroll tax liabilities for federal, state, and local taxes. Basic Payroll software customers can use this report to handle their payroll tax obligations.
Employee Census
Need an employee’s status, title, and other demographic info? We’ve got your back with this Employee Census report. View an employee’s status to see if they’re active, inactive, on a leave of absence, or no longer at your business (terminated).
Don't want to deal with Payroll Tax Filings?
We can do them for you—if you select our Full Service Payroll
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You got questions? We got answers!
The software is designed for small to large businesses, from 1–500 employees, in all industries. Whether you are a seasoned business or just starting out, our software will help you keep your time and money.
Since our payroll software is online, you only need access to a web browser and the Internet. There’s no software to download.
No–our software is only available to companies with employees working in the USA. It’s our passion to help American businesses by providing streamlined, easy, and affordable payroll management solutions.
On the months you don’t run payroll, you will only be charged the base price for the payroll.
Yes. You may begin using the payroll application at any time during the year. You will want to make sure you enter in all of your employee payroll history in the software so end of the year W-2s are accurate. (We can help! We offer free payroll setup to help you get your account setup and can enter all payroll history on your behalf.)
Patriot will e-File 1099s for Full Service Payroll customers who are paying contractors through payroll at no additional cost for 2020 1099s and later years. If you have Accounting Premium, Accounting Basic, or Basic Payroll, here are the filing fees:
| Number of 1099s | Fee |
|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | $20.00 |
| 6 to 35 | Additional $2.00 per 1099 |
| 36+ | No additional charge |
For more information, check out our help article, Electronically Filing Your 1099s.
Payroll Overview
Yes. You may run a payroll whenever you need to in the payroll software.
No–our software is only available to companies with employees working in the USA. It’s our passion to help American businesses by providing streamlined, easy, and affordable payroll management solutions.
Yes. You may begin using the payroll application at any time during the year. You will want to make sure you enter all of your employee payroll history in the software so end-of-the-year W-2s are accurate. (We can help! We offer free payroll setup to help you get your account set up and can enter all payroll history for you.)
Pricing & Billing
In the months you don’t run payroll, you will only be charged the base price for the payroll.
There’s no additional software charge for providing direct deposit to your employees.
Patriot Software accepts credit or debit cards from Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover for your software and service fees.
Direct Deposit
We will only accept applications from small business owners using a commercial/business bank account for their payroll.
Patriot offers a few direct deposit options to meet our customers' needs: free, expedited 2-day direct deposit for qualifying customers; standard 4-day direct deposit; and payroll prefunding. Your money will be ACH debited from your bank after you run payroll.
Technical
Since our payroll software is online, you only need access to a web browser and the Internet. There’s no software to download.
When building solutions, they are designed to be highly secure, performant, and scalable. Solutions are built on a cloud provider giving us the ability to quickly respond to outages and threats. Patriot Security & Systems Team is notified immediately when monitoring systems detect abnormal activity.
We utilize a diverse set of technologies to safeguard your data. Policies are implemented to ensure that these technologies are properly installed and maintained. Third-party audits are conducted to verify we meet industry standards.
Full Service Payroll
Our Full Service is perfect for small to large businesses in the USA and handles all employee taxes and most employer taxes, including federal, state, and local taxes.
Patriot collects and files Workers’ Compensation Insurance for Washington and Wyoming. For other states, we do offer free integration with NEXT Insurance, who offers Pay-As-You-Go Workers’ Compensation Insurance.
Yes, we file in all 50 states. However, there is a $12 fee for each additional state that we file in.
Unfortunately, we don’t handle the IRS Form 943 at this time. However, it’s on our radar, and we look to offer this sometime in the near future!
No. While you can set up custom deductions and contributions, Patriot Software does not handle the remitting of these funds to the proper agencies at this time. However, it’s on our radar, and we look to offer this sometime in the near future!
After you have completed your tax filing setup, Patriot Software will collect payroll taxes on approved payrolls usually the first banking day before the pay date. If payroll is run on the same day as the pay date, payroll taxes will be collected on the next available banking day.
