Payroll Services & Payroll Software in Rhode Island

Unlimited Payrolls

Pay your employees as often as you want without being charged for extra payroll runs!

Auto Payroll

Cross payroll off your list. Set it up once and our automated payroll handles the rest.

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Free Payroll Setup

We know that starting payroll or switching providers can be time-consuming, so we offer free payroll setup assistance. We can help enter your employee data and your year-to-date payroll information. Or, just use our payroll startup wizard and do it yourself.

On-the-fly Pay Rate Changes

Change employee hourly pay rates during payroll without needing to cancel the payroll or leave the page. How's that for time-saving workflows?

Free Employee Portal

Give your employees secure access to their pay stubs, pay history, time-off balances, and electronic W-2s.

Pay Overtime, Sick-time, and More

Regular wages aren’t the only things you need to track. Easily add bonuses, commissions, tips, vacation and holiday pay, and more!

Unlimited Users with Permissions

Add as many users as you need. Want to control access to sensitive payroll data and limit who can run payroll too? Of course, you do! Assign permissions to your users to view only reports or run payroll and see sensitive information. You’ve got control.

Accurate Payroll and Tax Calculations

Kick outdated tax tables to the curb. You can always count on us for accurate calculations and up-to-date information.

Time-off Accruals

Have a PTO policy you want to automate? You can easily set up and customize time-off accrual rules. Time-off hours will be added to employee balances based on the rules you set.

Tracking Reported Tips

Do your employees earn tips? No problem. Accurately track and withhold taxes for reported tips.

Multiple Pay Rates

More flexibility for managing hourly teams with different jobs: add up to 25 pay rates (roles) per employee.

Customizable Hours, Money Types, Deductions

Use our standard hours and money types or add your own, plus add your own employee deductions and company-paid contributions.

Free Health Benefits Integration

Patriot offers a free employee health benefits integration through our partner SimplyInsured. Offer medical, dental, and vision insurance with ease.

Free Workers' Comp Integration

We offer free pay-as-you-go workers' comp integration with our partner, ERGO Next Insurance. Once this is set up, ERGO NEXT Insurance uses your payroll information to calculate the premium amounts, make the necessary payments to your insurance carrier, and submit all the paperwork. You'll never have to worry about a huge workers' compensation premium payment at the end of the year again!

HR Center

Hold on to your HR hat because we’ve simplified compliance with our HR Center! This value-added feature gives you federal, state, and local compliance updates and actionable steps tailored to your business and locality. Get timely and important legal updates, and assess your company's strengths and potential risks with the HR assessment.

Free 401(k) Integration

Patriot offers free 401(k) integration through our partner Vestwell. We’ve negotiated exclusive discount pricing for our customers, so you and your employees win!

Multiple Locations

If your business has more than one physical location, assign the employee’s primary work location (including working from home). The proper payroll taxes will be calculated based on where the employee works.

Accounting Software Integration

Payroll information is imported seamlessly to Patriot’s Accounting software. We also integrate with QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online.

Repeating, Additional Money Types

Do any of your employees need a repeating money type such as car allowance, cell phone allowance, housing allowance, etc? No problem! Create as many different repeating money types as you’d like.

Pay Contractors in Payroll

Do any of your employees need a repeating money type such as car allowance, cell phone allowance, housing allowance, etc? No problem! Create as many different repeating money types as you’d like.

Free Contractor Portal

Empower your 1099 contractors with their own portal! Let them take control of their contact details and effortlessly view payments and direct deposit info.

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Departments

When it comes to your business, it's good to know where your payroll budget is being spent. With departments, you will be able to use reports to find payroll costs for each of your teams.

Time and Attendance Software Integration

Employee hours are easily imported into payroll when you integrate with Patriot’s Time and Attendance software.

Net to Gross Payroll Tool

Our Net to Gross Payroll tool is an easy way to record gift cards given outside of the software or bonuses that you'd like to gross up. Just add in the desired take-home pay, and we'll do the heavy lifting by calculating the taxes from there.

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S-Corp Health Insurance Tool

Need to track and account for company paid health insurance for > 2% shareholders? No problem. Use our S-Corp Health Insurance tool to add the company-paid premiums to shareholders' W-2s. Just a few clicks and the W-2 will be updated and labeled correctly keeping you compliant.

Umbrella Login for Multiple Businesses

Serial entrepreneurs, here’s one for you: use your existing login when adding a new company in Patriot, and everything will be neatly managed under a single, convenient login.