Last December, I decided to change our accounting software. I will address that in more detail tomorrow, but the change also required us to change our payroll software. We had been running all payroll in house with the payroll module on our old software. When we made the change, we decided to go with ADP. So far, we are very pleased. Here are some of the major reasons I like using ADP:
- It is completely web based. I am able to input, review and process payroll from anywhere I have an internet connection (and the appropriate web key). This gives me great flexibility in running payroll. Also, our employees are able to input their time sheets electronically and their supervisors can approve from anywhere they have an internet connection. We have been running this with a small sample of employees and it has worked great. We will be rolling it out to all hourly employees soon.
- Tax updates and other software updates are done by ADP and I don’t have to do anything. I just use the sytsem without worrying about management of the actual software. This eliminates our need for internal IT support and for servers to backup the data. ADP holds and backups all data on their servers. All we need is an internet connection.
- ADP processes our payroll through the bank, pays our payroll taxes, files our quarterly tax reports, and files our annual W2 forms. This saves us a lot of time, especially at year end. In addition to all of this, we are able to do an easy export from ADP to our accounting system for all general ledger entries related to each payroll run.
We decided to go with ADP, mostly because we needed something that would work well with our new accounting software. That being said, we have been extremely pleased with ADP. When it comes to payroll, ADP does it well. Tomorrow I will talk about our new accounting solution.
Aaron Goin 