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Payroll blocked by pending State Tax ID’s? The ‘applied for’ status could help.

You’ve spent hours preparing a payroll, only to find it’s blocked by a new employee whose state has not been set up in your payroll system. What can you do?

How embedded payroll will transform the staffing candidate experience

There are few industries where the dynamics of how people are paid are more top of mind than in Staffing. And yet, most Staffing businesses are still forced to work with 3rd party payroll providers that create disjointed experiences for employers and candidates alike.

What you need to know about payroll compliance in the US

The payroll industry in the US exists because the U.S. Government requires employers to withhold taxes from employee wages, and then pay them out to the government on time. This requirement creates a very real administrative burden for employers, and is why they work with payroll providers to help them get it right. To build a payroll system that is compliant, payroll providers must meet a long list of requirements, including understanding rules across all 50 states and how those states’ rules interact.

Banking Holiday Payroll Considerations

There are over a thousand holidays in the US. Whether it’s National Pet Day or National Pie Day, there is something special to celebrate everyday of the year. However, there are 11 standard Federal reserve bank holidays which hold a little more importance than the others. While for most people these holidays are an opportunity to honor special events and people, in the payroll space they represent some challenges since payroll cannot be processed on these days.

Preparing for Year-end 2021

Payroll providers spend countless hours behind the scenes preparing for year-end, which unfortunately doesn’t mean wrapping presents. To help, we put together our Year-end Playbook for Partners, which breaks down the year end process and shares best practices and tips.

3 things to look for in an embedded payroll partner

Your customers want payroll simplified: they would prefer it to be part of the same system where they are running everything else in their day-to-day, and they prefer it to be tailored to their unique operating environment. But how do you find the right FinTech partner to get you there?

Top 3 ways SaaS platforms grow installed base ARR

Hypergrowth has forced vSaaS companies to confront a challenge that used to come up much later in a company’s life: once you start to gain traction capturing market share in your niche vertical, how do you sustain high ARR growth rates? We spoke to leaders from top vertical SaaS platforms about how they address this challenge and compiled the 3 best ways to grow existing customer ARR.

Making sense of Payroll APIs

Check’s approach to Pay Equity

Today marks Equal Pay Day in the United States, a symbolic acknowledgment of how long the average woman must work in order to earn the same amount as the average man did in the prior year. Take a moment to let that sink in — it’s almost April, and women are just now catching up to what men earned last year...