Payroo.com
Hi
I came across this site and it seems that you can process payroll for clients free and submit in year forms as well as being able to do payroll end of year.
Is anyone else using this service and if so what is it like?
Regards
a_m
What if it goes down?
Of course you are right to worry about any cloud based system being temporarily or permanently unavailable. There are several reasons why that might happen, technical failures, businesses (or subcontractors) going bust, etc. So the prudent user will always take steps to minimise the damage in case the worst happens. In the case of Payroll this is not too tricky as it's straightforward to download up-to-date reports after each payrun, which is how we protect ourselves. And of course Payroll is a yearly process so you can really only get into trouble in one particular year.
I would be far more concerned about entrusting all my records to cloud-based accounting systems where securing your position is far more difficult. Yet businesses cheerfully entrust their accounting information to such companies without carrying out much if any due diligence. Failure of one of these suppliers would be far more serious for the users concerned.
So common sense needs to be applied. Before you outsource important aspects of your business to a third-party carry out a simple risk-assessment, know who you're dealing with (are they profitable, for instance) and perhaps most importantly, think through how you will recover if it all goes wrong.
Captain
I am using it 1 thanks
I use it all the time and several companies that I am assocaited with all use it.
It 'just works' and yes, it's free, as long as you have less than 10 employees.
It's free because you may have to look at adverts but I have never seen one.
Highly recommended (not just because it's free but because it's very good software).
Enjoy!