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Intuitive payroll software built for your business

Pay your people on time, every time, with dynamic, automated payroll software solutions from Sage. Built to save time and intuitively support the unique needs of both growing small businesses and global organizations.

Discover the advantages of efficient payroll software in Canada

Managing your workforce effectively begins with streamlined payroll solutions. When seeking the right payroll software in Canada, you require a tool that not only compensates your team accurately but also simplifies the entire payroll process, ensuring compliance with regulations.

Automate payroll processes with precision

Calculating employee wages, taxes, and work hours involves intricate details. Manual processing often leads to errors. Payroll software eliminates mistakes by automatically computing deductions and overtime rates. This precision ensures your team receives timely and accurate payments.

Ensure compliance with ease

Accurate payroll isn't just appreciated by your team; it's essential for legal compliance, particularly with the CRA. Protect your company from tax filing errors and adhere to tax laws effortlessly. Trust in payroll software to keep you compliant and stress-free during tax season.

Access real-time data and comprehensive reports

Generate in-depth payroll reports easily with payroll software. You can download standard reports for pay rates, tax contributions, employee data, payroll history, bank transactions, contractor payments, vacation balances, and more. Stay informed with payroll software that provides real-time insights and make data-driven decisions effortlessly.

Seamlessly integrated payroll solutions

Our payroll software seamlessly integrates with your existing systems and platforms. This ensures all vital processes are interconnected and synchronized for a streamlined and efficient process.

Explore our payroll software

Sage offers intuitive payroll solutions to businesses of all sizes across Canada to manage payroll effectively.

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Sage Intacct

Payroll with HR

Unify your accounting, payroll, and HR systems and effectively manage your biggest asset and expense—your employees.

 

Discover Sage Intacct Payroll

  • Automate and streamline every part of the payroll process
  • Manage your people, records, and compliance requirements
  • Quickly access business insights needed to make informed decisions
  • Assess, nurture, and develop high-performing teams with HR tools
  • Create a positive work culture with employee self-service

Payroll

Enjoy all-in-one payroll: secure, accurate, and compliant. No commitments, cancel anytime.

 

Discover Sage Payroll

  • Complete a pay run in 3 simple steps
  • CRA-compliant
  • Enable employee access to self-serve payslips online
  • Report on and analyze your payroll to make informed decisions
  • Get expert support all year round

Sage 50 Payroll

Professional accounting and payroll in one.


 

Discover Sage 50 Payroll

  • Process payroll at any time
  • Pay employees salary or hourly pay rates
  • Easily create multiple pay rates on-the-fly
  • Reduce the risk of payroll tax penalties at year-end
  • Prepare T4, T4a, T5018, ROE and RL-1 forms with ease for print or online filing

Payroll software FAQs

Payroll software helps businesses manage their payroll processes by automating payroll taxes calculations, setting up direct deposits, and withholding taxes from employee paychecks. Payroll software also tracks employee hours, deductions, and other information related to payroll.

Yes, you can run your own payroll, but if you are doing payroll manually, it can be incredibly time-consuming. You can run your own payroll using payroll software to save you time and ensure accuracy and compliance. With payroll software, you can process payroll, add employees, calculate gross pay and taxes, set up a pay schedule, and more on your own.

Setting up payroll for a small business can be a complex process, but it is essential for any business to ensure compliance with state and federal laws. To set up payroll for a small business, the following steps should be taken:

  • Find payroll software to help you process pay runs. Because of the laws associated with payroll, using software can help you stay in compliance when setting up and paying employees and contractors accurately.
  • Decide on a consistence and reliable pay schedule, based on the needs of your business.
  • Draft a payroll policy and sort out employee paperwork.
  • Link your payroll software to the bank account used for paying employees.

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