Payroll runs on a calendar that does not move. A dedicated payroll professional gives that calendar a full-time owner — recruited to your process, interviewed by you, managed by us.
Every other accounting deadline has some give in it. Payroll has none. Miss it, or get it wrong, and the error is visible to every employee at your client's company by the end of the day — which is why payroll tends to be handled by whoever is most senior and least available. Dedicated payroll support moves that work to someone whose calendar is built around it.
GUSTO · ADP · QBO PAYROLL
This is a support seat: your firm keeps the filing responsibility, the sign-off and the client relationship. See where it sits among the six roles on our services page.
Four steps you care about, out of the seven we run.
Thirty minutes on your payroll calendar, client count, pay frequencies and which steps require a licensed sign-off at your firm.
Sourcing, English screening, accuracy-weighted assessments and hands-on tests in Gusto, ADP and QuickBooks Payroll. References checked.
Meet 2–3 finalists. For this seat, test process discipline — that is the attribute that keeps a payroll calendar intact.
Training on your payroll calendar and checklists, security onboarding, then ongoing HR, payroll and performance management from us.
The full seven-step process, including our six screening gates, is on the how it works page.
Payroll support seats are scoped and quoted on the discovery call, based on your payroll calendar and client volume. One flat monthly fee, everything below included — no per-run charge and no per-employee charge.
Your firm. This is a support seat, not a licensed payroll bureau: your dedicated professional prepares, reconciles and assembles, and the filing responsibility, the sign-off and the client relationship stay with your firm. We are explicit about that boundary because payroll is one of the places where a vague division of responsibility becomes expensive.
We are their employer, so cover is our problem, not yours. Payroll calendars are documented during onboarding precisely so that continuity does not depend on one person's memory, and we manage leave planning around your run dates rather than around ours. If the seat ever needs replacing permanently, that is covered free of charge under our replacement guarantee.
Yes — in your instances, under accounts you provision, at the permission level you set. Proficiency in Gusto, ADP and QuickBooks Payroll is assessed during screening, and we train to your specific calendar and checklists before the first run they touch.
The same way we handle all client data, which is to say: NDAs signed before any access, MFA on every account, company-issued managed workstations with no local data storage, least-privilege role-based access and an enterprise password vault. Full detail is on our security page, and if you have a security questionnaire we will complete it before your discovery call.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll map the run cycle and scope the seat.