The basics:

S Corp
PLLC
2 employees

Any suggestions? Pretty simple payroll.

Gusto? Someone local? Something else

TIA

I'm similarly small and have used Paychex forever - but no idea if someone else is meaningfully better. If so, I'd like to know too.

Gusto works well for my 10 employee company. Price has gone up some, but it still waaaay less than paychex or equivalents. There is an even more basic plan than the one we have and the costs ratchets per employee so with just two employees it should be pretty cheap for you to use them. We pay something like $175-200 a month with 10 employees.

Gusto

My '17 daughter just went to work for Paycom in San Antonio. They have office here in West Houston. I think they do/can do it all.

Gusto or Square

Appreciate the suggestions

I went from paychex to ADP due to paychex ever rising costs. Pay under $50/mo for 3 employees now.

My small business uses Gusto as well. It's pretty easy to use and add employees.

Comeby! said:

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I went from paychex to ADP due to paychex ever rising costs. Pay under $50/mo for 3 employees now.

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10-20 employees and I believe it's $60 month. Then again we're a little different in that most of our staff is sales guys that may or may not be paid every period.

How are you doing your accounting? There may be an easy/cheap tie-in with that system.

I've been happy with ADP.

I'm on Intuit Payroll with one W2 for $50/ month. I'm not sure if the cost would up with more employees. It's the only one I've ever used, so don't know how it compares with others.

Location? I use Hill Country Payroll in New Braunfels. They have been amazing at educating me and helping. Costs us about $150/month for 12 employees. Would be cheaper for just 2. I like it because I can email or call and always get a response. Gusto probably fine but not sure about the response times on questions.

+1 for Intuit Payroll.

You can pay all the way up to a day before 5PM and still have a Direct Deposit the next morning.

Used to be 2 days.

I am not sure the cost, as I didn't set it up, but it is nice that it is already incorporated into Quickbooks.

If you use QB, I would recommend it...

I realize that this answer probably won't be helpful to the OP, even if it would appeal to him, but here goes --

Are there no longer any non-subscription simple computer payroll programs that allow one to print a physical paycheck on site, keep track of Federal, State and Miscellaneous deductions, generate the required monthly , quartely and annual reports (including W-2 and W3), and allow you to manually enter the changed W/H tables based on the charts the IRS publishes each December?

We did payroll in-house for a small business I owned for over 30 years and other than the very small amount of time required each week to enter hours and the like, and print checks, we never paid anyone outside of house a dime.

In fact, the program I used was originally written in the early 1980's in the BASIC language for CP/M computers. I just ported it over the years to whatever platform we were currently running.

Yeah, I know -- doing payroll in-house is an antiquated concept and takes away from time that could be used planning the owner's vacations in the Cayman Islands, or brainstorming the next great thing.

Like I said, not helpful. But the question is legit. Payroll computations are not advanced calculus. Are there any stand-alone payroll programs (with self-updated tax tables) still being sold?

And I realize, most mid and high-end guys want direct deposit. Most of the guys I worked did not. Your mileage may vary, of course.

After reading through these, I realize I left out an important detail.

The main person I'm paying through the SCorp is myself.

The other employee will only be getting paid 1x a year.

So generating direct deposits for multiple people is not a requirement.

I need the basics - monthly/Q/A reports, tax forms for 401k/company match, tax forms for Q payments, etc.

Pretty low key stuff as the primary employee of my own pllc

I use Gusto for 1 person (and eventually will for myself when I move to Scorp). I think Gusto will work well for you for this.

Fellow S Corp here. Been open for 14 months.

QuickBooks. I have anywhere from 2-5 employees. Paid biweekly, including myself. Since I'm already using QB for booking keeps things simple. Simple is worth a lot to me.

Just be careful on transitions between payroll companies, they'll drop you like a bad habit and won't file anything. The new company wont touch it either. I did my own TWC and 941 filing for Q3.