We use PayCycle. It is $42.99 + (numEmployees - 5) * 1.50 per month no matter how many checks you generate. This means you aren't penalized for paying weekly or for generating reimbursement checks out of phase with your normal payroll cycle. I really like it. It generates export files which I import easily into QuickBooks.
I'm very happy with it, I just wish it had an API so I could plug my timesheet system directly into it. Presently I have to transcribe from a web report into their interface but as we only have 16 employees total, it is not a big burden.
We evaluated ADP and they were much more expensive for our use case.
Is their system browser based as well? If so, seems like a clever Greasemonkey could greatly help with that automation (might need an temporary cache there somewhere).
Scrape your web report, stuff the data somewhere (locally), then on their site, read your cached data and populate their forms.
Yes, I should have used max(). I copied that expression out of my budget spreadsheet and I added that cell after we had 5 or more employees, apparently.
Why don't you call Dell, IBM, Sun et al. and become a sales partner? it's the IT equivalent of street-corner pushing and you will learn how much things are worth IRL very quickly.
1. go to the funded.com and do some research on them.
2. find out if you are talking to an associate or a partner. I wouldnt reveal much to an associate as they are almost definetly doing research. Either way, ask them up front what their intentions are
3. Decide ahead of time what you want to tell them. I would think about a couple of interesting tidbits that might hook them into taking a meeting with you.
We're not actually getting 30% CTR in the google sense which is of 100 impressions of your ad, 30 clicked on it. That CTR is of the order of 1%. But of the 1% that reach our site 30% go on to download.
Its seems like a very competitive space and relatively small. Right away you are limiting yourself to entrepreneur types who have limited capital and hence arent an ideal target.
Mayve think about other larger groups that might have the same characteristics
I was looking for a slightly more resourceful response! We dont have the cash to hire someone although we could certainly afford to buy a book and begin to learn. Any suggestions?
I would suggest that "we dont get along" if really true is a good a reason as any to split. If you're not getting along now and have really tried its not going to get any better.
