[tatsuke95]

>"service designed to help accounting and bookkeeping service providers manage the payroll for multiple companies."

The last time ZenPayroll made the front page, I (and others) were skeptical about the ability to usurp some of the bigger players. Targeting second party payroll providers is a superb idea. In fact, as someone who dabbled in low-key book keeping services to help me pay for school, something like this would have been wonderful. This is how business becomes more efficient. Waiting on Canada...

[joshuareeves]

Thanks for the support! We're excited to empower these service providers who play an important role in helping small businesses. There's a growing shift toward outsourcing the back-office, given how busy a small business owner is. Independent accountants & bookkeepers can provide a compelling service by leveraging modern SaaS tools, and in doing so, they're able to streamline their business and help more clients. It's a win-win all around.

[loceng]

I'm not sure if WaveAccounting offers the same thing, and started in Canada?

[nickpresta]

Full disclosure: I work at Wave, but not on Payroll.

Wave does Payroll in US and Canada: https://www.waveapps.com/payroll/

Our support team would be more than happy to answer any questions you or anyone might have: https://support.waveapps.com/forums

[molsongolden]

What is going on with Wave! I hadn't used Wave for a while but referred a friend to the service last spring when they needed to start keeping their books rather than just piling up receipts. Fast forward to this spring when I logged in to pull financial statements for their tax preparation, the Wave interface seems to have become less usable.

The date entry when creating a report is slightly strange and difficult to quickly enter the desired date (maybe this is a Canadian vs. American thing?).

When you view an account activity statement (a cash account for example) there is no total for the account as of the chosen date, just a running tally of debits and credits. I had to rerun a new balance sheet each time I wanted to see the cash account balance at a different date.

A quick "last fiscal year" report option or a few different common date ranges like in QB would also be helpful as it was tedious to click through the date calendar and select Jan 1 and Dec 31 every time I wanted a full year report.

I apologize if I missed some options and this is a misguided rant. I was only in the software for a couple of hours but it seemed rather difficult to obtain basic data.

[loceng]

Yeah - it kind of felt like the dump of money ZenPayroll was getting was to compete with Wave.