National payroll processors are aggressively rolling out Web-based products that are reshaping the payroll business and which may allow them to compete for smaller clients against CPA payroll processors like Doerhoff. However, national payroll processors like Ceridian , ADP Automatic Data Processing and Paychex are moving quickly to implement Web-based systems. The National product works from within a score of accounting software packages, including Champion, Cougar Mountain, SBT and RealWorld. It takes the output from payroll modules in those packages and deposits the correct amount. Web Direct Deposit also offers users the ability to access transaction histories online and see actual transmissions.
Users can enter data via a browser or upload a file to a browser.
They also have the ability to enter data from almost anywhere. They don't have to be sitting with their payroll software package. It's that kind of flexibility and convenience that is drawing the national payroll processors to Web-based services and likewise, they also expect an explosion of Web usage. Ceridian began testing its PowerPay system last summer in the New York market and was scheduled to roll the program out nationally in March. Users enter payroll data via a browser.