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.
Payroll reports are available in four hours. Similarly, ADP is finalizing a nationwide rollout of its EasyPayNet service. EasyPayNet provides a Web interface through which clients can process their payroll directly over the Internet rather than transmitting it by modem to a typical service bureau environment. ADP has tested the product in the New York City area since the summer with very positive results, reports Raul Villar, ADP 's senior director of product marketing. Villar expected that the EasyPayNet would be available nationally in late spring or early summer.