Canada's PayDirt Payroll Lite

Canadians tell us they love PayDirt Payroll Lite

Why not? It's free!

Okay, so you know you need a full-featured powerful payroll program to handle your company’s needs.  But you worry about the boss’s reaction when she sees the price tag. Well, worry no more...all of the functionality of PayDirt Payroll Lite is available for an unbeatable price: Free!

Here's How It Works:

• Download the PayDirt Payroll Lite software.
• Register your copy with Qlab Systems.
• Try it out in your operation.
• If you like it (and we are pretty darned sure you will), subscribe to the very-reasonably-priced annual update plan to keep all the tax deductions up to date.
• Try not to look too smug when other companies’ bookkeepers ask what your company paid for this powerful software.

What Is PayDirt Payroll Lite?

PayDirt Payroll Lite is a scaled down version of PayDirt Payroll Pro. PayDirt Payroll Lite is missing most of the high end features that larger companies with difficult payrolls might need in order to automate their payroll processing, but it retains the simplicity and basic payroll functionality of PayDirt Payroll Pro. The simple batch system that PayDirt Payroll Pro is famous for is retained, along with the intuitive method for handling and completing payroll.

Even though PayDirt Payroll Lite is a simplified version of PayDirt Payroll Pro it still retains some very desirable high end functions, such as the ability to do direct deposits and also the ability to print onto and automatically MICR encode blank cheque forms.

Like Pro, T4 production is also simple and straightforward, and includes the ability to print both the T4 form and the data onto blank paper so the user doesn't have to order T4 forms. And the Lite version can even create a T4 submission file in xml format so the client can upload their T4s directly onto the CRA website if they prefer.

Who Is PayDirt Payroll Lite Targeted To?

PayDirt Payroll Lite is targeted to clients with simple payroll needs and simple accounting needs. Typically, the Lite client will have fewer than 50 employees, and sometimes as few as 2-5. The Lite client usually has a very simple chart of accounts with only 1 or 2 wage expense accounts, and they normally don't use departments in their chart of accounts. The PayDirt Payroll Lite user is usually hands-on in their business and wants to keep their accounting and their payroll as simple as possible.

What Is Removed From PayDirt Payroll Lite?

The most obvious difference between Pro and Lite payrolls is that in Lite the accounting for payroll expenses is assigned directly to each paycode and not by employee, and therefore will be the same for all employees that are using any given paycode. As a result, accounting can't be changed in the employees' Pay Template grids or in the live batch grid the way it can in PayDirt Payroll Pro. To account for expenses to various wage expense accounts in Lite requires the creation of additional paycodes assigned to those accounts.

Of course, that also means that Lite doesn't have Pro's famous ability to distribute expenses like CPP, EI, vacation pay or benefit expenses to multiple departments simultaneously, but because the Lite user has simple needs it's unlikely they would want to do any expense distribution to multiple departments. In Lite, each of those expenses will instead be allocated to their own account.
 
Primarily, Lite is missing features and functions mostly needed in larger companies, but is has also had some features removed that add complexity to payroll. Significant differences are that Lite doesn't have an HR module, nor does it provide a Mass Change function, both elements that shouldn't be needed in a smaller company with few employees and simplified accounting and payroll needs. Lite also doesn't have any of the other elements that larger companies sometimes require to help streamline payroll processing and wage costing, such as daily time entry of payroll, job costing integrations, unit based accruals such as seniority counters or accruals tracked in hours, days, or weeks instead of in dollars. Nor does it provide multi-user access, email of direct deposit slips or the import of timesheet information from timeclock software, all features that would be redundant for a smaller company.

What Isn't Removed From PayDirt Payroll Lite?

There is no limitation to the number of employees in PayDirt Payroll Lite, nor is there a limit to the number of companies that the user can put on the companies list and do payroll for. And of course, there is no limit to the number of wage or deduction paycodes that can be created in the Lite program. And like the Pro version all of the company's payroll history is retained indefinitely so that historical reporting can be done for prior years and across year ends without having to open prior year datasets to retrieve information.

What Makes PayDirt Lite Attractive To Users And Dealers?

It's free! Yes, the Lite software is free and so is the first year of tax tables for the program so the user can get started right away at no cost. Users will then have the option to update their tax tables at the start of the second year and the cost is only $195.

The Lite solution is ideal for dealers and consultants too because they can solve all of their clients' difficult payroll problems with PayDirt Payroll Pro but still have a solution for their smaller clients that looks and works exactly the same way, and the dealer won't have to learn a second program.
 
Best of all, Lite users often grow into Pro users when their company grows or their payroll needs become more complicated. And when the Lite user wants to upgrade to the Pro version because they need some of the advanced features of the Pro version the upgrade process only requires the entry of a new registration key, and both the program and the data are automatically converted to the Pro version as soon as the new registration key is entered.

Here Is A Brief Recap Of What You Get:

No limits:

• Unlimited number of Employees.
• Unlimited number of earnings codes.
• Unlimited deductions, benefits, accruals.
• Unlimited number of open batches.
• Unlimited number of historical batches.

Ease of day-to-day operation:

• Easy entry of pay cards in a simple grid format.
  
  
   
• Powerful formulas to calculate benefits, deductions and accruals.
• Automatic calculation of time-and-a-half and double time.
• Correct calculation of Workers’ Compensation costs.
• Direct deposit to your employees’ bank accounts.
• Export of accounting transactions to popular programs including Simply Accounting, QuickBooks, Sage ACCPAC, ACCPAC Plus, Adagio Accounting and more.
  
  
   
• Full audit trails.

Powerful periodic processing:

• Generate Record of Employment forms for terminated employees and transmit the data to Service Canada.
  
  
   
• Print all sorts of needed reports from current and historic batches.
• Generate paper and/or electronic T4 slips and upload to Revenue Canada.
• Roll over to a new year while keeping all details from the previous years available.

And it your company grows and grows and you need even more payroll power, you can upgrade to PayDirt Payroll Pro without losing any of your work.

Don’t delay; get your copy of PayDirt Payroll Lite today.  Then ask the boss for a raise!