CenterPoint Payroll vs Square Payroll

Likelihood to Recommend

CenterPoint Payroll has been excellent for our company, with approximately 150 employees. I can certainly see it being excellent for smaller companies and larger companies. I don't know if there is a size of company at which it would become difficult or limiting to use - I can't foresee any of the functions or features becoming limiting factors as company size increases. To a certain extent, I could see the robustness of CenterPoint being a bit more than what is necessary for a tiny company of less than 5 employees, but it would certainly be able to do what is required for them.

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Manager in Human Resources

Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employees

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Square is an amazing platform to have total control over the payroll of all the employees of a company or a specific sector. This platform has a very good functionality to collect exact information on how long each employee works, that is one of its most outstanding characteristics, because it monitors work schedules and overtime and generates detailed reports on the work time of each employee. Square does not allow to schedule payments, that is one of the main problems, however, I consider that it is a very good option for small and medium-sized companies that are looking for a way to have more exact administrative control over the working hours of all their employees. It is a software that works in the cloud, so all the work information that is collected will remain safe without any risk of loss.

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Sasha Brito

Marketing Director

GAL Real EstateReal Estate, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

CenterPoint Payroll

Square Payroll

Pay calculation

Benefit plan administration

Direct deposit files

Salary revision and increment management

Reimbursement management

Support for external payroll vendors

Off-cycle/On-Demand payment

Pros

Customization options to meet your company's payroll needs.
Excellent customer service and tech support.
Logical and easy-to-use user interface.
Ability to customize reports and exports.

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Manager in Human Resources

Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employees

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1099s
Takes taxes out automatically
Easy to use and setup for newbies

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Elizabeth Pampalone

CEO

The Web Design ChicProfessional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Perhaps include a pop-up description of an button, or a link to the help section details, when you hover over the button for more than 3 seconds.

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Manager in Human Resources

Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employees

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More reporting options online. Downloading export is cumbersome.
Speedier deposits. 4 day turn around is a problem sometimes.
Improve W-2 process, explanations.

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JoAnna Cohen

President

BizGeni.comRetail, 1-10 employees

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Usability

No score

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Square Payroll 9.0

Based on 1 answer

It could use a mobile-friendly interface. Other than that it's a simple layout and non-cluttered which allows you to get done what you need to get done. No unnecessary dodads or distractions.

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JoAnna Cohen

President

BizGeni.comRetail, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

CenterPoint Payroll 10.0

Based on 2 answers

CenterPoint support is excellent! While I have not had to use them frequently, as the program is consistently stable and has few, if any, bugs, the times I have had to reach out to tech support, they have been excellent and have solved our issues quickly. They listen to our explanation of the problems, can dial into our system to see exactly what we're seeing in real time, and have always been able to quickly determine the issue, work out a solution, and help us through the process until we've got everything back in line. They are friendly, courteous, professional, kind and very knowledgeable of their products. This is absolutely one of the best things about CenterPoint - even though we seldom need it, when we do, they are always quick to get us through the issue.

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Manager in Human Resources

Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employees

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Square Payroll 9.0

Based on 2 answers

I think they have quick and helpful customer service reps, however, I give them a 9 because I have had to wait on hold for long periods of time before.

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Joanna Knight

Owner

Joanna Knight ConsultingOnline Media, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We selected CenterPoint Payroll because of our dissatisfaction with ADP (and Paychex prior). We wanted a solution that we controlled internally, instead of having to be at the mercy of some huge company that saw us as a tiny fish in a big ocean. We set our company's configuration, add/define all of our own specific settings, profiles, etc. and simply process payroll. We print and sign our own checks, process our own direct deposits directly with our bank, and can handle our own business needs. When we were with ADP and Paychex before, both companies made promises to us that they simply were either unwilling or unable to fulfill. We have saved both time and money by doing our payrolls ourselves with CenterPoint.

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Manager in Human Resources

Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employees

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We have tested the QuickBooks Online platform. Before using Square, we tried QuickBooks, but the experience we had was not to our liking. QuickBooks Online is a much more complicated platform to use, the interface is much larger and has complexity in the configuration of the collection of hours of work of the employees. In addition, QuickBooks technical support does not respond in time to users' doubts, on several occasions we had several doubts about the operation of the platform and the response was too late and inconsistent. We decided to use Square Payroll because it offered us a much more accessible UI, a simpler but more precise interface for what we needed in our company, to be able to make payroll payments and make detailed reports on the workers.

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Sasha Brito

Marketing Director

GAL Real EstateReal Estate, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

CenterPoint Payroll has saved us tens of thousands of dollars from our prior arrangement with ADP, while providing either similar or superior support.
Having payroll completely in our control has simplified a LOT of our daily routines - if something needs to be updated or adjusted, we do it ourselves instead of contacting someone at ADP and hoping that they can do it for us, then getting frustrated when they haven't.

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Manager in Human Resources

Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employees

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+ Less time worrying about taxes
+ Saves time at tax time with easy to print/save reports

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Elizabeth Pampalone

CEO

The Web Design ChicProfessional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

CenterPoint Payroll

Square Payroll

CenterPoint Payroll

Square Payroll

CenterPoint Payroll

Square Payroll

CenterPoint Payroll vs Square Payroll