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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CenterPoint Payroll

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ARed Wing Software headquartered in Minnesota offers a benefits administration and payroll solution, in their software CenterPoint Payroll.N/A

    SurePayroll By Paychex

    Score2.1 out of 10
    N/ASurePayroll offers an online payroll service that lets small business owners run payroll anywhere, anytime. The vendor automatically pays and files federal, state and local payroll taxes.

    $29

    per month

    Pricing
    CenterPoint PayrollSurePayroll By Paychex
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CenterPoint PayrollSurePayroll By Paychex
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CenterPoint PayrollSurePayroll By Paychex
    Considered Both Products
    Red Wing Software
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    Paychex Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    38%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    44%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    38%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    56%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    CenterPoint PayrollSurePayroll By Paychex
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of CenterPoint Payroll and SurePayroll By Paychex
    Feature
    CenterPoint Payroll
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    19% above category average
    SurePayroll By Paychex
    1.4
    16 Ratings
    142% below category average
    Pay calculation10.01 Ratings2.516 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration10.01 Ratings1.27 Ratings
    Direct deposit files10.01 Ratings1.213 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management10.01 Ratings1.212 Ratings
    Reimbursement management10.01 Ratings1.210 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings1.012 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings1.09 Ratings
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    CenterPoint PayrollSurePayroll By Paychex
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    User Ratings
    CenterPoint PayrollSurePayroll By Paychex
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (27 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.0
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    Usability
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    1.0
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    Support Rating
    10.0
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    9.2
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    Professional Services
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    User Testimonials
    CenterPoint PayrollSurePayroll By Paychex
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Red Wing Software
    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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    Paychex Inc.
    We use SurePayroll to make monthly payrolls in our company, as well as to close the month and year with all the income and expenses and most importantly to make tax payments. The application is perfect for making payrolls when the personnel adapted for it is not in the head office, SurePayroll has an application for mobiles that allows to make these operations remotely. The application is perfect when you want to make immediate payments, at the time of loading the payroll to the system, it proceeds to automatically perform transactions for each employee entered without any error.
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    Pros
    Red Wing Software
    • 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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    Paychex Inc.
    • Super easy interface - honestly running payroll couldn't be easier on their site.
    • Incredible customer service - VERY knowledgeable, professional and friendly. They will walk you through anything you need to do on the site and understand payroll, tax and benefit issues.
    • Tax filing and payments and year-end paperwork for 1099 contractors and W-2s. They make it so easy.
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    Cons
    Red Wing Software
    • 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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    Paychex Inc.
    • My chief complaint is the software sometimes requires me to have a code sent to my phone before I can continue with some process. That in itself is fine. The problem is the check box that lets SurePayroll remember the computer doesn't actually do that. I select that check box every time, but the software doesn't remember me or my computer.
    • Fees have creeped higher every year over the last two or three years. I feel like I'm nitpicking here, though. What I spend for the service is reasonably priced for the amount of headaches it prevents.
    • I have a case where an employee is sometimes salaried and sometimes contract. There's not a way to handle that without terminating him when he needs to switch.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Red Wing Software
    No answers on this topic
    Paychex Inc.
    Very likely, easy to use, support system in place.
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    Usability
    Red Wing Software
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    Paychex Inc.
    It's a poor user interface. It feels like the interface is twenty years old. If you make a mistake with payroll in their terrible UI, and try to correct it 15 seconds later, they want to charge you $39 to correct your mistake. Overall, a very poor experience in terms of user interface.
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    Support Rating
    Red Wing Software
    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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    Paychex Inc.
    SurePayroll was great when we had questions or needed support, ie. if we messed up with a payroll, needed to submit tax documents or get documents. The ease of communication between us and the organization was great and they made it easy for users to call in with support requests.
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    Online Training
    Red Wing Software
    No answers on this topic
    Paychex Inc.
    They were awesome. They knew the system very well and could help me very much.
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    Implementation Rating
    Red Wing Software
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    Paychex Inc.
    No, I can't think of any.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Red Wing Software
    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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    Paychex Inc.
    SurePayroll offers a comparable service at a better rate. They are better designed for small companies who need to save money any way they can. Their fees are more appropriate than ADP but the service offerings are just as good.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Red Wing Software
    No answers on this topic
    Paychex Inc.
    In retrospect, I wouldn't change anything.
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    Professional Services
    Red Wing Software
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    Paychex Inc.
    We were able to calculate different hourly numbers when we completed Certified Payroll for professional services.
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    Return on Investment
    Red Wing Software
    • 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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    Paychex Inc.
    • SurePayroll helps us process payroll quickly and effortlessly 97% of the time.
    • On the rare occasion when there is an issue SurePayroll needs to address, it can take hours and hours of time over many months to get that issue resolved. Through the process, SurePayroll employees have always been professional and courteous in their communication.
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