Quickbooks Workforce vs. SurePayroll By Paychex

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Quickbooks Workforce
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
QuickBooks Workforce is a Payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) solution designed to manage Payroll Processing, Tax Compliance, Time Tracking, HR Operations, and Talent Management. It is available in three functional tiers to support organizational growth.
$50
per month + $6.50 per employee
SurePayroll By Paychex
Score 2.2 out of 10
N/A
SurePayroll 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.N/A
Pricing
Quickbooks WorkforceSurePayroll By Paychex
Editions & Modules
Workforce Payroll
$50
per month + $6.50 per employee
Workforce Payroll + Simple Start
$88
per month + $6.50 per employee
Workforce Payroll + Essentials
$125
per month + $6.50 per employee
Workforce Premium + Plus
$203
per month + $10 per employee
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Quickbooks WorkforceSurePayroll By Paychex
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details50% off for the first three months.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Quickbooks WorkforceSurePayroll By Paychex
Considered Both Products
Quickbooks Workforce
Chose Quickbooks Workforce
Quickbooks Workforce is much better than Zoho. More functionality.
Chose Quickbooks Workforce
Quickbooks Online Payroll is so much simpler, better suited for business with regular salary or hourly employees that do not have different work schedules.
SurePayroll By Paychex
Chose SurePayroll By Paychex
I have not evaluated other products yet, but I plan to transition as soon as I have the time. I will transition to literally anyone else.
Chose SurePayroll By Paychex
Nannychex was amazing - SurePayroll has been a nightmare for us.
Chose SurePayroll By Paychex
Since we started with them at the bank for $39 per month 8 years ago, I have compared them to ADP and QuickBooks.
Chose SurePayroll By Paychex
We've used SurePayroll for years with no hiccups so we didn't think the time to transfer over would be worth it.
Chose SurePayroll By Paychex
I was not part of the committee that selected SurePayroll so I am unsure about why SurePayroll was selected. I do know our Board and Executive Director looked for a platform that was cost-efficient and helped us achieve the goals of our organization without taking up too much …
Chose SurePayroll By Paychex
QuickBooks was not user-friendly, tech support was nonexistent, and I still had to file federal and state filings. SurePayroll takes care of all that for me.
Chose SurePayroll By Paychex
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.
Chose SurePayroll By Paychex
SurePayroll was the product being used here when I started. I was surprised how simple it was to use and appreciate all the reports it produces.
Chose SurePayroll By Paychex
I've used ADP previously. I've used Paychex, which SurePayroll is now part of. None of the solutions are perfect, so I'll stay with SurePayroll until something better comes along.
Chose SurePayroll By Paychex
Easy to setup and affordable monthly cost to ensure standard payroll and tax preparation.
Other services were for whole year contract and expensive.
Chose SurePayroll By Paychex
SurePayroll is lower cost than Paychex, but I would recommend using Paychex despite their higher cost because they are more closely in communication with the tax divisions that are administering payroll taxes, and are less likely to make an error in my experience so far.
Features
Quickbooks WorkforceSurePayroll By Paychex
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Quickbooks Workforce
8.5
Ratings
3% above category average
SurePayroll By Paychex
1.4
Ratings
142% below category average
Pay calculation9.80 Ratings2.60 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors9.70 Ratings1.00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment9.80 Ratings1.00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration9.00 Ratings1.20 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.80 Ratings1.20 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management5.70 Ratings1.20 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.00 Ratings1.20 Ratings
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Quickbooks WorkforceSurePayroll By Paychex
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User Ratings
Quickbooks WorkforceSurePayroll By Paychex
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
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9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Quickbooks WorkforceSurePayroll By Paychex
Likelihood to Recommend
Much of the front-end employee onboarding is handled via a simple link. Further, when the employees have questions about their time, schedule, pay stubs, etc., they know they can log in to Workforce and 9 times out of 10 get the answer to their question. It has saved me a lot of time in that aspect.
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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
  • Employee Onboarding.
  • Withholding Management.
  • Time Tracking.
  • Time card records.
  • Pay stubs.
  • Tax Documents.
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  • 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
  • Time off requests can get a little confusing, especially for hourly employees who may not be scheduled for 8 hours, but the default time off is set to 8 hours. I wish it matched their schedules because I have to correct time balances a lot.
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  • 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
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The service works well and the price is worth it.
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Usability
Because of the overall simplicity of the program. Most everything is designed in a very user friendly way. There are not too many steps, the interface is easy to use with proper training
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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
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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
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They were awesome. They knew the system very well and could help me very much.
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Implementation Rating
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No, I can't think of any.
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Alternatives Considered
Quickbooks Workforce is much better than Zoho. More functionality.
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I was not part of the committee that selected SurePayroll so I am unsure about why SurePayroll was selected. I do know our Board and Executive Director looked for a platform that was cost-efficient and helped us achieve the goals of our organization without taking up too much time, so that is why we decided on this platform.
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Return on Investment
  • Quickbooks Workforce has had positive impact on our business objectives
  • Our ROI has been good.
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  • SurePayroll has made my life so much easier. Prior to using a payroll service and trying to do it myself, I was charged fees by the government for failure to file correctly or on time. Having it done professionally and correctly eases stress.
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