CPA and Bookkeeping McAllen AlternativePayday stays with the provider
We set the wage accounts up beside the books. The provider you choose runs payday.
Set payday up
Owners ask us to take payroll. What they usually need is the setup. Registrations, a provider, a deposit rhythm, and wage accounts that agree with the books. After that, payday is a service you already pay for, and it should stay there.
What setup includes
Setup is the accounts, the mapping, and the first conversation about who is an employee. If the entity makes reasonable pay for an owner a real question, we will have that conversation with the return in view. We will not calculate a paycheck, file a deposit, or sit in the provider's chair on Friday. The provider you pick does that. After payday, the wage accounts should name the same totals the provider already reported.
A vendor who should have been on a form at year end is a books problem, not a payday problem. The list comes from the closed months. If a crew was paid outside the file, the form cannot be finished until those payments have a home. We say that early, while January is still a choice and not a scramble.
A morning flight leaves Miller International for the middle of the state. We are not on that curb, and we do not keep an office beside the terminal. Every Texan knows that airport as the way out of the Valley for a day meeting. Payday is still set up on the provider you run, on a video call, whether or not anyone boarded.
What we will not pretend
We will not call a setup conversation a payroll department. We will not tell a worker we are their employer. The deposits, the wage reports, and the new hire paperwork the state expects sit with the provider and with you. Our job ends when the books and that provider tell the same story, and when the return can see the wages.
If a letter later asks whether workers were classified correctly, we can read the facts you have and say what the books show. The classification decision is yours, made with advice, not a switch we flip inside the file. Texas unemployment and the quarterly wage report are part of the provider's calendar once the account exists. We put those dates where you can see them. We do not file them for you.
The fee for setup follows how many people are paid and whether the provider is already chosen. A company with a provider and clean wage accounts is a short job. A company that has been paying from the operating account with no map is a longer one. You hear which one it is before anyone starts.
Who gets paid
Tell us whether a provider is already in place.