Wagepoint

4.6 (225)
Simple payroll software built just for small businesses.

Overall rating

4.6 /5
(225)
Value for Money
4.6/5
Features
4.4/5
Ease of Use
4.6/5
Customer Support
4.7/5

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Joy
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent customer service

Reviewed on 6/12/2018

The software helps manage employees on different schedules, contractual and permanent. It makes it...

The software helps manage employees on different schedules, contractual and permanent. It makes it easy to pay workers, calculate taxes with ease and directly deposit the salaries to the employees using the software. It is simple to understand and user friendly.

Pros

I must comment on the customer support team, they are always ready to help and respond to customer queries. Is it very useful in paying contractual staff daily , weekly and montly.

Cons

It is only suitable for small organizations, this limits its use in large multinational companies.

Denise
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Wagepoint is my go to for payroll

Reviewed on 4/2/2021

Terrific Canadian company - happy to have them in my tech stack!

Terrific Canadian company - happy to have them in my tech stack!

Pros

Wagepoint support is by far my favourite part of using it; the auto run feature and employee portals are also great

Cons

The reports could be much better; sometimes I have a hard time finding what I need to report on specific employees or departments

Alternatives Considered

Powerpay

Reasons for Choosing Wagepoint

QBO payroll had many issues and I needed an alternative

Switched From

QuickBooks Payroll

Reasons for Switching to Wagepoint

Wagepoint is easy to use and economical
Craig
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

RUN RUN RUN AWAY

Reviewed on 17/3/2020

Terrible. Spend an extra 5-10 per month and go with a company that will actually help you out. I...

Terrible. Spend an extra 5-10 per month and go with a company that will actually help you out. I have done payroll for over 20 years. Ive done it by hand and have used other companies. I decided to try to save some money and went with wagepoint. BIG mistake and ended up costing me more. I had an issue on one of my end of year forms that needed to get fixed. simple fix. or should have been but getting a hold of someone that knew what needed to be done and then actually getting them to do it was a nightmare. On top of that they charged me $400 to have it done. Fine, I paid it. It was partially my fault. They were supposed to make all the corrections and make the corrections so it wouldnt happen again. NOPE!. Shame on me I continued to use them for the next year. Lo and behold the next year the same thing happens and then they want to charge me again to have it fixed when I already paid them to fix it the first time and they never made the changes. OMG I am fuming mad writing this review. They make me so angry, and I am not an angry person. PLEASE do yourself a favor and go with someone that will actually help you out and not try to rip you off and charge you twice for something.

Pros

price is the only good thing about their service. Despite the price I would never ever recommend this service to someone. The customer service TERRIBLE. Don't ever expect a phone call back.

Cons

Zip, zero, zilch customer service. The customer service terrible. The user interface is not very good either.

Response from Wagepoint

Hi Craig,
First, let us apologize. Second, let me pass this directly to our head of support who will reach out to speak with you directly.
Michelle

Vipin
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Good Payroll Software for a Small Business

Reviewed on 4/7/2023

I wasn't the one who implemented the software but overall it worked great without much hassle.

I wasn't the one who implemented the software but overall it worked great without much hassle.

Pros

It was easily integrated with our scheduling software and our bank. (Deputy)

Cons

It took us a almost a year to initiate direct deposit with our bank so we were using WP just to generate paystubs but once we started doing Direct Deposit in Canada it would give us errors while processing Payroll.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great

Reviewed on 18/3/2023

Pros

Their product (especially the UI), pricing, and customer support. We used ADP before switching over to Wagepoint and running each payroll via ADP was just dreadful. Wagepoint is much easier to use and more affordable, and their customer support team is friendly.

Cons

You can't reach their support team over the phone. They only accept emails.

Response from Wagepoint

Hi,

We are extremely happy to hear that Wagepoint has made running payroll easier for you, as it should be.

We are looking to implement some measures to improve the ability to speak to a live human. This will include live phone support.

Thank you so much for your review.

Kevin
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  • Industry: Architecture & Planning
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great value for money for small business

Reviewed on 1/11/2021

Superb experience overall... wish all my experiences with SaaS providers was a strong.

Superb experience overall... wish all my experiences with SaaS providers was a strong.

Pros

Easy to use and good selection of reports. Easy setup for new employees and handy employee self-serve portal for paystubs + T4. As a small business with avg 10 employees Wagepoint is a low cost solution with all the features we need. Customer service has always been quick and great whenever needed. They responded quickly during the pandemic to incorporate federal wage subsidy programs which was amazing... saved us a tonne of hassle. Recently released ROE enhancements will be great when needed too.

Cons

Almost nothing we don't like based on our requirements.

Monika
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

To the Point

Reviewed on 6/1/2023

Every day use is quick and easy and only takes seconds to input hours. Super useful and easy access...

Every day use is quick and easy and only takes seconds to input hours. Super useful and easy access to paystubs and T4's as well as employment info.

Pros

So easy to use and browser usage and localized employment info.

Cons

The App starts off with having a Pin set up for access, and no way to change said pin or set a new one Via the Browser.

Response from Wagepoint

Hi Monika,

Thank you very much for your review!

Hearing that you are finding Wagepoint easy to use puts a smile on face :) There are many other things to be worrying about in todays world and I am glad to hear that Payroll isn't one of them!

Gary
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  • Industry: Recreational Facilities & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Ease of Use

Reviewed on 23/8/2021

Pros

We are a not-for-profit and do not have a wide selection of business professions who have expertise in the various small business departments such as payroll or HR. Wagepoint and their support staff feel like they are those professionals we need and provide outstanding support and service to us.

Cons

While there are a number of canned reports available to use (for no additional charge), I would like to see more of these reports made available.

Christopher F.
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  • Industry: Computer Games
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Amazing Full Features Automatic Payroll!

Reviewed on 25/9/2018

It's been excellent and I hope to stay with them for years. I'm able to run my business without...

It's been excellent and I hope to stay with them for years. I'm able to run my business without worrying about the headache of payroll.

Pros

I decided on this product just for the automatic tax filing of the 1099s/W2s and quarterly reports on my behalf. Anything to help save me time from doing any tax work is fully appreciated. The website actually goes well above and beyond with the free reports you're able to generate for your needs, the flexibility of modifying payments and running one time payments, it's so fully featured I'm amazed at how it's able to stay so cheap and offer so much.

Cons

If I had to name one thing it would be the lack of easy documentation for doing more complex payroll activities, such as garnishing an employee for child support but a simple email to their support email and I got my answer.

Kj
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  • Industry: Civic & Social Organization
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Easy to use and convenient

Reviewed on 4/1/2023

Wagepoint has increased our communications surrounding HR and payroll, removing a barrier to...

Wagepoint has increased our communications surrounding HR and payroll, removing a barrier to paystubs for employees

Pros

As an employee, I find Wagepoint a convenient tool for accessing my paystubs at any time, while also receiving an email notification when it's been ready to be viewed. It has an easy-to-use portal that allows you to update your banking details and personal information at any time too.

Cons

I really like the simplicity of this software, but I wish there was an app for mobile phones as well

Response from Wagepoint

Hi KJ,

Thank you so much for your review!

I am extremely happy that you are finding Wagepoint easy to use, hearing this is music to our ears :)

Christopher
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  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great product.

Reviewed on 9/7/2021

Very happy. Have recommended it several times.

Very happy. Have recommended it several times.

Pros

Easy to use. Customer service is quick. Good for big or small size business.

Cons

The customer service is email only which I thought would be bad as I have had bad experiences with other products, however it’s quite fast.

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Online Advanced

Reasons for Choosing Wagepoint

ADP is brutal.

Switched From

ADP Workforce Now

Reasons for Switching to Wagepoint

I like the full functionality.
Farhez
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great customer support

Reviewed on 19/2/2021

I use wagepoint for payroll.. it is wonderful. It pays everyone on time, each staff member gets...

I use wagepoint for payroll.. it is wonderful. It pays everyone on time, each staff member gets their paystubs, annual statements etc. Wagepoint also withholds taxes, CPP, EI and submits to CRA on our behalf.. thank you Wagepoint.
Recently, my company added a pension plan, the wagepoint software allows me to deduct the employees pension portion from their pay and manages all that as well... what more can you ask a software to accomplish?

Pros

The customer support for Wagepoint is absolutely wonderful... while the software is intuitive and easy to use, once in a while I get stuck on how to do something different from the routine tasks and I am so very delighted to say that the support is fantastic. The support team gets back to me promptly, provide instructions on what I need etc. They follow up to make sure everything is working properly; you don't see companies these days extending their help and support I am happy to have chosen Wagepoint as our payroll software for our company

Cons

Small scaling and interface things if I had to choose something to improve upon

Kathy
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  • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Love this product

Reviewed on 26/11/2021

Previous to Wagepoint I would use the online government calculator to calculate payroll expenses,...

Previous to Wagepoint I would use the online government calculator to calculate payroll expenses, never sure I did it right. I would have to do each employee separately and remember all the deductions or codes that applied to them. I then had to e-transfer funds. With e-transfer limits it would take 2 or 3 days to get everyone paid so I have to start on the 12 or 13 of each month and again on the 29 and 30th. This has been heaven.

It took a learning curve and a few rough spots. You never know how good customer service is until you need it. They talked through my frustration and always understood how important paying my amazing staff was. They had several options available to them should a mistake happen. This is when I truly knew the type of company I was dealing with. I recommend them because they are there in the good and bad moments. That is true customer service.

Pros

I love that I can pay my staff in one transaction, the payroll taxes are paid for me and I can break down the different jobs they do to show the hours correctly.

Cons

I wish that we could show days the staff worked and add the actual charters they did (the name of the place) this would make it better for charter drivers. Same with school runs, if I could put the route and if it was am and pm or just am and the days it would help the drivers see it better.

Celeste
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  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

This software will make your life so much easier!!!

Reviewed on 25/7/2016

Wagepoint is so easy to use! Friendly staff who will go above and beyond-- couldn't imagine doing...

Wagepoint is so easy to use! Friendly staff who will go above and beyond-- couldn't imagine doing payroll without them!

Pros

-Ease of use-- this software makes complete sense.
-Great staff with a fast response time.
-Love how staff can check their own paystubs and T4s on their own online account-- environmentally friendly and time-saving not having to print them each time!

Response from Wagepoint

Hi Celeste,

I'm so happy to hear that you love the app and our service. Amazing customers like you make it easy for us to go above and beyond :)

If you need anything at all, please feel free to reach out to us anytime. We're always here for you.

Regards,
Leena Thampan
Head of Marketing & Customer Success

Andrea
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  • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Life saver…Time saver

Reviewed on 20/7/2021

My overall experience has been great with Wagepoint. If you need help you put in a request and they...

My overall experience has been great with Wagepoint. If you need help you put in a request and they get back to you to solve the problem at hand.

Pros

With this software you just input the pay/hours and it figures everything else out, you double check to confirm and payroll is done! It’s very simple to operate and all reports etc are at the click of a button when payroll is processed. I had never done payroll before and Wagepoint made it simple and inexpensive.

Cons

I can’t think of anything I didn’t like

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Payroll

Reasons for Switching to Wagepoint

My accountant highly recommended Wagepoint.
Krzysztof
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Excellent option for small businesses

Reviewed on 20/4/2023

Overall, Wagepoint appears to be a reliable and user-friendly payroll management software that...

Overall, Wagepoint appears to be a reliable and user-friendly payroll management software that offers good value for money. It allows users to automate their payroll processes, calculate and file taxes, and manage employee information, all from a centralized platform.

Pros

Users can easily navigate the platform and access the information they need without any hassle.

Cons

Integration with other business tools could be improved.

Sachin
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Bi-Weekly hours tab

Reviewed on 4/10/2022

Pros

How easy it is to do the payroll for large number of people.

Cons

How I have to combine the hours in a calculator before posting it to the tabs.

Response from Wagepoint

Hi Sachin,

Thank you very much for your review! We are extremely happy to hear that Wagepoint is making your payroll experience a great one. There are unfortunately a number of things to be worrying about in todays world and payroll should not be one of them :)

Summer
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  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Cannot do payroll without it!

Reviewed on 3/12/2019

I want to say a big Thank You to the support team! They saved my day many times!

I want to say a big Thank You to the support team! They saved my day many times!

Pros

1)processes are easy to follow and adjust. 2)Customer support team are amazing!!!

Cons

If I have to say one, sometimes it is hard to get reports as exactly what I want, but not a big trouble to me. Still functions perfectly.

Hans
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Great payroll software and service, but could use polish

Reviewed on 25/4/2018

Pros

Love the series that come with the software. Payroll is fast in most cases. Track app is also really cool, but in obvious beta. Really looking forward to it becoming fuller (would be amazing to see scheduling and timesheet management!).

Customer service is e-mail only, but they are super helpful and thorough.

Cons

The whole interface is a bit dated, and for some reason, everything is squished into a small division on a page. Making the window bigger doesn't show extra information. It seems limiting, and the next two issues probably stem from this design choice.

Paying vacation is a pain. You have to take the accrued vacation, then divide it by their pay, so you can add it to the pay in HOUR format. Why not just have the information available on the main payroll screen and add it as dollar amounts? Strange manual work for a product that is so automatic otherwise.

Adding tips is a strange too. You have to manually choose to add tips every time. Should be configurable to always show tips column, for example.

Reports could be more customizable. Like totals for specific time periods.

Quebec support could be a bit better.

Response from Wagepoint

Hi Hans,
We are making some design upgrades to the product (estimated release by the end of Q2 2018) that I think will make the process a lot smoother for you. If you are open to it, I'd love to share the designs with you and get your thoughts.
Regards,
Leena

Jaclyn
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great for small businesses!

Reviewed on 5/12/2019

Easy to use and most clients are happy with the product. Their payroll remittance compliance and...

Easy to use and most clients are happy with the product. Their payroll remittance compliance and accuracy of the information improves significantly over manual processing.

Pros

I like the auto-run feature for all salary business as well as the easy to use software for processing pay periods.

Cons

The cutoff of 9:00am PST can be challenging to meet. It is particularly hard to make work if you run a Thursday pay date after a Sunday pay period end. We run into issues with this when converting clients sometimes that result in pay disruptions for employees.

AYAN
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  • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Assistance

Reviewed on 25/11/2019

The service when needed is extremely professional, helpful, and we are assisted in a timely manner....

The service when needed is extremely professional, helpful, and we are assisted in a timely manner. Anytime we have made mistakes we were assisted immediately and effectively. I appreciate greatly the service they provide and would recommend users to this software. It is very important to run a business efficiently and when you need help and have any concerns it makes our business run much more smoothly to have these tasks completed fast and correctly. The staff are extremely polite, understanding, helpful and ready to assist in any way which we value greatly.

Pros

Software is extremely easy to use and navigate.

Cons

I do not have any complaints on this product since I have used for the past year.

Oliver
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  • Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Classic example of a tech business trying to cut corners

Reviewed on 29/11/2020

Theres a "we don't really care, we just want to make money" vibe around this business.

Theres a "we don't really care, we just want to make money" vibe around this business.

Pros

Nothing. This software looks nice, but the back of house is a poorly designed, and the customer support system is very challenging to navigate.

Cons

Wagepoint was integrated with Quickbooks. It was very difficult to make changes to any payroll. At the end of November 2020, QBs and Wagepoint separated. I spent DAYS attempting to navigate the changes. I would consider myself very tech capable, i followed all there instructions, but at every turn there was an issue, or a warning message, or a "its us, not you" note. It's now been a week, i still haven't been able to process payroll, I have spoke to 4 "customer support" agents. All they do is take your information and say they will call back. After the 3rd call, i told them it was very urgent and they put me on hold. Then came back and said they'd call back in 3 days!!!!!! All of this during their transition from Wagepoint to QB. Why don't you have additional support available during such a big transition??? I'm very disappointed.

Marc Eric
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best Canadian Payroll

Reviewed on 26/9/2018

LOVE wagepoint, always there to help and give assistance when you need it.
Super easy and clean

LOVE wagepoint, always there to help and give assistance when you need it.
Super easy and clean

Pros

Ease of use
Clean interface
Excellent service

Cons

Partner program
New client setup and onboarding

Tina
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  • Industry: Utilities
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

WagePoint is Awesome

Reviewed on 25/7/2016

It has been easy learning payroll using wagepoint. Customer service is great and very fast at...

It has been easy learning payroll using wagepoint. Customer service is great and very fast at providing help.

Pros

easy to use, great customer service, fast response

Cons

reports are confusing. Takes a bit of time to break all source deductions of EE and EP down to enter into accounting

Response from Wagepoint

Hi Tina,

I'm really glad to see that you are happy with our app and our service.

I'll be sure to share your feedback re: the reports with our dev team and see if we can make the process smoother for you.

In the meantime, if you need anything else, please feel free to reach out to us via s[email protected] at any time, and we'd be happy to help!

Regards,
Leena Thampan
Head of Marketing & Customer Success

Crystal
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  • Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Most User Friendly Payroll Company I've Used to date!

Reviewed on 2/11/2015

Pros

The website is very easy to use both as administrator and an employee. I've used other payroll companies (Payworks & Ceridian) both as an administrator and an employee and found this very user friendly compared to other sites. Everything is very straightforward, explanatory and easy to find.

Cons

I have no complaints about Wagepoint to date. Everything on their website is very user friendly and easy to find. I haven't had to use customer service yet for anything however our administrator has and I know he's said they have been incredibly helpful any time he has required any help or had questions.