A free online payroll processing service for small businesses.

Product Overview

Payroll4Free.com is a free payroll software for small businesses to manage payroll for up to 10 employees at no cost. Key features include automated tax calculations and filings, the ability to pay W2 and 1099 contractors through direct deposit or physical checks, and detailed reporting functionalities. The system also offers an employee portal to access pay information and vacation time-tracking capabilities.

Pros

  • Can handle W-2's and 1099 contracts
  • Offers direct depositing and paper checks
  • Employee portal for accessing pay info, vacation time, and personal information
  • Forever free for companies with 25 or fewer employees

Cons

  • Outdated interface
  • Limited to small businesses
  • Doesn't support MacOS

Target Market

Small businesses, freelancers, startups, and agencies with 25 or fewer employees.

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Payroll4Free Features

  • Pay employees/contractors: Includes 1099 contractors and year-end 1099 forms.
  • Tax calculations: Calculate federal, state, and local taxes. Tax filing is available as an additional paid feature.
  • Vacation time tracking: Track vacation, sick, and PTO time. Accrue the number of hours for each employee based on time with the company, hours worked, and more.
  • Detailed reporting: Create reports on earnings, taxes, benefits, accrued time, payroll journal reports, and more.
  • Direct deposits: Send funds to your employee’s personal bank accounts for an additional fee.
  • Paper checks: Print paper checks for your employees.
  • Employee portal: Allows employees to access their pay information online, including viewing and printing paystubs, W-2s, vacation time, and more.

Payroll4Free Pricing

Payroll4Free is a forever free software program that processes payroll for under 10 employees. The system may not be used by businesses with over 25 employees.

For companies with 10-25 employees, there is a monthly service fee of $12.50.

Starting Price
$12.50 /month
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Pricing Details
Free for companies with under 10 people

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User Reviews of Payroll4Free

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Payroll4Free Review

November 27th, 2022 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Very easy to use and customer service is quick

Pros

User friendly

Benjamin I. Schwarcz
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

The program is so user friendly and easy to use

September 29th, 2021 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

You would think that the best feature of Payroll4free.com is that it’s free, but you would be wrong. The program is so user friendly and easy to use, they can compete with the most expensive payroll services out there. The people at Payroll4free.com are professionals who know what they’re doing and are always there to help. The reports that I can pull up from the system are some of the best reports I’ve seen so far from a payroll service company. I would, without any hesitation, recommend Payroll4free.com to anyone.

Ed DeGraffinried
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

I am 200% satisfied

September 29th, 2021 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I have used Payroll4Free since the first pay period in January of 2013. I am 200% satisfied, and must say that I have never used a better payroll service. My initial reaction after receiving their promotional card in the mail was ‘This must be a hoax, because there is no free lunch.’ I am very, very happy I called them. I’ve recommended Payroll4Free to all my small business clients.

Patrice Delligatti
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Payroll4Free has been very professional

October 24th, 2019 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I was skeptical about leaving my payroll service I had for 20 years but Payroll4Free has been very professional. We have complex Payroll with 6 locations and they made it easy for us. I used to have to do side calculations to allocate wages to different locations but now I just enter hours and I’m done. I highly recommend it to small businesses

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