Vendor:
Founded:
Headquarters:
Zenefits
2013
San Francisco, CA
Customers:
Deployment Model:
Free Trial:
10,000+
Cloud
Yes
Zenefits At A Glance
Product Overview
Zenefits is an all-encompassing, cloud-based HR suite that improves efficiency by automating key tasks related to payroll, benefits, performance, compliance and more. This review will focus on the features and benefits of Zenefits’ payroll system. For more information about Zenefits’ full HR functionality, read our Zenefits HRMS Review.
Zenefits’ payroll system connects to all your HR solutions. The system automatically syncs any changes you make while managing employee information to reduce errors in critical payroll and tax documents.
Features
Zenefits automates its payroll features so the software can practically run on its own. This allows your team to focus more on performance instead of correcting errors or making tedious calculations.
Some of Zenefits’ key payroll features include:
- Automatic Pay Runs – Figure out the best payroll schedule for your company, and Zenefits will automatically run it for you.
- Automatic Tax Filings – For no additional cost, Zenefits can process your W-2s and file your taxes in all 50 states.
- Automatic On/Off Boarding – Zenefits will automatically add a new hire’s data to payroll and calculate all deductions. Zenefits will also prorate the person’s first and last pay checks with your company.
- Automatic Upkeep – Payroll is integrated with all of your Zenefits solutions, so any updates and changes made to employee information are automatically synced.
Zenefits also has features that give you and your employees full visibility for payroll functions, allowing you to better understand when and why updates or changes were made. Those are:
- Payroll Timeline – A complete visual history of the events that change payroll ( like start date, life changing event, etc.), which help employers answer employees’ questions.
- Smart Stubs – To help employees understand their paychecks better, this breaks them down into a clearer format.
- Easy Comp – Easily collaborate with your team to coordinate bonuses and commissions for each employee on a single-platform dashboard.
- Pay Preview – Preview and manage a paycheck before the pay run to make sure everything’s correct. You’re able to edit ledgers, dig deeper into deductions and more with this overview tool.
- Benefits Management?
- Direct Deposit?
- Employee Self-Service?
- Mobile Functionality?
- Payroll Processing?
- Reporting?
- Tax Management?
- Time & Attendance?
Target Market
From health care to retail to IT and more, Zenefits aims to help small to mid-sized businesses in a growing list of industries.
Since it was founded in 2013, Zenefits has helped over 10,000 organizations’ HR departments become more efficient. We’ve listed some of its notable customers below:
- Dot & Bo
- Passport
- Urbana
- Binpress
- Total Access Urgent Care
- Any Perk
- Colorado Outward Bound School
- Flexport
- The Animal Foundation
- Tribus
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Implementation/Integration
To start the implementation process, you must sign up on the Zenefits payroll page. Then a support team member will contact you to help get everything set up for your company.
Customer Service & Support
You must log into your Zenefits account for targeted customer support. The support team is available via email to address any questions or concerns you may have.
If a request is urgent, contact the support team by phone, Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST), and Thursday, 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. PST.
Pricing
Lite HR: Free
- Employee management (features include hiring, basic onboarding, offboarding, employee directory, organizational charts and most of the core HR apps)
Standard: $6/employee per month ($5 for yearly billing) plus $40 base fee per month
- HR platform that includes hiring and onboarding, HR records, employee directory, organizational charts and mobile app
- Custom fields for employee onboarding
- Business intelligence functionality
- Documents app for storing employee documents and forms
Advanced: $12/employee per month ($9 for yearly billing) plus $40 base fee per month
- All features in Standard plan
- Time off tracking
- ACA compliance
- Compliance assistant to help track and manage federal guidelines
- Access to HR resource library
Zenefits also offers optional features, such as:
- Payroll ($6 per user per month)
- Time and attendance ($5 per user per month)
- Performance management ($4 per user per month)
- HR Advisor ($5 per user per month): This feature includes access to certified HR experts for HR-related questions or issues.
- Payroll Advisor ($5 per user per month): This feature includes access to certified payroll experts for payroll-related questions or issues.
- Ultimate Advisor ($8 per user per month): This package combines both the HR Advisor and Payroll Advisor.
Shortcomings
Some customers have said the implementation process was prolonged due to delayed response times from their assigned implementation representatives.
Others have mentioned that account managers become distant after implementation is complete.
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About
Zenefits was founded in 2013 and has been one of the fastest growing Software as a Service (SaaS) start-ups in Silicon Valley. It’s built on a mission create effortless solutions to manage your business and employees.
Without the disruptive switching of legacy systems, Zenefits has helped over 10,000 small and mid-sized businesses eliminate paperwork and automate time-consuming HR tasks with it’s free, simple-to-use interface.
The company is currently headquartered in San Francisco, with a second office in Phoenix.
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