Payroll Service and Tax Software

Apex makes payroll simple, efficient and reliable

Payroll Functions

Online Payroll

Online Payroll

Cloud-based technology means real-time, 24/7 anytime online payroll access for you and your busy clients, as well as, their employees.  Never wait to sync data between your payroll back office system and their online access, updates are instantly visible to all users due to our enterprise level architecture. Clients can preview and approve payroll in real-time from anywhere, anytime that’s best for them.

Data Conversion Services

Data Conversion Services

Apex HCM can even help you convert your data to make onboarding to our software even easier. Our Implementation Team is devoted to assisting with converting and importing your existing client base with three levels of conversions services based on your needs.

Proprietary Tax Engine

Proprietary Tax Engine

Our tax professionals research and maintain state and federal tax rates, tax brackets and statutory limits so you can concentrate on growing and running your payroll business. Federal taxes can be paid via EFTPS or the ACH Credit method and Apex enables you to electronically pay and file taxes in most tax jurisdictions. With Apex HCM, you have the tools you need to manage your tax processes, pay your clients’ taxes in an accurate and timely manner and automate your quarter-end and year-end processing with our tax processing and scheduling tools. Plus, we offer high level tax expertise and assistance to guide you along the way. Unlike many of our competitors, we even take it a step further. We ensure Reconciliation of your bank accounts is done directly in the system with our 360 Reconciliation Tool. It is the most advance and accurate reconciliation system in the payroll software industry.

Reporting

Reporting

Apex’s robust reporting engine gives you and your clients easy and convenient real-time access to hundreds of standardized reports, as well as, the capability to create customized reports with Rapid Reports or Report Writer, our report building tools. All reports can be exported in PDF, Excel, Word, CSV, TXT plus additional formats. Reports can be set to run automatically on specific dates or triggered to run by specific event parameters.

Employee Self Service

Employee Self Service

With Apex’s Employee Self Service, your clients’ employees can view important information in real time. Your clients can provide their employees access to a full suite of online tools including employee information, pay stubs, W2s, forms, documents, benefit statements and time off requests. Resulting in a reduction in the administrative burden, increased profitability and decrease printed material and distribution costs.

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence

Apex’s Business Intelligence Suite helps you easily manage and organize your back-office payroll operations and day-to-day activities by aggregating all of this data into simple to use dashboards, eliminating manual processes and the need to organize in separate systems. Paired with Apex’s Auto Client Communication features, you’ll be able to save time and increase your productivity by standardizing recurring processes and sending clients automated personal reminders and notifications such as clients e-mail reminders about payday, new employee adds, payroll completion, and cash requirements. The system will even automatically process payroll if needed, and offer auto email reports and exports. Resulting in less errors, less delays, less work, less stress, more profit and more employee satisfaction.

Role Based Security

Role Based Security

Control access to service bureau or client users by associating them with roles.  Each unique user can have a set of security permissions assigned to it with hundreds of options.  The permissions are checked to determine a user’s authorization to access areas of the system, perform tasks, and run reports.  Administrators control the access users have by assigning each user to a predefined role.

ACA

ACA

Educate and keep your clients up to date on the complexities of the Affordable Care Act with Apex’s ACA OnDemand.  ACA OnDemand includes two main tools, the ACA Compliance Center and Simply ACA. Both are cloud-based solutions designed to assist employers with managing and complying with the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  ACA OnDemand allows for documentation of an employer’s decisions, tracking of those decisions on a monthly basis, and annual IRS reporting so clients can make the best decisions for their businesses.  By having ACA compliance documents at their fingertips, your clients can document an ACA strategy, track employee hours, and create the documentation necessary to avoid costly penalties.

GL Integrations

GL Integrations

Our General Ledger Integration features enable your clients to import their payroll general ledger directly into QuickBooks® and virtually any other accounting package, drastically reducing errors and eliminating the need for a manual process. Your clients will love the convenience of not having to key-in data, and you’ll both love the extra time and efficiency gained with less corrections to handle. Apex also integrates with Xero, Sage, and many others.

Automated Workflow

Automated Workflow

Apex HCM’s automated workflow tools enable you to do more with less. Create automated processes to send your clients e-mail reminders about payday, new employee adds, payroll completion, and cash requirements. The system will even automatically process payroll if needed, and offer auto email reports and exports.

Additional Payroll Solutions

Additional Payroll Solutions

We offer more than just payroll. Apex extends key partners to help provide you and your clients a competitive edge with ACH services, payroll debit cards, tax, insurance and benefits, workers compensation and 401K plans for any business or budget.

Debit Cards

Debit Cards

Apex HCM has partnered with NetSpend to allow service bureaus the ability to offer payroll cards. This payroll card benefits Employers by providing them with a cost-saving solution that replaces payroll checks and other paper payment disbursements.

The Skylight Pay Options Program is NetSpend’s innovative, secure, and convenient payroll card solution that allows organizations to achieve a cost-effective, 100% paperless payroll for employees without traditional banking services or for those who simply want more options.

The Skylight ONE Card  is a Visa® branded card that provides access to funds at millions of ATM and retail locations, even online and over the phone.  

Manager Self Service

Manager Self Service

Apex HCM’s Manager Self Service provides the managers of your business the ability to access via the internet, payroll or timekeeping information for their department or location. Managers are frequently frustrated by the fact they are one step removed from information about their direct reports. Manager Self Service gives them the information they need at their fingertips. Now managers have the ability to more closely monitor and direct their team.

 

  • Review & report historical compensation information

 

  • View historical salary and position information

 

  • View, edit and correct time and attendance data

 

  • Edit personal, work, education, and review related data of the employee

 

  • Add new employees

 

  • Input payroll

Payroll Technology

Apex’s cloud-based payroll technology is specifically designed for the high-volume processing needs of payroll service bureaus. Apex HCM makes it easy for you to boost your firm’s revenue by offering a broad suite of payroll, human resource and workforce management tools that are easy to use, efficient and convenient for you and your clients. With features like real-time pre-processing and processing, once a client completes their payroll, the checks and reports are ready. Eliminate time consuming importing and exporting files – no syncing – no hassle.

Apex’s Employer on the GO platform is user friendly platform where your clients can configure employee onboarding tailored to their needs from anywhere at anytime with state-of-the-art security. For your clients’ employees, the myGO self-service application provides easy access to the data they need such as accruals, direct deposits, benefits, PTO, time and attendance, and more. 

Employer on the GO

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myGO

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Expanded Tax Management

Our tax professionals research and maintain state and federal tax rates, tax brackets and statutory limits so you can concentrate on growing and running your payroll business.  Federal taxes can be paid via EFTPS or the ACH Credit method and Apex enables you to electronically pay and file taxes in most tax jurisdictions.  With Apex HCM, you have the tools you need to manage your tax processes, pay your clients’ taxes in an accurate and timely manner and automate your quarter-end and year-end processing with our tax processing and scheduling tools. Plus, we offer high level tax expertise and assistance to guide you along the way.  Unlike many of our competitors, we even take it a step further. We ensure Reconciliation of your bank accounts is done directly in the system with our 360 Reconciliation Tool. It is the most advance and accurate reconciliation system in the payroll software industry.

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Efficient & Secure

Simple & Streamlined

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Accurate & Compliant

Want to change Payroll Software but worried about the time and effort needed to make the switch?

With the right software partner, it is easier than you think.

Typically, if someone has told you that they’re incredibly unhappy with their current payroll system yet not willing to change, it means they’ve gone through a payroll software conversion that was hard. We understand that onboarding to a new software system involves time, expense, and effort. To ensure your implementation success we employ a team of people whose only job is to minimize all three for our clients.

Guide: Selecting the Right Payroll Software Platform

Make sure your next payroll software platform checks all the right boxes. If you’re considering offering payroll services or thinking about changing your current payroll software, this guide will help you figure out if it’s time for a new solution and point out the must-have features for your next payroll software.
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[With Apex HCM] I saw a platform that would allow me to expand from a handful of clients to hundreds, no matter how many employees each of those clients had. And I could do it without needing to add on employees of my own. Shortly after I signed on [with Apex HCM], my client list doubled, my revenue grew exponentially and - the best thing - my work was finished by Wednesday afternoon, so my Thursdays and Fridays were free and I could enjoy them without having to worry about verifying calculations.
Brandi Jones
Owner, Company Payroll Processing LLC

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Watch the webinar recording to learn best practices from an industry veteran and former Owner of a Payroll Service Bureau on how to successfully start and grow a payroll service business.

   

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A Full Spectrum of Services

Apex HCM partners with leading providers across banking, accounting, marketing and more. Our strategic partners’ offerings complement the Apex HCM platform to further increase your ROI.

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Kotapay

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NATPAY

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Apex integrates with Xero accounting

XERO

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QuickBooks integration

Quickbooks / Quickbooks Online

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Apex partners with Print Management Partners

Print Management Partners - G2 Partners

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Apex partners with payroll Industry Newsletters

Industry Newsletters

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NETSPEND

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