Editorial & Source Policy

Editorial & Source Policy

The Payroll Handoff publishes practical employer-side explanations of payroll workflows.

Primary-source standard

Claims about Payroll Relief functionality should be verified against current sources such as:

• IRIS Payroll Relief documentation;
• AccountantsWorld product documentation;
• official IRIS announcements;
• official application listings.

Third-party software directories may help identify questions but should not override current first-party documentation when describing product behavior.

Workflow over marketing copy

Product pages often describe what a feature can do.

Our job is to translate that into operational questions:

• Who supplies the information?
• Who is allowed to change it?
• When does it need to happen?
• Who checks it?
• What changes after approval?

Current documentation matters

Payroll systems change frequently.

For example, the IRIS Payroll Relief help center contains 2026 product updates, and recent release notes introduced an in-product IRIS Agent for support questions.

Pages discussing interfaces, deadlines or functionality should therefore include a real Last Reviewed date.

Changing the date without rechecking the underlying documentation is not considered an update.

No invented experiences

We do not write fictional paragraphs such as:

“Sarah, a payroll manager in Ohio, used Payroll Relief and saved ten hours per week.”

unless Sarah is a real, attributable person documented by a reliable source and her experience is relevant.

Community information

Forums and app reviews can reveal genuine user questions.

They are not treated as proof that the software universally behaves in a particular way.

AI-assisted editorial work

AI tools may assist with outlining, organizing research and drafting.

They are not a substitute for source verification.

Google’s current guidance says generative AI can assist with research and structure, but creating many pages without additional user value may violate its scaled-content abuse policies.

Corrections

When documentation changes materially, affected pages should be:

1. re-researched;
2. corrected;
3. given a new meaningful review date;
4. internally linked to any new article that now owns the changed intent.

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