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About The Payroll Handoff

The Payroll Handoff is an independent employer-operations publication about one of the least glamorous but most important parts of payroll: coordination.

Modern payroll can involve several people who do not work for the same organization.

An employee provides information to the employer.

A manager approves hours.

An office administrator prepares payroll.

An accounting firm processes it.

A bank handles electronic payment.

A software platform moves data between those participants.

When responsibilities are clear, the process can be routine.

When they are not, small errors become payday emergencies.

Our current editorial coverage focuses on the employer experience around Payroll Relief because official documentation shows a particularly explicit division between the accounting firm and employer/client users. Accounting firms can define employer access while employers can participate in selected payroll tasks based on those permissions.

The Payroll Handoff is designed for:

• owners;
• office managers;
• payroll coordinators;
• bookkeepers;
• controllers;
• HR generalists;
• branch administrators.

We write about:

• onboarding;
• payroll schedules;
• data submission;
• payroll review;
• corrections;
• workforce changes;
• multi-location processes;
• mobile workflows;
• escalation and support.

We do not fabricate employees, reviews or customer stories.

We do not pretend to be a Payroll Relief help desk.

And we do not operate third-party login systems.