Pay employees and contractors
Regular runs, contractor payments, direct deposit, checks, final pay, bonuses, and off-cycle payroll.
Payroll for the work around payday
Payroll that stays clear from payday to year-end.
Runbook connects routine payroll, taxes, approvals, corrections, provider switches, worker questions, and accounting in one reviewable record—so your team spends less time reconstructing what happened.
ONE PAYROLL RECORDBuilt for review
Run payrollfacts + approvals
Switch providersYTD continuity
Resolve noticesfilings + deposits
Correct paypreserved history
PrepareReviewSettleProve
What employers need from payroll.
Pay people correctly, handle the tax work, keep teams informed, and close the books without losing the records behind each decision.
Handle withholding and filings
Employee withholding, employer taxes, deposits, filings, year-end forms, and filing issues.
Prepare payroll with fewer surprises
Collect missing inputs, flag changes, send reminders, and stop for human review when something needs attention.
Connect HR changes to pay
Onboarding, compensation changes, documents, benefits deductions, locations, and terminations stay connected to payroll.
Connect time and accounting
Hours, tips, PTO, job codes, payroll journals, class and location mapping, and advisor-ready exports.
Keep the record behind every number
Source facts, rules, calculations, approvals, corrections, and evidence remain connected when a question arrives.
Give accountants a record they can review.
Books-ready payroll, visible corrections, and supporting evidence reduce the time spent rebuilding client history from exports and screenshots.
Advisor jobCurrent painRunbook answer
Review payrollScreenshots, register exports, and unclear edits.Client run queue with review notes, assertions, and proof packets.
Clean up a clientPrior-provider exports that do not explain wage bases.Attested founding facts and visible YTD transfer assumptions.
Answer noticesManual evidence gathering across payroll, tax, and bank records.Notice response packet with run, liability, payment, rule, and correction evidence.
Scale the practiceEvery client has a different payroll source of truth.Portfolio-level review built around comparable records.
Handle state and local payroll without losing context.
Work location, residency, tax accounts, prior wages, and local rules stay attached to the payroll periods they affect.
Kansas City and St. Louis
Local payroll tax questions need jurisdiction, work location, resident status, rule source, liability, and settlement evidence.
Cross-border employers
MO/KS work patterns create practical questions around withholding, unemployment, local taxes, and worker support.
Local guide library
Runbook publishes state and local guides with citations and examples, then connects them back to payroll records.
Payroll notices and amendments.
A notice is where payroll software becomes evidence software.
Receive notice
Identify period, jurisdiction, tax type, amount, deadline, and stated issue.
Find affected runs
Locate payroll periods, liabilities, payments, filings, and corrections tied to the notice.
Assemble evidence
Package facts, rules, calculations, deposits, settlement status, and human approvals.
Draft response
Prepare a human-reviewed response with citations and the payroll evidence attached.
Record outcome
Store agency response, payment or amendment, and the resulting payroll event.
Keep history
The notice becomes part of the payroll record, not a disconnected support ticket.
Human control stays in the loop.
Automation can prepare work and flag inconsistencies, but people approve payroll and tested payroll software calculates the result.
Automation prepares. People approve. Runbook calculates.
AI may collect inputs, draft reminders, summarize blockers, and prepare review notes. It does not calculate payroll, move money, or approve a run.
Find the Runbook path that matches your payroll work.
Start with routine payroll, an HR workflow, an accountant review, a provider switch, a tax notice, or a paycheck correction.
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