Payroll

ADP Employer Services kicked off a promotional campaign aimed at helping educate workers on how to maximize their paychecks.

Online payroll processor PayCycle has introduced a free payroll service for accountants.

In 2007, it's clear that payroll processing has become better, cheaper and faster - particularly at the small-business end of the marketplace.Companies like Intuit and Sage are building payroll into their accounting products for all but the very tail end of the market, while Sage, Thomson and Microsoft are beefing up their ERP and human resources offerings for the mid-range and enterprise markets.

The retirement plan for Fresno County, Calif., employees appeared to be in a pickle when an actuarial firm determined that 5,200 former and current county employees who had been told they would be getting refunds found out they might have to pay extra money into the fund instead.

Business management application provider NetSuite has rolled out a new function that will allow users to integrate the software with the Apple iPhone.The SuitePhone offers NetSuite customers the opportunity to run their company’s customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning and e-commerce business applications through the iPhone. The new capability provides native support for Safari, the iPhone and Mac browser, which allows for interface technologies such as drop-down menus, drag-and-drop, and in-line editing.

Sage Software was once a one-legged company. Well, that is more or less true in the sense that the overwhelmingly majority of its revenue came from selling product and from the services surrounding them. And however much came from services, product license revenue was still the core.

Fiducial, a provider of tax, payroll, financial and business services to small businesses, announced that it has strengthened its Midwest market by acquiring Matrix Accounting and Business Services.

Payroll, tax and benefit services provider TimePlus Payroll announced its recent acquisition of West Columbia, S.C.-based American Business Payroll.