payroll
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Homebase raises $6 million to make hourly work easier to manage for local businesses
From rising rents to online competitors, local stores and restaurants face enough challenges outside of their own doors that basic stuff like scheduling employees’ shifts and breaks should feel easy. But that process is still, too often, a mess of paperwork and data entry. A startup called Homebase has raised $6 million to make hourly work much easier to manage for every business on… Read More
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Zenefits Launches Its Own Payroll Platform
Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad danced around a question about building out payroll services at Disrupt SF 2015. “I can’t announce anything about new products specifically, but you know payroll’s a very important spoke,” Conrad said at the time. But the cloud-based HR unicorn has built a payroll product, launching out of beta today. Read More
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ZenPayroll Is Now Gusto, Adds Benefits To Take On Zenefits
Payroll startup ZenPayroll changed its name to Gusto today and is moving beyond payroll, into benefits such as health insurance and workers compensation. Sound familiar? We’ve heard that cloud HR benefits company Zenefits plans to roll out a payroll service similar to the startup formerly known as ZenPayroll. Read More
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Square Adds Appointments App To Its Business Software Suite
Piece by piece, Square is trying to provide all of the tools that businesses need to manage themselves. They have the payment processing part down, a payroll product, real-time analytics and now a way to manage appointments. The company says that “millions” of appointments have been made through Square since the product’s launch last August and this new app for iOS will… Read More
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Intuit Buys UK’s Acrede To Expand Its Global Payroll Services
Intuit has quietly made another acquisition today to expand its accounting and back office management business, this time focusing on payroll. Acrede, a Jersey, UK-based provider of global, cross-border and cloud-based payroll services, is joining Inuit; and its CEO and founder, Karen Paterson, is being named Intuit’s director of payroll platform. Financial terms and other details of… Read More
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Fast-Growing Zenefits Adds Commuter Benefits, Flexible Spending And 401(k) Support As It Moves To Take Over Startup HR
Managing human resources is one of the more frustrating and time-consuming aspects of running a startup or small business. Because most can’t afford to hire an HR person, all that paperwork usually falls into the lap of founders and management. Knowing that entrepreneurs would rather spend their time growing their business rather than wading through administrative tasks and insurance… Read More
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Maxwell Health Raises $2M To Take On Zenefits With Concierge Service, Personal Health Incentives
Maxwell Health, a platform that provides easy-to-manage health insurance, has raised $2 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Tribeca Venture Partners, with participation from Lerer Ventures, Vaizra Investments, BoxGroup, TiE Angels and a few other angel investors. This round brings the company’s total funding to $3.8 million. Launched in February, Maxwell Health is a… Read More
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Small Business Finance SaaS Provider Wave Launches Payroll App for iOS
Toronto-based Wave, the online finance software startup that has built a growing business around a freemium model of cloud-based accounting, is launching its new iOS payroll application today. The tool is a companion to the company’s web-based payroll platform, adding a much-needed mobile element to the overall product suite and building on the recent launch of the receipt scanner… Read More
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With 500K Users, Wave Rebrands To Tell The World It Isn’t Just About Free Accounting Anymore
Toronto-based startup Wave Accounting is shortening its name and broadening its vision today, with a newly-launched web presence under its new Wave banner. The startup found its footing offering free online accounting service via an ad-supported model, but has since expanded into payroll and invoicing, as well as payment transaction and personal finance. The company feels there’s a… Read More
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