Payroll Companies & Payroll Services in Cornelius, NC

Charlotte Payroll, which also operates under the name Charlotte Payroll HCM, is a North Carolina payroll and human capital management provider. Its clients are mostly small and mid-sized employers in the Greater Charlotte region. The firm works with businesses of very different sizes, from self-employed owners and companies with fewer than 20 staff up to organizations with a thousand or more workers. It presents its tools as able to scale as a client's headcount grows.

Payroll and Tax Services

The core offering is outsourced payroll processing. Clients use an online system with dashboards, checklists and alerts to onboard new hires and keep wages and tax deposits accurate and on time. Federal, state and local tax rule changes are applied to the software automatically, which helps employers stay compliant without tracking legislation themselves.

A mobile app lets owners review, edit and sign off on weekly or biweekly pay runs wherever they have an internet connection. Reports such as sick-time usage and 1099 data can be pulled quickly from the system. The company stresses strong encryption and protection against data loss, including losses caused by natural disasters.

Tax support goes beyond processing paychecks. Because the firm already holds each client's payroll records, it files quarterly payroll returns and quarterly unemployment taxes and prepares year-end W-2 and 1099 forms. If a client supplies its remaining expense and accounting records, the firm can also prepare the company's annual federal business return. The aim is to help employers avoid the IRS penalties that come with late or incorrect deposits.

Broader Workforce Solutions

Besides payroll, Charlotte Payroll offers a range of related services:

• Outsourced human resources guidance and support
• Automated time and labor management, available alone or linked to payroll and HR
• Professional employer organization (PEO) arrangements
• Multi-state and single-state criminal background searches and drug screenings
• Employee training and workshops
• Labor law ePoster compliance
• Payroll funding
• Business insurance through its partner, Charlotte Insurance

Its software lineup includes the Apex Employer on the GO app and a human capital management platform that ties payroll, HR and timekeeping together.

Background and Approach

The company describes itself as a growing North Carolina business with more than ten years in the industry. Elsewhere on its site it says it has been simplifying payroll for over two decades. Its office is in Cornelius, in the Lake Norman area north of Charlotte.

The firm builds its service around three stated values: integrity and transparency, innovation through current technology, and a focus on adapting to each client's needs. It says its experience, expertise and technology set it apart. It aims to match its services to each business so that owners can keep costs down and spend less time on administration.