Powerpay has been hosting regular webinars to allow an open forum with our team. In these webinars, we share exciting product updates and provide our small business customers access to our leadership for live questions and answers. 

In our webinar reflecting on April, hosted May 1 2026, our General Manager, Behrad Bayanpour and our Account Executive, Michael “Payroll Mike” Hunter, discuss how we are making the payroll process easier for our customers. 

Payroll has always been about getting people paid accurately and on time. The real work often starts long before payroll is processed. In the regular webinar series, What’s new with Powerpay, we highlight how Powerpay continues to evolve beyond payroll processing alone to better support Canadian businesses in simplifying their workflows leading up to payday. 

Improved onboarding experience for new employees

We started with your business’s employee experience in mind. For new hires, Powerpay onboarding helps businesses collect the right information from the start, including contact details, tax forms, banking information, emergency contacts, and supporting documents. Employees can complete their profile in self-service, save progress if they need more time, and upload important forms directly into the system. 

For your human resources (HR) teams, or for businesses where employee onboarding is handled by the owners and operators, this means reducing the volume of administrative tasks. There are fewer follow-ups, less manual entry, and cleaner employee data from day one. It also helps with improved security as employees are not potentially sharing sensitive information over other channels, such as text or internal chat tools, as they can store it directly in the correct system.  

Improved time tracking for employees and management 

Once onboarding is complete, your employees can keep using self-service for the tasks that often create extra administrative work behind the scenes. They can review and acknowledge company documents, request time off, check entitlement balances, and submit daily hours with precision. The Powerpay team demonstrated how time-tracking supports everything from scheduled hours, overtime, breaks, statutory holidays, and more, giving employees a more flexible and accurate way to record their time. 

With the onboarding experience in mind, we wanted to dive further into how this supports management, HR, and business owners. We highlighted the new Time Review experience, which gives payroll teams a much easier way to review submitted, pending, approved, or unsubmitted time and time-off requests before payroll is processed. Through Powerpay, managers can review time-off requests with clear calendar visibility, helping them make decisions with coverage in mind. Employee managers may also review employee timesheets, make corrections where needed, as well as send comments back to the employee, so changes are transparent. 

We also demonstrated how Powerpay helps to automate statutory holiday pay calculations based on provincial employment standards. Instead of working through these calculations manually, payroll teams can let the system do the heavy lifting. 

Improved pay change tracking and transparency 

One of the standout enhancements we discussed is pay change transparency. With the right role-based permissions, managers can now make compensation updates while maintaining a clear history of what changed, when it changed, why it changed, and who made the update. That audit trail adds clarity and confidence for everyone involved. 

Powerpay is payroll, done right. 

For anyone whose role is to be their organization's payroll administrator, the goals Powerpay wants you to achieve are: less chasing, less checking, less manual work. Powerpay continues to build what we call payroll, done right: connected, visible, and easier to manage from start to finish. If you’re exploring a payroll solution for your business, get in touch with our sales team.