Payroll. Made very, very easy.

Yes! Powerpay Self Service gives employees 24/7 access to their payroll and human resource information, which means better transparency, autonomy, and efficiency. Through the self-service portal and application, employees can view and update their personal information, request employment verification letters, and access their pay statements and tax forms.  

With self-service, anyone with administrative access to Powerpay will have full access to help register and support employees, even the ability to simulate the employee experience to help support navigation questions.

Powerpay was designed to meet the diverse HR and payroll needs of small and medium-sized businesses.   

Built to handle varying levels of complexity, Powerpay supports:

• Up to 100 earning codes and 100 deduction/contribution codes
• Multiple accruals to track various leave types and entitlements
• Advanced payroll calculations, including support for garnishments, union contributions, pension plans, and group benefit programs
• Time capture through our in-app Powerpay Time feature, a self-service solution for employee time entry that includes the calculation of statutory holiday pay based on legislated requirements.

This flexibility allows Powerpay to serve a wide range of industries and organizational structures while scaling with client growth and evolving requirements.

With Powerpay, employer administrators can configure role-based security to give certain users certain access based on roles and responsibilities within the business. Access permissions can be tailored by: 

• Page-level access: enabling or restricting visibility to specific features or modules  
• Department-level access: limiting data visibility to assigned organizational units  
• Compensation access controls: restricting visibility to sensitive salary and wage information based on role

This kind of role-based access ensures that users only view and manage information relevant to their responsibilities, supporting both data privacy and internal security policies.  

Powerpay is designed to calculate and remit source deductions to the government and to pay employees. It can be used to handle more unique payment and year-end requirements, including issuing a one-off payment to a contractor, director, or pensioner.

Whether you’re doing payroll today or looking to open a business anywhere in Canada, here are the various payroll taxes that you’ll encounter:

• Canada/Québec Pension Plan (CPP/QPP): Contributions made by both the employee and employer.
• Employment insurance (EI): Premiums paid by both the employee and employer.
• Québec Parental Insurance Plan (QPIP):  For employees in Québec, premiums paid by both the employee and employer.
• Federal and provincial taxes: Provincial tax rates vary based on province of employment.
• Employer Health Tax (EHT): Employers operating in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Québec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador may have to pay this tax depending on total annual cost of payroll.
• Payroll tax: Employees in Nunavut and Northwest Territories will pay an additional payroll tax.
• Workers’ compensation: Employer paid premiums. Varies by province and industry.

Payroll taxes and their compliance requirements can be complicated to navigate without the expertise and guidance of a payroll provider. With Powerpay, we have you covered.

A few of the more common payroll errors that can be costly for employers are:  

• Incorrect tax calculations: miscalculating CPP/QPP, EI/QPIP or Tax  
• Late remittances: Missed deadlines for all remittances both Federal and Provincial 
• Misclassifying workers: Incorrectly treating employees as independent contractors 
• Overpaying or underpaying employees: Not applying correct overtime or statutory holiday pay rules  
• Missing or incorrect records: Failing to keep accurate records or incorrect SINs, pay rates or hours worked

Using a payroll software like Powerpay can minimize the risk of these errors, helping you avoid costly mistakes. Powerpay can also help you automate payroll tasks, reducing the time and money you put into managing your payroll.