Payroll for small businesses
Payroll that lands in your books.
Pay your team and have payroll taxes paid and filed for you. Every run posts to your ledger as a balanced journal entry and is matched to the bank debits, so your books close without a payroll cleanup.
| Account | Debit | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| Wages expense | 25,000.00 | |
| Employer payroll taxes | 1,912.50 | |
| Employer health benefits | 1,100.00 | |
| 401(k) payable | 850.00 | |
| Payroll clearing | 27,162.50 | |
| Total | 28,012.50 | 28,012.50 |
Full-service payroll
Everything you expect from payroll.
Direct deposit
Pay employees by direct deposit or paper check, on a weekly, biweekly, semimonthly or monthly schedule.
Payroll taxes, paid and filed
Federal and state payroll taxes are calculated, paid and filed for you each period.
Online pay stubs
Employees see their pay stubs online. No printing and mailing.
Unlimited runs
Run regular payroll, bonuses and off-cycle checks as often as you need, at no extra cost.
The part other payroll skips
Your accountant stops asking about payroll.
Most payroll services hand you a PDF and leave the bookkeeping to you. VisiPayroll is built by the team behind VisiBooks, so each run arrives in your ledger already posted and already matched.
Every run is a journal entry
Wages, employer taxes and benefits post to the right accounts as one balanced entry. No more re-keying the payroll report.
Matched to the bank
Payroll pulls money in several debits. Each one is matched back to its run, so you can see what has cleared and what has not.
Liabilities you can see
Withholdings and benefit deductions you still owe show up as balances, not as surprises.
How it works
Set up once. Then just approve runs.
- 01
Tell us about your company
Company details, tax IDs, your bank account and each employee. About fifteen minutes, and you can save and come back.
- 02
We set up payroll
We open your payroll and tax accounts with our payroll partner and check everything before your first run.
- 03
Run payroll
Approve each run. The money moves, the taxes are filed, and the run shows up in your books.
Pricing
One price, no tiers.
Unlimited payroll runs, tax filing, direct deposit and pay stubs. No setup fee and no contract.
On the VisiBooks Portfolio plan, payroll is included for one company and its first five employees. Each additional employee is $6 per month.
Get startedQuestions
Common questions
- Do I need VisiBooks?
- Payroll posts straight into VisiBooks, which is where the bookkeeping side lives today. If you keep your books somewhere else, email us and tell us which one.
- Who actually moves the money and files the taxes?
- An established payroll processor that we partner with. We handle setup and support, and we connect every run to your books.
- Can I switch in the middle of the year?
- Yes. Tell us which employees you have already paid this year and we bring in their year-to-date totals, so W-2s come out right.
- Is there a contract?
- No. Pay monthly and cancel any time.