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For small businesses with hourly teams

Payroll you can understand before you approve it.

Pay your team, prepare payroll taxes, and catch costly mistakes — with every important change explained before payday.

Set up in
One cycle
Employee portal
EN + ES
Pricing
Published

Payroll readiness

BrightPath Care Services

Demo data

Payday

Friday, September 4

Estimated withdrawal

$41,844.49

Workers
18
Overtime changes
2
Must fix
2

Before you approve: Daniel Kim changed his bank account three days ago

Review payroll

Demo data. No real money moves. Everything above is calculated live from the demo data set.

The problem with payroll software

Most payroll tools are built to process payroll. Almost none are built to explain it.

You press a button, money leaves, and you find out something was wrong when an employee tells you. PayPulse is organised around the six questions an owner actually has before payday.

  1. 1Who is being paid?
  2. 2How much will be withdrawn?
  3. 3What changed since last payroll?
  4. 4Does anything look wrong?
  5. 5Is this safe to approve?
  6. 6If something fails, who is fixing it?
01Know before you approve

A readiness score you can actually audit

Every payroll run gets a Payroll Confidence Score out of 100. It is not a model and not a vibe — each check owns a fixed share of the points, and every check tells you what it looked at, who is affected, and what to do next.

  • 18 of 18 workers included
  • 17 of 18 timecards approved
  • One direct-deposit verification pending
  • Bank balance appears sufficient

How the score is built

  • Workers included20/20
  • Timecards approved18/20
  • Direct deposit verified18/20
  • Bank balance sufficient15/15
  • Tax information complete15/15
  • Overtime changes reviewed10/10

Total: 96 / 100 — almost ready.

02Understand every change

Paycheck Preview says what changed, and why, in a sentence

Side-by-side with the last cycle, down to the line. No decoding a stub, no guessing whether a number is a mistake or a bonus.

Sofia Martinez

Home health aide · Long Beach

+$173.54
Gross pay$2,207.88+$238.88
Gross pay: this cycle $2,207.88, last cycle $1,969.00.
Taxes withheld$427.02+$65.34
Taxes withheld: this cycle $427.02, last cycle $361.68.
Take-home pay$1,683.86+$173.54
Take-home pay: this cycle $1,683.86, last cycle $1,510.32.

+$173.54 estimated take-home pay. Sofia worked 6.5 overtime hours this cycle. Her hourly rate and deductions did not change.

Illustrative demo estimate. Not tax, legal, or financial advice.

03Protect payday

See what payroll does to your bank balance before it happens

Payroll, taxes, and benefit transfers on one line, projected 30 days out against the buffer you want to keep. The point is not to sell you money — it is to make sure you are never surprised by it.

  • Payroll debit and tax debit shown separately
  • Projected balance after every movement
  • A clear warning when the buffer dips, and for how long
  • No lending, no advances, no promises about availability

Next 30 days

  • Opening balance$58,400.00
  • Payroll — Sep 4−$40,706
  • Tax deposit — Sep 15−$9,240
  • Lowest projected balance$6,594

Your balance sits below your $10,000 buffer for five days between the tax deposit and your next client receipts.

04Fix problems without chasing support

When something breaks, you get a room — not a ticket number

One workspace per incident: what happened, who it affects, whether payday is at risk, what we need from you, and every action taken, in order. No ticket ping-pong, no re-explaining it to a third person.

FIX-2041

Direct deposit on hold for Daniel Kim

Waiting on you
  • Payday at riskYes — paid 2–3 days late
  • Employees affected1
  • Target responseWithin 2 business hours

What we need from you

Two confirmations from Daniel. That is the whole list.

05Give employees answers, not confusion

Your team stops asking you why their check changed

The employee portal opens on a phone and leads with a sentence, not a table. It is written in English and Spanish — properly written, not machine-translated — because the people doing the hourly work should not need a translator to read their own paycheck.

  • Plain-language explanation first, official detail second
  • A real English and Spanish toggle across the whole portal
  • Hours, timecard status, and pay history in one place
  • Downloadable demo pay stubs
Español

Pago neto estimado

$1,683.86

Tu pago neto estimado aumentó +$173.54.

Trabajaste 6.5 horas extra durante este período. Tu tarifa por hora y tus deducciones no cambiaron.

Hoja de horasAprobada

Built around the way your team works

Industry modes, not a one-size-fits-all form

An in-home care agency and a taqueria both run payroll. They do not run the same payroll. Industry modes change what PayPulse watches for, what it asks, and what it warns you about.

Healthcare & home care

In the demo

Visit-based hours across multiple sites, shift differentials, and overtime that creeps in when a caregiver covers a gap.

  • Location and visit-based hours
  • Shift differentials
  • Overtime alerts before approval
  • Credential expiry tracking (planned)

Restaurants & tipped teams

Preview

Tips, tip pooling, and staff who work two roles at two rates in the same week.

  • Reported and declared tips
  • Tip pooling preview
  • Multiple pay rates per worker
  • Shift-based timecards

Construction & field crews

Preview

Job codes, mobile time entry from the site, and crews that move between locations mid-week.

  • Job and project codes
  • Mobile time entry
  • Multiple work locations
  • Overtime and per-diem placeholders

The demo runs in Healthcare and home care mode. The other modes are honest previews of planned behaviour, not finished features. See all industry modes

Try it yourself

Move the hours. Watch the paycheck move with them.

This is the same deterministic calculation engine that powers the demo product — not a marketing animation with made-up numbers.

Try the numbers

80 hrs

Hours in a two-week pay period.

6.5 hrs

Paid at 1.5× the hourly rate.

$24.50

Base rate before any differential.

$0.00

One-off amount added to this cycle.

$85.00

Medical, dental, or retirement taken before taxes.

Estimated paycheck

Recalculated by the same engine the demo product uses.

Estimated take-home pay

1686 dollars and 4 cents
Gross pay
2198 dollars and 88 cents
Pretax deductions
negative 85 dollars
Employee taxes (estimated)
negative 427 dollars and 84 cents
Take-home pay
1686 dollars and 4 cents

What it costs the employer

2455 dollars and 4 cents
  • Take-home$1,686.04
  • Taxes withheld$427.84
  • Deductions$85.00
  • Employer taxes$256.16

Illustrative estimate for demonstration only. Not tax, legal, or financial advice.

Transparent pricing

The price is on the page

No demo gate on the main plan and no quote request to find out what you would pay. Move the worker count and see your number.

Count everyone who receives a paycheck in a month, including contractors.

PayPulse Core

For a single-location team that wants payroll to stop being a guess.

$39.00/month + $6.00 per paid worker

147 dollars/ month

For 18 paid workers

  • Unlimited payroll-review cycles
  • Employee and contractor records
  • Federal and state tax-preparation workflow
  • Paycheck Preview
  • Payroll Confidence Score
  • Employee self-service
  • English and Spanish employee experience
  • Standard support

PayPulse Protect

Most chosen

For multi-location teams where a missed payday costs you people.

$79.00/month + $10.00 per paid worker

259 dollars/ month

For 18 paid workers

  • Everything in PayPulse Core
  • Cash-flow protection
  • Advanced anomaly detection
  • Multi-location controls
  • Custom approval chains
  • Enhanced reporting
  • Priority human support
  • Advanced Fix Room workflows

Provisional demonstration pricing. Final pricing will be published before general availability.

Security and trust

Payroll data is the most sensitive data a small business holds

So we say exactly what is built, what is designed for, and what is not here yet. You will not find a certification badge on this page that we have not earned.

Role-based access

Managers see one location and never see pay rates. Enforced in the data layer, not just the interface.

Masked sensitive fields

Tax identifiers and bank accounts are masked everywhere. The demo contains no real identifiers.

Audit logging

Every approval, correction, and status change is recorded with who did it and when.

Honest about the rest

MFA, encryption at rest, and session timeout are architectural commitments, described as such.

Open the demo and approve a payroll run in about four minutes.

No account, no email, no sales call. Switch between the owner, the payroll admin, a manager, and an employee to see the same payday from four sides.

This is a product demonstration. No real money moves, no real bank accounts are connected, and no real tax filings are made. All figures are seeded sample data.