Crest Payroll Features & Benefits

Multi-Client Payroll Made Easy & Affordable
Crest Payroll was designed by accountants for accountants, with tools and features specifically geared toward managing the payrolls of multiple business clients. With small business employment taxes and credits changing rapidly over the past few years, now is the perfect time for you, a tax and accounting professional, to take control of your client payroll relationship. With Crest, it's easier than ever to manage the payroll and benefits for all of your clients, no matter their industry, how many employees they have or how often they pay them.
Benefits for Your Firm
Manage any number of clients, employees and pay frequencies. Manage clients with any kind of paid employees: full-time, part-time, salaried, hourly, piece-work, contractor, union, tipped. You can create different pay groups within clients, or even subsidiary units.
One price per client, per month
One price per client, per month.One fixed price per client allows you to process any number of payroll runs, with Direct Deposit included. Your firm won't be "nickel and dimed" for extra fees. Run as many payrolls for a client as you need, including paper checks and Direct Deposits, and even replacement checks.
Automated compliance
Automated compliance. Crest Payroll automatically handles all federal, state and local employment tax filing and reporting, providing the accounting professional with reports, alerts and notices of filings and payments, to help ensure that funds are available for electronic payment to taxing entities. And Crest doesn't impound employment taxes; your clients' funds remain your clients' funds, until compliance deadlines.
Easy-to-use professional payroll
Easy-to-use professional payroll. After setting up clients and their employees the first time, you can process payrolls in three simple steps: 1) Enter/edit employee time and accruals; 2) Approve and process payroll; 3) Generate payroll reports. The customizable user dashboard offers reminders and alerts to keep you on top of payroll dates and other tasks.
Direct Deposit included
Direct Deposit included. Client employees can have their pay distributed to any number of bank accounts, and can even have a portion delivered via paper check. The options are up to your firm, your client and their employee.
No IT headaches
No IT headaches. Another benefit of being a web-based payroll solution is that there are no updates to install and no payroll tax tables to maintain. The program is always kept up-to-date with the latest withholding taxes and rules for all 50 states and all local jurisdictions.
No IT headaches.
No IT headaches.Another benefit of being a web-based payroll solution is that there are no updates to install and no payroll tax tables to maintain. The program is always kept up-to-date with the latest withholding taxes and rules for all 50 states and all local jurisdictions.
Your Branded Payroll Site.

Crest Payroll announces 'Your Branded Payroll site' feature exclusively for the accountant community.

'Your Branded Payroll site' feature from Crest Payroll gives Accountants and Payroll Service Bureaus the ability to set up their own 'company branded' payroll site that boosts their corporate identity within their practice and clients. Now, the payroll software portal becomes a seamless extension of their corporate website. Accountants logo is reflected across the Payroll Software.

You can give clients login permission to perform tasks such as entering time or creating employees, and you can choose to do this on a client-by-client basis. If you take advantage of this feature, your clients will never see our brand, only your firm's. They will log into the payroll system from your website and see your firm's name on the system.Click here for illustration..
Industry-leading security
Industry-leading security. Crest Payroll is a SAS-70 Compliant web-based system that uses the same encryption and security tools as the nation's leading financial institutions. It is also certified by the American Payroll Association, TrustE and McAfee. And with role-based access, users in your firm or at your client are only able to access the parts of the program that you want them to see. (More about Crest Payroll Security.) Link to /Crest_Security.html.
Take back your client relationship
Take back your client relationship. Your clients are your clients, that's why Crest will never contact them in any way. We bill the professional accountant, and the accounting firm invoices their clients- for whatever pricing structure you see fit for your clients.
Expand your 1040 practice
Expand your 1040 practice. With employee self-service portals, your client's employees can check their payroll stubs and W-2s at any time. This feature is most frequently used when employees are getting ready to file returns, which means that if you have a tax practice too, it's an ideal time to present them with messaging on the portal that suggests your firm for their tax return filings.
Get up and running fast
Get up and running fast. Intuitive wizards, templates and import tools for quick and hassle-free setup of clients and their employee records.
Client billing included
Client billing included.Built-in AR helps you keep your clients up-to-date.
Pay-As-You-Go Workers Compensation
Crest Payroll is partnered with 'The Hartford' for Pay-As-You-Go Workers Compensation. Each time a payroll is processed, the payroll data is electronically transmitted to the Insurance company. The premium is calculated per payroll basis. The amount due is debited directly from Client bank by the insurance company in the following week.

No Down payments

Accurate Premium Calculations and Payments

Minimize Audit and Payment Adjustments

Better Control and Manage Your Cash Flow

No Billing Installment Fees
Integration with QuickBooks and export to Excel
Integration with QuickBooks and export to Excel.Crest Payroll integrates with the GL in QuickBooks and other accounting programs, saving time and streamlining workflow. The system also lets you output reports into Excel, Word, PDF and other convenient formats.