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Greenshades Payroll

Run complex payroll correctly

Tackle the pay cycles that break other systems, with payroll software built on more than two decades of hard-won compliance expertise.

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The platform

Designed with the edge cases in mind

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    Validation

    Catch errors before the run

    Check every run before you submit, flagging wrong tax rates, missing work locations, duplicate SSNs, and unmapped accounts.
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    Compliance

    Handle withholding rules anywhere

    Withholding is calculated by work location, across all 50 states and down to county and municipal jurisdictions, with minimum-wage rules applied.

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    Pay schedules

    Run any cycle you need

    Weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly run in parallel. Off-cycle and correction runs whenever you need, with no per-run fee and no prefunded account.

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    Cost allocation

    See labor cost clearly

    Tag earnings by job, project, client, or placement with configurable custom fields as you run. Labor costs are up-to-date when month-end rolls around.

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    Blended overtime

    Get overtime correct

    Night, weekend, and charge premiums fold into the regular rate the way FLSA requires, across Normal 40, 8/80, and custom thresholds, so overtime holds up on the first run, not in a back-pay claim.
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    Garnishments

    Apply in the right order

    Garnishment order follows federal priority rules automatically — child support, tax levies, and the rest — with disposable-wage limits applied and payments remitted for you, every run.
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    General ledger

    Post to the books already split

    Every run posts a balanced batch to your ERP, mapped and split by your dimensions, with suspense accounts catching anything unmapped. 
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    Reporting

    Pull reports, no spreadsheets

    Labor cost, payroll variance, overtime trends, and headcount by entity or location, whenever you need them, with an audit-ready record behind every run.

Fits your stack

Payroll that works with the systems you already run

Our integrations cover the major ERPs, ATS, time & attendance tools, and more. If your setup is more particular, our open API lets your team connect anything else. Adding payroll never means replacing the systems you depend on.

Beyond the run

Payroll doesn't begin or end when the run does

Time gets approved, deductions get checked, numbers reach accounting. In separate systems, that's a week of chasing people instead of an afternoon of running numbers. Greenshades keeps it all connected to the run.

Time & attendance

Calculated hours, overtime, and shift differentials flow into payroll and then into tax reporting, keeping data consistent from clock-in to filing.

  • Clock in by web, kiosk, or mobile app
  • PTO requests, approvals, and accruals
  • Approved hours flow straight into payroll
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Don't take our word for it

Real payroll teams and real impact

  • 2.5 days saved per quarter
    "We've seen significant time savings across payroll processes, creating a much better experience for our employees."
    Philip de Boer Philip de Boer CFO, Plasmine Technology
  • 83% drop in payroll errors

    "Greenshades exceeded our expectations in ways we hadn't anticipated."

    Zedrick Gilo Zedrick Gilo CEO, Andvaris
  • Added visibility into payroll accruals
    "The efficiency it brought to our payroll processing experience has been remarkable."
    Cole J. Parker Cole J. Parker Accounting, First Century Bank

Good to know

Questions we get about payroll

Yes. Change an employee's hours, rate, or work location mid-run and the payroll recalculates in real time. You don't restart or reprocess the whole run to fix one line.

Withholding is calculated based on where each employee actually works, automatically, across all 50 states and down to county and municipal jurisdictions. Multi-state workers in a single cycle are handled without manual overrides.

No. You can run weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly schedules in parallel and process off-cycle or correction runs whenever you need them, with no per-run fees and no pre-funded account.

Orders are prioritized automatically using federal guidelines — child support, then federal levies, and down the line — on every run, including off-cycle. State-specific garnishment rules vary, so your team will confirm setup during implementation.

Greenshades has pre-built connectors for Dynamics GP, Business Central, Sage Intacct, Acumatica, Bullhorn, and Avionté, plus an open public API for everything else. Data flows in from your ERP or ATS, payroll runs in Greenshades, and GL batches flow back out automatically.

GL batches are generated after every pay run, with dimensional splitting and suspense accounts for unmapped transactions. Custom fields let you tag earnings by job, project, client, or placement so labor cost maps to your GL without re-keying.

Greenshades runs U.S. employee payroll. That includes anyone you pay as a W-2 employee, whether they're full-time, part-time, temporary, or contract or placed workers. What it does not handle is foreign payroll or 1099 payments to independent, non-employee contractors.

Ready when you are

Handle complex payroll with confidence

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