Payday Compass is a small independent site about payday Compass weighs running payroll in-house against handing it to a payroll service. It exists because the question is genuinely hard to answer from vendor marketing alone.
Why the site exists
The category around payday Compass weighs running payroll in-house against handing it to a payroll service is well served by marketing pages and badly served by plain description. Almost everything written about it is either produced by a vendor or assembled quickly enough that nobody checked it.
This site is an attempt at the other thing: fewer pages, written more slowly, that say what something does and where it stops.
What gets written here
Individual write-ups, direct comparisons, and explainers for the vocabulary that gets in the way of a straight answer.
Pages are written one at a time and published when they are finished, rather than generated in a batch to fill a directory.
How it is written
Where one option is better than another for a given job, that is said in words, with the reason attached. It is never expressed as a number.
- No scores out of ten, no star ratings, no tier boards and no leaderboards.
- No description of testing that did not take place.
- Pricing and feature claims are checked against the vendor’s own pages, and dated where the page says so.
- Where something is genuinely unclear, the page says it is unclear rather than guessing.
Funding
Some outbound links on this site are affiliate links, which means a commission may be earned if you follow one and sign up. That arrangement never decides what appears here or in what order. It is set out in full under How This Site Is Funded.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, out of date, or reads as more confident than the evidence supports, write to [email protected] and say so. A link to the page that contradicts it is the fastest way to get it fixed.