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Rippling Expands EOR Program 2
Rippling has expanded its Employer of Record program to eight new countries. The change is part of the latest monthly release of the office application.
With EOR, a user can establish a legal entity in a country outside the United States, giving the user the ability to hire and pay employees in other countries. The latest additions are Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Israel, New Zealand, the Philippines, Switzerland and Turkey.
In addition, Rippling is providing hourly workers with a weekly break down of pay on paystubs so they can see hours worked, including overtime, for each of the weeks included in the pay period.
Users can now down payroll comparison data as a CSV file. Rippling says it has also provided more efficient time-entry CSV imports for Time an Attendance since users can automatically reconcile timestamps based on the employee’s timezone and
filter down to a specific set of imported entries and delete only those
They can also import thousands of entries in seconds, versus 30 minutes.
View items...Intuit Moving to Usage-based Pricing
Intuit will increasingly shift its software pricing towards a usage-based model. That approach will show up across the board in the company's payments, payroll and accounting products, according to Neil Williams, Intuit's CFO. The shift is in line with trends brought about by web-based software products.
Sage: Tool Base for Client Advice
- Wednesday, 03 December 2014
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Sage has introduced an analytical tool called Sage View that the company says will help accountants provide advisory services to client. But software publishers introduced those kinds of tools in the early 2000s and they went nowhere. So what does Sage think is different now?
Intuit CEO Pay Up One Third
- Tuesday, 02 December 2014
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Intuit CEO Brad Smith had a very good fiscal 2014 when it came to compensation. Smith received $16.5 million in total pay for the year ended July 31, up 33 percent from $12.5 million in fiscal 2013. The total was pushed up by option awards, which more than doubled to $3.5 million for the recently ended year, up from $1.6 million.
Xero Adds Three U.S Leaders
- Tuesday, 25 November 2014
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Cloud accounting vendor Xero has strengthened its management team in the United States with the hiring of three executives. The Australian company placed new leaders in key business areas as the it regroups from the departure of Peter Karpas in September as the CEO of the company's North America operations after seven months.
QB Online Exceeds Intuit's Forecast
Intuit is adding QuickBooks Online subscribers at a faster rate than expected. In a recent earnings webcast, the Mountain View, Calif.-based software vendor said there were 739,000 QBO subscribers when the first quarter ended on October 31, an increase of 43 percent from 516,000 a year earlier. Intuit has expected to hit 715,000. The company also report strong international growth with 103,000 subscribers, a 170-percent increase.
Yearli W-2, 1099 System
- Monday, 24 November 2014
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Yearli, a federal, state and recipient W-2 and 1099 reporting platform, can generate, file, print and mail all related forms. The cloud-base system comes with three options—Core, Performance, and Desktop—which provide different function and pricing levels.
Accounting Power Updated
- Monday, 24 November 2014
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
AccountantsWorld has enhanced its Accounting Power suite to better support the mobile environment. It has also added features to the cloud-based software in the areas of analytics, bill payments and setup. The software now supports all browser products and offers what the company called a more intuitive navigation.
Intuit Tying Check to Other Apps
Intuit is linking, Check, a mobile payment applications that was recently acquired, to other packages in its software line. The purchase of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based software company was billed in a spring announcement as enabling Intuit to get to market faster with payment apps and it is working in adding payment capabilities to three product lines—Mint, Quicken and QuickBooks Online.
Paylocity Loss Surges
- Tuesday, 18 November 2014
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Human resource and payroll software and services vendor Paylocity reported its loss for the third quarter ended September 30 was almost six times the red ink registered a year earlier. That came on top of a 39.1 percent increase of revenue as the operating expenses rose dramatically.
Avalara Raises $100 Million
- Tuesday, 11 November 2014
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Sales-tax services provider Avalara said this week it has raised $100 million in financing from an affiliate of Warburg Pincus. The Bainbridge, Island.-Wash.-based software company says its plans include international expansion and strategic acquisitions.
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