January 24, 2012 Ken Jacobsen

Greenshades, Payroll Tax Filing & Employee Portals


Greenshades, Payroll Tax Filing & Employee Portals

Greenshades Software helps organization run payroll in-house instead of outsourcing with its suite of products. Their electronic filing solutions for all business types offer filing annual and quarterly returns to local, state and federal agencies. Additionally, they offer employee self-service applications, W2 and 1099 outsourcing solutions complete with web-portal for electronic distribution of year end forms, and Garnishments for Dynamics GP.

Online Solutions Include:

Payroll Tax Service
Without going to a government website or having to transfer money to a third party, Greenshades allows users to file and pay taxes securely, with just a few clicks. Users can manage their deadlines as well as file unemployment, withholding, and new hire returns. Clients can also alter a return or edit a value their accounting package doesn’t support with Greenshades as well as get totals and confirmation numbers from the government for auditing purposes.

Year-End Forms
By distributing your forms online with Greenshades you can save money on postage, paper, and labor as well as eliminates reprints. Clients have the option of either print themselves or using Greenshades to handle it with their mail service. They can even print and mail the forms your recipients did not download. They handle W-2s, 1099s, T4s, 1042-S, 1098-T, 1098-E, T4, and T4A forms and also store tax forms on Greenshades’ cloud servers or download a searchable PDF for their own archive.

Employee Services
Greenshades offers an online self-service portal for employee paystubs, PTO balance, profile changes, and HR documents. With this portal, clients’ employees can update their address, emergency contacts, dependents, direct deposit allocations, and submit electronic forms including W-4s and I-9s. Employees can also request time off, clock in and clock out, submit for manager approval, and calculate overtime with the portal. Managers can view the employees who will be off soon in their department. There is even a mobile app for iPhone and Android to view pay stubs, clock in and out, and submit expense reports.

Benefits
With the Greenshades Benefits Portal employees can select their health insurance, retirement, and other benefits according to their eligibility, so that employees see only what is available, when it is available. Then their choices can update the payroll system for the next pay run. Additionally, clients can coordinate open enrollment online, letting their employees choose their own plans. It also offer real-time management of qualifying life events as well as enabling clients to place their employee benefit guides online. This solution will even generate industry standard EDI files for submitting electronic enrollment updates to health insurance providers and manage ACA eligibility and reporting requirements.
Desktop Solutions Include:

Tax Filing Center
With Greenshades Tax Filing Center clients can easily create E-Files in the latest government mandated specifications for SUTA, W-2s, 1099s, 940/941, New Hire, 401k, Local Act 32, EEO, and more. Clients’ W-2s and 1099s can be submitted directly into thier online distribution system for both electronic distribution or print and mailing. Additionally, it uses deadlines to calculate the appropriate due date and remind clients when returns and payments are due and allows users to alter a return or edit a value your accounting package doesn’t support. Featuring easy to follow instructions with screen shots on how to submit returns, it also stores all E-Files for easy retrieval in case of audit or internal review.

Garnishments
Manage complicated Garnishment rules for Microsoft Dynamics GP using state and federal rules for all different garnishment types with Greenshades. With this solution clients can track and manage Arrears and report on garnishment history as well as ensuring quicker disbursement of child support funds using the Health and Human Services ACH file format.

Dynamics Payroll Inspector
Clients can track employee eligibility with a couple of easy clicks with the Greenshades Dynamics Payroll Inspector, an all-in-one utility used to correct errors in Dynamics Payroll. Offering Affordable Care Act compliance, this tool allows clients to identify and assign applicable tax codes and rates, as well as PSD code assignment for ACT 32 reporting. By verifying SSN early and often, clients can avoid costly penalties.


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