The moment a business outgrows DIY payroll and what to do next

Max Farnsworth used to spend four and a half hours a month processing payroll for his property management firm via a custom bookkeeping system and paper checks. His company, Farnsworth Industries, keeps vacation rental properties along Florida’s Emerald Coast running, handling everything from smart-home systems and Wi-Fi to construction oversight. Every minute spent on manual data entry was unbillable time stolen from clients, and his experience isn’t unusual.

In OnPay’s analysis of what small-business owners search for, questions about running payroll by hand (“how to do payroll,” “payroll spreadsheet template,” “payroll for one employee”) add up to more than 91,000 searches a year. Roughly 35,000 more come from employees asking where to cash a paper paycheck. The DIY era isn’t just inefficient — it introduces significant operational risk.

OnPayhelps growing businesses put that time back where it belongs, with payroll, HR, and benefits in one place. Here is how...

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