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What it does
- Keeps your books from your bank and card transactions, brought in by bank sync (through SimpleFIN Bridge, a paid service), from your bank's files, or from QuickBooks, for you to put in categories and reconcile
- Shows profit and loss, cash flow, account balances, and income and expenses by tax-return line, and sets money aside in budgets
- Works out each paycheck from what you enter: federal withholding, state income tax withholding for all 50 states and DC, Social Security, Medicare, and the local taxes you set up
- Lists the payments it calculates, to whom, and by when
- Fills in Forms 941 and 940 on the IRS PDFs, for you to check, sign, and mail
- Makes W-2s for your employees, and the totals you need to file them online
- Makes 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC forms for contractors, and the file to upload them to the IRS
- Keeps one checklist of the payments and forms it knows about, federal and state, with new-hire reports, and walks you through filing each one
- Pay stubs, emailed to employees who opt in, and a year-end packet for your accountant
- Backs up your company file by itself, to a folder or cloud drive you choose
What it doesn't do
- File anything, move money, or make tax deposits. You mail or e-file each form, and pay people and agencies yourself. No direct deposit, and a bank connection only reads your transactions.
- Do double-entry or accrual accounting. The books are kept like a checkbook: single entry, on a cash basis. No invoices, bills to pay, or inventory.
- Make K-1s or income tax returns, or register your business.
- Come certified. It isn't a certified payroll product: compare the first paycheck in each state with that state's published withholding tables.
- Look up local tax rates. You enter each employee's local taxes (PA EIT, Ohio and Kentucky cities, Indiana counties, and so on) and keep them current.
- Split wages between states. Each employee has one work state, for unemployment and state programs too.
- Handle tips or tip credits. Garnishments are taken only within the limits it knows.
- Handle railroad employers. A railroad pays Railroad Retirement and railroad unemployment taxes (RRTA and RUIA) in place of Social Security, Medicare and unemployment taxes, and the app figures only the usual ones.
- Know what the IRS has told you. Your deposit schedule and due dates are worked out from the paydays in your file and what you set in My company; a letter from the IRS or your state overrides them.
- Track workplace posters or other HR requirements. Posters, handbooks and the like are yours to keep up with.
- Check your work. It's software, not a bookkeeping or payroll service.
Counting Carrots
$59a year, plus tax
- Your books and every payday for a year from today, through November 10, 2027
- Everyone on your payroll
- Every update released
- Nothing renews by itself
One license covers your books and your payroll. Without one after the free months, your books are still there to look at and their reports still open, but changing them, paydays, and contractor payments need a license.
Stripe handles payment. Your license goes to the email address you pay with.
By continuing, you confirm you've read what it does and doesn't do, and agree to the terms of use.
No guarantees. Counting Carrots is software, not tax, legal, or accounting advice. We don't guarantee that any amount, form, or due date it gives you is correct, and we aren't responsible if it isn't. Your books, payroll, and tax filings are your responsibility: have your accountant check them before you pay or file.