I can't emphasize enough the severity of pain that ZenPayroll is solving. While running a startup in 2012 with multiple W-2 employees and contractors, the indus

I can't emphasize enough the severity of pain that ZenPayroll is solving. While running a startup in 2012 with multiple W-2 employees and contractors, the industry standard small business payroll solution was QuickBooks Online Payroll. Although it certainly abstracted many local and federal legal & tax complexities into something a first-timer could work with, I still spent at least 10 hours a month running payroll, a process of manual steps that software could easily automate. The interface was confusing, web-unfriendly, and left me questioning how much money I needed to budget for quarterly taxes (both state and federal) and why we were sending so much money to the IRS for such a small startup. At the end of the day, I always felt captive to QuickBooks. Software should be empowering, not shackling.