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Jolanda Slagmolen-Flores
Posted 6 Mar 2024
3 out of 5 stars

Pay more if you want less

I used this platform for a number of years and was happy with it but they have recently changed their plans and it is now mandatory that they make payroll remittances to CRA on your behalf. For various reasons we do not want to pass this on to a third party and I was told that if I want to make my own remittances then I will need to pay more than double.
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Annie Laurie
Posted 19 Jun 2023
1 out of 5 stars

Slow, Glitchy and Terrible Customer Service

Extremely slow and glitchy program with every click, and you have to click a lot. There have been promises of updates and improved speeds but the program honestly feels slower and unnecessarily more complicated to run payroll as time goes by. Click in to change this, back button, click in the change another item, back button... Support is canned and unhelpful. Two thumbs down.
One person found this review helpful.
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Donald Desroches
Posted 14 Feb 2023
3 out of 5 stars

It works but...

I've used this payroll solution for just over a year. I like the integration with Xero however it's not perfect. The numbers are correct however one of the fields needs to be removed prior to finalizing the payment in Xero. I also don't like how much later things take with automatic deposits therefore I use it mainly as a glorified payroll calculator then I can copy and paste the net pay to a cheque or etransfer or whatever payment method you choose to use. There is no way to generate PD7A's either. If there is, I haven't figured it out. Out of a year, the system was only down for one pay period. Frustrating but seems like a good track record. Payevo isn't cheap however they're banking on getting clients to pay monthly instead of yearly and putting lots of their eggs into the online payment for both employees and to the CRA. Personally, if there wasn't a significant delay, I may use it however I could care less about it unless I had 5+ employees.
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Alex Lewis
Posted 14 Aug 2019
1 out of 5 stars
After having had our account frozen and put in read-only mode for the last 4 days due to an acute system failure I have to say I regret ever having used Payment Evolution. The system does the job when it's not suffering from infrastructure failure, and I would echo Karen's comments. It's cost-effective but if you have are looking for a reliable system you can depend on my advice would be to consider another system. Updated for the response from Sam: Payment Evolution is a payroll and financial services provider, by the very nature of the industry the company operates in it should have systems that can be brought back online in a short period of time. The fact that your systems do not appear to have this redundancy in place is dismaying. I sincerely hope you do improve your recovery processes in the future and are humbled by this experience. As of writing this post, our account is still in read-only mode, we can't process any payments and our data has not been completely restored.

Response from Payment Evolution

@Alex Lewis Alex - thank you for taking time to post your message here. I'd encourage you to contact our support team (support@paymentevolution.com) for specific issues related to your account. The incident you are referring to is related to a storage subsystem failure which contained some of our client data. Our backup and recovery operations were able to bring clients back online almost immediately (in read-only state and eventually, “full-access”) and we’ve implemented several changes to improve our recovery time in scenarios like this. Regardless, we know that even short period of inaccessibility can cause issues for time-sensitive processes like payroll and vendor payments. Our customer success and sales teams worked with affected clients to ensure that any delays in processing their transactions would not affect their employee and vendor payments. No payments entered into our systems were missed or delayed by this incident. I’m sorry for the inconvenience this has caused you. We continue to work hard to mitigate against most disruptive events – and in this case, we’ve learned how to better improve our recovery operations to reduce the impact to you. I know that you have placed tremendous trust in us to process your payments and handle critical functions for your business. We are humbled by the number of clients who graciously understood the situation and trusted us to make things right. We’ll continue to work hard every day to earn that trust and I’m truly thankful for your patience and understanding as we work to resolve the situation for your profile. You can always reach us support@paymentevolution.com or +1 647 776 7600 -sam
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Sarah Hopen
Posted 1 Aug 2019
5 out of 5 stars
We've been using Payment Evolution in our bookkeeping practice to service our small and medium business owners for several years now and love it! It's clean, easy to use and integrates well with Xero. In addition the Business Payments feature is a bonus for quick easy B2B payments (our clients love that).
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Sam Vassa
Posted 19 Oct 2017
@Karen Hallson-Kundel Hi Karen, thank you for your honest feedback. You’ll be happy to know we are currently working on both of these issues for you and all our clients. We are in the process of creating new report options and we would love your feedback on what you want that you don’t have right now. Please email us at support@paymentevolution.com or give us a call at +1-647-776-7600 x2 to let us know what you would like to see in reports. The stat holiday calculation is one of the more challenging things about providing payroll in Canada and this type of calculator is one of our most requested items. The great news is this has been deemed a top development priority for Q1-2 in 2018. I can happily say it is coming! If you have any other suggestions on how we can improve our program we welcome them at any time. Sam Vassa CEO, PaymentEvolution @SamVassa +1 647 776 7600
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