# SurePayroll

> Online payroll for small US businesses and household employers

SurePayroll is an online payroll service for small US businesses, solo owners and families who employ nannies or caregivers. It pays employees and contractors, and on its Full Service plan files and deposits payroll taxes. SurePayroll is a Paychex company and also sells 401(k) plans, workers' comp and health insurance.

- **Category:** Payroll
- **Made by:** SurePayroll, Inc.
- **Website:** https://www.surepayroll.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

SurePayroll is a paid product, starting at $20 per month, plus $4 per employee.

- **Pricing model:** Paid
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| No Tax Filing | $20 per month, plus $4 per employee | The Full Service features, except that you file and deposit all payroll taxes yourself. |
| Full Service | $29 per month, plus $7 per employee | Payroll taxes filed and deposited, unlimited payroll runs, free 2-day direct deposit and W-2 and 1099 workers. The first state is included. |

Read from https://www.surepayroll.com/pricing on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SurePayroll before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Every other month free for the first year** (Other savings): New customers get every alternating month free during their first 12 months, which SurePayroll advertises as 6 free months. Terms apply. Source: https://www.surepayroll.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Unlimited and automatic payroll:** Every plan includes unlimited payroll runs, and payroll can be scheduled to run on its own on the chosen pay dates.
- **Tax filing on Full Service:** Full Service calculates, files and deposits federal, state and local payroll taxes and gives access to Forms 940, 941, W-2 and 1099.
- **Free 2-day direct deposit:** Direct deposit with a two-day lead time is included, and pay stubs and reports stay available online at any hour.
- **Employees and contractors:** W-2 employees and 1099 contractors are paid in the same payroll, with multiple pay rates, bonuses and new hire reporting.
- **Employer and employee apps:** Owners run payroll and review reports from the SurePayroll app, and employees see their own pay stubs and account details in theirs.
- **Household payroll:** A separate Nanny & Household plan files household payroll taxes and prepares Schedule H and W-2 forms for families.

## Good for

- Small US businesses with a handful of employees
- Families paying a nanny, caregiver or housekeeper
- Owners who want to run payroll from a phone

## Worth knowing

- Runs US payroll; the first state is included, multi-state payroll is $9.99 a month and local taxes carry a separate fee.
- Year-end W-2 and 1099-NEC forms are billed once a year at $50 plus $5 per form.
- Accounting sync is $4.99 a month, time clock import from $5 a month plus $3 per employee, and employment law help from $30 a month.
- Household employers buy a separate Nanny & Household plan at $39 a month, including one employee, marked down from $45.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. SurePayroll is simple, cheap payroll from a Paychex company, with apps for owners and staff and a separate plan for families paying a nanny. It's $40 a month for five if you file the taxes, $64 if it does. Year-end forms, extra states and accounting sync all cost extra.

- **Value for money: B.** No Tax Filing is $20 a month plus $4 an employee, $40 for five, inside the cheapest quarter of this category. Full Service, which files taxes, is $64 for five. Year-end forms add $50 plus $5 a form, and multi-state is $9.99 a month.
- **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or trial. New customers get every other month free in their first year, which is a good deal, but it's a discount on a paid plan, not a trial.
- **Features: C.** Payroll done fully: unlimited and automatic runs, employees and contractors together, tax filing on Full Service and a household plan for nannies. A smaller job, though, with no HR tools beyond paid employment-law help.
- **Ease of use: A.** 4.7 from about 6,100 App Store ratings for the employer app, where owners run payroll and check reports. Staff get their own app for pay stubs.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with apps for owners and for staff. No desktop app, and accounting sync is a $4.99-a-month add-on rather than built in.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SurePayroll's own pages on 17 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among payroll services

- SurePayroll's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 6 of the 18 other payroll services we grade, and level with 9.
- It stands best on ease of use (A, above 9 of 18) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $20 a month, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 2 of the 13 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.0 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/payroll

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace SurePayroll you would be making payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $240 a year.

- You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.7 out of 5 from 6,141 ratings in the United States, read Oct 17, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id340079566

**Tags:** Payroll, Reports

## Alternatives

- [Patriot Payroll](https://toolgpa.com/tools/patriot-payroll): Low-cost online payroll for small US businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/patriot-payroll-vs-surepayroll)
- [Gusto](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gusto): Payroll and HR for small businesses, with apps for owners and staff. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gusto-vs-surepayroll)
- [Paychex Flex](https://toolgpa.com/tools/paychex-flex): Paychex's payroll, tax filing and HR platform, priced by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/paychex-flex-vs-surepayroll)
- [OnPay](https://toolgpa.com/tools/onpay): US payroll with published prices, plus HR and time add-ons. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/onpay-vs-surepayroll)
- [Roll by ADP](https://toolgpa.com/tools/roll-by-adp): Chat-based payroll app for very small US businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/roll-by-adp-vs-surepayroll)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://www.surepayroll.com/pricing
- https://www.surepayroll.com/
- https://www.surepayroll.com/payroll
- https://www.surepayroll.com/about
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/surepayroll-for-employers/id340079566
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paychex.surepayroll&gl=US

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/surepayroll
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