Payworks
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Plans and prices
From Payworks's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Payworks workforce management solutions | Priced on request | Pricing provided by quote; covers payroll and optional workforce management solutions |
The facts
Each one read from Payworks's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Absence management
- Approved time off requests flow to Payroll and Time Management, and the solution includes configurable leave types, approvals, calendars, and absence analytics.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Audits and continuity
- Payworks reports annual external independent financial audits and maintains a disaster recovery site and business continuity plan.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Data location
- Payworks says customer data stays in Canada and is held across two Canadian data centres.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Employee onboarding
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Employee records
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- HR
- HR features include onboarding, an employee information database, document storage, e-signatures, performance records, notifications, and workforce analytics.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The Xero integration transfers journal data over an encrypted connection and supports location and class mapping to department names, department numbers, or cost centres.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Managed payroll
- Managed Payroll Services offers Assist and Complete tiers, with options for payroll help or having payroll managed on the client's behalf.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Payroll
- Payroll features include tax remittance and WCB premium filing, ROE submissions to Service Canada, direct deposit, and payroll analytics.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Payroll compliance
- The payroll solution provides legislative updates, homepage reminders, and a statutory pay calculator.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Performance management
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Product
- Payworks provides payroll, human resources, employee self service, time and absence management, and related workforce solutions for Canadian businesses.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- Payworks states that it uses physical, network, server, application, and data safeguards, and supports user-based security and two-factor authentication.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Self service
- Employees can access pay statements and tax forms, update personal details, submit time off requests, and use time tracking features through Self Service.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- Payworks says its Canadian-based client service team provides payroll support and that its payroll solution serves businesses with one employee or thousands.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Time management
- Time Management includes scheduling, punches or timesheets, time clocks, POS integrations, and automated statutory holiday, overtime, break, and premium calculations.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Time-off management
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Time tracking
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2001checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canadachecked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters and founding
- Payworks says it was founded in Winnipeg in 2001 and has been headquartered there ever since.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Mobile app
- The Payworks Self Service App is available from the App Store and Google Play; some time tracking and time off features require subscriptions to specific solutions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Mobile apps
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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