Erika Yohn

Have a smoother payroll year-end with this guide created just for you.

Start with these tips for smooth T4s, T4As and RL-1s at year-end (really!).

Add these dates to your calendar for a smooth payroll year-end.

Updates to payroll tax tables and everything else you should know for year-end.

Due to bank closures, you may need to process your payroll earlier at year-end.

Year-end is the perfect time to make sure that all of your information is entered correctly within Wagepoint, including your 2024 Workers’ Compensation rates. Contact your provincial WSIB/WCB agency to confirm your Workers’ Compensation rates for 2024. To apply these rates, update your Company > Workers’ Compensation tab with the new rates for 2024 before […]

2024 is right around the corner and that means new year, new… batch of holidays to load into Wagepoint! All jokes aside, to set yourself up for a smooth payroll road ahead, be sure to load all the federal and provincial holidays before processing your first payroll for 2024 in the Company > Company holidays […]

Need a hand over the holidays? We’ll be there!

As a small business owner, the first payday and handing over employees’ first pay stubs is exciting, right? Perhaps a bit stressful too. It’s your first time calculating payroll, figuring out deductions and benefits and all the little details of handling salaries. Still, your business is supporting everyone’s livelihoods, including your own — what a […]

On of the most feared year-end documents is the Pensionable and Insurable Earnings Review (PIER). Unfortunately, that’s because it tends to make payroll professionals or employers feel like they’ve done something wrong. Meaning, there’s a sense of wanting to avoid it at all costs. Before diving into how to avoid a PIER, it’ll first help […]

T4s, T4As and Relevés — what do they have in common, other than the fact that T4A and Relevé rhyme? Or, that you could easily refer to these things as “T4-ehs?” for all the confusion they cause. Don’t worry, this article will help answer some of your most burning questions about these forms. 🔥 What […]

As an employer, there are many decisions that you’ll have to make when it comes to hiring and paying your employees. Minimum wage, AKA the lowest hourly pay rate that an employer can pay an employee? That’s not one of them. In Canada, minimum wage by province or territory falls under the domain of the […]

Is your company still cutting paper cheques or sending etransfers to pay employees? Hey, we get it — old habits die hard.  But when you stick to these outdated payment methods, you’re weighing your entire business down. Think about it — the time and money spent on writing, printing and waiting for cheques to clear […]

Clients look to their bookkeeper or bookkeeping firm as their guiding light when it comes to payroll and paying their employees. No surprise then that as a bookkeeping firm owner, we do a lot of payroll. Meaning I needed to find the right payroll software. And my goal was to find a payroll software that […]

Learning how to track employee hours is part of doing business. Time-tracking makes it possible to pay your team the right amount and accurately manage your business workflow. Small businesses don’t have a ton of people to keep track of, so you should be able to streamline team tracking and payroll management on your own, […]