Building national, full-service payroll

Pay people correctly.Know exactly why.

See the whole payday before you approve it, and keep the record that proves every number.

Open the interactive demo Start a payroll conversation

Available now Product walkthrough, proof demo, and verifier. Live payroll processing, direct deposit, tax payments, and tax filing are not yet available. Full status

Run 9 · Marlow Goods · 3 workers Gross $8,257.16 Net pay $6,027.09 Employer cost $10,404.39

PAYDAY STATEMENTCarlos Reyes

Take-home pay · payday May 8, 2026$1,377.98

Hours × rate: 78.00 × $24.50
Gross pay: $1,911.00
Taxes: $346.58
Deductions: $186.44
Approved: May 6, 2026
Planned debit date: Not yet evidenced

In the product, every line opens to its source, the rule that applied, and the calculation. Follow this payday from preparation to proof →

Demo record · no customer data · exact-cent values recomputed by Runbook · no approval or money movement occurs hereThe interactive demo uses Runbook Demo Co., a separate fictional company from the Marlow Goods example shown here.

The complete payroll lifecycle

One payroll job. One connected record.

Runbook connects the ordinary work before, during, and after payday. The public Status page carries the detailed capability boundary.

Before payday

Prepare

Employer preview available

Explore the demo payroll: worker amounts, paycheck changes, and the cash required for pay, taxes, and deductions.

At approval

Review and approve

In development

Inspect recorded approvals in the public demo. Authenticated synthetic testing exercises approval; live customer payroll is not open.

After approval

Pay, file, share, and record

Live processing not yet active

Explore the Close rehearsal to see why missing funding or settlement evidence keeps payroll open. All outcomes in that rehearsal are simulated.

See the current product screens → See the complete capability status → Follow payroll into the books → Our foundation: Carl Heintz, CPA →

For the person getting paid

Keep your pay records close. Take them with you.

The worker workspace brings pay and documents, private planning, work and tax help, retirement tools, and account security into one place.

Your pay

A clear place to start.

Start in Pay & Documents. Find available statements or see what to do while you wait.

Your next step

Tools beyond payday.

Make a private plan and find work or tax help. Your saved drafts stay in place between sections.

Your records

Export on your terms.

Review the contents and download available account data as JSON. Missing sections are explicit.

Deployed for invited accounts, with synthetic testing and production delivery verified. Live customer payroll and provider services are not open.

Explore the worker workspace and export →

The problem

Payroll fails after the paycheck.

The failures are not in the ordinary paycheck. They are in corrections, provider switches, year-to-date reconstruction, tax notices, and the inability of any party to prove what happened.

10%

Withholding records a tax department could not verify.

New York measured a 10% exception rate for filers whose payroll ran through the largest payroll providers. For employers filing on their own, the rate was 5.7%.

NY Department of Financial Services, payroll service provider report, September 8, 2022

1 in 6

Payroll clients who leave the largest providers each year.

Paychex reports payroll client retention of 82% to 83% of its beginning client base for fiscal 2026. Roughly one client in six left.

Paychex Form 10-K, fiscal year ended May 31, 2026

4.46M

Employment-tax penalties the IRS assessed in one year.

The IRS assessed 4,457,891 employment-tax civil penalties in fiscal year 2025, including 1.2 million for federal tax deposits.

IRS Data Book 2025, Table 4-2

That is the unsolved problem.

Figures reviewed September 2, 2026 against the cited primary sources. They describe the payroll industry, not Runbook results.

When payroll stops being ordinary

Keep the hard moment in the same record.

Corrections, notices, provider switches, and historical reconstruction stay connected to the payday they affect.

See the product. Keep the boundary clear.

Open a payroll. Follow what changed.

Compare paydays, open a worker’s statement, and explore why a simulated payroll cannot close. The demo uses fictional records and needs no account. Live payroll processing, direct deposit, tax payments, and tax filing are not yet available.

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