Prior-provider totals
YTD wages, withholding, employer taxes, deductions, reimbursements, benefits, and liabilities by worker and jurisdiction.
What Runbook reviews
Know what is coming with you before the first new payday.
This is the detailed review behind Runbook’s planned payroll transfer. It shows how prior wages, taxes, deductions, liabilities, filings, and open issues become an explained opening record instead of an unexplained import.
SWITCH PACKETCutover readiness
YTD wagesimport-ready / gap
Tax accountsactive / pending
Depositsmatched / missing
Deductionsmapped / unresolved
Year-end risklow / review
What gets reviewed before the switch.
The goal is not a generic migration checklist. It is a record that says which payroll facts can safely carry forward and which still need proof.
Tax account posture
Federal, state, and local account ids, filing frequencies, deposit schedules, agency access, and registration gaps.
Open corrections
Late facts, voids, manual checks, amendments, reversals, unresolved support tickets, and off-cycle payrolls.
Year-end continuity
W-2 readiness, wage-base continuity, benefit caps, fringe records, and what the new provider must inherit.
The cutover packet.
Each section gets a status label so the buyer and advisor can separate usable evidence from assumptions.
1Source inventoryRegisters, paystubs, tax filings, deposit records, agency notices, and provider exports received.
2Carryforward factsWorker and company values ready to enter the next system.
3ConflictsAmounts that disagree across exports, filings, notices, or provider reports.
4Missing evidenceDocuments needed before the new provider should trust the import.
5Advisor questionsIssues that belong with a CPA, bookkeeper, provider, or agency representative.
6Cutover decisionProceed, narrow scope, hold migration, or run a correction review first.
Why this review matters.
A clean transfer cannot depend on blind trust in a provider export.
Switch concernCommon handoffRunbook’s planned standard
YTD importUpload totals and hope they reconcile.Trace totals to source reports and label assumptions.
Tax noticesForward PDFs to support.Bind notice periods to deposits, filings, and payroll facts.
CorrectionsPatch current data.Preserve the original run and document the delta path.
Planning a payroll switch?
Start with timing and non-sensitive context. Do not send payroll files or worker records through ordinary email.