# SurePayroll Review: Pricing, Features, Alternatives

SurePayroll: White-label small business and household payroll a firm resells under its own brand. Pricing from $29 / month, plus $7 per worker, SOC 2 unconfirmed, and how it compares to the alternatives, for US accounting and bookkeeping firms.

Source: https://node8.ai/accounting-tools/payroll/surepayroll/

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# SurePayroll

Dated · Paychex

White-label small business and household payroll a firm resells under its own brand

[Visit SurePayroll](https://www.surepayroll.com/industry/accountants) [All 19 payroll & peo tools](https://node8.ai/accounting-tools/payroll/)

Best for

Firms that want to resell payroll under their own name to micro clients and nanny employers

Starting price

$29 / month, plus $7 per worker (wholesale partner rates are not published; household payroll starts at $39/month including one employee)

SOC 2

Unconfirmed

Multi-factor auth

Unconfirmed

Ownership

part of Paychex

Integrates with

QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, FreshBooks, Zoho Books, AccountEdge, +3 more

The read

## What SurePayroll does

Paychex sells SurePayroll as the low-touch end of its range, and the accountant offer is the clearest wholesale arrangement of the major payroll partner programs. The firm resells at wholesale rates, sets its own client price, and keeps the spread. Clients log into a portal carrying the firm's brand, colors and logo, which can be embedded in the firm's own website, so the client's experience of payroll is the firm's experience of payroll. There are no long-term contracts, clients can be added, paused or dropped at any point, and staff work from a multi-client dashboard with role-based permissions. Onboarding is free and includes SurePayroll entering client data and year-to-date figures, which removes the worst part of a mid-year conversion. Firms past 30 clients get a named support contact. A separate referral program exists for firms that would rather not carry the billing.

On ownership, this is as unambiguous as the category gets. Because the branding, the pricing and the invoice are the firm's, the client has no direct commercial relationship with SurePayroll to fall back on. That is the opposite of Intuit's revenue share model, where the subscription must be client-billed and the vendor holds the account.

Underneath the wrapper the product is deliberately small. Automated tax filing and deposits, free direct deposit, W-2, W-3 and 1099-NEC processing, employee self-service, auto-payroll, PTO tracking and standard deductions. Published retail pricing is $29 a month plus $7 per worker, or $39 for household and nanny payroll including one employee. The household line is a genuine niche: firms with private client work and domestic employers have very few decent options.

The pricing structure is where this shows its age. Accounting software integration is a $4.99 monthly add-on, the second state costs $9.99 a month, and year-end W-2 and 1099-NEC filing carries a $50 base fee plus $5 per form. Charging separately for ledger sync and for year-end forms is out of step with how OnPay, Patriot Payroll and Gusto now price, and it makes the all-in number hard to quote to a client. Anyone comparing should build the annual cost with the add-ons in, not from the headline.

The security page is the other signal. It still describes 128-bit SSL, PIN protection and a Secure Call-In ID, refers to annual independent audits without naming a SOC report, and reads as if it was written more than a decade ago. For a product that holds client Social Security numbers and bank details, the absence of a published SOC 1 or SOC 2 attestation is a real gap when Rippling and Gusto publish theirs.

The dated tier stands. The reseller mechanics are good and the household payroll niche is defensible, but the feature set has not moved, the add-on pricing model belongs to an earlier era, and the security disclosures have not been refreshed. Firms wanting the same white-label economics with a modern feature set should price Payroll Relief and MyPay Solutions, both built for accountant batch processing, before committing a book of clients here.

Capabilities

## What you get

White-label client portal carrying the firm's brand, colors and logo, embeddable on the firm's site

Multi-client dashboard with role-based access for staff

Automated federal and state tax filing and deposits with W-2, W-3 and 1099-NEC processing

Household and nanny payroll as a separate product line

Free onboarding including client data entry and year-to-date history

Pricing, security, integrations

## What it costs and what it connects to

SurePayroll starts at $29 per month, plus $7 per worker (wholesale partner rates are not published; household payroll starts at $39/month including one employee). Pricing is per company per month plus per worker.

We could not confirm a SOC 2 report for SurePayroll from public sources. Ask the vendor directly before it touches client data — an absence here means unverified, not absent.

SurePayroll connects to QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, FreshBooks, Zoho Books and AccountEdge. Supporting more than one ledger matters for firms whose clients are split across them.

Beyond that: time clock integrations, 401(k) providers and workers' compensation.

[Vendor pricing page](https://www.surepayroll.com/pricing) · [Vendor security page](https://www.surepayroll.com/security)

Our rating

## Why we rate SurePayroll a Dated

SurePayroll is rated Dated: it is one of 5 of the 19 payroll & peo tools here that still works but is no longer keeping pace.

Still sold and still working, but no longer keeping pace — thin investment, an aging interface, or a roadmap that has visibly stalled. Fine to stay on, hard to recommend adopting.

[How these ratings are decided](https://node8.ai/accounting-tools/methodology/).

Alternatives

## SurePayroll alternatives

### [Patriot Payroll](https://node8.ai/accounting-tools/payroll/patriot-payroll/)

Low-cost US payroll sold to firms at a volume discount they bill on at their own rate

Strong Option

### [OnPay](https://node8.ai/accounting-tools/payroll/onpay/)

Flat-rate full-service payroll with a partner program that lets the firm bill and keep a share

Top Pick

### [Payroll Relief](https://node8.ai/accounting-tools/payroll/payroll-relief/)

Batch payroll processing platform licensed to the firm, which bills clients at its own rates

Dated

### [myPay Solutions](https://node8.ai/accounting-tools/payroll/mypay-solutions/)

Outsourced payroll bureau sold through accounting firms rather than direct to employers

Strong Option

### [Paychex Flex Pro](https://node8.ai/accounting-tools/payroll/paychex-flex-pro/)

Mid bundle of Paychex Flex whose main addition is an optionally assigned payroll specialist

Dated

### [Rippling PEO](https://node8.ai/accounting-tools/payroll/rippling-peo/)

Co-employment layer on the Rippling platform that can be switched off without replatforming

Top Pick

[Compare all 19 payroll & peo tools](https://node8.ai/accounting-tools/payroll/)

Sources

## Where these facts came from

Researched from public sources. Pricing and security claims change without notice, so check the vendor before you buy. Last reviewed September 8, 2026.

### [SurePayroll for accountants](https://www.surepayroll.com/industry/accountants)

Retrieved 2026-09-08

### [SurePayroll pricing](https://www.surepayroll.com/pricing)

Retrieved 2026-09-08

### [SurePayroll about us](https://www.surepayroll.com/about-us)

Retrieved 2026-09-08

### [SurePayroll security](https://www.surepayroll.com/security)

Retrieved 2026-09-08

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