Payroll Mate

Real Business Solutions makes Payroll Mate, a Windows desktop program for preparing payroll, along with W2 Mate, which prepares W-2 and 1099 filings, and 1095 Mate for ACA forms. The company says its programs are desktop-based and on premises rather than online, and that they have been offered for more than two decades. The payroll product is pitched at accounting professionals, payroll bureaus and firms ranging from small to mid-sized.

Payroll calculations and printed checks on the desktop

Payroll Mate calculates net pay, federal withholding, Social Security and Medicare tax, plus state and local taxes defined by the user. The company says it calculates state withholding for all 50 states and supports different pay period types. Payroll checks can be printed, and an option generates ACH direct deposit files. User-defined income, tax and deduction categories let the program follow an employer's own arrangements.

Federal and state payroll forms

Payroll filings include 941, 944, 943 and 940 returns, plus W-2 and W-3 documents. The company says it can import data from QuickBooks and tax software, which saves retyping figures already held elsewhere.

W-2 and 1099 filing through the IRIS portal

W2 Mate prepares and prints W-2 and 1099 forms on blank paper or preprinted stock, and exports all fields to Excel. It can import data from CSV files, QuickBooks, Microsoft Dynamics and Sage products, and it can generate files for the IRS IRIS portal. The company says legacy Publication 1220 files are still supported for state filing, and that bulk TIN matching is available.

ACA forms with unlimited employees and transmittals

1095 Mate handles the 1094-C and 1095-C forms that employers and tax professionals need under the Affordable Care Act. The company says it has no limits on employees, companies, forms or transmittals, and that it removes the need to buy preprinted 1095 forms. Data can be imported from CSV or Excel spreadsheets, and paper or electronic filing is available.

Desktop software with no per-client fees

The company says there are no per-client, per-form or per-company fees in its filing software, and that its products are not hosted in the cloud. It also sells W-2 and 1099 tax forms, preprinted payroll checks and envelopes for businesses that want their supplies in one place.