ZenPayroll is night and day with <i>all</i> other payroll services. They really remove the need for an accountant at all. The software and support are both superb.<p>Particularly for a small California business, there is no reasonable alternative I have seen, unless you feel like you have to go with one of the dinosaurs like ADP or Paychex.<p>I blog and Tweet about ZP somewhat frequently because it's been so refreshing: <a href="http://andrewljohnson.com/article/how-to-manage-a-micro-business-without-an-accountant/" rel="nofollow">http://andrewljohnson.com/article/how-to-manage-a-micro-busi...</a>
ZenPayroll is just awesome sauce all over. We're ZenPayroll customers and love it. I've used other payroll services from the big incumbents... awful. When you use ZenPayroll, you kind of want to find someone from their team and hug them.