Blog - On payroll & platform

  • To everything better in 2020!

    Keeping calm and carrying on...

    31 Dec 2019

  • SimplePay is now hosted on AWS



    We are excited to announce hosting with Amazon Web services. We are now faster and more secure.

    01 May 2019

  • ON minimum wage $11 from June 1

    Ontario minimum wage increases effective 1 June 2014:


    Minimum Wage Rate

    Effective June 1, 2014

    General Minimum Wage

    $11.00 per hour

    Student Minimum Wage

    $10.30 per hour

    Liquor Servers Minimum Wage

    $9.55 per hour

    Hunting and Fishing Guides
    Minimum Wage

    $55.00
    Rate for working less than five consecutive hours in a day

    $110.00
    Rate for working five or more hours in a day whether or not the hours are consecutive

    Homeworkers Wage

    $12.10 per hour


    Visit ON Ministry of Labour for full details

    03 Jun 2014

  • Fairer billing for weekly payroll companies - almost 50% less



    Companies with a weekly billing cycle have a substantially higher payroll cost due to double (or more) payroll cycles. This has been addressed by reducing the employee charge to a flat $1. This will reduce most weekly bills by about 50%. Effective 1 June 2013. 

    01 Jun 2013

  • Firefox Cheque Print Header issue





    This is due to default settings of Firefox Adobe Plugin.

    There are 2 options to fix this issue

    Option 1:
    When the Cheque pop up window is open.
    Save/Download the File as a pdf file on your system
    Open file with Adobe Reader  and Print


    Option 2:
    Open Firefox
    Go to File -> Page Setup item on the menu,
    Then select the Margins & Header/Footer tab in the dialog.
    Adjust margins of printing as required
    Set –blank– in all drop downs of Header & Footer Section


    29 Mar 2013