Payroll Shack for builders & firms

Build your own agentic payroll system and sell it to your clients

US & Canadian payroll APIs, MCP tools, and employee portals. You own the client relationship and pricing; we run the compliance engine behind the scenes.

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Create a developer account ($4/mo + included monthly API credits) or sign in to manage keys, billing, and provisioned companies. See pricing.

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Revenue opportunity

See how much you can make building & selling payroll

Use Payroll Shack APIs as the engine behind your own branded payroll product — then charge your client firms per employee, per month. Adjust the sliders to match your practice.

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Accounting practices, PEOs, or vertical SaaS customers

18
$9

Typical white-label payroll: $6–$15 PEPM

Gross monthly revenue

$4,860

540 employees × $9/mo

Gross annual revenue

$58,320

Before your delivery & support costs

Your platform cost with Payroll Shack: about $4/mo subscription plus usage-based API credits (often well under 1% of revenue at this scale).

Illustrative only — not tax or financial advice. Your pricing, mix, and costs will vary.

For accounting firms

Not a developer? We can build it for you.

Many of our customers are CPAs and bookkeepers, not software engineers. If you want a branded payroll offering for your clients but do not have a dev team, reach out — we can design, integrate, and launch a solution on Payroll Shack on your behalf.

  • White-label or co-branded client experience
  • Onboarding, pay runs, and compliance handled by our APIs
  • You focus on client relationships and pricing
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From accounting firms

Firms using Payroll Shack to grow payroll revenue

CPAs, bookkeepers, and advisory practices use our APIs — or our build-for-you service — to offer payroll under their own brand.

  • We wanted payroll in our stack without hiring engineers. Payroll Shack let us launch a branded offering in weeks — our clients see our firm, not a third-party logo.

    Sarah Chen, CPA

    Managing Partner, Meridian Advisory Group

    Toronto, ON

  • The API-first model fits how we work: we onboard firms, set PEPM pricing, and the compliance engine stays current. Support questions dropped once pay runs were on the platform.

    James Okonkwo

    Director of Client Services, ClearLedger Accounting

    Austin, TX

  • Half our practice is bookkeeping, half is advisory. Selling payroll per employee finally made the economics work — and when we needed help with integration, their team built the first version with us.