What Is Cloud Payroll?

Cloud payroll, also called cloud-based payroll, is becoming more popular and is quickly becoming a best practice for accountants and CPAs. Here’s your chance to learn more about cloud payroll and how it can help you simplify your payroll.

What Does It Mean for Payroll to be Cloud-Based?

In older processes and systems, when you used a computer and saved a file on that computer, the only way you could access that information was to use that computer. If you wanted to collaborate or share information with your team, you had to email or share the file to everyone, who would then have to download and create a copy of the original document on their computer.

Your data lives on your computer's physical hard drive. Cloud-based computing decentralizes your data, providing a secure system for storing it that can be accessed from any location.

In a very simplified way, the cloud works like the internet. Anyone who has a computer with an internet connection can view websites. Cloud-based computing works similarly but with additional security protocols to ensure only the right people access sensitive and protected information.

Why Should Payroll Move to the Cloud?

Making the switch to cloud-based payroll is worth the change. Because cloud payroll provides secure remote access, transparency is greatly increased. Employees, not employers or accountants, can be responsible for managing and updating their payroll information.

Stephanie Coward

Managing Director for HCM

Stephanie Coward is Managing Director for HCM at IRIS, where she leads the strategy, innovation and growth of the organisation’s HR and payroll portfolio. She is responsible for positioning IRIS as a trusted partner to HR professionals and ensuring its solutions support the evolving needs of modern workforces.

With more than 25 years’ experience in the technology sector, Stephanie brings deep commercial and operational expertise, with a passion for improving the employee experience through technology.

Stephanie is committed to advancing IRIS’ HCM offering and helping organisations build more resilient, empowered workforces.