Remote Payroll Review (2023)

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Overview

How Remote Works

Remote at a Glance

Best for: Global businesses with remote employees

Price range: Free-$349/employee/month

Benefits & HR: Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plans, pensions, paid holidays

Automatic tax filing: Yes

Apps: None

Features and Add-ons

Remote enables you to hire, manage payroll, and offer HR services for remote employees scattered across the world. Remote currently supports hiring in 56 countries, and the company has plans to expand to an additional 126 countries in 2022. In every country where Remote operates, you have access to local legal and HR experts for additional hiring and compliance guidance.

Remote can help you hire contractors, part-time employees, and full-time employees in any of the countries where it operates. Employment contracts are country-specific so that they comply with local employment laws. In addition, Remote helps you tailor your company’s benefits package so that it’s relevant to employees in each country and competitive with packages offered by local companies.

One of the key benefits of Remote is that it enables you to run payroll for employees in multiple countries. Details for all of your remote employees are found in your Remote dashboard, making it easy to enter hours and approve payments for employees regardless of what country they’re in. All payments are made in employees’ local currencies with no foreign transaction fees.

Remote also handles the process of securely transferring intellectual property (IP) from remote employees to your home country. Remote has its own legal entities in every country where it operates, ensuring your IP is never transferred to local partners without your knowledge. In addition, Remote writes IP protection into your employment contracts and helps you update your contracts when IP laws change.

To scale your business, Remote offers integrations with popular applicant tracking software, human resource information system software, and payroll software. The platform also has an API for businesses that want to create their own custom integrations. All Remote integrations are free to use. 

• Hire international contractors and employees in 56+ countries
• Pay contractors and employees in their local currencies with no fees
• Access to local HR and legal experts in countries where you have employees
• Benefits packages tailored to each country
• Securely transfer intellectual property from remote employees to your home country
• Free applicant tracking, HR, and payroll integrations

Tax Compliance

One of the advantages to using Remote is that it automatically handles tax compliance in all the jurisdictions where you have remote employees. This is important because payroll tax laws and requirements are different in every country, and it can be difficult to know what forms you need to file, how much you need to pay, or when you need to pay.

Remote automatically tracks your tax liability, finds deductions, and files your taxes in each country and local jurisdiction where you have employees. It also issues tax documents to contractors and employers, including 1099 forms if your company has remote independent contractors in the United States.

Payment Options

Remote enables you to automate payroll, but invoices from contractors must be manually approved and paid. The platform supports one-time and recurring non-payroll payments such as bonuses, commissions, travel allowances, and more.

Your business can pay invoices by bank wire, Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) bank transfer, Automated Clearing House (ACH) bank transfer, credit card, or debit card. Credit card payments incur a 3% processing fee, but all other payment methods are free with Remote.

Employees are automatically paid in their local currency. Remote doesn’t charge any fees for currency exchange.

Remote App

The Remote platform is fairly easy to use despite the inherent complexity in managing payroll for employees across different countries, currency, and regulatory frameworks. 

You can easily see all of the remote employees your company has connected to Remote, and the dashboard notifies you if you need to approve timesheets or pay contractors’ invoices. If you have a large team, you can filter employees by country, salary, payroll date, role, and more. A run payroll tab simplifies the process of processing payments for a large number of employees at once.

The dashboard has separate tabs for bonus payments and time off. This is helpful since these are two of the most commonly accessed features besides those used for payroll tracking. Tax and contract documents are also relatively accessible, although they’re not as neatly laid out as payroll data.

Remote doesn’t have mobile apps at this time—the platform is only available on the web.

Remote Pricing

Pricing & Special Offers

Remote offers 4 different pricing plans. The Contractor Management plan is free and enables you to onboard and manage independent contractors in any country where Remote operates. You can approve and pay invoices with no foreign exchange fees, and Remote will automatically generate required tax forms for your contractors (such as 1099 forms in the US).

The Employer of Record plan enables you to hire part-time and full-time employees. It offers support for payroll, benefits management, and taxes and gives you access to country-specific HR and legal experts when you need them. This plan costs $349 per employee per month or $3,588 per employee per year. Your first employee is free for 1 year.

The Global Payroll and Remote Enterprise plans are priced by quote only. Both plans are designed for companies that have entities in multiple countries and want a centralized payroll solution.

The Global Payroll plan enables you to break down payroll reports by country and automatically keeps your contracts up to date as local employment laws change. The Remote Enterprise plan offers dedicated support for onboarding multiple remote employees at once. It also includes free legal consultations  and customized reporting.

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Bottom Line

Remote is a unique payroll and HR platform designed for businesses that want to hire contractors and employees from around the world. With Remote, you can onboard, manage, and pay employees in 56 countries—and support for 126 more countries is on the way. The platform enables you to pay employees in their local currency, set up country-specific benefits packages, and automatically file taxes in every jurisdiction where you operate.

Remote offers pricing by quote to suit your company’s needs. The platform is free if you only need to manage contractors.