Go Green

Time to go Green.

Paperless payroll can have a meaningful impact towards reducing the amount of resources used in everyday operations of the average business. MelonPays better technology offers its customers the option to make their payroll paperless. We can deliver, via the Web, any information that a customer needs to process and manage their payroll, as well as manage and store all the information about employees needed by the human resource department. But in addition, MelonPays can go one step further and offer customers’ employees’ direct access to their individual payroll information via the Web. Utilizing their better technology and direct deposit for all of the customer’s employees, MelonPays is helping customers be a little “Greener!”

The “green” advantages to these systems:

  • No more timesheets or time cards. Depending on the system, employees can clock in with a durable badge (could last for years), their fingerprint, a hand-scan, or just by clocking in and out via software installed on their own desktop computer. Less paper wasted, less money spent over time.
  • Reduced paperwork. Supervisors can review and approve employee time online. Instead of printing out reports and typing the employee totals in to your payroll software or service, you can instead export time and attendance records directly from the time and attendance system to payroll.
  • Reduce checks and ink. Employees can have their checks go straight into their bank accounts. Direct Deposit is a great method of paying employees as the money is automatically deposited in a designated bank account or into multiple ones. This greatly cuts down costs for your company.

So How "Green" is Paperless Payroll?

A small company (about 15 employees) paying bi-weekly would save over 600 sheets of paper per year. In addition to the resources saved to make the paper, a lot of toner and electricity will be saved by not having to print all those checks and reports. Also, by going paperless there isn't any need to use a lot of gasoline to deliver a paper payroll package and the customer saves the cost of delivery. It's difficult to estimate how much energy is saved by having all employees using direct deposit, but the savings is significant when you consider how many trips to the bank are eliminated. As the size of the company grows, the savings of paper and toner grows proportionately. And the savings of resources and delivery expenses doubles for the company that pays weekly.