When Your Business Tax Client Needs Payroll, Have an Answer Ready.
Business owners often ask their tax professional for advice that goes far beyond preparing a return. Payroll is one of those conversations. Auris gives tax professionals a payroll resource they can confidently recommend without taking payroll administration into their own practice.
KEEP THE TAX RELATIONSHIP.
Dedicated Human Support
QuickBooks Integration
3-Year Price Lock
California Payroll Support
Your Clients Already Ask You Who They Should Use
Small business owners often view their tax professional as one of their most trusted business advisors. That means questions naturally come your way: Who should I use for payroll? I'm hiring my first employee — what do I do? Should I keep using my current payroll company? Can you run payroll for me? My payroll provider isn't helping me. Do I need HR now that I'm hiring? You do not have to offer every service your clients need. Sometimes being a trusted advisor means knowing who to bring into the relationship. Auris can become that payroll resource.
Client Experience
Give Clients Somewhere Reliable to Go
Connect clients with a dedicated payroll resource instead of sending them into another software-only experience.
Protect Your Time
Don't Let Payroll Become Another Tax-Season Responsibility
Payroll questions, employee changes and payroll administration can create year-round work outside the tax engagement.
Protect the Relationship
Your Tax Client Remains Your Tax Client
Auris handles payroll while you continue providing the tax services and guidance your client already trusts you for.
Referral Confidence
Make a Recommendation You Feel Good About
The provider you recommend becomes part of the experience your client associates with your advice.
You Don't Have to Do the Payroll to Help Solve the Payroll Problem.
Your client needs a solution. You need a provider you can confidently introduce. Auris handles payroll while you remain focused on tax work.
See How the Partnership WorksWhat Auris Handles — and What You Keep
AURIS
- Payroll processing
- Payroll onboarding
- Employee payroll administration
- Payroll support
- Payroll-related reporting
- Time and attendance
- HR tools
- Workers' compensation integration
YOUR TAX PRACTICE
- Tax preparation
- Business tax services
- Tax planning
- Tax advisory
- Client communication
- Existing tax relationship
Your client does not need one company to do everything. They need the right company handling each responsibility.
When Should a Tax Professional Refer a Client to Auris?
The Client Is Hiring Their First Employee
Their business is becoming an employer and they need payroll.
The Client Is Running Payroll Themselves
Payroll is consuming time or becoming more difficult as the business grows.
The Client Asks You to Run Payroll
You want to help but do not want to add payroll processing to your firm's service model.
The Client Is Unhappy With Their Current Provider
They are looking for a different payroll experience.
The Client Wants Human Support
They want someone they can contact when payroll questions arise.
The Client Is Growing
Additional employees are creating payroll, HR and workforce administration needs.
The Client Uses QuickBooks
They want to continue their accounting workflow while considering another payroll provider.
Payroll Questions Often Surface During Tax Season
Tax season often reveals operational problems that have been building all year. When payroll is one of them, the tax professional should have somewhere to send the client.
The owner has begun hiring employees but has no formal payroll process.
Payroll records are difficult to obtain or disorganized at year-end.
The business is handling payroll manually or through spreadsheets.
Payroll reports do not align cleanly with accounting records.
The owner is frustrated with their current payroll provider.
The business needs a more structured payroll process for the coming year.
A Better Payroll Relationship Can Make Tax Work Easier
Good payroll administration does more than get employees paid. Organized payroll records can also make it easier for the business and its tax professionals to work with the information they need throughout the year.
Payroll Reports
Access payroll registers, tax summaries and wage reports when you need them.
Year-End Documents
Organized year-end payroll documents that support smoother tax preparation.
Accounting Integration
Payroll data that connects with the client's accounting workflow where supported.
Accurate Records
Maintained employer payroll records that reduce back-and-forth during tax season.
Payroll That Works Alongside the Client's Accounting System
Many small business tax clients already use QuickBooks for accounting. Using a dedicated payroll provider does not necessarily mean abandoning that accounting workflow. Where supported, Auris integrates with QuickBooks to help connect payroll information with the accounting process.
Why Tax Professionals Partner With Auris
Your Client Has Someone to Call About Payroll
Auris combines payroll technology with access to real human support so payroll questions do not come back to your practice.
Keep Payroll and Accounting Connected
Where supported, Auris integrates with QuickBooks so the client's accounting workflow stays connected. Learn about QuickBooks integration →
A Payroll Resource for California Businesses
Auris provides payroll and HR services for businesses throughout California. Learn about our California service areas →
Support Clients Beyond Their First Hire
Auris provides HR tools, employee onboarding, timekeeping and workforce capabilities alongside payroll. Explore payroll & HR →
Fewer Pricing Surprises
Auris offers qualifying clients a three-year price lock, helping businesses better understand what their payroll service will cost over time.
What Happens After You Refer a Client?
You Make the Introduction
Connect the business owner with Auris.
We Learn About the Business
Auris reviews the employer's payroll and related workforce needs.
We Handle the Payroll Transition
Auris works directly with the client through the appropriate onboarding process.
You Keep the Tax Relationship
You continue serving the client in your existing professional role.
The goal is to solve the client's payroll need without adding payroll administration to your practice.
A Referral Should Strengthen Your Client Relationship
When a client asks for a recommendation, they are trusting your judgment. The best outcome is not simply that they buy payroll. It is that six months later they are still glad they asked you who to call.
"I recommend Auris to all my small business clients. The integration with our accounting software is seamless and saves everyone time."
David Smith
Owner, Smith & Co Accounting
"Auris has completely transformed how we handle payroll. It used to take days, now it takes minutes. The automated tax compliance is a lifesaver."
Sarah Jenkins
CEO, TechFlow
"We switched to Auris from a legacy provider and haven't looked back. The modern interface and excellent customer support are unmatched."
Jessica Taylor
HR Director, Nexus Health
A Partnership That Can Reward Your Practice
The client's experience comes first. Qualifying Auris partners may also have access to referral incentives for businesses they introduce.
Ask About Tax Professional Partner IncentivesCan Tax Professionals Refer Clients to a Payroll Company?
Yes. Tax professionals can refer business clients to a payroll provider while continuing to provide tax preparation, planning or other services within their professional scope. The Auris Partner Program connects tax professionals with a payroll resource they can refer to their business clients.
Should a Tax Preparer Offer Payroll Services?
Some tax practices offer payroll while others refer clients to specialized payroll providers. The decision depends on staffing, expertise, profitability, client needs and whether the firm wants to manage payroll administration throughout the year.
What Is a Payroll Partner for Tax Professionals?
A payroll partner for tax professionals is a payroll provider that tax preparers and advisors can refer business clients to when those clients need payroll services.
Why Do Tax Professionals Refer Payroll?
Tax professionals may refer payroll when they want to help clients solve payroll needs without adding payroll processing, employee administration and ongoing payroll support to their own practice.
What Should a Tax Professional Look for in a Payroll Provider?
Important considerations include payroll reliability, client support, communication, accounting integration, reporting, onboarding and whether the provider respects the existing tax-professional relationship.
Frequently Asked Questions for Tax Professional Partners
Become an Auris Tax Professional Partner
The next time a business client asks, "Who should I use for payroll?" have a trusted resource ready.
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