Payroll for small Canadian businesses - Django Payroll
Monday, March 9th, 2009Every piece of accounting software used to handle payroll in Canada has been absolute crap.
At Mobify the only question we’ve ever really had about payroll was “How much tax do we need to pay?” Everything seems to come with fancy bells and whistles that you almost never need. Fed up with our current system, I spent a few hours this weekend hacking together a Django application around the PDOC - Payroll Deductions Online Calculator scraper I wrote some time ago.
I will call it Canadian Payroll Calculator (CPC).
CPC is a Django web application that let’s you pay payroll without clicking one thousand buttons. Create some employees, enter a salary and press calculate. CPC spits out all the taxes and what you should pay the guy. For bonus points it remembers and aggregates all payroll transactions for each employee so you have a handy little list.
The source is sitting on Github for anyone to fork - take a look!
http://github.com/johnboxall/canadian-payroll-calculator/tree/master
