Small business solutions
You take on many roles within your company. Let 'payroll processor' return to the closet. Remote's intuitive platform enables small businesses with 1-200 employees to manage international payroll, file taxes, and preserve compliance wherever your people call home.
Small businesses need to grow rapidly yet responsibly. Establishing expensive legal entities can stall momentum. Remote's global employment platform opens access to a wider talent pool without the hazards of expanding internationally on your own. Maintain laser focus as Remote onboards, pays, and manages your team with assured global compliance.
Sidestep the steep, expensive learning curve of managing HR, benefits, tax, and payroll compliance across multiple countries. Remote empowers international hiring with the full suite of tools to onboard swiftly while mitigating the costs and risks of expanding globally on your own.
Avoid the expense and hassle of creating and running legal entities simply to hire overseas. Remote eliminates administrative errors and ensures global compliance so you can focus HR efforts on sourcing and retaining excellent talent, wherever they are based.
Onboard, manage, and pay employees and contractors in a few clicks via our self-serve platform. Remote integrates with leading HR systems like BambooHR, Greenhouse, and HiBob so you can retain your current HR stack. Gain complete visibility of employee data in one intuitive interface.
Remote is built specifically to simplify HR workflows for administrators and employees. Employee information stays readily accessible, and Remote's expert global support team is available to admins, employees, and independent contractors with tailored, localized guidance.
What do you receive when you use Remote to pay and hire your distributed team? You gain a trusted partner and a dependable platform — delivering confidence and compliance at every stage of your HR workflow.
Encourage ownership and boost morale by extending stock options or equity incentives to international employees. Our global equity expertise ensures compliance at every step, from tax filings to withholding.
Reduce time spent answering employee and contractor queries with our guided onboarding, intuitive platform (including time-off and expense management), and always-on support.
Leverage Remote's 100% owned-entity model to obtain a global footprint without the associated burden, risk, and cost. Remain compliant throughout every stage of the employment lifecycle.
Access country-specific benefits packages at highly negotiated rates so you can provide equitable, best-in-class benefits to employees at a fraction of the cost.
Retain your talent wherever they move with Remote's in-built relocation expertise. Remote ensures the correct right-to-work permissions are secured so employment agreements remain globally compliant during cross-border relocations.
Stay ahead of investor scrutiny, avoid misclassification penalties, and keep top talent with Remote's in-built guidance on converting contractors to employees.
Safeguard your startup's IP and invention rights with Remote's rock-solid security provisions. We monitor shifts in IP law and continuously update agreements and protections to keep your business secure.
Our team of Remote customer support experts are available worldwide to provide the assistance you need at every stage of the employment process.
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“For your reference, we regard Remote as a foremost and dependable partner in this field. Their specialist assistance in local payroll, tax compliance, and HR operations has simplified our workflows and opened up further avenues for growth and success on a global scale.”
“Had we been required to manage and coordinate everything in-house, it would cost us well over $500,000 more each year. Remote not only eliminates that financial strain but also lifts the operational burden from our shoulders, allowing us to devote our attention to growing the business with confidence and greater efficiency.”
“We manage payroll on a monthly, semi-monthly, and hourly basis across multiple currencies worldwide, and our Finance Manager enjoys full visibility within a single, unified platform. With Remote, you can make it happen.”
“We engage over 460+ Contractors across the globe. To stay on top of compliance, administration, and payroll, I would need to employ 5 or 6 people full time. Remote has unquestionably saved us both time and money.”
“For your reference, we regard Remote as a foremost and dependable partner in this field. Their specialist assistance in local payroll, tax compliance, and HR operations has simplified our workflows and opened up further avenues for growth and success on a global scale.”
“Had we been required to manage and coordinate everything in-house, it would cost us well over $500,000 more each year. Remote not only eliminates that financial strain but also lifts the operational burden from our shoulders, allowing us to devote our attention to growing the business with confidence and greater efficiency.”
“We manage payroll on a monthly, semi-monthly, and hourly basis across multiple currencies worldwide, and our Finance Manager enjoys full visibility within a single, unified platform. With Remote, you can make it happen.”
“We engage over 460+ Contractors across the globe. To stay on top of compliance, administration, and payroll, I would need to employ 5 or 6 people full time. Remote has unquestionably saved us both time and money.”
“For your reference, we regard Remote as a foremost and dependable partner in this field. Their specialist assistance in local payroll, tax compliance, and HR operations has simplified our workflows and opened up further avenues for growth and success on a global scale.”
“Had we been required to manage and coordinate everything in-house, it would cost us well over $500,000 more each year. Remote not only eliminates that financial strain but also lifts the operational burden from our shoulders, allowing us to devote our attention to growing the business with confidence and greater efficiency.”
“We manage payroll on a monthly, semi-monthly, and hourly basis across multiple currencies worldwide, and our Finance Manager enjoys full visibility within a single, unified platform. With Remote, you can make it happen.”
“We engage over 460+ Contractors across the globe. To stay on top of compliance, administration, and payroll, I would need to employ 5 or 6 people full time. Remote has unquestionably saved us both time and money.”
Payroll software for small businesses enables companies lacking large corporate resources to process payroll for staff located in multiple jurisdictions. Although many businesses operate solely within one locality, the growth of remote work now lets firms of any size collaborate with team members in different places, including overseas. Whether a small business needs to run payroll for a handful of staff or a fully distributed international team, payroll software must be flexible enough to meet that organisation’s needs.
Payroll software for a small business may only cover fundamentals such as making timely, accurate payments to team members. For international teams, payroll software must also pay staff in the right currencies and, where required, via approved banks. More comprehensive payroll platforms like Remote offer added services such as benefits administration and globally compliant employee stock option plans.
In most cases, small businesses cannot manage payroll in-house for global teams. To pay team members in other countries legally, small businesses have three options: open an entity in each country where employees live, work with an employer of record, or hire workers as contractors.
Although some companies opt to engage all workers as contractors, this approach can raise complex compliance issues. Misclassifying international contractors can be costly—potentially thousands of dollars—and time consuming if it leads to disputes in foreign courts. Hiring international contractors can be effective, but only when they are genuine contractors and when you use an international contractor management platform.
Some small businesses may decide to establish one or two entities in countries where they have many employees and a solid business presence. However, few choose to set up entities in every location they hire, as this can be expensive and can take months to complete.
An employer of record is often the fastest, simplest route for small businesses to run payroll for global teams. An EOR enables a small business to hire employees legally in other countries. A global employment platform such as Remote administers global payroll and taxes, manages benefits to satisfy local employment obligations, and handles all issues of compliance.
Small businesses outsource HR services because it is typically more cost-effective than building every HR function internally. The resources needed to run payroll; manage benefits; withhold taxes; make required payroll deductions; administer employee stock option plans; and keep pace with changing regulations are often beyond a small business’s capacity. Even many enterprise organizations outsource HR to specialist providers.
For small businesses hiring internationally, HR management challenges intensify. Remote’s guide to international payroll processing highlights many of these challenges and offers practical tips for navigating them.
Outsourcing payroll helps small businesses save money and ensures a better experience for employees. Even large organizations often experience payroll and benefits issues when relying on in-house tools.
In a small business, every employee plays a vital role in the company’s success, so mismanagement of payroll can rapidly damage the employee-employer relationship.
Outsourcing payroll saves small businesses time on administrative tasks and greatly reduces payroll errors. Timely, accurate, and consistent payroll is a fundamental expectation in any employment relationship.
For a small business with limited resources, delivering a 100% error-free payroll via an in-house solution is challenging. With an outsourced payroll provider, however, even the smallest teams can achieve world-class payroll reliability.
Startups face different expectations and challenges compared with small businesses. Startup growth can be sudden and unpredictable, with rapid pivots. Small businesses also grow, but for more established firms those transitions are usually less chaotic.
Both startups and small businesses require reliability and flexibility from payroll services. Small businesses often lack the investor backing startups have, meaning costs generally need to be covered by sales rather than investor funds. Therefore, small businesses must be particularly careful to avoid payroll vendors with hidden fees or unpredictable charges.
It’s important for small businesses to ask the right questions about payroll at the outset of any relationship with a payroll services provider.
Costs for small business payroll services vary based on where employees live, the company’s total payroll, and the benefits selected. Generally, small businesses need not pay high prices for basic payroll services, particularly for local teams.
Small businesses with remote teams in multiple countries do pay more for payroll, but those costs typically include benefits administration, foreign tax withholding, and compliance with local employment rules.
When choosing between hiring the right person for a role and continuing a local search, onboarding an employee in another country can produce significant cost savings over time. For more information on costs for small business payroll across multiple countries, see Remote’s pricing page.
Once reserved for well-funded enterprises, employers of record (EORs) are now accessible to small businesses. The rise of remote work has reduced EOR pricing overall, enabling small businesses to tap international talent without prohibitive fees or salary percentages.
Any small business looking to use an EOR to onboard international talent should ask these questions of any potential EOR provider:
Does this EOR operate as an owned-entity in every country, or does it subcontract services to third parties in some locations?
What protections does the EOR provide for intellectual property and invention rights?
How securely does the EOR manage your employees’ sensitive personal information?
If you offer an employee stock purchase plan, can the EOR administer that plan for you, including tax withholding?
Will you need separate platforms for contractors and employees?
Are there hidden fees that vary by country?
Does the EOR offer special discounts for startups or social purpose organizations?
