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# What is Zeal?

> Zeal makes it faster, easier, and better for companies to build payroll into their products.

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Zeal makes it faster, easier, and better for companies to build onboarding and payroll into their products. Our automated, flexible solutions reduce operational costs, improve retention, and help companies create more revenue.

While Zeal provides turnkey custom branded mobile apps, integrations, and an admin dashboard there’s also an API and White-label Components for more flexibility and customization. However you choose to implement, Zeal is here to help. We are more than just software, we are people dedicated to your success.

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## Why embedded payroll?

You may be thinking “why should embed payroll"? If you're company is thinking about how to deliver a payroll experience the simple answer is that building payroll is hard. Getting taxes, compliance, and payments right across every worker, every payday, every jurisdiction, every regulation, and every edge case is simply very challenging. But delivering payroll in your own brand that gets that right gives you the ability to make more money and improve retention.

**Onboarding.** It’s possible to onboard workers with paper forms. It’s also possible to onboard in online forms and PDFs. But if you want a solution that can onboard workers remotely, in just a few minutes, without any effort from your staff – then you’ll want embedded payroll.

**Payroll**. You can pay workers with checks, or even use payroll software to make running payroll easier. But if you want to make sure that you’re calculating wages correctly, paying workers quickly, and maintaining compliance – then you’ll want embedded payroll.

**Automation.** For decades companies have operated with experienced people handling operations. And while people are still required to run payroll, the mundane work can be automated. Companies who want to lower operating costs and scale easily are using embedded payroll to handle routine tasks.

**Mobile app.** For most businesses, workers are the most expensive cost and the most important part of their success. The best companies care about creating the best worker experience. A mobile app improves worker retention by giving workers the ability to onboard, access pay, see pay history, edit information, and more whenever and wherever they need to.

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## Why Zeal?

Zeal strives to be the best embedded payroll company. Some differentiators between Zeal and others are:

* Zeal creates payroll infrastructure built from the ground up by us. We don't wrap legacy providers choosing instead to build critical pieces of our infrastructure ourselves including own tax, compliance, and payroll calculation engines. We started after struggling with running payroll for our own company.

* Zeal can scale easily. We support unlimited workers per FEIN (employer) while other payroll providers cannot. We also support many FEINs (employers) with a few workers each. Whatever your situation is we can support it.

* We support many different types of workers and worker payments. W-2 and 1099 worker payments and compliance. Pay frequencies including daily, weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, and on-demand payments. We support a wide range of payment methods including direct deposit, instant pay, physical checks, paycards, and more.

* We want workers to have the best experience possible, and allow you to deliver the worker experience to them in your brand. We do the work, you get the credit.

* We want you to be successful. We are partners in your success and have dedicated support including help from our tax, compliance, payments, and product experts.