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Why Companies Choose Paychex vs. Square

Unlike other providers, Paychex offers dedicated HR Business Partners to support your payroll and HR needs.

Paychex wins the G2 award for Top 50 small business products in 2025
Paychex wins the G2 award for Leader - Americas - Winter 2025
Paychex wins the G2 award for Grid Leader - Small Business
Paychex wins the G2 award for Grid Leader - Enterprise
Paychex wins the G2 award for highest user adoption
G2's Fastest Implementation Award for Spring 2025

Choose a Comprehensive Platform

Square software has limited integration with Mineral and lacks comprehensive HR features.*

Paychex Flex® is truly an all-in-one platform that integrates payroll, HR features, time and attendance, and more, offering a seamless experience.

One Paychex Flex system for all clients, on desktop or mobile devices

Square Lacks In-House HR Support

Square outsources HR to a third party, which does not provide extensive HR advice or effective recommendations.*

Paychex provides access to dedicated HR Business Partners who offer personalized, proactive support and guidance beyond payroll support.

Work with an HR expert and receive HR advice

Discover Advanced Analytics With Paychex

Square's reporting tool offers basic internal pay analysis but requires external resources for benchmarking.*

Streamline HR, payroll, and benefits with robust live reporting and custom analytics in Paychex Flex®. Get powerful analytics, retention insights, and access to 160+ detailed reports for data-driven decision-making.

Using Paychex Flex for analytics and reporting

Experience Better Hiring & Onboarding

Square’s third-party HR provider offers hiring and onboarding support limited to its HR resource library.*

When you work with Paychex for HR services, you’ll gain access to a dedicated HR partner to ensure accurate documentation and compliance throughout the hiring process.

An employee going through new hire onboarding with Paychex Flex

Complete Workplace Safety and OSHA Compliance Support

Square partners with NEXT Insurance for workers' compensation but lacks comprehensive safety and OSHA compliance support.*

Paychex Insurance Agency, Inc., a Paychex affiliate, is a Top 100 insurance agency that offers complete business insurance, including workers’ compensation and payroll-integrated coverage.1

Paychex workplace safety benefits

Running a Business is Hard. Our Specialists Can Help You Find Payroll and HR Solutions to Make it Easier.

Why Choose Paychex?

Discovery Senior Living expanded by more than 170 communities in five years and is still rapidly growing. Finding the right company that could support their payroll and HR administrative needs stopped with Paychex. We brought compliance expertise and the right services to help Senior VP of HR Lisa Lacy and her team maintain the continuity they wanted for employees and residents.

An employee works with a resident of a senior living community.
Discovery Senior Living (PEO)
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“When we acquire a new community, continuity in the team members is very critical to the residents, so it’s very critical for us to ensure … all these team members are enrolled in a payroll system, signed up for their benefits, get their 401(k).”

Lisa Lacy, Senior Vice President of HR
Discovery Senior Living

Integrate Payroll With Familiar Tools

While Square relies on external partnerships to address product gaps, Paychex uses purpose-built integrations to simplify operations and enhance your overall experience.*

Paychex offers comprehensive, all-in-one solutions tailored to your workforce needs, with seamless integration into your existing tools.

Paychex Flex integrates with companies like Xero, Indeed, Intuit Quickbooks and Jirav

Recognized for Innovation, Ethics, and Performance

World's Most Ethical Companies Award 2025
World’s Most Ethical Companies
Customer Satisfaction - IDC SaaS Award
Leader in Customer Satisfaction
america's most innovative companies 2025
America’s Most Innovative Companies
Best Small Business-focused solution from HR Tech 2024 award
Best Small Business-Focused Solution
Top HR Product award
Top HR Product
2025 Training APEX Hall of Fame
World’s Top Training Organizations