Choose QuickBooks payroll if
You pay people in the United States, your books are in QuickBooks Online, and you want payroll from the same company.
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Compare payroll software, starting with where your people work.
The three payroll tools people weigh alongside Pay all ship today and all pay people in the United States. Pay is designed for India at launch and has not shipped, and every table here says so. We compare what stays true — where each tool pays people, which taxes it handles, how it charges — and leave list prices to the vendors.
not shipped · wave 3as of research in 2026pricing models, not pricescorrections welcome
Product design preview · Pay has not shipped. All features, screens and prices are proposals.
Pay has not shipped yet.
Everything on these pages — the screens, the features, the prices — is Centilio Pay as designed. Pay has not shipped: it sits in the third wave of Centilio tools, after Team and Ledger, and there is no app, no beta and no launch date yet. At launch it is designed to run payroll in India only. We would rather set out the whole design and say so plainly than publish a thin page; join the waitlist and you will hear first.
Comparisons
Pick the one you are weighing.
Three payroll tools people search for alongside Pay, each set beside it on its own page.
Side by side
Four tools, compared on what stays true.
Checked against the vendors’ public pages and published guides during research in 2026. We compare how each tool charges and where it pays people, not what it charges; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
| Centilio Pay | QuickBooks payroll | RUN Powered by ADP | Paychex Flex | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Payroll inside a business suite, prepared from Team and posted to Ledger | Intuit’s payroll for QuickBooks users, sold in 2026 under the QuickBooks Workforce name | RUN Powered by ADP, ADP’s payroll for small businesses | Paychex Flex, payroll and HR from Paychex |
| Where it pays people | India at launch (designed); other countries by demand | United States, all 50 states | United States; built for 1 to 49 employees | United States |
| Taxes it handles | PF, ESI, TDS and professional tax, filings prepared (designed) | US federal and state payroll taxes, year-end forms | US payroll taxes | US payroll taxes |
| Pricing model | Per business, proposed: Free up to five people, then ₹799 a month | A monthly base fee plus a fee per employee | Quote-based packages; standard prices not published | Quote-based packages; standard prices not published |
| Availability | Not shipped — wave 3, in design | Shipped and mature | Shipped and mature | Shipped and mature |
Choose
Where each one fits.
Choose RUN Powered by ADP if
You are a small US employer and want a large payroll provider, and you are happy to get a quote.
Choose Paychex Flex if
You are a US employer who wants payroll and HR in one package, and you are happy to get a quote.
Choose Pay if
You pay people in India, you want the run prepared from Team, explained and approved before money moves, one price for the business including your CA, and you can wait for wave 3.
If you switch
Switching, later, without a broken quarter.
- Switch at a clean point — the start of a month, ideally the start of a quarter — so filings do not straddle two tools.
- Bring people, salary structures and year-to-date figures, so TDS for the rest of the year stays right.
- Run one month in both and compare every net pay before you stop the old one.
- Ask your CA to check the first filings from the new tool before the due date.
Questions
About comparing and switching.
Is Pay better than these tools?
Not today, because it does not exist yet and they do. More to the point, all three pay people in the United States and Pay is designed for India at launch, so the honest answer depends first on where your people work.
Why no competitor prices?
Because prices change more often than pages do, and two of these three quote rather than publish. We compare the pricing model — a base fee plus a fee per employee, or a quote — as of research in 2026.
I pay people in the US. Should I wait for Pay?
No. Pay is designed for India at launch, and other countries follow by demand. Choose one of these today, and tell us where you pay people so we know what to build next.
I pay people in India. What should I compare?
Compare how each option handles PF, ESI, TDS under both regimes and professional tax by state, how it explains a change in someone’s pay, and who approves before money moves. Those are the questions Pay is designed around.
Can I move my payroll later?
Yes. Switch at the start of a month or quarter, bring year-to-date figures so TDS stays right, and run one month in both before you stop.
Something here is wrong. Who do I tell?
Us, through the contact page. Corrections to a comparison are published as soon as we have checked them.
Hear first when Pay opens.
Pay is in the third wave, after Team and Ledger, and it starts with India. Join the waitlist and you will hear before the announcement. Tell us how many people you pay, in which states, and what goes wrong in your month today; that shapes the design more than anything else.