Greenshades: Payroll and HR Solutions

The History of Greenshades
Greenshades was established in Jacksonville, FL in 1992 as an accounting company that sold and supported a system called 'Great Plains Accounting for DOS' (a very early ancestor of Microsoft Dynamics GP). Our business was built around deploying accounting systems and helping our clients organize and run their books. During this time we encountered many of the headaches that come along with payroll processing and realized something that most controllers already know: running payroll is not very much fun. We realized that our true passion was creating software that solved specific payroll problems instead of just reselling someone else's systems. In 1996 we created our first piece of software meant to handle one of the biggest hassles of payroll: tax reporting. This software created "magnetic media" tax files using the payroll information found within Great Plains and then assisted users in saving and submitting those files to state governments. The software was an immediate hit! Even though we developed the software to help our current clients, other companies throughout the Great Plains family found out about the software and started contacting us directly to purchase our solution. It did not take long for us to abandon our accounting business and focus full-time on software solutions. This specific tax software has evolved over the years into our Greenshades Center solution. The Greenshades Center has grown into the flagship of our offerings and is used by thousands of companies across the world to assist with a wide variety of tax returns.		Today, Greenshades sells a variety of client applications and web portals that handle the headaches associated with running payroll. In addition to our tax software, we now also offer a Payroll Tax Service that further reduces the tax burden of our clients. This tax service calculates deadlines, files returns, and transfers payments on behalf of our clients and is controlled through a simple administrative webpage. We also provide a year-end form distribution system that electronically distributes W-2s and 1099s to employees and vendors and offers the option for us to print and mail any remaining forms. We also have a green employee web portal that is hosted on our servers and provides paystubs and other documents. This portal also empowers employees with self-service timesheets, time-off requests, profile information, and more. It has been very popular with companies that want to go green and save money at the same time. We also have a handful of other software packages that help make it easier to run payroll: Professional PTO accrues PTO based on complicated corporate policy, Greenshades Garnishments Engine calculates and deducts garnishments according to state regulations, and our Local Tax Manager provides updates for local tax withholding rates and formulas. We were founded as a Christian company and do our best to conduct business in an ethical fashion, treating our clients with respect, and standing behind our products with free technical support and money back guarantees. Our testimonials and our client retention rate (around 95% each year) attest to the quality of our software and customer service. We are still excited about the prospect of problem-solving for any companies that come our way, and we expect the steady growth that we have experienced over the past decade to continue for years to come.