FULLY REVISED 2025 EDITION!

Selecting a new payroll can be one of the most important and intimidating purchases you ever make. It affects everyone in your organization. But you only do this every few years, while the vendor does this for a living. It’s clear to see who has the upper hand. Let’s do something about that!

In this insightful guide, Anita Lettink helps you through the maze of selecting a payroll that best meets your requirements. She discusses the available models and helps you simplify your selection. Full of insider tips and tricks, this essential book will take the pressure and uncertainty out of getting the best payroll for your business.

This comprehensive book provides you with insights and knowledge found nowhere else, based on the payroll projects in which the author has been involved during her 20+ years in the industry, on the vendor and the buyer side.This experience allowed her to write this practical and empowering book, incorporating templates and tools to get you started quickly. When you want a jump start and great results, this book is the answer.

Written in an easy-to-digest way, How to Select your Next Payroll guides the conversation you need to have with the payroll vendors and lets you be in control.

This book includes:

- Mapping out your approach

- Defining your payroll specifications

- Buying solution or services

- Pricing model details

- Selecting the right vendor

- Service levels

- Contracting

- Innovations: automation and AI

- And much, much more

Praise for How to Select your Next Payroll:

“Across all of our HR and Business applications, Payroll is the most misjudged. This is the book you need if you want to ensure you select a Payroll application that will meet your organization’s needs for both today and tomorrow, while ensuring you get the highest level of value and vendor support possible. Anita shares her experience and years of insider knowledge in this easy-to-read book that provides a practical, step-by-step approach for selecting your next Payroll application, tailored to organizations of all sizes. It would be a mistake to make your next Payroll selection without this book. ―Stacey Harris, Chief Research Officer and Managing Partner, Sapient Insights Group

“Anita’s book is a must have “payroll sourcing field guide” for leaders navigating the buying process for managed payroll services. An easy read packed with valuable insights and guidance derived from years behind the scenes in the complex payroll marketplace. A great fit for readers of all levels of payroll sourcing experience. I highly recommend it as a great starting point and key resource along the payroll sourcing journey!” ―Pete Tiliakos, Global Payroll Product Strategy Leader, Alight

"This book is the most comprehensive guide to payroll selection ever written. Anita’s experience as a pioneering payroll technology influencer shines through as she successfully navigates the reader through every step required to achieve a successful vendor selection or payroll implementation outcome. Anita’s deep-rooted expertise in disruptive payroll technologies and her immersive strategic knowledge of payroll outsourcing provide the payroll professional with all the insights required to deliver a successful payroll transformation project. This book is not just a guide; it goes way beyond that. This book is an essential payroll selection blueprint that every payroll professional across the globe should read, absorb, follow, implement, and then read all over again! " ―Nick Day, Founder & Owner, JGA Recruitment Group