Wagepoint ends the two-system workaround for Québec payroll with new launch

One payroll platform for small businesses, bookkeepers, and accounting firms across Canada, now with Revenu Québec compliance and a fully bilingual user experience.

MONTRÉAL, Sept. 22, 2026 /CNW/ -- Wagepoint, a leading provider of payroll software for small businesses (SMBs) across Canada, today launched unified Québec payroll compliance with complete platform functionality in both French and English. Businesses with employees in Québec no longer need a second payroll system or a manual process. Québec-specific requirements can now run inside the same workflow used across the rest of Canada.

Québec is one of Canada's largest small-business markets, with more than 228,000 small employer businesses with 1 to 99 employees, according to the latest ISED Canada Key Small Business Statistics report. For many small businesses, Québec payroll has meant extra work for a long time. Québec is the only province that administers its own income tax, so employers remit separately to Revenu Québec on top of Canada Revenue Agency. As a result, businesses with staff in Québec and elsewhere in Canada often face duplicative efforts in managing separate provincial programs and contributions, including the Québec Pension Plan (QPP), Québec Parental Insurance Plan (QPIP) and Health Services Fund, with remittances handled through Revenu Québec.

That complexity compounds an already common problem: 75% of Canadian employees experience a payroll error in a given year, according to Deloitte and the National Payroll Institute. Wagepoint is built to close that gap for small businesses and for the accounting and bookkeeping firms who support them.

"Québec has some of the most complex payroll requirements in the country, and for small businesses, that complexity can mean more time spent managing payroll and more workaround to get it right," said Ben Richmond, CEO of Wagepoint. "A business in Montréal or Rimouski should have the same simple payroll experience as a business in Calgary. We built Wagepoint's new platform so businesses can manage unified payroll the way they need to, without having to maintain a separate process for their Québec employees and clients."

Québec payroll, built into the same workflow

Key Québec payroll requirements are now handled inside the platform, in the same workflow used in every other province:

• Revenu Québec remittances
• CNESST, Health Services Fund, QPP and QPP2, and QPIP calculations and remittances
• RL-1 reporting
• Québec statutory holiday pay using the 1/20 rule
• Québec income, deduction and benefit codes, with the option to build custom codes
• A complete workflow in English or French set at the user level
• Simple, comprehensive pricing with no add-on fees for accounting software integrations, reporting, timesheets, or multi-province support

"Québec payroll has always required extra steps, so having it integrated into the same platform we already use creates a more seamless experience," said Allan Guindi of Guindi & Associates, a Montréal accounting firm that provided local expertise and feedback during the platform's development. "We were pleased to help Wagepoint validate its approach to Québec's unique payroll requirements. The result makes payroll easier to manage, giving us more time to focus on providing advice and support to our clients."

Wagepoint has worked with small businesses in Québec -- and the accounting and bookkeeping firms that serve them -- for years, handling payroll realities not found anywhere else in Canada. This launch brings that work fully into the same platform used across the country in the language of choice for employers and employees alike.

For owners in retail, food service, health services and professional services, who run payroll themselves alongside everything else in the day, that means one system and one process no matter where their employees are. For multi-province accounting and bookkeeping firms, it means Québec clients can move onto the same platform as the rest of their client base, while still getting the Québec-specific functionality they need.

Québec payroll is included in Wagepoint at no additional cost.

See how simple Québec payroll can be. Book a demo in French at https://www.wagepoint.com/fr/reserver-une-demo/

About Wagepoint
Founded in 2012, Wagepoint is Canada's trusted provider of payroll software for small businesses. With over 14 years of experience and more than 30,000 businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers relying on the platform, Wagepoint delivers on its founding promise: making payroll simple and accurate for Canadian small businesses so they can focus more on doing what they love. To learn more, please visit www.wagepoint.com.

Sources:

1. Key Small Business Statistics (2025) - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada 
2. Beyond Paydays: The Evolution of Payroll in Canada (2026) - Deloitte and National Payroll Institute

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