Payroll that already knows what everyone worked.
W-2 employees and 1099 contractors, paid by direct deposit, with hours pulled from the field and tips split automatically. Taxes calculated and filed. Friday payroll in a few clicks instead of a few hours.
- Taxes filed for you
- Hours from the field
- W-2 + 1099 together
Pay period
May 12 – May 18
Marcus Hill
W-240.0 hrs+$84 tips
$1,212.40
Dani Cruz
W-238.5 hrs+$84 tips
$1,158.90
Theo Park
109932.0 hrs+$56 tips
$1,016.00
Total payroll
$3,387.30
The problem
Friday afternoon, and payroll is a spreadsheet held together by hope.
You're re-keying hours off text messages and a clipboard. The tips from Tuesday's job need to be split three ways and you're doing it on a sticky note. Two guys are W-2 and one's a 1099, so they live in different systems. Then you log into a separate payroll tool that has no idea what any of these people actually did this week.
Get a number wrong and someone's rent is short. Get the taxes wrong and the IRS sends a letter. It's the most important thing you do all week and it's the least connected to how your business actually runs.
How Meridian does it
The field already did the data entry.
Because clock-ins, tips, and jobs all live in Meridian, payroll is mostly already done by the time you open it.
W-2 and 1099 in the same run
Your full-time crew and your seasonal contractors get paid from one screen. Meridian keeps each on the right tax track (withholding for employees, gross pay for contractors) so you never sort them by hand.
Hours come straight from the field
Crews clock in and out in the mobile app, tied to real jobs. Those hours flow into payroll automatically. No timesheets to chase, no transcribing punch cards, no "I think I worked 41 hours?"
Tips and gratuity, split for you
When a customer tips on a job, Meridian splits it pro-rata across the crew that worked it and drops it onto the right paychecks. Fair, transparent, and zero spreadsheet math at the end of the week.
Direct deposit on payday
Money lands in your crew’s accounts on schedule, the same dependable deposit a big employer offers. No printing checks, no trips to the bank, no "did payroll go through?"
Taxes calculated and filed
Federal, state, and local withholding is computed every run. Quarterly and year-end filings, W-2s, and 1099s are handled, so tax season is a non-event instead of a fire drill.
Job costing that actually adds up
Because hours, tips, and pay are tied to jobs, you see true labor cost per job and per crew. Find out which work is actually profitable, not which work just feels busy.
Clock-in to deposit
One unbroken line from the job to the bank.
The crew clocks in on a job, the tip gets added at checkout, and by Friday the hours, gratuity, and tax math have already assembled themselves into a payroll run you just approve.
- 1Crew clocks in on the job
- 2Tips captured at payment
- 3Hours + tips roll into payroll
- 4Direct deposit + taxes filed
Hours start in the crew's pocket.
Crews clock in and out from the Meridian mobile app, tied to the job they're on. That's where payroll's numbers come from. No timesheets, no rounding arguments, no transcription. See the mobile app →
Walk through a payroll run in a demo workspace.
Seeded with sample crew, hours, and tips so you can see the math come together.
Sign up Monday. Take payments Tuesday.
Run payroll Friday.
Free, with everything included and no credit card to sign up. Coming from Jobber, Housecall Pro, or Zoho? We'll work the migration with you.
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