Payroll, made visible
Your payroll, made clear.
Beacon turns scattered payroll data into one clear view of funding, taxes, and where it all went. No spreadsheets. No digging.
Built for the executives who need the whole picture, not another report.
Payroll is the biggest check most companies write, and the one they understand the least. Beacon turns it into a picture you can actually read.
One product, three lenses
Every run, read three ways.
Each dashboard answers a different question about the run you just closed. The same payroll data, shown the way you need to see it.
The whole run, in a glance.
What it cost, who got paid, and how it compares to last time. The brief sits on top of everything else and points you to what's worth a look.
- ✓ Total payroll and variance against the last run
- ✓ Headcount paid, active and terminated
- ✓ The few things worth a closer look
The outliers, named and priced.
Terminated workers who still drew a check. People who got missed. Beacon surfaces the unusual items from the run, each with a name and a dollar amount.
- ✓ Exceptions ranked by dollar impact
- ✓ The exact employees behind each one
- ✓ A clear record of what stood out
| Employee | Exception | Impact | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
JS James Smith | Terminated, still paid | $2,150 | Review |
AL Alicia Lopez | Active, not paid | $1,875 | Review |
RW Robert White | Rate change not applied | $1,240 | Monitor |
DT Dana Thompson | Manual check issued | $1,000 | Monitor |
What moved, and what moved it.
When a run jumps, Beacon shows you the reason. Overtime, bonuses, a department that ran hot. The cost drivers are ranked so the story takes a second, not an afternoon.
- ✓ Variance against the prior run, broken down
- ✓ Top cost drivers ranked by dollars
- ✓ The departments behind the change
How it works
Three steps. No new busywork.
Connect your payroll
Beacon plugs into the system you already run. No migration, no double entry. It pulls in each run automatically.
Beacon brings it together
Every run, it aggregates the numbers: funding, taxes, and department costs, then lines them up against your history.
You see the whole picture
Clear dashboards and a plain-English brief show you what happened and where the money went. No spreadsheet archaeology.
What you'll see
The whole picture, not a pile of reports.
Payroll funding
What you funded each run, and the day it cleared the bank.
Taxes
Employer and employee taxes, totaled and tracked over time.
Department allocation
Where the labor cost lands, department by department.
Cost drivers
What moved a run: overtime, bonuses, PTO, new hires, raises.
Trends over time
Every run in context, so the direction is obvious at a glance.
Headcount
Who got paid, active and terminated, run over run.
"I used to pull three reports and a spreadsheet to make sense of one payroll run. Now I open Beacon, and it's just there."
Pricing
Pricing that fits how you buy.
Companies pay one flat rate for their size. Firms pay per client, and less as they grow. Early-access pricing, locked in while we build.
- ✓ Executive Brief dashboard
- ✓ Funding, tax and department views
- ✓ Cost driver breakdowns
- ✓ Email support
- ✓ Everything in Starter
- ✓ Multi-entity and multi-state views
- ✓ Trends and run-over-run history
- ✓ Priority support
- ✓ Everything in Growth
- ✓ Unlimited run history
- ✓ SSO and audit log
- ✓ Dedicated onboarding
For payroll firms & CPAs
Run Beacon for every client you serve.
Per-client pricing that drops as you add clients. White-label the briefs, and see your whole book from one portfolio view.
- ✓ Portfolio dashboard across every client
- ✓ White-label briefs
- ✓ Volume pricing that scales down
- ✓ Dedicated onboarding
Over 1,000 employees, or want annual billing? Talk to us. Indicative early-access pricing; final plans land before general availability.
See your last run, made clear.
Request access and we'll set Beacon up against a recent payroll, so you see exactly what it surfaces.