What We Offer: The Paper Trails Experience

You don’t just get software. You get a trusted partner. One who knows your name, understands your business, and helps you navigate payroll, HR, compliance, and the entire employee lifecycle — from hire to retire.

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Welcome to the Paper Trails Experience:

Where Payroll Is Just the Beginning

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Payroll today is so much more than just payroll

Between constantly shifting compliance laws, rising employee expectations, and the increasing complexity of running a business, it’s no longer enough to just “run payroll.” You need a partner who can guide you through it all.

That’s where Paper Trails comes in.

 At the core of our experience (the inner circles above) is the individual attention and service that every client receives – no matter their size or industry. 

Every client receives:

  • Local support from real experts who KNOW your name, ANSWER the phone when you call, ANTICIPATE your needs, and PROTECT your business.
  • Compliance guidance to help you stay ahead of changing state and federal laws and avoid costly mistakes.
  • Educational resources like blogs, webinars, compliance guides, social media, and more to keep you informed of the latest payroll and HR issues.
  • Proactive security features and fraud prevention workflows to protect your business and your employees data.
  • An award-winning self-service app so employees can access pay information, update direct deposit accounts, request time off, and much more — anytime, anywhere.
  • Access to exclusive partnerships and add-on services, from benefits providers to financial wellness tools to custom general ledger integrations.

 

These core elements sit at the heart of The Paper Trails Experience – we’re more than just your payroll company, we’re your partner in all things compliance.


But surrounding that core is something even bigger: a full ecosystem of integrated solutions — from timekeeping and scheduling to HR consulting and performance management (the outer circle above) — all connected through one hire-to-retire platform that makes your day-to-day easier.

Where payroll meets progress

At Paper Trails, we combine our “3 P’s” framework with the Payroll Maturity Model to help you grow—from a payroll beginner with basic, manual processes to a powerhouse with fully optimized system that protects your business, empowers your team, and simplifies your day.

 

 Productivity

We help you streamline processes, reduce manual tasks, and build integrated systems so you can spend more time on strategy and less time buried in admin. From timekeeping and expense management to payroll syncing with your POS or accounting system — we’ve got your back.

 

Performance

People are your biggest asset. We help you recruit, onboard, train, and engage employees — all while making sure the first impression and the day-to-day experience reflect your brand and culture.

 

 Protection

Compliance is complicated — especially in Maine. We keep you up-to-date, audit-ready, and protected. From wage & hour laws to HR policies, employee file storage, fraud prevention, labor law posters, and beyond — we’ve built this into everything we do.

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We don’t just run your payroll. We protect your business, support your people, and simplify your workday.

And that’s the Paper Trails experience.

Our Services

Customized payroll management from local experts who understand Maine business.

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Expert and integrated payroll to improve the employee life-cycle.

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Collect and manage employee time customized to your needs

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Reduce administrative burden, improve financial health, and boost employee satisfaction with an accessible and adaptable expense process.

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Online open enrollment and benefits tracking integrated with payroll and your benefits providers.

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Compliance solutions that engage your employees and keep your business moving forward.

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Attract, hire, and onboard the best candidates to bolster your team.

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Trusted By Over 1,000 Small Businesses Like Yours

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We love Paper Trails! Such speedy and personalized service, and everyone who works there is incredibly helpful and knowledgeable. We switched to a large national payroll company for one year, and it was the worst decision. As soon as that year was up, we RAN back to Paper Trails. Look no further!!

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Colby Marvin Bracy
The Nonantum Resort

5-star

Our company (D&C Home Care) switched from a mega payroll company to Paper Trails and we are so happy we did! The staff are extremely knowledgeable, professional and helpful! It's wonderful to have a local person you can pick up the phone and call if you have a question or a problem. Would highly recommend!!

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Wendi Saracino
D&C Home Care

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Is Your Payroll Situation Less than Perfect?

We’ll stay in the weeds to manage your payroll, Human Resources, and compliance needs.

About Paper Trails

Paper Trails Story

Paper Trails was founded in 2004 to relieve small businesses’ financial preparation headaches and to allow you to work smarter no matter your size. While human resource management and payroll can be stressful, we are here to help run your business and to give you the time to do what you want to do – work your business!

We are a local small business without an 800 number that consists of a team of fun and local experts purveying convenient, high tech, compliant services. We live, work and party right here in the southern Maine community, so when a question or need arises, we are right around the corner!

From running payroll, to human resource and compliance services, Paper Trails allows you to handle the work, while we handle the paperwork.

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Our Mission

Paper Trails offers intuitive, trusted, bespoke and forward-thinking payroll, human resources and compliance services to the backbone of Maine and beyond, which are our small and mid-sized businesses.

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Our Mission

Paper Trails offers intuitive, trusted, bespoke and forward-thinking payroll, human resources and compliance services to the backbone of Maine and beyond, which are our small and mid-sized businesses.

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Our Mission

Paper Trails offers intuitive, trusted, bespoke and forward-thinking payroll, human resources and compliance services to the backbone of Maine and beyond, which are our small and mid-sized businesses.

Payroll and HR Solutions for Businesses of All Sizes

Whether you are running an one employee operation or a 500+ employee corporation, we have the tools and knowledge to help you manage your business.

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Businesses with 1 - 100 employees

Businesses with 100+ employees

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Can’t find what you’re looking for? Contact our local team.

We’ll stay in the weeds to manage your payroll, Human Resources, and compliance needs.

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