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Local Expertise. Personal Support. Reliable Results.
We’ll stay in the weeds to manage your payroll, Human Resources, and compliance needs.
Comprehensive Tools When You Need Them
Payroll is at the heart of every business, but it’s just one piece of managing your people. Paper Trails brings together payroll, timekeeping, and HR tools so you can simplify your processes and stay compliant without adding staff.
Whether you need help with an employee handbook, onboarding, or compliance updates, our local HR consultants are here to guide you.
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Timekeeping & PTO Tracking
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Onboarding & Offboarding
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HR Consulting & Compliance
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Additional Tools & Services
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Employee Engagement
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Resources & Education
Accurate time data means accurate payroll.
Track employee hours and monitor paid time off all in one place. Our integrated timekeeping tools sync directly with payroll to eliminate manual entry, prevent errors, and ensure every employee is paid correctly — even when dealing with multiple pay rates or blended overtime. With built-in Maine compliance features like Earned Paid Leave tracking, staying on top of time and attendance has never been easier.
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Set your employees up for success — from day one to day done.
Simplify the hiring process with digital onboarding that captures tax forms, direct deposit details, and employee acknowledgments before their first day. When employees move on, our offboarding tools help you stay compliant with Maine’s wage payment laws and recordkeeping requirements. It’s a smooth, secure process that keeps your team organized and your business protected.
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Practical HR guidance for businesses without a full HR department.
Our HR consulting team helps augment your HR processes—providing real-world guidance on employee relations, policies, and compliance. Whether you need an employee handbook, job descriptions, file audits, or support managing leaves under Maine’s PFML program, our certified HR consultants are here to help. We combine expertise with approachability, so you can make confident decisions that protect your business and support your people.
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Enhance your business with tools that support your team and simplify your operations.
Beyond payroll and HR, Paper Trails offers a full suite of connected services that make managing your workforce easier — from expense management and learning management to benefits administration, performance mangement and more. Our integrated isolved platform connects it all, helping Maine businesses build efficient, compliant, and employee-friendly workplaces.
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Empower your team with tools that make work — and life — easier.
Keep your employees connected, informed, and supported through the isolved People Cloud mobile app. From checking paystubs and requesting time off to accessing earned wage advances and enrolling in benefits, everything your team needs is right at their fingertips. With add-on benefits like Earned Wage Access through ZayZoon, financial wellness coaching from FinFit, and an employee savings marketplace through isolved, you can offer the kind of benefits that improve satisfaction, reduce turnover, and show your team you care — without adding administrative burden to your day.
Helping Maine businesses stay informed, compliant, and confident.
Knowledge is power — and we believe every Maine business should have access to it. Our extensive resource library includes live and recorded webinars, easy-to-follow compliance checklists, practical HR and payroll guides, and dozens of blog articles and help videos designed to help you navigate changing laws, best practices, and the isolved platform. Whether you’re tackling year-end payroll, updating your handbook, or learning about Maine’s new PFML program, Paper Trails keeps you informed every step of the way.
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Trusted By Over 1,000 Small Businesses Like Yours
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!!
Colby Marvin Bracy
The Nonantum Resort
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!!
Wendi Saracino
D&C Home Care
Let’s Take the First Step Together
We’d love to learn more about your business and how we can support you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
