Payrolling Services for Shareware?

ajius asks: "Over the last 3 months, I have developed a solution for a client that, in order to minimize costs, decided to allow me to retain copyright. So that I could resell it. Now I see tons of services offering payroll services for contractors (in fact I use one of them), but I can't find a service that will act as the corporate wrapper for someone selling a product. So is there a service that takes care of the bookkeeping, benefits, and tax payments for those of us selling software/components/games/training videos/books/etc."

Not Sure

[comwiz56]

Not sure what all this service does for you or what chunk they'll want to take, but check out Lulu [lulu.com].

Kagi

[plsuh]

kagi.com [kagi.com] is an online payment service used by many shareware authors. They don't handle the tax and other corporate aspects of the business, but they do online payments, send out license keys, etc.

--Paul

Re:Kagi

[Twylite]

I've haven't heard of a service that will do all of the administrative work for you (including tax), but there are a lot of shareware registration services that handle payments and give you transaction summaries.

Two of the best known (and trusted) are share-it [shareit.com] and RegSoft [regsoft.com]. Regshare [regshare.com] has a list of many such services, with comparison matrices for fees, services, etc. There is also a category in Google's directory [google.com] for shareware registration services.

Handdango for WinCE products

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Not sure if they've got another arm for desktop stuff though.

Publishers.

[m0rph3us0]

I believe they are called Publishers.

PEO

[Flexagon]

Probably what you're looking for is a PEO, a Professional Employment Organization [napeo.org]. States need enabling legislation for these, but last I looked, many did. A downside, for you, might be that many require a minimum number of employees, though the number can be as low as 5.

The idea is that your company gives shared authority over your employees to the PEO, and in return, the PEO acts as most of an HR department. This is not the same as transferring employment to the PEO (what you were probably referring t

Re:PEO

[Twylite]

In other words, outsourcing the HR deparment ...?

givin' an old joke a new meaning

[M1FCJ]

1. decide to make a profit. 2. Ask Slashdot how to do it. 3. ??? 4. Profittt!!!

Re:givin' an old joke a new meaning

[M1FCJ]

I'm lazy. So what? why waste bits?

Google...

[cuteseal]

... is your friend. I found a few, but can't vouch for them.

http://www.regnow.com/
http://www.digibuy.com/
http://www.regsoft.com/
http://www.shareit.com/

Re:Google...

[Technonotice_Dom]

I've used ShareIt in the past, they're Germany-based (I'm in the UK) and their service was very good. No grounds for complaint, everything went through a control panel on their site, very easy and quick. Just received a cheque on the 14th or so every month from them :)