The payroll second pair of eyes your year-end project is missing.
Tallyward watches every pay run against federal and state obligations — catching 941 drift, SUI rate changes, minimum-wage shifts, and W-2 reconciliation returns the same business day they appear, not the January you file them.
Sits alongside ADP, Workday, Rippling, Paychex — never replaces them. SOC 2 in flight.
States with 2026 min-wage update
20+
IRS audit hours · FY25
+12 %
Avg. drift to file-day
≤ 0.25 %
RUN · 10-31-2026 · 184 EE
941 federal withholding — matches PUB 15-T v2025.4
PA W-2-R · 11-02-2026 · EE 1142
Local EIT table drift $252.00
CA MIN-WAGE · 2026-01-01 · 38 / 92 EE
$0.19 / hr floor shortfall projected
NJ SUI · 2026 · rate-class 4D
Rate 0.4250 % applied to all NJ EE
CAMT signal · FY26 R&D stub
Payroll-adjacent accrual flagged for review
How it watches
One agent. Four checks. Every pay run.
Tallyward runs the same four-step reconciliation on every pay output — the work incumbents book for January — so the yearend project never begins.
- STEP 01
Ingest every pay run
Reads each payroll export — pay runs, void/reissue adjustments, off-cycle bonuses — as it lands. No nightly batch, no January-only reconciliation window.
- STEP 02
Reconcile against obligations
Cross-checks every line against federal 941 / W-2 thresholds, the live state SUI rate, the state minimum wage in force on the check date, and any open reconciliation return (PA W-2-R, W-2c, 941-X).
- STEP 03
Flag drift the moment it appears
A 0.25 % variance in a state withholding table, a minimum-wage delta, or a returned W-2 surfaces the same business day — not at year-end. Plain-language note; no raw stack dump.
- STEP 04
Hand back a clean filing package
By the time you file, every exception has either been resolved or is documented with the audit trail. Amended returns stay a last resort, not the default.
Run the watcher
Drop your payroll export and a 941 line-2 baseline.
Single-file ingest · auto-detected columns · red/amber findings in plain language.
Coverage
Built for the obligations, not the brochure.
The IRS is leaning in. State SUI schedules changed 62 times in 2025. Twenty-plus states reset minimum wages in 2024–2025. Tallyward watches the published sources, not the last handbook revision — the right obligation, on the right check date.
Federal 941 reconciliation
Quarter-to-quarter federal withholding drift caught at the line, not the deadline.
W-2 / W-2-R returns
Reconciliation returns such as PA W-2-R surfaced the day the state issues them.
State SUI rate changes
New employer rate, rate-class reassignment, and benefit-charge-driven adjustments in real time.
State minimum-wage shifts
20+ state updates a year — Tallyward applies the rate in force on each check date, not the rate from the last handbook revision.
Withholding-table drift
Tax-table version mismatches between payroll and the published state schedule.
CAMT exposure signal
IRA corporate alternative minimum tax can pivot a payroll-adjacent accrual; Tallyward flags the dependency so finance sees it early.
Watch log · sample
What lands in your inbox the day it happens.
Every entry carries the source rate, the rate in force, the affected employees, and the dollar impact — audit-ready, not just alerted.
Reconciliation return W-2-R references employee 1142 (gross $84,200). Local EIT withheld at 0.75 % vs. published 1.05 % for the locality. Drift: $252.00.
Effective 2026-01-01, CA floor rises to $16.90 / hr. Employees 38 and 92 currently paid $16.75 → 0.19 USD / hr shortfall on the Apr 1 pay run.
Federal income tax withheld on Q3 pay runs totals $142,308 vs. computed $144,016 (PUB 15-T v2025.3). Variance $1,708 → review before Q4 filing.
Employer rate moved from 0.3825 % to 0.4250 % for 2026 (rate notice received). Resolved by re-keying on the next payroll register.
Six corrected W-2s queued for SSA submission; two reference employees in CO (state withholding table mismatch suspected).
No open exceptions across federal 941, W-2, or the seven active state obligations. Next scheduled audit: end of business Friday.
Pricing
The lower end of the compliance stack.
The $40–$100 per-employee-per-month range already covers most of what HR teams are paying for. Tallyward is built to sit at the lower end of that band — additive to your existing payroll spend, not on top of it.
- Up to 7 state jurisdictions
- Federal 941 + W-2 reconciliation
- Daily watch log, monthly summary
- Email escalation on critical drift
- Unlimited state jurisdictions
- CAMT exposure signal
- SUI rate-class + benefit-charge tracking
- Audit-ready exports (CSV, PDF)
- Shared inbox + role-based routing
- Everything in Standard
- Per-entity ledgers + consolidated view
- Dedicated reconciliation analyst
- Annual-filing readiness review
Headcount is averaged monthly; you never pay for a seasonal peak. Talk to the team for multi-year commitments or non-profit pricing.
FAQ
The questions HR and finance ask first.
A 30-minute watch brief
See Tallyward run against your last pay run.
Send the most recent payroll export and the states you operate in. We come back with a same-day brief: what Tallyward would have flagged, what it would have resolved, and what your existing stack missed.
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