6:47 a.m., a Monday like any other
The coffee hasn't finished brewing before your phone is already buzzing. A text from an employee who isn't coming in this morning. Another asking, for the third time this week, whether they're working Thursday. You open the Excel schedule — the one with merged cells that shift every time someone opens it on a different screen — and start rebuilding the week by hand, one square at a time. Later that morning, there's payroll to finish. A calculator, a half-legible paper time sheet, and the question that comes back every period: did you really set aside enough for this month's remittance to the CRA and Revenu Québec? You're not sure. You make a note to check. You probably won't, until it's urgent.
The same Monday, a year later
The coffee is still brewing. But this time your phone isn't buzzing about the schedule — it was published Friday afternoon, in a few minutes, from last week's template. Every employee already saw it from their own phone. The one who can't come in today submitted a swap request last night, which you approved while walking to your car. At the counter or on the job site, the kiosk has already logged the first three punches of the day. Nothing to transcribe later — those hours already feed, in real time, exactly what Friday's payroll needs.
Payroll that prepares itself while you drink your coffee
That's where the difference becomes concrete. Every hour punched at the kiosk, every approved shift, flows straight into the Payroll panel — no file to export, no sheet to retype by hand. A PDF pay stub generates per employee, for any period. And if you choose to, Cadanza goes further: federal tax, Quebec tax, QPP, QPIP, and employment insurance calculate automatically on every pay stub, using the official rates in effect — with the last-verified date always shown, so you know exactly what you're relying on. None of this is mandatory: it's an option, off by default, that you turn on only when you're ready to use it.
Vacation pay, without a side spreadsheet
In Quebec, the law requires a minimum percentage of vacation pay — 4% or 6% of gross wages depending on seniority. Most employers know that. Few have a simple way to track it continuously. Cadanza can accumulate that amount automatically on every pay stub, employee by employee. Nothing pays itself: you decide, on each payroll run, whether and how much to pay out. The balance stays visible at all times — no more guessing or recalculating at year-end.
Money that gets there, without a detour
Calculating a net salary is one thing. Getting it into every employee's bank account is another — usually a detour through a separate payroll app, with its own login, its own subscription. With Trolley built directly into Cadanza, direct deposit happens from the same place you just generated payroll. No second tool to open, no file to shuttle between two systems that don't really talk to each other.
Never miss a remittance
One question quietly haunts a lot of employers: did I actually set aside what I owe the government? The remittance summary automatically totals, from the deductions already calculated, exactly what you owe the CRA and Revenu Québec — with a simple record of what's already been paid. It's no longer a mental note to check before the deadline. It's a number, up to date, on the screen.
One honest note
Automatic calculation of source deductions and vacation pay is, for now, Quebec-specific — built and verified directly from the provincial and federal rates that apply here, not a generic rule adapted after the fact. That's a deliberate choice: rather than approximating everywhere, Cadanza does one thing well before extending it elsewhere. The rest of the app — scheduling, the kiosk, time tracking, pay stubs, direct deposit — works everywhere across Canada and the United States, wherever your employees are.
One tool, not five subscriptions
A growing SMB doesn't need a full HR system. It needs scheduling, time tracking, payroll, and deposits to work together, without you being the only person who knows how to make them talk to each other. That's exactly what Cadanza tries to be: not five tools stitched together, but one, built from day one for an SMB like yours. Monday morning doesn't disappear — it just stops being a crisis.