Free PayrollNow available for Ontario employers.
Now available for Ontario employers.Simple, free payroll for Canadian small businesses.
Add your team, run payroll, and download what you need to file. No trial, no per-employee fees, no credit card, and no catch. Forever.
Pay stub
Biweekly, Ontario
- Regular pay
- $2,000.00
- CPP
- $110.99
- EI
- $32.60
- Income tax
- $254.82
Remittance summary
Regular remitter, due Monday 17 August 2026
- Employee CPP and EI
- $143.59
- Employer CPP and EI
- $156.63
- Income tax withheld
- $254.82
Example from $50 an hour, 40 hours, basic personal amounts, and the July 2026 tables. Not your payroll. You pay the Receiver General yourself.
$0
for your whole team
Pay what you want, even nothing.
- Easy to use
- Pay stubs, remittances, T4s, and year-end reports
- Secure and private
For Canadian small businesses.
Three steps, and you're done.
- 1
Add your team
Enter your business details and each employee’s pay and tax information. Switching mid-year? Bring your year-to-date numbers with you.
- 2
Run payroll
Enter the hours, check the pay and deductions, and save. Free Payroll works out CPP, EI, and income tax for you.
- 3
Download and file
Get pay stubs, a remittance summary with due dates, and year-end figures. You pay and file with the CRA yourself, and we show you what and when.
What you get, for nothing.
Everything a small team needs to run payroll.
- Pay calculated for you
- CPP, CPP2, EI, and federal and Ontario income tax on every pay run. No spreadsheets, no formula guesswork.
- Pay stubs in one click
- Clean PDF pay stubs, emailed to employees or waiting in their own login. Your paperwork, without the hassle.
- Remittances and due dates
- See what you owe the CRA and when, based on your remitter type. No wondering, no missed deadlines.
- Year-end made easier
- T4 and T4 Summary figures prepared for you, with step-by-step guidance for filing. February gets a lot calmer.
- ROE worksheets
- A pre-filled Record of Employment worksheet when someone leaves, so you aren’t digging through old pay runs.
- Friendly reminders
- Emails for remittances, T4 deadlines, ROEs, and new-hire TD1 forms, before anything turns into a penalty.
- Three simple logins
- Owners see everything. Bookkeepers can view, and prepare payroll if you allow it. Employees see only their own stubs and tax slips.
- Start any time of year
- Import year-to-date numbers when you switch mid-year. Switching doesn’t mean starting over.
- Your data is yours
- Export everything, any time. No lock-in, ever.
- Private and secure
- SINs are encrypted, access is role-based, and every important change is logged.
Made for Canadian businesses.
Payroll rules differ across the country, so we're adding one province at a time. Ontario works today, including its rules for overtime, vacation pay, and public holiday pay. The rest are coming. If your business is somewhere else, you can't use Free Payroll just yet, and we'd rather say so up front.
- British Columbia: coming soon
- Alberta: coming soon
- Saskatchewan: coming soon
- Manitoba: coming soon
- Ontario: available now
- Quebec: coming soon
- New Brunswick: coming soon
- Nova Scotia: coming soon
- Prince Edward Island: coming soon
- Newfoundland and Labrador: coming soon
- Yukon: coming soon
- Northwest Territories: coming soon
- Nunavut: coming soon
Blue means available now. Everything else is coming soon. Quebec has its own pension and parental insurance plans, so it will take a little longer.
What it does, and what it doesn't.
A free tool is only worth using if you know where it stops.
It does
- Calculates pay and deductions
- Generates pay stubs
- Prepares remittance summaries
- Prepares T4s and ROE worksheets
- Sends reminders
- Tracks year-to-date totals
It doesn't
- Send direct deposits. You pay your team yourself.
- File or pay the CRA for you. You do that, and we show you what and when.
- Handle taxable benefits, pensions, or garnishments.
- Work outside Ontario yet. More provinces are coming, and Quebec will take longer.
Need something more complex? We can point you to a full-service payroll provider.
Why is it free?
We're Discount Payments, a company that helps small businesses with payment processing. We built Free Payroll because small businesses deserve a simple, no-cost tool, and because we'd like to earn your trust.
Maybe one day you'll want to talk to us about card payments. Only if you want to. Your employees' information is never used for marketing.
Discount Payments is an independent sales agent of Fiserv/Clover and may later offer payment processing to business owners who ask for it.
Questions you might have
Is it really free? What’s the catch?
It really is free: no trial, no per-employee fees, no credit card. There’s no catch. We’re a payment processing company, and we’d like to earn your trust. If you ever want to talk about card payments, that’s up to you.
Does it file or pay the CRA for me?
No. You do, and we show you what to pay and when, plus the figures you need for your T4s.
Which provinces are supported?
Ontario today. More provinces are coming over time, and we’ll let you know here as each one opens.
How many employees can I have?
Free Payroll is built for small teams, up to about 10 employees.
Is my employees’ data safe, and will it be used for marketing?
We encrypt sensitive details like SINs, limit access by role, and log every important change. Your employees’ information is never used for marketing.
Can I invite my bookkeeper?
Yes. Bookkeepers get view access, and they can prepare payroll too if you allow it.
Can I leave and take my data?
Yes. You can export everything, any time.