Who: the owner, with your payroll admin.
When: once per legal entity.
Garde Payroll lives in the same platform as your labor and accounting data — guided setup, automated tax calculations and filings, human support when you want it. (How it works under the hood: Payroll via CheckHQ.)
Set up
- Go to Payroll → Onboarding and select the location.
- Choose your path:
- Start Fresh — guided setup from scratch.
- Import from Previous Provider — finish entity setup, authorize secure access to your old provider, and review what Garde imports.
- Confirm the legal entity: legal name, state tax withholding mode, authorized signer.
- Repeat per location until you see All locations set up!
Multiple locations on one legal entity needs assisted setup — contact support before you start.
After onboarding
Finish the Getting Started checklist on Payroll → Home, then wire the connections:
- Employees / Contractors — profiles, earning rates, withholding, benefits, PTO, documents, paystubs.
- Departments, Payroll Employee Mappings, Job Mappings — connect POS jobs to payroll so hours flow automatically.
- Accounting Mapping — payroll journals to the right accounts.
- PTO Policy — accrual rules.
