Payroll as a Service for Tax Advisors
Take the pressure off your law firm and streamline processes. With cleverlohn, you can outsource your payroll operations while still maintaining full control.
Instead of a white-label solution, cleverlohn focuses on transparent collaboration. For you, this means clear responsibilities, direct communication, and digital processes that significantly lighten your firm’s workload.
The Benefits of cleverlohn payroll
for small businesses
Small businesses don't need an overcomplicated tool. They need a setup that runs smoothly month after month.
- Reduced Internal Effort Through Clear Processes
You work with a fixed monthly process: update data, confirm month-end closing, check trial payroll, approve. This makes payroll more predictable and less time-consuming.
- Greater Security Through Professional Execution
Payroll professionals prepare the payroll. Plausibility checks and trial payrolls ensure that errors are detected early and corrections are less frequently required.
- Fewer Inquiries Thanks to Digital Documents
Payrolls and relevant documents are centrally available. Employees can access documents themselves, significantly reducing internal inquiries.
- Better Predictability Through a Transparent Pricing Model
You pay per payroll. The model is designed to ensure monthly cost transparency.
Digital Processes in Detail: digital payroll
Why Tax Firms Their Outsource Payroll
Payroll must be timely, accurate, and legally compliant. Yet, in daily operations, it is often complex: data arrives late, information is missing, queries drag on, and every correction costs additional time.
Many firms encounter a bottleneck at precisely this point. Not due to a lack of relevance, but because ongoing processing ties up resources that are needed elsewhere. cleverlohn explicitly addresses this situation with digital processes, personal service, and clearly structured collaboration.
Outsourcing operational payroll primarily offers three key benefits:
- more predictability
- less manual rework
- smoother processes.
When data is digitally captured, checked, and approved before final processing, the risk of unnecessary errors significantly decreases. cleverlohn particularly highlights plausibility checks, trial payroll runs, and digital provision for this.
Your Benefits of partnering with cleverlohn
for payroll
Reduced operational burden in daily business
Your firm doesn't have to collect every piece of information, coordinate every query, and track every correction internally. cleverlohn handles operational payroll with a structured digital process. This relieves your team where it matters most in their daily work.
Direct communication, no detours
cleverlohn operates with conscious transparency. Clients know that cleverlohn is involved. Queries do not unnecessarily pass through multiple stages, ensuring clear responsibilities and faster processes.
Personal Support, Not Anonymous Software
With cleverlohn, you don't just get a platform, but also personal contacts. For individual questions, you can contact your personal payroll accountant directly via email, chat, or phone. This precise combination of software and personal service is a central element of cleverlohn's positioning.
Digital Processes with Enhanced Clarity
Master data, documents, and approvals are managed digitally and centrally. Employees can access documents and view payroll records online. This reduces queries, saves time, and provides greater clarity throughout the entire process.
Fewer Errors with Draft Payroll
Before anything is finalized, you receive a draft payroll for approval. This allows discrepancies to be identified early and avoids correction loops. cleverlohn itself describes the draft payroll as an important safety mechanism.
Transparent pricing, no hidden fees
cleverlohn offers an all-inclusive model starting from €13 per payroll, with no basic fee and no additional costs. According to the website, this includes a personal payroll accountant, HR software functions, employee access, registrations and deregistrations, certificates, and annual reports.
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How it works: Working with cleverlohn
Once you've chosen cleverlohn, your work is already done. From that point on, we handle all payroll accounting activities for your clients.
- Collaborative setup.
Initially, we define how the collaboration is structured, which mandates are included, and which processes suit your firm.
- Digital data capture.
Relevant data is centrally recorded digitally. Instead of disorganized information via email or paper, there is a clear process for master data, changes, and documents.
- Review and preliminary payroll.
Before the final payroll is generated, a preliminary payroll is created. This allows data to be checked, queries clarified, and errors identified early.
- Final payroll and digital delivery.
After approval, payroll is generated and provided digitally. Employees access their documents via a portal or app.
- Ongoing support with clear responsibilities.
Collaboration doesn't end after onboarding. cleverlohn supports ongoing processes with personal assistance and clear role distribution. Your firm remains involved but is significantly relieved of operational tasks.
Collaborate,
the way you want it.
A partnership that best suits your individual requirements.
Option 1
We go all-in.
When outsourcing the contractual relationship, you transfer payroll accounting to us. In this case, we assume full responsibility and communicate directly with your clients.
Option 2
You're in charge.
With a sub-contracting arrangement, you remain in a contractual relationship with the client. Nevertheless, we communicate directly with the client and act as an external payroll service provider.
Prices & Conditions: What does payroll cost for tax advisors?
With many providers, payroll initially seems affordable. In practice, however, basic fees and additional costs are added.
cleverlohn offers a clear model in contrast: from €13 per payroll, no basic fee, no additional costs.
cleverlohn
- Dedicated payroll specialist included
- All HR software features included
- Employee access included
- Base priceincl.
- Employee registration and deregistrationincl.
- Certificates, such as employment certificatesincl.
- Annual reportsincl.
- Communication flat feeincl.
Other providers
- Personal payroll accountant included
- All HR software functions included
- Employee access included
- Base price18 €
- Onboarding and offboarding of employees18 €
- Certificates, such as employment certificates15 €
- Annual declarations20 €
- Communication flat rate15 €
For law firms, it's not just the price per payroll statement that matters, but the entire internal effort. When data collection, approvals, and queries are well-organized, hidden costs in daily operations decrease. This is precisely where the economic advantage of structured, digital collaboration lies.
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A solution
that impresses.
More than 60 tax firms rely on cleverlohn.
Our partners entrust us with their clients' payroll accounting, thus contributing to the economic success of their own firm.
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Contact us nowTransparent Collaboration
instead of White Label
Many payroll outsourcing models rely on the external service provider remaining in the background. cleverlohn deliberately takes a different approach. Our collaboration is transparent, direct, and clearly organized. This reduces friction, saves coordination time, and ensures clear responsibilities.
For your firm, this means:
- You shed operational burden without outsourcing to a black box.
- Clients know who they are working with.
- Queries are routed to where they can be expertly answered.
- You remain involved without having to take on every operational task yourself.
Legally compliant, digital, and transparent
For payroll, speed is important, but reliability is paramount. cleverlohn ensures GDPR compliance and GoBD-compliant payroll processing as part of its service.
At the same time, they ensure
- digital capture
- automated checks
- trial payroll and
- central document storage
for structured, traceable processes.
The most frequent questions from tax advisors about payroll, cleverly answered
Is cleverlohn a white-label solution?
No. cleverlohn deliberately does not position itself as a white-label provider, but focuses on direct and transparent collaboration.
Does the accounting firm remain involved?
Yes. Your firm doesn't relinquish control, but primarily operational burden. Responsibilities remain clear.
Does cleverlohn only work with software?
No. cleverlohn combines a digital HR platform and personal service.
What if my clients already use a pre-existing system?
The success of payroll accounting is primarily based on data quality and effective data management. Therefore, we analyze the client's IT infrastructure before starting our collaboration and optimize it as needed. This creates the foundation for precise and efficient payroll accounting tailored to the client's individual needs. If your client already uses a time tracking or HR solution, we simply integrate it.
Is there a draft payroll statement?
Yes. Before the final payroll run, you receive a draft payroll statement for approval.
How much does cleverlohn cost?
cleverlohn starts at €13 per payroll statement with no base fee.
Can employees view their payroll statements online?
Yes. Payroll documents are provided digitally via portal or app.
Why is direct communication better than white-label?
Because queries are resolved faster, responsibilities are clearer, and fewer inefficiencies arise.
Is cleverlohn suitable for growing accounting firms?
The website highlights digital processes, scalability, and structured data management as clear advantages. This suggests that the model is particularly useful when accounting firms need standardized and scalable processes.
Any more questions?
Call cleverlohnOutsource payroll to a tax consultancy. Maintain transparency. Unburden your firm.
With cleverlohn, you're not working with a black box, but with a partner who collaborates openly, digitally, and structured with your firm.
Less operational burden. Clear responsibilities. Personal support. Digital processes that truly lighten the load.
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