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I love this - now I can just set it and forget it. We're customers of ZenPayroll and they've been top notch with everything they've rolled out.
I hope those image macros were intended to be cringe-inducing. Because they are.
Yes, and on top of that, you want a payroll service brand to speak to its professionalism and reliability. Not edgy "hipness" (especially if you are failing hard at that aspect).
I want to re-assure you that we take our responsibility very seriously. Payroll is a business critical task and we're committed to taking care of all payroll tax calculations, payments, compliance documents and filings for our customers. We have people on our team with 30+ years of experience in payroll compliance at ADP, Paychex and Intuit, and we've securely processed tens of millions of dollars in payroll. Our focus is on bringing the power of modern software to this industry and re-thinking the UX, workflows, automation, etc. while maintaining the security and stability you expect from a payroll product. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to send me a note at josh AT zenpayroll DOT com.
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They aren't catering to stodgy, old businessmen with three chins. They are catering to a different audience and in that, they are succeeding.

Look at all the things they can communicate through use of a meme. Using the success kid meme implies that the customer would get a feeling of awesome accomplishment and it is applicable to the topic.

I am a little biased because I also use memes in my product blog posts for this reason. I suspect that they subconsciously do the same.

"Like our meme? Here’s a few more we tried. Which one is your favorite?"
Somewhat unrelated rant:

I'm liking zenpayroll so far, but going to a payroll site (even the blog) and getting mixed https/http content raises flags for me.

If the blog doesn't need to be SSL, don't use SSL. If you want the blog to use SSL (it's redirecting), make sure all your external resources are too.

Thanks for letting us know! fixed :)
I've been eagerly waiting to use this, but apparently it only works with CA employees.. :(
My name is Nick and I work at ZenPayroll. Sorry for the delay - we'll be starting our multi-state rollout next month for a few states with many more to follow afterwards.
So, yeah, Zenpayroll is awesome but the rollout is taking forever.

Disclaimer: I'm in Illinois.

We really appreciate your interest! I'm the CEO of ZenPayroll and I want to re-assure you that adding additional States is a top priority for us. We'll be launching support for Texas and Florida next month, with several additional States added each month thereafter. -Josh P.S. Make sure you sign-up at www.zenpayroll.com and we'll notify you when we're available in your State.
Zenpayroll is great. I just wish they didn't send me 6 or 7 emails within a 3 day period during the initial signup process reminding me to sign some documents (I hadn't spoken to my other founder to get his okay to use to use the site for our company yet).
Any plans for other countries in the near future?

Disclaimer: I live in Australia and my Real Name is Zen

Looking forward to more coverage as well. These guys have a better solution than anyone else out there.
Current response from link:

Bad Gateway

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. Apache Server at zenpayroll.com Port 443