Many people who start their own successful companies are intelligent, have field experience and an entrepreneur spirit to get things done. However, when it comes to accounting, and in particular payroll software, they often stumble. That's why Halfpricesoft.com co-founder Dr. Ge went to work creating ezPaycheck payroll software, and its latest version, ezPaycheck 2008 payroll software.

The affordable, super-simple, custom streamlined payroll and tax software - available at www.halfpricesoft.com/index.asp - was designed with direct input and guidance from those who use it "in the trenches" every day. The newly upgraded version of the already popular product was updated with new state and federal tax tables, plus other intelligent changes recommended by customers.

"We intentionally engineered this software for those end-users who are not professional accountants and payroll tax experts," explains Dr. Mark Ge, President and Founder of ezPaycheck. "You don't even need to have much knowledge of computers. We believe small business software should be simple - stupid simple - so that owners can focus their time and energy on running their businesses, not trying to figure out how to run payroll software."

In this era of increasingly sophisticated and pricey software, consumers are normally forced to purchase payroll and tax software in a bundle with other applications - and it costs a bundle of money. But according to Dr. Ge, that isn't fair to small businesses. "I do not think small business owners should have to pay for features they do not want and will never need to use," he says. "So we made ezPaycheck an easy-to-use stand-alone desktop application, not some big and complicated suite."

But while ezPaycheck minimizes the bells and whistles to make it easy to set up and use, it delivers much more than just the bare bones essentials. Valuable features include:

• A sample company database so no configuration is needed. Just install the software and you're automatically ready to print the first sample check.
• Prints your own payroll checks on blank computer checks or preprinted checks.
• Automatically calculates Federal Withholding Tax, Social Security, Medicare Tax and Employer Unemployment Taxes. Includes built-in tax tables for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
• Creates and maintains payrolls for multiple companies, and does it simultaneously. Thanks to this multi-tasking feature, ezPaycheck software is even used by professional accountants to help process multiple client workloads at the same time.
• Supports Daily, Weekly, Biweekly, Semi-monthly and Monthly payroll periods. Features Report Functions, Print Functions, and Pay Stub Functions. 30 day free trial. No registration required and absolutely no obligation.

The software can be used to report employee wages and salaries to federal, state, and local agencies, with a duplicate copy for the employee. And the double-window check envelopes eliminate the need to hand-write or re-print addresses, saving time and money.

Even those who are not good at math can add "two plus two" and figure out that by offering software that is both inexpensive and "stupid simple" to use, the ezPaycheck company has created a revolutionary new product. And it is available just in time for payroll tax season, which may be the best gift small business owners can wish for at the end of a long and challenging - and hopefully successful and profitable - sales year.