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Payroll systems for Dallas employers who pay hourly crews and salaried teams alike.

Codeeo offers payroll software development Dallas businesses use when hourly crews, salaried office staff and out of state hires all sit on one payroll. We build the pay engine, federal withholding and Form 941 reporting, Texas Workforce Commission wage reports, Texas Payday Law schedules, direct deposit and a bilingual pay app. Because Texas does not tax wages, the hard work moves elsewhere: overtime, multi-state staff, garnishments and getting every payday right.

We do not have a Dallas or Texas office. Our 80+ people work from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and serve Dallas clients remotely, running discovery and every review by video call. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and hold a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews.

Built for
Dallas companies in logistics, construction, healthcare, hospitality and professional services, plus payroll bureaus serving North Texas clients.
Typical timeline
Fixed after a discovery phase that lists your pay groups, worksites and integrations, and confirmed in writing before design work begins.
What you own
All code, pay rule configuration, employee pay history and documentation, kept in your company's own cloud and repository accounts.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

What we build

Texas rules are lighter on tax and heavier on getting paydays right.

A Dallas employer withholds federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare, then reports quarterly on Form 941 and annually on W-2. On the state side there is no wage income tax to withhold, which tempts many businesses to treat Texas payroll as simple. It is not. The Texas Workforce Commission collects state unemployment tax and requires quarterly wage reports filed electronically, either through Unemployment Tax Services or QuickFile. The Texas Payday Law, also administered by TWC, says employees exempt from overtime must be paid at least monthly and everyone else at least semi-monthly, with paydays posted where staff can see them.

Then come the real complications in Dallas: warehouse and construction crews working long weeks under federal overtime rules, employees who live or work across the state line, and child support orders from the Texas Attorney General. The capabilities below cover those, in the order most Dallas clients need them, starting with time and overtime because that is where most wage claims in hourly businesses begin. State rules sit in dated tables, so a change can be tested before it touches a live paycheck.

Explain your project
  • Hourly pay and FLSA overtime

    Time from clocks or job apps is turned into regular and overtime hours under the Fair Labor Standards Act workweek rules. Shift premiums, production bonuses and nondiscretionary incentives are folded into the regular rate before overtime is calculated, which is where many Dallas distribution and construction payrolls quietly underpay.

    Overtime is calculated on the correct regular rate every week.

  • TWC quarterly wage reporting

    The system tracks each employee's taxable wages against the Texas unemployment wage base and builds the quarterly wage report in a format ready for TWC's electronic filing tools. Your assigned tax rate is stored with its effective year, and the report reconciles to the payroll register before anyone submits it. Voluntary contributions and rate notices from TWC are stored with each year.

    Texas unemployment filings match payroll to the cent.

  • Payday Law schedules

    Pay groups are set up as weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly or monthly, and the system blocks a schedule that would leave nonexempt staff paid less often than Texas allows. It also prints the payday notice from the same calendar, so the posted dates and the actual runs never drift apart.

    Pay frequency follows the Texas rule for each employee type.

  • Final pay and off cycle runs

    Terminations trigger a final pay workflow with its deadline shown to the payroll team, separate handling for a discharge and a resignation, and an off cycle run that can be approved and sent by direct deposit the same day if needed.

    Departing employees are paid on time without a manual scramble.

  • Child support and garnishments

    Income withholding orders from the Texas Attorney General's child support division and other states are recorded with their limits and priority. Texas restricts garnishment of current wages for ordinary consumer debts, so the engine treats creditor orders differently from support orders and federal levies. Payment records for each order are kept so a terminated employee's final check can be handled correctly too.

    Each order is withheld and remitted according to its type.

  • Workers outside Texas

    Dallas companies often hire people who live in Oklahoma, Louisiana or further away. When those employees work outside Texas, the engine applies that state's withholding, registers them for the right unemployment state and keeps Texas staff untouched by rules that do not apply to them.

    Out of state staff are taxed correctly without complicating Texas payroll.

  • Bilingual pay app

    Many Dallas crews read Spanish first. The employee app shows pay stubs, hours, deductions and W-2 forms in English or Spanish, and lets staff update direct deposit and W-4 details with identity checks. Supervisors approve timesheets from their phones on site. Text alerts tell each worker when pay has been deposited.

    Crews understand their pay without calling the office.

  • Benefits and retirement deductions

    Medical, dental and vision premiums, health savings accounts and 401(k) deferrals are deducted in the right tax order, with employer matches calculated per plan rules. Carrier and recordkeeper files are produced after each run, so enrollment changes made in a Dallas HR office reach the plan without retyping.

    Deductions and plan files stay in step with every payroll.

  • Job costing and ledger posting

    Labor is allocated by job, site, crew or department and posted to your accounting system as journal entries. Contractors, construction firms and multi-location operators across the Dallas area can see true labor cost per project rather than a single payroll total.

    Finance sees labor cost where it was actually spent.

  • Access control and breach readiness

    Social Security numbers and bank accounts are encrypted and masked by role, with every view logged. Texas requires businesses to notify affected people and, for larger incidents, the Texas Attorney General after a breach of sensitive personal information, so logs are designed to show exactly what was exposed.

    Payroll data is protected and incidents can be scoped quickly.

Who this suits

Dallas businesses that outgrow packaged payroll.

The Dallas economy mixes corporate headquarters, logistics operators around the southern Dallas inland port area, healthcare systems near the Medical District, restaurants and hotels downtown and in Uptown, and construction firms working across the metroplex. Each brings its own payroll pressure. A Payroll software development company Dallas employers trust should start by asking which of these situations matches yours. Most Dallas operators fit more than one, and the first release follows whichever causes the most manual work today.

01

Distribution and warehouse operators

Large hourly workforces with rotating shifts, attendance bonuses and peak season overtime need a pay engine that calculates the regular rate correctly and handles hundreds of timesheet approvals before each payday. We connect directly to your time clocks, build supervisor approvals into the app and flag overtime spikes by site before the run is final. Your payroll lead reviews flagged exceptions on one screen before approving the run.

Most errors start in the time data, so that is where we begin.

02

Construction and specialty contractors

Crews move between jobs in Dallas, Fort Worth and beyond, sometimes on public projects with prevailing wage rates and certified payroll reports. We model job based rates, union fringe where it applies and per diem rules, and post labor cost to each project automatically. Bid rates, crew rosters and job codes stay linked, so a foreman can see hours against budget during the week rather than after payday. Mileage and per diem stay outside taxable wages when your policy qualifies.

03

Healthcare and hospitality employers

Hospitals, clinics, hotels and restaurant groups run around the clock, with shift differentials, on call pay and tipped staff. Tip credits, tip pooling and the FICA tip reporting on Form 8027 need careful handling, and we design the pay groups and approvals so night shifts are paid as accurately as day shifts. Tip reports from point of sale systems feed straight into the run, and managers see shortfalls against the minimum cash wage before the payroll is approved.

04

Headquartered companies with national staff

Several large companies run payroll for people across the country from Dallas offices. Texas has no wage tax, but a remote employee in another state brings that state's full rules with them. We design work location tracking and state registration workflows so growth outside Texas does not create surprises. We also design the reporting your finance team needs to forecast labor across states and entities from a single Dallas base.

A Texas headquarters still needs multi-state payroll.

How a Dallas payroll build moves from scope to live paydays.

  1. 01Pay group and worksite mappingOn video calls we list every pay group, worksite, union or prevailing wage job, tip arrangement and out of state employee, then confirm which Texas and federal obligations apply to each.
  2. 02Time and earnings designWe define earning codes, overtime rules and premium pay with your payroll lead, using real timesheets from a busy Dallas week as the reference cases.
  3. 03Build in reviewable slicesThe pay engine, TWC report, direct deposit file and employee app are delivered in short increments you can test with your own data.
  4. 04Integrations with your stackTime clocks, HR records, benefits deductions, 401(k) files and accounting entries are connected and checked for completeness after every sync.
  5. 05Side by side payroll runsThe new system calculates live payrolls next to your current provider until every difference in pay, tax and deductions has a documented explanation.
  6. 06First quarter end and beyondWe stay with you through the first Form 941 and TWC filing, then keep federal tables and rules current under a support plan.

Technology

What we build this with.

Our payroll software developers Dallas clients work with choose tools for exact decimal math, audit logs and clean integration with time clocks, HR systems and accounting platforms. Everything is documented so your team or another vendor can maintain it. We keep tax tables and Texas pay rules separate from code, so routine changes do not need a developer.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions Dallas employers ask about custom payroll.

It depends on pay groups, worksites and integrations, and it is agreed after discovery.

A single entity with salaried and hourly staff in Texas only is far quicker than a contractor with prevailing wage jobs, union fringe and staff in three states. Data migration and the number of parallel runs also shape the plan. We set the schedule once discovery has listed everything, and we phase it so your largest pay group goes live first. Your team sees a written plan with each phase and its acceptance tests before the build starts.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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PROVEN RESULTS

4.7 / 5from 23 Google reviews