Paiday is becoming something bigger. Meet Nooma.

Payroll has been broken for accounting firms for a long time. Not slightly broken. Structurally broken.

You inherited clients on five different platforms. You context-switch between Wagepoint, ADP, QBO Payroll, and Ceridian just to get through a Monday morning. You've built workarounds on top of workarounds, sticky notes, spreadsheets, email threads, because the tools weren't designed for someone managing dozens of payrolls at once. They were designed for the business owner sitting across the table from you.

You've been doing expert work with amateur tools.

That ends here.

Why we built Paiday

When we started Paiday, the core insight was simple: accounting and bookkeeping firms needed a firm-first home for payroll. Not a payroll engine designed for employers with a thin partner layer bolted on. A platform that actually reflected how firms operate: multiple clients, multiple platforms, fixed deadlines, tight margins, and teams that can't afford to drop the ball.

So we built Paiday Hub. A single dashboard to see and manage every client payroll, regardless of which platform it runs on. Then we built Paiday Payroll, a fully-featured Canadian payroll engine designed to run correctly, the first time, every time.

Firms started using it. Then more firms. Then more.

And as they did, we started to understand the problem at a deeper level than we ever had before.

Fragmentation wasn't just a workflow inconvenience. It was actively costing firms money, margin, and client relationships. The real job wasn't just to run payroll. It was to centralize visibility, reduce context-switching, protect margin, and make payroll manageable as a firm service line at scale.

That's a bigger problem than we could solve alone.

So we found the right partner to solve it with

Today, we're announcing that Paiday and NumaTrack are merging to become Nooma, AI-native payroll built for the accounting firms who run it professionally.

This isn't a rebrand. It isn't a pivot. It's a step-change.

NumaTrack has been building something that perfectly complements what Paiday has always stood for: intelligent, unified infrastructure for payroll experts. Together, we're combining Paiday's firm-first workflow expertise and established Canadian firm network with NumaTrack's AI-native architecture and platform depth.

The result is Nooma, and it's the platform we've both been working toward.

Why NumaTrack changes the story

Paiday was built around the accounting firm workflow: visibility across client payrolls, better control, and a clearer way to manage payroll as a professional service line.

NumaTrack brings the broader workforce layer around that workflow.

That includes HR, scheduling, time tracking, time off, employee records, payroll workflows, and the infrastructure needed to connect more of the work that happens before payroll is processed.

That matters because payroll does not start with the pay run.

It starts when an employee is hired, when a schedule is built, when hours are approved, when time off is recorded, when compensation changes, or when a client sends an update the firm needs to action.

For business owners, those moments are part of managing a team.

For accounting firms, they become the data and workflow behind payroll delivery.

The merger brings those two sides closer together.

It also brings Hugh Saffar into the founding team. Hugh founded NumaTrack and brings deep product and engineering experience in Canadian HR and payroll software, including senior engineering experience at Humi, one of Canada’s best-known HR and payroll platforms.

That background matters because Nooma is not just adding more features around payroll. It is building the infrastructure to connect payroll, HR, time, scheduling, time off, employee workflows, and accountant visibility into one platform.

That is the product Paiday and NumaTrack were both moving toward from different directions.

What Nooma actually is

Nooma is built around a single premise: payroll has been built for business owners, not payroll experts.

That means accountants and bookkeepers have spent years operating sophisticated, high-stakes work inside tools that were never designed for them. Tools that fragment their view. Tools that create compliance exposure. Tools that quietly erode the margin on a service line that should be profitable and sticky.

Nooma changes that architecture entirely.

At its core, Nooma is a unified hub covering payroll, time, HR and more, with integrations built specifically for accountants. But what makes it genuinely different is what sits underneath: an AI layer that doesn't just assist, it acts. Auto-deadlines. Automated remittances. Year-round reconciling. Proactive flags before problems become expensive.

The goal isn't just to make payroll faster. It's to move firms from reactive to proactive. From memory to system. From admin to advisor.

One platform. Zero surprises. Built for payroll experts.

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Why this is happening now

This merger isn't happening in a vacuum. The market is moving fast, and the window to build this right is right now.

Four things are true simultaneously that weren't true even a few years ago:

Regulatory complexity is outpacing what humans can track manually. CRA requirements, province-specific compliance rules, ROEs, T4s: the surface area keeps expanding. Firms need systems that absorb that complexity, not add to it.

AI can now turn plain-language requests into workflow actions. This isn't theoretical anymore. The technology exists to handle the kind of repetitive, high-stakes payroll work that currently eats hours every pay cycle.

Open payroll APIs have finally made a unified data layer possible. The plumbing that would have taken years to build three years ago is now accessible. The infrastructure moment is here.

The shortage of payroll expertise is accelerating. Talent is harder to find and harder to retain. The firms that will scale payroll profitably are the ones that build leverage into their workflows, not the ones that just hire more people to manage more chaos.

Nooma was built for exactly this convergence.

And if you need proof the category is being revalued, look at what's happening around you. Banks are moving into payroll. Mercury acquired Central. ATB launched ATB Payroll. National Bank partnered with Payworks. U.S. Bank embedded payroll through Gusto. These aren't isolated product decisions. They're a signal: payroll is becoming one of the most important control points in the small business financial stack.

The firms that treat payroll as a fragmented admin burden will keep running into the same problems. The firms that treat it as an operational control point, and adopt tools built around how firms actually work, will be in a fundamentally stronger position.

What this means for your firm

If you're a Paiday customer today, here's what matters most: your experience isn't changing overnight. The Hub and Payroll products you rely on continue, and the integrations you've set up remain in place. This transition is designed to add capability, not create disruption.

What changes is the ceiling.

As Nooma takes shape, you'll start to see what a genuinely AI-native payroll platform built for firms looks like in practice. Not AI as a chatbot. AI as a colleague that handles the repetitive, compliance-critical work so your team can focus on the relationships and judgement calls that actually require a human.

Payroll shouldn't be the service line you tolerate. It should be one of the most defensible, recurring, high-value parts of your practice.

That's what Nooma is being built to make possible.

What comes next

Over the coming months, we'll be sharing more about the Nooma platform, the roadmap, and how the transition will work for existing Paiday customers. We'll be in touch directly, and nothing changes in your day-to-day until we tell you otherwise.

If you're not yet a Paiday customer and you've been looking for a better way to manage payroll across your firm, this is the right moment to get in.

The platform that firms have actually needed is finally being built.

Welcome to Nooma.

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Questions about the merger or what it means for your firm? Reach out to Rachel Fisch at rf@noomahq.com