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Warp keeps you compliant
Compliance doesn't show up in your metrics. It arrives as a penalty, a missed filing, a founder held personally liable. Warp sees it coming, prevents it, and fixes it.
The $1M Warp Guarantee
If a Warp error or omission leads to payroll tax penalties or interest from the IRS or a state or local tax agency, we pay them. Unlike others, there's no negligence test: if the error was ours, it's on us.
Penalties and interest, paid
Covers the payroll tax calculations, deposits, filings, registrations and notice resolution Warp performs for you.
Up to $1M per customer
That's a lifetime total. On a $50,000 penalty, Warp pays $50,000 and $950,000 of coverage remains.
One step to claim
Upload the notice in Warp within 30 days of receiving it. We manage it from there.
Most tools hand you a to-do list.
Warp protects you at every step
See a demoKnow where you stand in every state, before a penalty letter
See every registration, filing and notice in one command center with gaps flagged before they turn into penalties.
Today, 4 Unfinished Trainings and 2 Expiring I-9s are resolving.
6 workingPrevent penalties from bad data, expiring docs and missed training
Compliance review on autopilot, assign training as people join, change roles or move states, and I-9 reverification and W-8BEN renewals.
Warp@Jordan Hale New York sent a notice for Q4 2025. A tax law change moved the withholding rate, so this one needs a person.
Nothing on your end. I’ve already escalated it to our in-house tax team. They’ll reply to New York and update withholding before the next run.
Warp handles it for you. No hold music, no lost afternoons
Tax accounts opened for you when you hire in a new state. Federal, state and local returns filed with every payroll. Agents and in-house tax experts working for you around the clock.
Audit-ready, investor-ready, acquirer-ready
Audit logs of who changed a registration, a form or a course, and when, with training completion records for every employee. Current I-9s and W-8s on file for each person, ready-to-share.
The faster you grow, the more you're exposed
Founders, personally liable
Miss payroll tax deposits, and the IRS can hold founders personally liable for up to 100% of the withheld taxes.
Up to $2,861 per form
One I-9 mistake can cost up to $2,861 per employee, and there's little flexibility allowed to fix them.
New state? New rules.
Hire one person somewhere new, and you've inherited registrations, filings and training requirements you didn't know existed.
Warp sees it coming before a penalty arrives
See a demoLoved by the most ambitious companies Join teams that left legacy payroll behind
The most ambitious companies choose Warp. Join teams that left legacy payroll behind.
Customer StoriesHow the guarantee works
If you receive a notice from the IRS or a state or local tax agency assessing penalties or interest that result solely from a Warp error or omission, Warp pays those penalties and interest. It applies to the payroll tax calculation, withholding, deposit, filing, registration and notice-resolution services Warp performs for you.
Up to $1,000,000 per customer, including affiliates, in total for as long as you're with Warp. Each payment reduces what remains. For example, on a $50,000 penalty, Warp pays $50,000 and $950,000 remains.
Every Warp payroll customer, for tax periods when Warp processed your payroll. Penalties that trace back to a period before you joined Warp, or to a previous payroll provider, aren't covered.
Send us a copy of the notice within 30 days of receiving it, through in-app chat or at support@warp.co. Warp manages the response to the agency and either pays the penalties and interest directly or reimburses you. Please don't pay or settle the notice before talking to us.
Keep the information you give Warp accurate and up to date, fund payroll and taxes on time, give us the agency access and authorizations we ask for, and work with us to resolve the notice.
The underlying taxes you owe, penalties you caused or contributed to, insufficient funds, worker classification decisions, and pay or benefits handled outside Warp. It also doesn't cover anything that isn't a payroll tax penalty or interest, such as wage and hour, benefits, I-9 or training penalties. The full list is in the terms.
Section 4A of the Warp Employer Terms of Service.
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