Intuit To Acquire Workers' Compensation Payment Solutions Provider Prestwick Services Transaction Extends Intuit's Open Platform Offerings Available to Small Businesses and Frees Cash Flow for Employers

Intuit has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Prestwick Services  (workers' compensation payment solutions provider), a subsidiary of Prestwick Holdings.  
services, a subsidiary of prestwick holdings * Transaction expected to close Q2 of fiscal year 2014, which ends January 31.  When the transaction closes, Prestwick Services’ will become part of Intuit’s Employee Management Solutions Division. The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of Intuit’s fiscal year 2014, which ends Jan. 31, and is subject to customary closing conditions.   Learn about Prestwick here.   Intuit's Press Release Below:

 Intuit Inc. INTU -0.03% has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Prestwick Services, a subsidiary of Prestwick Holdings a Sudbury, Mass. based leader in payroll based billing and payment solutions for the workers' compensation industry.

Traditional workers' compensation plans involve large pre-payments based on estimates, with the potential for substantial extra payments at year-end audits. With the acquisition of Prestwick Services and its TRUPAY(TM) technology, Intuit will open the platform that enables workers' compensation insurance premiums to be calculated in real-time, based on actual payroll, and will not require small business owners to switch insurance carriers or agents.

For a small business owner, pay-as-you-go workers' compensation has several benefits, including:

-- Stronger Accuracy - Premiums are calculated every pay period instead of estimated at the beginning of the year, so payments are adjusted as employee changes occur, virtually eliminating surprise payments at year end audits.

-- Available Cash flow - No more hefty lump sum pre-payments means more flexibility in cash flow and paying only for changes as needed.

-- Convenience - Automatic collection of premiums means no extra legwork, fewer late payments and one less thing on the to-do list.

"This transaction furthers our commitment to helping small businesses manage every aspect of their business, so they can be free to focus on doing what they really love," said Ginny Lee, senior vice president and general manager of Intuit's Employee Management Solutions division. "We are very pleased to be adding a team that brings deep insurance industry experience as well as their robust TRUPAY technology platform. Together, we look forward to providing more benefits to our small businesses customers as we work to bring even more insurance carrier partners onto the platform."

The integration of Prestwick Services means more than one million Intuit payroll customers will have access to flexible payment options from 15 top insurance carriers, without requiring a change to their existing agent-client relationships.

When the transaction closes, Prestwick Services' will become part of Intuit's Employee Management Solutions Division.

"Our drive has always been to make running a business simpler. Intuit's expertise in doing just that, coupled with our TRUPAY technology, will enable workers' compensation insurance carriers to better serve their small business clients with flexible payment options while retaining the benefits of existing client-agent relationships," said Adam Black, founder of Prestwick. "As part of Intuit, we'll be able to benefit millions of payroll customers by putting our technology into the hands of a trusted brand that has a long history of innovation and delighting customers."

The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of Intuit's fiscal year 2014, which ends Jan. 31, and is subject to customary closing conditions.

Intuit continues M&A spree, buys workers comp. tech provider

• Intuit (INTU +0.1%) is acquiring Prestwick Services, provider of a workers compensation platform for small businesses that, according to Intuit, provides more accurate insurance premium calculations and eliminates large up-front prepayments.
• Whereas traditional workers comp. solutions rely on prepayments based on estimates, Prestwick's Trupay offering calculates payments in real-team, and adjusts them as employee changes take place.
• Intuit plans to offer Prestick's solution to its 1M Payroll service customers. The company will be added to Intuit's Employee Management Solutions unit.
• Recent Intuit acquisitions: GoodApril, Level Up Analytics, Payvment