Choose the plan that fits your business.

When you sign up, you get full access to your chosen plan for 30 days with no credit card required. Explore payroll, accounting, invoicing, HR, scheduling, and Vela without any commitment. Run real payroll, send real invoices, add real employees, and set up your business exactly how you want. When the 30 days end, add your payment details to continue or your account pauses until you decide to reactivate. Nothing is deleted, no charges happen automatically, and you can export your data at any time.

No. You only need an email address to start your free trial. You get full access for 30 days without entering any payment information. When your trial ends, you can add your card to continue, or your account will simply pause. Nothing is deleted, no charges happen without your consent, and there are no hidden fees.

Most businesses are up and running within an hour. Our onboarding wizard walks you through adding your first employees, connecting your bank account, and choosing your payroll schedule. Migrating from QuickBooks, Xero, Wave, or FreshBooks takes about five minutes with our free migration tool. Vela is available throughout onboarding to answer any question, and our support team is ready over email or chat.

Your monthly bill has two parts: a flat base subscription for your chosen plan, and $5 per employee per month. Essentials starts at $29 base, Premium at $69, and Scale at $129. If you have 10 employees on Premium, your monthly total is $69 base plus 10 times $5, which comes to $119. The per-employee rate stays the same across every plan. When you add or remove employees mid-cycle, Novala automatically prorates the charge based on the days they were active.

Yes, at any time. Upgrade or downgrade from your account settings, and the change takes effect at the start of your next billing cycle. If you upgrade, we prorate the difference so you never pay twice for the same period. If you downgrade, your current plan stays active until the end of your cycle, then the new plan begins. No cancellation fees, contracts, or penalties for switching.

Novala prorates every employee change automatically. If you add a new employee halfway through the month, you only pay for the days they were on payroll. If you remove someone, the per-employee charge stops immediately for that person. Your next monthly invoice reflects all the changes clearly, and you can see the prorated breakdown in your billing dashboard at any time.

Yes, and we make it free. Our migration tool connects to QuickBooks Online, Xero, Wave, or FreshBooks and imports your chart of accounts, bank connections, employees, payroll history, invoices, and vendor records in about five minutes. For more complex migrations with years of historical data, our support team runs it for you at no cost. You can keep your old tool active during the transition so nothing is disrupted.

You own your data completely. Before cancelling, you can export everything as CSV or PDF: accounting records, payroll history, employee records, invoices, expenses, and reports. After cancellation, we retain your data for 90 days in case you want to reactivate. After 90 days, we permanently delete your data from our systems.

Novala uses bank-level security to protect your business data. All data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.3. We enforce multi-factor authentication on all accounts. Your data is stored in your country of operation to meet local residency requirements, and we run regular security audits. We never sell your data, never share it with third parties without your permission, and never use it to train external systems.

Every plan includes email and chat support with responses typically within a few hours during business days. Premium plans get priority support with faster response times and access to specialists for payroll, accounting, and compliance questions. Scale plans include everything above plus phone support, a dedicated account manager, quarterly business reviews, and priority access to new features.