The Single-Record HRIS vs MyLegacy

The MyLegacy alternative built cloud-native across the Caribbean and Canada. Meet Workzoom.

Workzoom is built to handle Trinidad and Tobago NIS, PAYE, and BIR compliance in the same cloud-native system as HR, workforce, and talent: one vendor, no integration layer. Live payroll runs in Canada, the US, and the Bahamas.

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Workzoom unified HR and payroll dashboard, compared with MyLegacy

AThe short answer

Workzoom is the cloud-native alternative to MyLegacy: HR, payroll, workforce, and talent on one employee record at $4 per suite per month, reachable from any browser. MyLegacy, from Digital Business Systems in Trinidad and Tobago, has the widest Caribbean territory footprint in the category (20 territories) and offers a managed payroll bureau, but it is installed software, Caribbean-only, with payroll and HR as modules in a wider ERP family and no published pricing or named-client metrics. Workzoom runs Bahamas NIB and C10 in production at Cable Bahamas (850 employees, payroll cut from 5 days to 1.5) and Island Luck (850 across 60+ locations), and runs live payroll in Canada and the US on the same database.

MyLegacy's heritage is on-premise desktop ERP across a 20-territory Caribbean footprint. Pricing is not published. Named clients and case studies are not published. The HR product is one module in a broader on-premise business software family that also covers Loan Management, Deposit Management, Fixed Assets, Accounting, and Land Development Management.

Workzoom is cloud-native HR, payroll, workforce, and talent on a unified employee record, with live Bahamas payroll and native statutory engines built to handle Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua, and Anguilla, plus live Canadian and US payroll on the same database and HR and Talent for the UK. Pricing is published at $4 per suite per month. Named Bahamas clients are paired with verified production metrics.

"3 people deal with close to 1,000 people. It has been seamless integration of our timekeeping, our HR and payroll systems. No need for manual data transfer."
Workzoom in production, the unified alternative to MyLegacy

01 Feature comparison

How they compare.

MyLegacy, from Digital Business Systems, is a long-standing Caribbean payroll vendor with the widest territory footprint in the region, and this is an honest comparison. Every Workzoom claim links to an independent source; every MyLegacy claim links to the vendor's own site, with the date we checked it. MyLegacy wins on territory breadth and offers a managed payroll bureau Workzoom deliberately does not; Workzoom wins on cloud delivery, a unified record, published pricing, and proof depth. Read the footnotes.

Feature Workzoom MyLegacy
Coverage and reach
Caribbean territory breadthMyLegacy Payroll states it calculates pay across 20 Caribbean territories, the widest footprint in the category, including the OECS smaller islands, BVI, Cayman, and Suriname. Workzoom runs live payroll in the Bahamas with native statutory engines built to handle Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Antigua, and Anguilla, plus live Canada and US. For a buyer whose only need is the broadest small-island list, MyLegacy's breadth is genuine and worth weighing. Bahamas live + wider Caribbean engines + Canada/US 20 Caribbean territories1
Caribbean statutory payrollBoth build Caribbean statutory rules natively. MyLegacy runs multi-currency payroll across its territory list; Workzoom runs NIB and C10 in production at Cable Bahamas and Island Luck, with the same engine built for NIS, PAYE, NHT, and Health Surcharge across the wider region. This is a genuine match. Native Native1
Live North American payrollMyLegacy's footprint is Caribbean. Workzoom runs live payroll in Canada and the US on the same employee record as the Bahamas, so a Trinidad- or Bahamas-headquartered group with a Toronto, Calgary, or Florida entity keeps one platform instead of bolting a North American provider onto a Caribbean system. Canada, US, Bahamas Caribbean only1
Platform and access
Delivery modelWorkzoom is browser-based cloud software on AWS, reachable from any device with nothing for the customer to install or back up. MyLegacy's product family is installed software with hosted-HRIS and managed-remote-backup options offered on top, the signature of an on-premise heritage rather than a cloud-native core. Cloud, any device Installed + hosted/managed options1
Unified HR, workforce, and talentMyLegacy ships payroll and HRM as modules within a broader business software family that also includes Loan Management, Deposit Management, Fixed Assets, Accounting, and Land Development Management. Workzoom puts HR, payroll, scheduling, time clocking, and talent (performance, learning, succession) on a single employee record built only for people operations. One record, all suites Modules in a wider ERP family1
Platform and fit
Managed / outsourced payroll bureauDigital Business Systems offers managed payrolls (outsourced), managed HR, and hosted HRIS as services, so a buyer can hand payroll off entirely. Workzoom is the platform your own team runs; it calculates and prepares statutory output, and your team submits. If you want payroll done for you by a bureau, that is MyLegacy's territory, not ours, an honest fit difference. Software your team runs Bureau option available1
Price and value
Published pricingWorkzoom publishes $4 per employee per month per suite, $16 for the full platform, with $0 setup and month-to-month terms. MyLegacy does not publish pricing, so a Caribbean buyer cannot model total cost of ownership without a sales cycle. $4 / suite, published Quote only1
Proof and trust
Named-client production metricsWorkzoom publishes named Caribbean clients with audited outcomes: Cable Bahamas (850 employees, payroll cut from 5 days to 1.5), Island Luck (850 across 60+ gaming locations, 8 payrolls per week), AML Foods (900). MyLegacy's site publishes the territory footprint but not named clients or case studies with production metrics. Named clients + audited metrics Not published1
Security certificationWorkzoom holds its own ISO 27701 privacy certificate (valid to November 2028) and runs on AWS's SOC 2 / ISO 27001 infrastructure, with reports available under NDA. MyLegacy's site does not publish a security certificate. ISO 27701 cert (to 2028) + AWS None published1
Why Workzoom

Where Workzoom stands out.

Cloud-native vs on-premise legacy

MyLegacy's deployment heritage is on-premise desktop ERP. The platform offers hosted HRIS, managed payroll, managed HR, and managed remote backup as services on top of the on-premise core. Workzoom is cloud-native on AWS Montreal: any browser, any device, no Windows installation, no local server, no backup management.

Published pricing and named-client production metrics

MyLegacy does not publish pricing, named clients, or case studies. The 20-territory Caribbean footprint claim is published, but the production proof underneath it is not. Workzoom publishes $4 per suite per month and named Caribbean clients with verified production metrics: Cable Bahamas (850 employees, payroll cut from 5 days to 1.5 days), Island Luck (850 employees across 60+ gaming locations, 8 payrolls per week), AML Foods (900), Sun Oil (525).

Modern HR architecture beyond payroll

MyLegacy ships a broad on-premise business software family: HRIS and payroll alongside Loan Management, Deposit Management, Fixed Assets, Accounting, and Land Development Management. The HR product reads as one module in a desktop ERP. Workzoom is built as a single HR, payroll, workforce, and talent system on a unified employee record, with modern self-service, mobile, and API-ready architecture.

Live on Workzoom right now. North America and the Caribbean.

03Pricing

Transparent pricing, no surprises.

Workzoom

$4–$16

per employee / month

$4 per suite per month. All four suites = $16/employee/month. No setup fees, no contracts.

MyLegacy

Contact

contact for pricing

MyLegacy does not publish pricing. Contact Digital Business Systems directly for a quote.

Verified June 2026 · No public pricing page found

Workzoom pricing is exact and publicly listed. MyLegacy pricing shown above is based on publicly available information only. It does not reflect private deals, volume discounts, or negotiated enterprise rates. If you have a MyLegacy quote, bring it to your walkthrough and we will compare it directly.

The honest fit

Who Workzoom is for, and who it is not.

Picking the right system is as much about ruling out a wrong fit as finding a right one. Here is where Workzoom fits, and where it does not.

Built for you

Workzoom is the right call if

  • You have 50 to 5,000 employees and want HR, payroll, workforce, and talent on one employee record.

  • You operate across the Caribbean, Canada, the US, or some mix of them, and want one system instead of two.

  • You want your own team running payroll, with Workzoom specialists configuring your statutory rules and staying on after go-live.

  • You want published, predictable per-employee pricing you can model on day one.

  • You want named-client proof with real production numbers, not a logo wall.

Be honest with yourself

Workzoom is not the fit if

  • You want payroll handled for you by a bureau.

    Digital Business Systems offers managed, outsourced payroll; Workzoom is the platform your own team runs. If you want payroll done for you, their bureau is the honest fit, not us.

  • You need the single widest small-island territory list, including OECS islands Workzoom does not yet publish.

    MyLegacy's 20-territory footprint is the widest in the region. Workzoom runs live Bahamas plus engines built for Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Antigua, and Anguilla, with Canada and the US on the same database.

  • You are a 20,000-plus employee global enterprise needing deep multi-entity configuration.

    That is Workday and SAP SuccessFactors territory. Workzoom is built for the 50 to 5,000 range.

04 Switching

How do you switch from MyLegacy?

Most teams are live within 4 to 8 weeks with dedicated implementation support.

01
Export from MyLegacy
Export your employee records, pay history, and statutory data from MyLegacy or Digital Business Systems. We handle the import into Workzoom.
02
Configure and validate
We verify your Caribbean compliance setup across whichever territories you currently run and configure additional Canadian, US, or UK jurisdictions as needed.
03
Go live
Your team validates the data, runs parallel payroll if needed, and goes live. Typical timeline is 30-60 days.

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The MyLegacy alternative, answered

Specifics on switching from MyLegacy to Workzoom: pricing, data migration, timeline, and what is actually different in day-to-day use.

If your evaluation criteria include cloud-native architecture, mobile self-service, integrated talent management, published pricing, or any operations outside the Caribbean, yes. MyLegacy's 20-territory footprint claim is the widest in the category, but the platform's on-premise heritage and absence of public pricing or named-client metrics show up in 2026 buying journeys.
Workzoom runs native statutory engines for the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, and Anguilla, with country pages live for each. MyLegacy publishes a 20-territory list including the OECS smaller islands. For OECS, BVI, Cayman, and other territories outside Workzoom's published list, walk through the territory-by-territory comparison with the Workzoom team.
Yes. Migrations from on-premise legacy payroll to Workzoom are operationally smooth because Workzoom speaks Caribbean-native: NIB rules, NIS rules, local banking, regional employment law are all first-class. Standard 4-to-8 week implementation timeline applies, with parallel pay run validation during cutover.
Local servers, manual version upgrades, on-premise backups, and physical install cycles come off the IT plate. Workzoom is hosted on AWS data centres with TLS 1.2 in transit and AES-256 at rest, patched by Workzoom on a continuous release cadence. Employees and managers get a browser portal and mobile app, which on-premise MyLegacy does not natively ship, so self-service requests no longer route through HR or payroll mailboxes.
Yes. Workzoom publishes $4 per employee per month per suite, $16 per employee for the full platform, $0 setup fees, and month-to-month terms. MyLegacy does not publish pricing or named-client case studies. Workzoom publishes named Caribbean clients with verified production metrics, including Cable Bahamas at 850 employees with payroll cut from 5 days to 1.5 days and Island Luck at 850 employees across 60+ gaming locations running 8 payrolls per week.
Workzoom runs live Canadian, US, and Bahamas payroll on the same employee record from a single login, with statutory engines built to handle the wider Caribbean and HR and Talent for the UK. MyLegacy's heritage is Caribbean on-premise ERP. A Trinidad-headquartered or Bahamas-headquartered group with a Toronto, Calgary, or Florida entity can keep one platform, one configuration team, and one support relationship on Workzoom, instead of bolting a North American payroll provider onto a Caribbean on-premise system.

Deep dive

Workzoom vs MyLegacy, the MyLegacy alternative.

01

MyLegacy and the long-tail Caribbean

MyLegacy is a Trinidad and Tobago-based HR and payroll product from Digital Business Systems, with a published Caribbean footprint covering 20 territories: Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Bermuda, Bahamas, Belize, BVI, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, St. Vincent, and the US Virgin Islands. The breadth of the territory claim is the widest in the Caribbean-native category.

The trade-offs are deployment model and proof depth. MyLegacy's HR and payroll sit inside a broader business software family that also includes Loan Management, Deposit Management, Fixed Assets, Accounting, and Land Development Management, with installed software plus hosted and managed-service options rather than a cloud-native core. Pricing is not published, and named clients with production metrics are not published.

02

Where Workzoom extends the modern envelope

Workzoom is cloud-native on AWS Montreal with live Bahamas payroll and native statutory engines built to handle Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, and Anguilla, plus live Canadian and US payroll on the same database and HR and Talent for the UK. Mobile self-service, modern API-ready architecture, integrated talent management, and a single employee record across HR, Workforce, Payroll, and Talent are part of the platform default.

For Caribbean operators evaluating an HRIS in 2026 with modern criteria, including cloud-native architecture, mobile self-service, AI-ready APIs, transparent pricing, and published named-client production metrics, Workzoom is the structural answer. The widest territory claim does not substitute for the modern architecture buying journey expects.

03

Functional scope comparison

MyLegacy ships MyLegacy Payroll, with multi-currency and multi-jurisdiction support, and MyLegacy HRM, covering personnel, document management, attendance, leave, performance appraisal, recruitment, and disciplinary. The broader business software family adds Loan Management, Deposit Management, Fixed Assets, Accounting, and Land Development Management as separate products.

Workzoom's four suites, HR, Workforce, Payroll, and Talent, cover the full employee lifecycle on a single record. Scheduling depth, learning management, succession planning, performance reviews, certification tracking, and modern self-service are first-class. For Caribbean operators whose operational scope extends beyond core HR-and-payroll, the unified envelope matters.

04

When MyLegacy is still the right call

Single-island, small Caribbean operators whose local accountant has used MyLegacy for 15 years and whose operational complexity is contained inside a desktop ERP may find MyLegacy a familiar and adequate fit. The platform's regional roots are real and the 20-territory footprint is genuinely the widest in the category.

For any operation evaluating an HRIS in 2026 with cloud-native architecture, mobile self-service, integrated talent management, AI-ready APIs, transparent pricing, or operations outside the Caribbean as evaluation criteria, Workzoom is the next-generation answer. The walkthrough comparison against your current MyLegacy setup will surface where the gaps are.

Sources

Every claim about MyLegacy on this page links to its primary source, with the date we last verified it.

  1. 1 Digital Business Systems / MyLegacy — 20-territory footprint, modules, and managed/outsourced payroll services (vendor site). https://www.digital-business-systems.com/ · Verified June 2026
  2. 2 Workzoom — published pricing, ISO 27701 certificate, and named-client case studies. https://www.workzoom.com/pricing/ · Verified June 2026
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