About Payroll Software Compare
UK payroll software for small and medium employers, compared on facts you can check: HMRC recognition, published price, employee limits and pension submissions.
What is on this site
One question, "best payroll software uk", answered with a comparison that works on the page with no account, 6 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- Free payroll software UK: what HMRC actually recognises: HMRC's list names ten free payroll products, recognised for businesses with fewer than 10 employees. What each one is, what the limit really means, and where free stops.
- How much does payroll software cost in the UK?: Published UK payroll software prices we could read on supplier pages, from £0 to £43 a month, plus the two big names that publish nothing and what drives a quote.
- What HMRC-recognised payroll software means (and does not): HMRC recognition means the software can report PAYE online. It is not an endorsement, not a quality rating, and not a legal requirement to use one named product.
- Payroll bureau software for accountants: what changes: Running payroll for clients changes the buying question from headcount to number of employers. What multi-company pricing looks like and why HMRC's free tools are out.
- Payroll software for a small business: what you actually have to buy: HMRC's free tool stops at fewer than 10 employees. What a small UK employer needs from payroll software, and what the free route leaves you to do by hand.
- Cloud based payroll software: what changes and what does not: Cloud payroll changes who holds the data and what happens when you leave. What HMRC requires either way, and what to ask before migrating.
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Payroll Software Compare is an independent site operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to HMRC or any software supplier named here, and nothing on it is tax, accounting or legal advice. We take no commission from any supplier in this comparison and carry no paid placements. Supplier prices and features change without notice: every figure carries the date we read it on the supplier's own page, and you should confirm the current position there before buying.