I have recently moved to a software called MyPAYE. It's a cloud based software. I can run payroll from anywhere and it sends the client or their employees payslips by email without needing to save pdfs and send attachments as i used to do.
Its also very reasonably priced.
Kris
I've heard good things about MyPAYE, particularly for businesses doing payroll DIY.
But my impression of their price list is that for for any practice or bureau larger than the tiniest it would get very expensive very quickly. Even a total of 50 employees pushes the price to about £400pa.
-- Edited by Tom McClelland on Thursday 27th of September 2012 08:48:06 AM
I didn't know, maybe it's something you need to shout about a wee bit louder. I was obviously pointlessly printing to Pdf and emailing each employee individually. Silly me.
Kris
-- Edited by kjmcculloch83 on Thursday 27th of September 2012 09:45:04 AM
I have recently moved to a software called MyPAYE. It's a cloud based software. I can run payroll from anywhere and it sends the client or their employees payslips by email without needing to save pdfs and send attachments as i used to do.
For desktop rather than cloud based packages take a look at 12pay and moneysoft Payroll.
Both a similarly priced. One incorporates CIS and is slightly more expensive, with the other CIS is an add on bringing it to the same price.
You can gt free one month evaluation copies from their respective websites and I would advise trying both to find which one "feels" right to you.
Both are excellent pieces of software but as 12pay post payroll assistance to bookkeepers and end users on this site combined with the training videos on their site being excellent I would recommend 12pay of those options, both of which are are lot cheaper than Sage Payroll for no less functionality.
HTH,
Shaun.
p.s. welcome to the forum.
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Sorry, Tom beat me to the post... And a good example of 12pay being active contributors on the site.
morning Tom.
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Sorry, Tom beat me to the post... And a good example of 12pay being active contributors on the site.
morning Tom.
Morning Shamus. Thanks for the kind words. I felt a bit nervous about that post because I always dislike saying anything negative about any competitor, particularly one with a good reputation and happy customers.
The point I was making was more one about the general nature of cloud vs desktop solutions. Cloud solutions market (amongst many other claimed benefits) on their "scalability" as a benefit, but actually their pricing model in particular also tends to scale with number of clients so that 100 clients on a cloud bookkeeping system for example can cost around 100x as much as one client (yes I know that there is sometimes volume discount but usually the marginal cost per client is still significant). For the most part even the most pricy desktop solutions tend to have very considerable pricing economies of scale where multiple clients are considered and many desktop solutions have fixed prices so the marginal cost of processing additional clients is zero once you've reached the fairly low top price threshold.
You're right Tom. We did use 12pay for a while and liked it. I think MyPAYE is a bit simpler to use and much quicker when I need to email each individual employee their payslip.
You are right about price, it can become expensive. It costs me 75p per employee per month, but thats even if they are paid weekly. I can certainly recover far more than this from my client. Having taken on an employee who works from home it means we can both use the system even though she is 30 miles from me. It also means I'm not tied to my office on payday which i why i disliked offering payroll in the past, i can process from anywhere including my phone.
I'm not generally, as folks here will know, a big fan of cloud based bookkeeping software, but for payroll I think it makes life easier for me.
You're right Tom. We did use 12pay for a while and liked it. I think MyPAYE is a bit simpler to use and much quicker when I need to email each individual employee their payslip.
I'm glad you liked 12Pay. I thought that I remembered you as a user.
Maybe you missed that 12Pay can also do an automatic payslip email run to each employee with a single click per period? We've also recently added SMS notifications of net pay and date of payment which a couple of our larger clients requested.
Ah, We're chock-full of features and if we shout about them all it is almost the same as shouting about none of them!
Other things many users may have missed that might be of particular interest to Bureau clients include...
Hourly statutory holiday accrual, timesheet import from spreadsheet, employee import and synchronisation from spreadsheet, one-click spreadsheet export of reports, one-click historic report runs, customisable report packs (so a single click gives you a PDF or ZIP with all of this months reports for that client in it, with direct email capability), etc.
Tried Sage, Iris, Tas but there is only one payroll software for me and that is Moneysoft Payroll Manager. Not expensive, very reliable, easy to use and does everything. You can have a free trial at
Tried Sage, Iris, Tas but there is only one payroll software for me and that is Moneysoft Payroll Manager. Not expensive, very reliable, easy to use and does everything. You can have a free trial at
http://www.moneysoft.co.uk/index.htm
Roz
I second that.... amazing value for a payroll bureau application - includes CIS too
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Monyesoft told us they were working on an application to automatically file pre-prepared payroll. This would be RTI nirvana and the way to keep pace with cloud offerings. It's probably a big project and I don't know if it will be available by April.
Tried Sage, Iris, Tas but there is only one payroll software for me and that is Moneysoft Payroll Manager. Not expensive, very reliable, easy to use and does everything. You can have a free trial at
http://www.moneysoft.co.uk/index.htm
Roz
I second that.... amazing value for a payroll bureau application - includes CIS too
I very nearly switched to Moneysoft this year for that reason, as one of my clients has just started CIS. Quite happy with 12pay though.
