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Simpler, smarter, faster payroll

1 to 150 employees

Prep for payroll year end and pay your team quickly and accurately. Sage Payroll helps businesses with growing teams save time, work smarter, and stay in control. Get 90% off for 3 months.

Combining effortless Payroll with the best of HR

Get HR capabilities with Payroll. Manage and pay your people from one place.

Streamline your admin

Simplify and automate processes to save time and reduce errors.

Integrate your systems

Seamlessly sync Payroll and HR systems to maximise efficiency.

Grow your workforce

Get software that scales with you to manage and pay up to 150 employees.

Transform how you pay, manage, and engage your people

Product features

Process payroll for growing teams

  • View and update all payroll details on one screen for lightning-fast processing with Enhanced pay run.
  • Add, remove, or exclude employees and payments with just a few clicks using bulk actions.
  • Search and sort employees by name, surname, or reference number in seconds.
  • Confidently run larger payroll, and update payments and deductions in one simple step.

Available in Sage Payroll Standard and Premium plans

Get confidence in compliance

  • Get an HMRC recognised solution.
  • Automatically calculate correct taxes, National Insurance contributions, and other statutory deductions.
  • Submit your RTI information, including FPS and EPS, electronically each time you pay your employees.
  • Grant access to your accountant. Let them spot and fix mistakes.

Manage your people

  • Tackle mandatory HR tasks like leave management and performance tracking in less time.
  • Employees can self-serve holiday and sick leave requests, allowing you to manage them from one place.
  • You can also manage 1-to-1's, set performance goals, and create development plans to track employee performance.

Let employees self-serve

  • Employees can self-serve with secure online access to payslips and P60s.
  • Organise, manage, and sign documents electronically, or publish announcements for seamless communications across your team.
  • Onboard employees with ease using custom dashboards.
  • Give employees access to a mobile app for quick and easy updates.

Reduce scheduling admin

  • Use timesheets to accurately track hours worked by employees so you can correctly calculate pay and overtime.
  • Automate the entry of approved timesheet data directly into payroll for the current pay period.
  • Run reports on your timesheets to see approvals, overtime worked, resources used for projects, and more. This real-time data helps you make smarter, faster decisions.

Run reports and generate insights

  • Report on and analyse payroll and costs to make your best decisions.
  • Run a selection of HR reports, giving visibility of key employee metrics.

Stay compliant, save time, and simplify payroll updates

Keep every pay run accurate with automated HMRC updates, applied directly in your payroll software.

  • Accurate, compliant pay runs every time: Deliver pay runs you can trust by automatically retrieving and applying HMRC notices directly in your payroll software.
  • Less admin and faster workflows: Cut down admin and speed up payroll tasks with automated prompts that apply updates in just a few clicks.
  • Full visibility at every stage: Gain total oversight and confidence with a clear audit trail of all HMRC notices applied to each employee.

File pensions faster

  • Automatically assess and enrol your employees into workplace pensions, including salary sacrifice pension schemes.
  • Set up and manage workplace pension schemes for NOW, NEST, and People’s Pensions or choose your own provider.

Stress free Payroll Year End

  • HMRC-Recognised: Stay compliant with trusted software.
  • Employees can effortlessly access payslips and P60s online.
  • Submit your final Full Payment Submission (FPS) and Employer Payment Summary (EPS) to HMRC.
  • Handle leavers and new starters efficiently during the year-end process.
  • 24/7 Support: Access expert help anytime you need it.

Switch to Sage Payroll

Switching to Sage Payroll is simpler than ever. Our user-friendly software ensures a smooth and seamless experience:

  • Get started in no time with a quick and easy set up
  • Easily transfer your existing payroll data with an FPS file import
  • Enjoy dedicated expert support with your payroll software
  • Navigate Sage Payroll with ease, thanks to our simple 4-step process

Payroll and Accounting, better together

Get accounting with built-in payroll and HR. Ideal for small business with less than 20 employees to get admin done faster at no extra cost. Now with an AI-productivity assistant included in every plan.

Plans to support your growing workforce

Upgrade or cancel at any time. No long-term contracts, commitments or hidden fees. 
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Payroll Standard

Advanced payroll with core HR capabilities to support your growing business.
per month / excl. 20% VAT*

Payroll Premium

Comprehensive payroll and HR features for growing, complex business needs.
per month / excl. 20% VAT*

*Get 90% off for 3 months, then £10.00 (Payroll Essentials) or £20.00 (Payroll Standard) or £30.00 (Payroll Premium) per month. These prices exclude VAT. Terms and conditions apply.

Add Payroll starting at 5 employees from £10.00 per month excl. VAT with the option to add up to 150 employees. Add additional employees in-product starting at £2 per month (Essentials), £4 per month (Standard) and £6 (Premium). Prices exclude VAT.

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We're here to provide product demos, answer your questions, and build a custom plan to meet your needs.

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Need more information? Arrange a call with one of our experts and they'll be happy to answer your questions. 

See what our customers say about Sage Payroll

“Bringing in Sage Payroll means it’s now done inhouse. It's so much quicker and so much easier, and I can amend any errors immediately.”

Lorna MacDonald

Office Manager, FRBS

“Sage could offer us customer support that was life support, the fact that it had a system that integrated the HR heart of it with the actual accounts for payroll.”

Caz Goodman

HR, Food Hygiene and Safety Manager, BEST

Frequently asked payroll questions

Sage Payroll is cloud-based payroll software, so you can access it online anywhere, 24/7. It allows you to quickly and easily create employee records and pay your people, while also giving you essential HR capabilities needed to manage a growing workforce.

You can create payments and deductions, accurately calculate PAYE, National Insurance, pensions and more, before creating payslips for your employees and submitting your payroll information to HMRC and pension providers. With integrated HR features, you'll also be able to accurately track and manage employee leave, view reports, and send documents electronically, ensuring that all records are up to date and that changes are reflected in payslips.

The software is flexible, allowing you to collaborate with others or grant access to your accountant. You can also upgrade or cancel at any time.

The Payroll Essentials plan includes HR capabilities that enable you to manage and input employee records, track holidays and leave, and generate basic HR reports. You'll also be able to electronically send documents, and employees can self-serve by accessing payslips and documents through the app. You can get more HR capabilities by upgrading at any time to our Standard or Premium plans, which include advanced HR features such as HR analytics, custom policies and workflows, expense management, timesheets, and shift scheduling.

Buy Payroll and you can automatically support 5 employees. It's easy to add more in-product, up to a maximum of 150 employees. The cost is per employee, per month. The more employees you add to your Payroll plan, the less you'll pay per employee, per month.

Sage Payroll software works on any PC or laptop (including Mac and Windows), any smartphone (such as iPhones and Android phones), and any tablet device (such as iPads or Android tablets).

Because Sage Payroll works in the cloud, you don’t have to install anything – you simply access the product through your internet browser.

Your data is always protected by bank-level security and is automatically backed up in the cloud. You never have to worry about losing any of your work if your internet connection goes down.

You will get free, award-winning support in different ways to suit you and your business.  

  • Expert 24/7 digital support including a library of webinars, videos, detailed how-to guides, and support articles.
  • Speak to an expert over webchat 7 days a week.
  • Talk to an expert advisor over the phone Mon-Fri 8am-8pm.
  • Webinars to watch at a time that suits you.

Access the following resource anytime:

  • Our online community Sage City: Ask questions, share ideas, and solve issues with Sage Accounting customers and product experts.
  • Step-by-step video guides.
  • Instructor-led courses: For anyone wanting to take their skills to the next level, we have hundreds of courses designed for multiple experience levels and job roles. Get certified and earn badges that show your expertise and build up your resume.

HR features of Payroll:

  • Webchat
  • Help Centre knowledgebase 

We also offer support channels on Twitter and YouTube. We are committed to providing you with world-class support for Sage Payroll at every step of your business journey.

As a customer of Sage, you can cancel your monthly rolling subscription in subscription management at any time, and you will not be charged again after the date you cancel. If you cancel during the free period, your account will never be charged. Please note, depending on when you cancel, your subscription may not come to an end until the following subscription month.

Depending on the current promotion, this may also mean you will not be eligible for future promotions or discounts.

More information about terminating your subscription can be found in our terms and conditions.

Sage Payroll is an app within Sage for Small Business, and is a monthly subscription service that also includes HR features. You can set up a direct debit or pay with your credit or debit card. To set up a direct debit, you need to have a bank account in the UK with a local currency in Pound sterling (GBP).

VAT per month is 20% of the product’s monthly price. There are no hidden costs.

Sage Business Cloud Payroll is a fully cloud-based solution, letting you run payroll from anywhere, automate routine tasks, and keep your data secure and up to date. It’s easy to use, scales as your business grows, and ensures you’re always compliant with the latest legislation - no more manual updates or software installs.

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