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Sage Embedded Payroll for platforms

Embed payroll inside your platform

Give your small business customers trusted payroll inside your platform, with Sage embedded API technology. Help them pay people accurately, with automatic legislative updates. Launch faster without building from scratch.
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  • FTSE 100 listed
  • 2 million SMB customers
  • Network of 80k+ accountants

Why choose Sage Embedded Payroll for your platform?

Headless APIs

Embed trusted Sage technology in your UI, brand, and commercial model with our headless APIs to create a unified user experience natively in your platform.

Modular, composable services

Embed only the services you need, when you need them, adding modules as you scale, from payroll and expense management to embedded accounting and tax.

Trusted global partner

Embed trusted accounting, payroll and expense management at speed and accelerate your time to market across multiple regions.

Embeddable UI Workflows

Leverage Sage's optional embedded payroll UI workflows to get to market even faster.

Embedded Payroll

Run payroll, manage timesheets and leave, and deliver secure payroll documents all through your platform. Enable your small business customers to process employee payroll accurately with automatic legislative updates in your platform.
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Run small business payroll with an advanced calculation engine and create relevant regulatory reporting and submissions.
Leverage Sage's platform and decades of compliance expertise to simplify the delivery of payroll capabilities within your platform.
Help your customers manage pension duties more simply, with Sage supporting the logic behind the scenes.
Give your customers' employees clear, accessible payslips while Sage manages the payroll processing behind the experience.
Help your customers complete year-end payroll tasks with confidence, backed by exstensive payroll compliance expertise.
Hours in, pay out. Timesheet and leave data can flow directly into payroll, helping ensure employees are paid accurately for the hours they worked.
Help your customers keep employee payroll information organised and up to date and secure.

Unlock revenue with Sage Embedded Payroll

Sage Embedded Payroll offers headless APIs and optional UI components that enable banks, fintechs, HR and vertical SaaS platforms to embed payroll processing and automatic legislative updates directly into their own platforms, unlocking new revenue streams and increased retention.

Deliver business-critical payroll

Become a critical workflow in how your customers run their business with embedded payroll, increasing retention and reducing churn.

Leverage trusted payroll infrastructure

Sage manages the payroll engine so you never need to manage complex payroll regulatory logic yourself.

Grow recurring revenue

Add payroll as a high‑value, repeatable service that drives predictable revenue and deeper customer engagement.

Launch faster with confidence

Use Sage's modular APIs and optional UI components to accelerate payroll delivery and slash development time.

Can I connect payroll and accounting workflows?

With Sage's modular APIs, you can embed payroll and accounting within your platform to deliver a unified user experience and be the all-in-one platform for your customers.

  • Create connected payroll and accounting workflows with payroll data flowing directly into the financial system of record.
  • Gain deeper people and money insights across payroll and financial workflows to support growth opportunities and customer expansion.
  • Our payroll calculation engine automates ledger updates and financial reporting, reducing manual data entry and reconciliation effort.

FAQs about Embedded Services for accounting

Sage Embedded Payroll is a headless, modular API platform that enables banks, fintechs, and HR SaaS and vertical SaaS platforms to embed payroll processing and legislative compliance directly into their own products — under their own brand, without building payroll infrastructure from scratch.

Sage Embedded Payroll is designed for banks, fintechs, HR SaaS platforms, and vertical SaaS providers — any organisation building digital products for small business employers who need to run payroll, manage regular, and meet legislative obligations from within a single platform.

Embedding payroll can reduce time to market, depending on a platform’s strategy and chosen approach. Platforms can own the whole experience with headless APIs or move even faster with optional embeddable UI workflows. They can add new features faster and continue improving without delaying launch.

Sage Embedded Payroll is an embedded payroll platform built on headless APIs and optional UI components. Current capabilities include: payroll engine, automatic legislative updates, pension auto enrolment, payslips, year end reporting and compliance, timesheets, leave management and employee management.

Embedded payroll can improve customer retention by giving SMBs access to more essential services within the platform they already use. By enabling employers to run payroll, manage employee information and meet legislative obligations without switching between systems, the platform becomes more valuable to day-to-day operations. This increased convenience and deeper capabilities can strengthen customer loyalty and reduce the likelihood of businesses moving to another platform.

Embedded Payroll can improve customer retention by giving SMBs access to more essential services within the platform they already use. By enabling employers to run payroll, manage employee information and meet legislative obligations without switching between systems, the platform becomes more valuable to day-to-day operations. This increased convenience and deeper capabilities can strengthen customer loyalty and reduce the likelihood of businesses moving to another platform.

Want to know more about Embedded Payroll?

Our team of experts is ready to answer your questions and discuss options to enhance your platform with Sage Embedded Payroll.
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Important Notice: Sage Embedded Payroll will be available in the UK from 2027. For more information, please contact Sage