Access People
Online payroll software
Our cloud-based payroll software enables HR and payroll teams to stay in control of payroll and deliver the right pay on the right day. You can empower your teams to consistently deliver the payroll promise whilst saving time, reducing errors and future-proofing your software with our HMRC recognised payroll software.
Modern and friendly to use, our payroll systems are completely online, which means each time you login, you know you're using the very latest and most up-to-date technology.
Our Access People solutions are trusted by 19,000+ organisations in the UK and Ireland
Key features and benefits of our online payroll software
Our HMRC recognised in-house payroll software solutions offer a truly game-changing upgrade, whether you’re looking to move your payroll online and save time or achieve greater accuracy and future-proof your payroll software.
Payroll automation
Save time, improve accuracy and mitigate risk with automated task notifications, schedule reminders and configurable personal tasks, like reminders to generate P45s.
Improve payroll accuracy and efficiency
Make pay fast, efficient and accurate with payroll software features such as net to gross comparison reports and warning messages by percentage pay increases.
Employee payslip self-serve
Give employees access to their online payslips whenever they like, and via any device. With breakdown of their earned pay, historic payslips and ability to export and email.
Intelligent payroll reports
Focus business strategy with better payroll reporting. With ready-to-use, out-of-the-box reporting, our payroll software helps you view your data at a glance in a meaningful way.
Integrate with your HR systems
Integrate our payroll software with our wider suite of HR software. Avoid data duplication, remove the need to manually export data, and achieve a single source of truth.
Avoid potential overpayments
Our payroll solutions ensure that you pay people correctly in periods of sickness and absence. You can enter single or bulk sickness cases to calculate the correct statutory pay.
Ensure data safety and compliance
Stay in control of compliance with GDPR reporting, ability to delete records after an appropriate period, automated alerts sending your Employer Payment Summary (EPS) and automatic backups.
In-product support and training
Our online payroll software comes with walk-throughs and learning tools, increasing time to value and speeding up onboarding and with additional support from our payroll experts when required.
Which payroll system is best for your business?
Payroll software for organisations of any size
We understand that paying people right, on time, every time is important to all organisations. But we also know that your payroll requirements can change as your business grows, which is why our online payroll solutions are tailored to your needs.
The great thing is, there’s no downtime, no need to run updates, and no data risk. Our payroll systems are automatically updated and your data backed-up for you, securely. And, as web-based payroll solutions, you can manage your payroll from anywhere with an internet connection.
See our online payroll software in action
"Access People was the only provider we spoke to that could give us an end-to-end, secure, cloud-based HR and Payroll solution that works on any device, allowing us to transact and transform all on one platform."
"It has allowed us to fundamentally improve our payroll processing – with better visibility and flexibility each month than we have ever had, and payroll accuracy has been sustained above SLAs".
Payroll software FAQs
What is payroll software?
Payroll software is a tool used by Human Resource and payroll professionals to manage, maintain, and automate payments such as salaries to their employees. Stand alone or as part of a full HR software suite, payroll software accurately tracks and manages the variety of information related to employee pay and compensation.
Administration of payroll is one of the most essential business processes that your company performs and therefore shouldn’t be done manually in spreadsheets or with basic, old-fashioned functionality.
If you would prefer an external team to manage your payroll, we also provide trusted outsourced payroll services, to businesses in the UK and Ireland.
How does online payroll software work?
Online payroll software works through the payroll process in the same way that manual payroll is run – without the time drain and with far fewer errors.
Once set up with employee details (which can easily be imported in) and company information added, your online payroll software will work through the various checks and steps in the payroll process in order for your people to be paid accurately and on time.
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