Small business owners

MassiveJim · 15 Sep 2017 at 13:31

What payroll software do you use ?

I have 1 employee and have been using HMRC Basics, but that doesn't integrate in anyway with automatic enrolment.

Would be a bonus if it could automatically upload pension data to my pension scheme as well.

Freakbro · 15 Sep 2017 at 13:44

Sage One - online payroll, very simple to use, costs £5 + vat / month to use (can get half price offer for first few months if you look around)

http://uk.sageone.com/

It integrates with NEST afaik, not sure what other pension schemes it does automatically, but it will output your pension data in a csv file

I have used Quickbooks Payroll as well, and as much as I love their accounts software, the payroll was awful, so I moved to Sage One

jimjamuk · 15 Sep 2017 at 15:31

an accountant will do your payroll for not a lot

otherwise Sageone

Kemik · 15 Sep 2017 at 15:35

What software do you use for your accounting?

Clearbooks is decent. Your accountant can usually get discounts.

Russinating · 15 Sep 2017 at 15:51

Xero.

MassiveJim · 15 Sep 2017 at 16:19

Kemik said:
What software do you use for your accounting?

Clearbooks is decent. Your accountant can usually get discounts.

very small and basic business, accounts are done by myself in excel.
I do have a friend who is an accountant who comes over once a year just to check over my figures before i upload them to HMRC

Destination · 15 Sep 2017 at 16:24

We use nest for the pensions stuff, autoenrolement made easy.

Martynt74 · 9 Oct 2017 at 09:55

My wife uses Brightpay and i think it would be free for your needs

peige · 9 Oct 2017 at 10:09

Sage with the pension module for Nest. All a doddle to do every week. Takes about an 1/2 hour all in to do 16 people complete with print outs, nest upload and online tax submission.

I don't like the way they are moving all of their software to monthly payments (we use sage accounts too) but its the way everyone is going now so little choice.

Kemik · 9 Oct 2017 at 10:58

MassiveJim said:
very small and basic business, accounts are done by myself in excel.
I do have a friend who is an accountant who comes over once a year just to check over my figures before i upload them to HMRC

How small is small? A lot of my clients see the benefit of using an accounting software like Clearbooks/QBO/Xero (albeit the latter is very expensive for the same features) with turnover of around £20k and up because it allows them to easily track invoices and reconcile to their bank account (it imports every night).

jsmoke · 9 Oct 2017 at 11:34

No idea about this kind of stuff but can you not just use excel or does SAGE actually process the bank transactions also?