Payroll software calculates pay, tax and National Insurance, produces compliant payslips and distributes them to employees. In the UK every employee has a legal right to an itemised payslip on or before payday, showing gross pay, deductions and net pay.
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Not the arithmetic — software does that. The failures are procedural: paying someone before they are set up, missing a starter declaration, or treating a casual worker as though employment rules do not apply to them.
The other common one is timing. Reporting to HMRC has to happen on or before payday, and a submission made afterwards is late even if everyone was paid correctly.
When payroll runs beside the ledger, the wage cost, the tax liability and the payment out are one set of records rather than a monthly reconciliation between two systems.
Bizzle bills payroll per payslip run rather than per employee, so a business with a handful of casual staff is not paying a per-head fee for people who work occasional shifts.
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Yes, provided the employee can access them. Electronic payslips are acceptable; the requirement is that they receive it on or before payday, not that it is on paper.
They are employees for payroll purposes when they work. Hours vary, the obligations do not, and this is where small employers most often slip.
If the company pays a salary, yes — PAYE registration and RTI submissions apply even for a single director on a small salary.
It is billed per payslip run rather than per employee or as a flat add-on, so three casual staff paid in a quiet month cost less than a full-time team in a busy one. Staff records themselves are free.
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