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Express Edition
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CIS
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One Year Licence
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£28.00
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Two year licence cost per year
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£49.90
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Three year licence cost per year
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Accredited by HMRC
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Runs on your PC, you have ownership and control of your data
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Limit to the number of companies that can be managed on one licence
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Maximum number of employees per company
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Designed to be as easy as possible for novices
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General
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Monthly payrolls, weekly payrolls, 2 weekly payrolls, and 4 weekly payrolls
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An unlimited number of payrolls in each company
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An unlimited number of employees in each payroll
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Automatic calculation of PAYE, all tax codes handled
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New starter employee tax code automatically derived from P45, P46 or P38S
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Automatic calculation of National Insurance
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Director’s rules for NI calculations when required
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An unlimited number of regular payments or deductions per employee
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Payments and Deductions can be lump-sum or hours/rate/pay
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Easily handles irregular and casual employees, and employees with multiple payment rates such as overtime
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An unlimited number of one-off payments or deductions per employee each period
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Automatic week 53/54/56 if required
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Trial pay calculations as many times as needed
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| Student Loans handled automatically |
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Retention of Historic Data
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All information from old periods kept indefinitely
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Reports from old periods can be reprinted at any time
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All information from previous years kept indefinitely
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Reports from previous years can be reprinted at any time
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Operations can continue in new PAYE year before previous PAYE year has been finalised and submitted
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Easy and fully-audited adjustments where an employee has had the wrong NI table applied in a previous period
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Integrated backup and restore functionality
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Automatic local backup before each period-end procedure
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Absences and Statutory Payments
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Automatic calculation of Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
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Automatic calculation of Statutory Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Pay (SMP/SPP/SAP)
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Statutory absence calendar for each employee
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Automatic calculation of SSP Recovery
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Automatic calculation of SMP/SPP/SAP recovery and small employer compensation if necessary
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| Recording of holiday and compassionate leave |
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Automatic calculation of accrued holiday entitlement, can either be based on annual days (like regular staff/salaried employees) or based on an hourly holiday accrual rate (eg 10.2% statutory minimum)
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Reports
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All reports produced as Abobe Acrobat documents
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No special stationery required
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Payslips print on blank paper
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Pay and overtime can show on payslips as pay values or as hours x rate = pay
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| Option to print selfseal payslips |
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P11, P60 and Pay statements can be printed en masse
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P11, P60 and Pay statements can be separately requested for each employee
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P11 reports showing employee PAYE and NI
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P32 report showing how much should be paid to the Inland Revenue. Complete monthly/quarterly P32 breakdown available at any time
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P35 end of year report
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P45s for leavers print on standard IR stationery
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| P45(Online) form following internet submission of P45(1) |
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P60s for employees at year end print on blank paper
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Payroll summary report list total payments and deductions this period
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Reconciliation report shows detail of differences between this period and last period
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Net pay report includes employee bank details
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Department summary report shows totals for easy entry into accounting system
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Annual summary of period pay for each employee
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Annual hours worked summary report by employee and month
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| Small red copyright notice on all reports |
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| Small very light grey copyright notice on all reports |
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Additional colour-schemes so that payslips can match corporate image
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| Nominal ledger summary report |
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| Option to print your own logo on reports and payslips |
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| Simple Report Writer for creating your own reports |
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Sundry Facilities
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Automatic calculation of net pay up to gross pay if required
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Automatic calculation of advance holiday weeks for weekly-paid employees
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Numerous pension deductions defined, including lump sum payment, percentages, COMP, and stakeholder
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Employee loan repayments from net pay, which stop automatically when the loan has been fully repaid
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Attachments of earnings, including protected net pay and carry-forward of arrears
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Earnings Arrestments and CMA orders, including protected net pay and carry-forward of arrears
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Collection of Magistrate Court fines and Council Tax Attachments
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Option to automatically suppress tax refunds to employees who do not work every week.
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Built in backup and restore function
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Online help available for all functions
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Additional HR details stored against employees
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Facility to link external documents (eg Word, Excel) to employee records
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Link to Business Link tool for generating Written Statement of Employment
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External Interfaces
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HMRC generic file for inspector
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Most values on P35 calculated automatically from employee data
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Test submission of internet P14/P35 to HMRC
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Live submission of Internet P14/P35 to HMRC at year end
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Net pay files for banking software
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Internet submission of starter and leaver details (P45 and P46) to HMRC
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Export of nominal ledger transaction summarising payroll suitable for Sage Line 50
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Optional integration with KashFlow bookkeeping software
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| XML export of payroll data |
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| Excel or csv export of payroll data |
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Import of this period's payments and deductions from Excel
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Import of this period's payments and deductions from a file
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Import of new employees from Excel spreadsheet
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Update of existing employees from Excel spreadsheet
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CIS (Construction Industry Scheme) Extensions for Subcontractors
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Can be used by contractor paying subcontractors, or for subcontractors to operate their own payroll.
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Specify if subcontractor payments deducted at higher CIS rate or lower rate by default, or gross for no deduction
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One-off payments automatically attract CIS deduction at subcontractor rate
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Calculated CIS deduction can be manually adjusted as payment is entered
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CIS deduction reference from contractor may be entered, operator is warned if it is not supplied
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System shows CIS deduction as an employer rebate, and automatically makes appropriate nominal ledger entries if premium licence has been purchased
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CIS deduction column shown on employee summary report and P11 (Tax)
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P32 (Payment summary report) includes CIS deduction column, and automatically adds/subtracts CIS deduction from liability to HMRC
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P35 (End of year summary report) includes CIS total for the year, and adds/subtracts it from total liability to HMRC
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Internet submissions are automatically adjusted to reflect CIS deductions
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CIS300 report shows CIS deductions for the month
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Internet submission of CIS300
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Needs Premium and CIS
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Internet request of subcontractor verification number
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Needs Premium and CIS
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