Feature

Express Edition

One Year Licence

Free

£48.00

£24.00

Two year licence cost per year

Free

£45.60

£24.00

Three year licence cost per year

Free

£43.20

£24.00

Accredited by HMRC

Y

Y

Y

Runs on your PC, you have ownership and control of your data

Y

Y

Y

Limit to the number of companies that can be managed on one licence

3

No Limit 

3 

Designed to be as easy as possible for novices

Y

Y

Y

General

Monthly payrolls, weekly payrolls, 2 weekly payrolls, and 4 weekly payrolls

Y

Y

Y

An unlimited number of payrolls in each company

Y

Y

Y

An unlimited number of employees in each payroll

Y

Y

Y

Automatic calculation of PAYE, all tax codes handled

Y

Y

Y

New starter employee tax code automatically derived from P45, P46 or P38S

Y

Y

Y

Automatic calculation of National Insurance

Y

Y

Y

Director’s rules for NI calculations when required

Y

Y

Y

An unlimited number of regular payments or deductions per employee

Y

Y

Y

Payments and Deductions can be lump-sum or hours/rate/pay

Y

Y

Y

Easily handles irregular and casual employees, and employees with multiple payment rates such as overtime

Y

Y

Y

An unlimited number of one-off payments or deductions per employee each period

Y

Y

Y

Automatic week 53/54/56 if required

Y

Y

Y

Trial pay calculations as many times as needed

Y

Y

Y

Y

Retention of Historic Data

All information from old periods kept indefinitely

Y

Y

Y

Reports from old periods can be reprinted at any time

Y

Y

Y

All information from previous years kept indefinitely

Y

Y

Y

Reports from previous years can be reprinted at any time

Y

Y

Y

Operations can continue in new PAYE year before previous PAYE year has been finalised and submitted

Y

Y

Y

Easy and fully-audited adjustments where an employee has had the wrong NI table applied in a previous period

Y

Y

Y

Integrated backup and restore functionality

Y

Y

Y

Automatic local backup before each period-end procedure

Y

Y

Y

Absences and Statutory Payments

Automatic calculation of Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)

Y

Y

Y

Automatic calculation of Statutory Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Pay (SMP/SPP/SAP)

Y

Y

Y

Statutory absence calendar for each employee

Y

Y

Y

Automatic calculation of SSP Recovery

Y

Y

Y

Automatic calculation of SMP/SPP/SAP recovery and small company compensation if necesssary

Y

Y

Y

Y

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) 

Y

Reports

All reports produced as Abobe Acrobat documents

Y

Y

Y

No special stationery required

Y

Y

Y

Payslips print on blank paper

Trial

Y

Y

Pay and overtime can show on payslips as pay values or as hours x rate = pay

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

P11, P60 and Pay statements can be printed en masse

Trial

Y

Y

P11, P60 and Pay statements can be separately requested for each employee

Y

Y

Y

P11 reports showing employee PAYE and NI

Y

Y

Y

P32 report showing how much should be paid to the Inland Revenue. Complete monthly/quarterly P32 breakdown available at any time

Y

Y

Y

P35 end of year report

Y

Y

Y

P45s for leavers print on standard IR stationery

Y

Y

Y

P60s for employees at year end print on blank paper

Y

Y

Y

Payroll summary report list total payments and deductions this period

Trial

Y

Y

Reconciliation report shows detail of differences between this period and last period

Trial

Y

Y

Net pay report includes employee bank details

Trial

Y

Y

Department summary report shows totals for easy entry into accounting system

Trial

Y

Y

Annual summary of period pay for each employee

Trial

Y

Y

Annual hours worked summary report by employee and month

Y

Y

Y

Y

Additional colour-schemes so that payslips can match corporate image

Y

Y

Y

Sundry Facilities

Automatic calculation of net pay up to gross pay if required

Y

Y

Y

Automatic calculation of advance holiday weeks for weekly-paid employees

Y

Y

Y

Numerous pension deductions defined, including lump sum payment, percentages, COMP, and stakeholder

Y

Y

Y

Employee loan repayments from net pay, which stop automatically when the loan has been fully repaid

Y

Y

Y

Attachments of earnings, including protected net pay and carry-forward of arrears

Y

Y

Y

Earnings Arrestments and CMA orders, including protected net pay and carry-forward of arrears

Y

Y

Y

Collection of Magistrate Court fines and Council Tax Attachments

Y

Y

Y

Option to automatically suppress tax refunds to employees who do not work every week.

Y

Y

Y

Built in backup and restore function

Y

Y

Y

Online help available for all functions

Y

Y

Y

Additional HR details stored against employees

Y

Facility to link external documents (eg Word, Excel) to employee records

Y

Link to Business Link tool for generating Written Statement of Employment

Y

External Interfaces

HMRC generic file for inspector

Y

Y

Y

Most values on P35 calculated automatically from employee data

Y

Y

Y

Test submission of internet P14/P35 to HMRC

Y

Y

Y

Live submission of Internet P14/P35 to HMRC at year end

Y

Net pay files for banking software

Y

Internet submission of starter and leaver details (P45 and P46) to HMRC

Y

Export of nominal ledger transaction summarising payroll suitable for Sage Line 50

Y

Optional integration with KashFlow bookkeeping software

Y

Y

Y

Import of this period's payments and deductions from Excel

Y

Import of this period's payments and deductions from a file

Y

Import of new employees from Excel spreadsheet

Y

Y

CIS (Construction Industry Scheme) Extensions for Subcontractors

Can be used by contractor paying subcontractors, or for subcontractors to operate their own payroll.

o

Y

Specify if subcontractor payments deducted at higher CIS rate or lower rate by default, or gross for no deduction 

o

Y

One-off payments automatically attract CIS deduction at subcontractor rate

o

Y

Calculated CIS deduction can be manually adjusted as payment is entered

o