AnonyMouse_19802 Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 My lovely payroll services Lady is retiring in April (lucky her) I am now trying to find someone to do this role for me within my budget!! Not easy so far! I am wondering if anyone on here does this job themselves and if so, how easy is it, what do I need to do etc? i am not at all tec minded and it would need to be simple and automatic - (no working out)! I only have 5 staff so not too much work I hope. Any suggestions ( thought of retiring myself but not yet feasible) on how I could trial it?.... Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_8282 Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 My daughter does ours and says it's pretty simple, we use Sage- costs around £12/13 o month I think. She has no actually accounting experience. I actually give her the staff hours for the month. It provides the payslips etc, and she also gives me a monthly printout which includes HMCR stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_14268 Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 We use the Devon payroll which is part of the Early years alliance. I keep thinking I should do it myself, but I am not confident enough! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_30128 Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 Payroll companies tend to be quite reasonable..have you checked them out? they charge per employee and will sort out pensions etc too. Or you could use a system like quick books? my administrotor does ours but there is some skill in sorting it our due to the way we calculate our wages (rolled up pay) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_8282 Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 15 hours ago, finleysmaid said: my administrotor does ours but there is some skill in sorting it our due to the way we calculate our wages (rolled up pay) Yes, I have to admit we do- worked hours paid monthly, plus 1 week holiday Christmas, 1 week easter, and the rest owing during the summer break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_19762 Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 Have to admit that I completely 'cop out' of this and email details to my accountant and she deals with it and emails the payslips back to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_30128 Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 I do apologise about my spelling this week...put it down to tiredness or age or stupidity or.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_7120 Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 On 11/28/2019 at 19:28, zigzag said: We use the Devon payroll which is part of the Early years alliance. I keep thinking I should do it myself, but I am not confident enough! I hope you’re finding Devon Payroll is working well zigzag, I just didn’t feel I was paid enough for the responsibility any longer when the work place pension came in and now with the holiday pay change I’m so glad the committee agreed to outsource to DP ...a huge relief at what I think is a good price for the service I receive :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_37203 Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 I do ours using Sage. For five staff it will be under a tenner a month. Not sure I’m at all qualified but has been ok so far. Each year I say I’ll ask my accountant to do it, especially as we are now a team of ten and a maternity leave just about fried my brain, but I’m very tight! When I gets to the point that Sage costs the same as the accountant maybe I’ll hand it over but then again calculating the hours is the tricky part for me and if i still have to do that might as well do the whole thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_30128 Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 (edited) quick books apparently £4 per month plus £1 per employee Edited November 30, 2019 by finleysmaid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_12805 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 We had a Treasurer leave in the middle of summer holidays- so I ended up doing it myself. I would still have to calculate hours for someone each month anyway- so thought I may as well have a go. I use Moneysoft - Payroll- brilliant software that is so easy to use. Does everything for me, HMRC, our pension contributions payslips, etc. I think it costs around £75 + vat per year, Their customer support is pretty good as well. The person who dumped it all in middle of hols left us in a right mess with HMRC (ended up with them thinking 3 of our staff had 2 different jobs with us!) but Moneysoft CS helped us out greatly to sort it. My only criticism of them is they dont do it for a MAC, which I now use. So I've had to keep a very old and slow windows laptop running just to do the payroll. I have absolutely no accounting experience at all and we have 9 staff. I hink you can do a trial? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_19802 Posted December 2, 2019 Author Share Posted December 2, 2019 Thank you all for advice. I will look into it and let you know how I get on! Thanks again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_88357 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 May be a bit late now, but I offer payroll services as part of my bookkeeping business I run alongside my role in a Preschool. Fee free to get in touch if you would like some support on payroll. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_19802 Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share Posted March 14, 2020 Well haven't bit the bullet and took this on myself....yet!, instead have found a company that is going to cost me a lot more than my last payroll service and who so far have not been proactive in answering my emails!, They are due to take my payroll on in April and making me nervous. Sooo I may just give a Moneysoft or similar a trial over the Easter hols when I have time to see if I can do it!! Look out Tweetinat I may be on your case..... Soon!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_12805 Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Rafa- if you are using Moneysoft Payroll Manager - I can help a bit with any queries, that's what I've been using for last 4/5 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_7120 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 On 28/11/2019 at 19:28, zigzag said: We use the Devon payroll which is part of the Early years alliance. I keep thinking I should do it myself, but I am not confident enough! Hi zigzag Are you furloughing staff? If yes do you know if it’s as simple as us telling them who/when from and they’ll do the rest 🤞. Ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_14268 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 38 minutes ago, Mouseketeer said: Hi zigzag Are you furloughing staff? If yes do you know if it’s as simple as us telling them who/when from and they’ll do the rest 🤞. Ta Hi Mouseketeer, I contacted them this week to see if we can furlough staff whilst in receipt of our funding. She is waiting for more info and will hopefully let us all know next week. So if we can then yes we will be! Devon payroll have been fabulous haven’t they about keeping us informed. Such a good service. So very glad I followed your recommendation. X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_7120 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 5 hours ago, zigzag said: Hi Mouseketeer, I contacted them this week to see if we can furlough staff whilst in receipt of our funding. She is waiting for more info and will hopefully let us all know next week. So if we can then yes we will be! Devon payroll have been fabulous haven’t they about keeping us informed. Such a good service. So very glad I followed your recommendation. X They do provide an excellent service :-) I didn’t realize there was a question over furloughing & funding, I thought DfE had confirmed we could do both, was just hoping they would deal with it rather than me, I’d happily pay as an additional service :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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