Payroll software for UK businesses

Automate your processes with fully integrated HR and payroll

For small and medium sized UK businesses. Now integrates with XERO.

  • Spend up to 80% less time on admin
  • Automate the pay run, import timesheets, apply leave requests, publish payslips and more
  • Improve compliance with automated HMRC real time information (RTI) reporting
  • Enable employees to update employee details with Employee Self Service (ESS)
  • Boost efficiency with our all-in-one platform for rota management, online timesheets, time & attendance, and more!
  • Automatically sync all HR data, rota, timesheet, and leave balance to ensure no payroll delays
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See Employment Hero in action

Automate your processes with fully integrated HR and payroll

For small and medium sized UK businesses. Now integrates with XERO.

  • Spend up to 80% less time on admin
  • Automate the pay run, import timesheets, apply leave requests, publish payslips and more
  • Improve compliance with automated HMRC real time information (RTI) reporting
  • Enable employees to update employee details with Employee Self Service (ESS)
  • Boost efficiency with our all-in-one platform for rota management, online timesheets, time & attendance, and more!
  • Automatically sync all HR data, rota, timesheet, and leave balance to ensure no payroll delays
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Why Employment Hero?

Better than your average Payroll Software

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Automatic Pay Calculations

Approved timesheets calculate earnings in realtime.
No more chasing timesheets! Your employees can submit timesheets and leave requests all through Employment Hero, using their mobile device, desktop or tablet.

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Automatic Leave Balances

Leave accrual and requests update in seconds.
Reduce double data handling and the errors that come with it, and never lose a leave request or timesheet again.

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Automatic Data Integrations

Sync with your chart of accounts and HRIS.
Access better reporting on payroll, employees, time and attendance with seamless integration so that you can free up valuable time for your business.

“It takes a manager 10 to 15 minutes to approve 50 timesheets.”

Alex Spencer, Operations Manager

“I love how easy it is to use; I can access work from the office, a specific centre, at home or even when on leave for emergencies.”

Rachael Hinton, HR Manager

“Before Employment Hero, everything was on paper. Now it takes half the time to do everything.

Katri Tormanen, HR and Office Admin

“Employment Hero has streamlined our process of recruitment through to onboarding. At the click of a button, we can coordinate everything from the recruitment process through to issuing a contract, managing payroll and compliance documents for new staff. Employment Hero is also making it much easier to manage policies, procedures and mandatory training. This has streamlined both short-term tasks through to end-of-year reviews. ”

Scott Lynch, Managing Director

Free Guide to Payroll for UK SMEs

Download the free guide for an essential overview of payroll compliance in the UK.

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Define your own pay rules

Build custom rule sets to automate pay runs, leave and pension entitlements.

Rostering, shift management and time and attendance

Budget and allocate shifts based on skills required, enable shift swapping and bidding amongst staff and automate timesheets and pay runs by logging start, break and end times.

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Payroll Reporting Interface

Payroll reporting

Make better business decisions using reports on all things payroll, employees, time and attendance and even the ATO. Integrate your chart of accounts for a 360* view of your accounting data.

InstaPay

Employees can access a portion of their earned wages in real time without having to wait for the next pay run. Perfect for one-off expenses that catch you by surprise, with no need for payday loans.

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Integrate seamlessly with your other tools

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Employment Hero. Your complete HR solution.