BrightPay

Advanced multi-conditional nominal account mappings by department, directorship, payment type

Basic nominal account mappings for journal posting

Create your own nominal ledger mapping

Specify the journal date range

Include individual journal records for each employee, or merge into rolled up records

Post journal directly to Sage, Quickbooks and Xero via API, or create a CSV payroll journal

Automatically calculates cash equivalent for cars

Record all types of expenses and benefits for each employee with inline guidance

Automatically calculates cash equivalent for loans

Submission of payrolled company car benefit details on FPS

Calculates and applies the PAYE owed on expenses and benefits in each pay period

Support for Type A (assets transferred) expenses

Support for Type B (payments made or tax paid on behalf of employee) expenses

Support for Type C (vouchers and credit cards) expenses

Support for Type D (accommodation) expenses

Support for Type E (mileage allowance and passenger payments) expenses

Support for Type F (car, fuel) expenses

Support for Type G (vans, fuel) expenses

Support for Type H (interest free or low interest loans) expenses

Support for Type I (private medical treatment or insurance) expenses

Support for Type J (relocation) expenses

Support for Type K (services supplied) expenses

Support for Type L (assets place at employee's disposal) expenses

Support for Type M (other) expenses

Support for Type N (travelling, entertainment, etc.) expenses

Automates and streamlines auto enrolment tasks with smart alerts for duties that need to be performed

RTI submission automatically updated with changes until sent

All EPS data items are supported for Employer Payment Summary submissions

All HMRC communications are logged for audit trail

Share-able HMRC Receipt document for RTI submissions

Support for late reporting reasons in RTI submissions

Support for National Living Wage, UK Living Wage, London Living Wage including apprentices

Send multiple RTI submissions simultaneously

Warns when hourly-paid employee is not being paid their minimum wage rate

Supports RTI BACS sub-reference where required

Manually set values for additional FPS data items such as contracted hours, irregular payment pattern, flexibly accessing pension rights

Full HMRC Recognition for Earlier Year Update (EYU - applicable to 17/18 tax year and earlier)

Full HMRC Recognition for Employer Payment Summary (EPS)

Full HMRC Recognition for Full Payment Submission (FPS) with automatic creation as payroll is processed

Full HMRC Recognition for NINO Verification Request (NVR)

Submission errors shown in clear, user-friendly format

Information in each RTI submission shown in user-friendly, printable format

Support for admin charge on attachment orders

Support for amount shortfall and carry-forward on attachment orders

Add unlimited attachment orders for any employee

Batch add additions and deductions to multiple payslips

Support for Child Support Deduction from Earnings order

Support for Civil Judgement Debt Attachment of Earnings order

Support for Council Tax Attachment of Earnings order

Set deductions as before/after tax, before/after NIC and/or before/after pension

Support for Direct Earnings Attachment (fixed amount or percentage, 2013 or 2015 rates)

Support for Magistrates Court Attachment of Earnings order

Support for Maintenance Attachment of Earnings order

Support for Northern Ireland Attachment of Earnings order

Additions and deductions can be calculated as a percentage of payslip basic, gross or net pay

Postgraduate Loan deductions with option to enter PGLD start and stop dates

Support for priority attachment orders

Add additions/deductions to a single pay period or have them automatically repeat each pay period

Support for Scottish Current Maintenance Arrestment (CMA)

Support for Scottish Earnings Arrestment (EA)

Student Loan Plan 1 and Plan 2 deductions with option to enter SLD start and stop dates

Explicitly set additions as taxable, NIC-able and/or pension-able

Add unlimited additions and/or deductions to any payslip

Set absence (full or part days)

Calculate annual leave accruement by number of hours worked with or without overtime

Calculate annual leave by number of working days per week

Calculate annual leave using a set number of days per year

View annual leave step-by-step calculation

Carry over annual leave from previous year

Quickly view, print or export the annual leave entitlement up to any date for one or multiple employees

Shows bank holidays for employer's region (England/Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland)

Add notes to any day on the calendar

Interactive calendar for managing employee leave, absence, and working patterns

Keep in Touch (KIT) days, Return to Work days and Shared Parental Leave in Touch (SPLIT) days

Set annual leave (full or part days, by the day or by the hour)

Add parenting leave directly on calendar including Keep in Touch days, Return to Work days and Shared Parenting Leave in Touch days

Add unlimited blocks of Shared Parenting Leave

Set sick days with SSP calculation support

Override the 5.6 statutory holiday entitlement weeks for any employee

Set strike (full or part days)

Set unpaid leave (full or part days)

Set schedule of working and non-working days generally or for specific dates

Assign payment records to one or multiple departments with weightings

Support for weekly, fortnightly, 4-weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly payment schedules

Company-wide and employee-specific daily and hourly rates, normal or overtime with unlimited rates

Add multiple notes to any payment record which can optionally be shown on employee payslip

Support for piece of work payment calculations

Ability to process pre-paid holiday pay

Process salary based payments with support for target net pay and net to gross calculations

Process employees individually or in batches

Process payroll by department, payment method, directorship, alpha grouping, and more

Different pay dates can be used for different employees in a single pay period

Create 'Payment After Leaving' payslips for departed employees

Switch employee from one payment schedule to another throughout the payroll year

Reopen previous pay period for one or multiple employees to allow changes to be made

Show annual leave days (or hours) remaining on employee payslips

Print, email or export payslips by department, payment method, directorship, alpha grouping

Export payslips to PDF files with optional password protection

Tailor payslips to show/hide employer logo, period number, tax week, employee address and more

Email payslips in one click with customisable subject and body as PDF attachment

Print payslips on blank paper or popular stationery in multiple formats

View, print or email one or multiple payslips for any employee

Support for Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVCs)

Support for Cessation in auto enrolment

Print, email and export customisable statutory letter for postponement, enrolment, and right to opt-in/join

Manage Enrolment, opt-ins and joins in auto enrolment

Manage Out-outs and refunds in auto enrolment

Interoperability with auto enrolment qualifying pensions schemes by NEST, The People's Pension, NOW: Pensions, Aegon, Aviva and others

Support for Re-enrolment in auto enrolment

Support for Contracted-In Salary Related Schemes (CISR)

Support for Contracted-out Salary Related Schemes (COSR)

Set default contributions for pension schemes

Support for Free Standing AVC Schemes

Support for Group Personal Pensions (GPP)

Support NEST Web Services for one-click submission of enrolment/contribution details and verification

Fixed amount or percentage based employer and employee contributions

Produces enrolment and contributions CSV files for supported pension scheme providers

Earnings bands for pension contribution calculations

Automatically retrieve staging date from The Pensions Regulator directly in BrightPay

Support for Personal Pensions (PP)

Performs pre-staging assessment to establish projected cost of AE and determine if pension scheme registration is required

Support for Staging Assessment Postponement in auto enrolment

Support for Stakeholder Schemes

Several built-in one-click reports available

Save your own reports to use each pay period

Report on employee (or subcontractor) totals, department totals, or both together

Create flexible custom reports with various options

Report on HMRC payment amounts

Employer wide minimum wage report usable for hourly and non-hourly paid employees

Report on scheme contributions and deductions in analysis

Choose from over 100 data items to include in a report

Choose which employees (or subcontractors) to include in a report

Reports on pay periods, tax weeks, tax months, or the entire tax year

Ability to roll up pre-pay in reports

Print and export reports

Include total, average, minimum and/or maximum summary values in reports

Ability to ignore 'zero' payments in reports

Ability to override calculation of Average Weekly Earnings (AWE) when determining Statutory pay amounts

Correct handling of sick days after a mother returns to work but is still within the Maternity Pay Period (MPP)

Comprehensive validation of Parenting Leave settings to help avoid any mistakes

Pay SSP due in past pay period retroactively in a later pay period

Determination of eligibility for and calculation of Shared Parental Pay (ShPP)

Automatically determine SSP periods of incapacity to work, waiting days and qualifying days

Determination of eligibility for and calculation of Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP)

Determination of eligibility for and calculation of Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP)

Determination of eligibility for and calculation of Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP)

Determination of eligibility for and calculation of Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)