How to Build Your Own BrightPay
Replace BrightPay with a custom build. Award-winning payroll software that's used to pay 3.5 million employees every month
Build Difficulty: 3/5
Plan for 1-2 weeks of building with AI assistance
Estimated Timeline
Based on 178 features at 1-2 Weeks difficulty, expect about 1-2 weeks with AI-assisted development.
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Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 8 categories. See all 178 features
Deductions(21 features)
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
+16 more in this category
Pensions(21 features)
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
+16 more in this category
Benefits Management(19 features)
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
+14 more in this category
Leave Management(19 features)
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
+14 more in this category
Compliance(17 features)
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
+12 more in this category
Reporting(14 features)
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
+9 more in this category
Statutory Pay(10 features)
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)
+5 more in this category
Payment Processing(7 features)
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
+2 more in this category
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