Run every client's payroll from one intelligent platform. Automated RTI submissions, AI payslip validation and instant year-end documents, with your first client free.
The Free plan covers one client. If you run payroll for a practice, the first bureaus to join get every feature, for every client, at no charge and with no time limit, in return for telling us what works and what does not. Leave your details and we will set you up personally.
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No implementation project. No training days. No consultant. Just sign up and go.
Enter company name, PAYE reference, and pay frequency. Takes about 60 seconds. Your client is ready for employees immediately.
Enter manually, or drop in your existing spreadsheet, and AI maps the columns to the right fields automatically. No reformatting required.
Run the payroll, review the AI validation summary, approve. Payslips issue instantly and the FPS goes straight to HMRC. Done.
Most bureau platforms charge for implementation, require training days, and take weeks to go live. Payburo is different: there is nothing to configure beyond your own data. No implementation partner, no mandatory training, no project plan. If you can fill in a spreadsheet, you can run payroll on Payburo.
Built for the way UK payroll practices actually work, not bolted on as an afterthought.
Switch a client to Supervised mode and Payburo handles the rest. Pay runs are created and calculated automatically on each pay day. Your operators receive an email to review and approve; one click issues payslips and submits the FPS to HMRC. No manual scheduling. No missed pay days. Runs at 9am London time, every pay cycle.
After every calculation, Payburo's AI reviews each payslip for anomalies: unexpected tax codes, NI category mismatches, unusual pay changes, and statutory deductions outside expected ranges. Issues are flagged as Error, Warning, or Info before you approve. Catch the mistakes that manual checks miss, every time.
Submit Full Payment Submissions and Employer Payment Summaries directly to HMRC's Government Gateway: no third-party software, no manual XML. Each run shows its submission status as it changes: submitted, accepted or rejected by HMRC. A re-submission guard prevents accidental duplicates. EPS supports employment allowance, statutory payment recovery, and no-payment periods.
The built-in AI assistant answers natural-language questions across your entire portfolio. "Which clients have employees on W1/M1 tax codes this month?" "What was the total employer NI across all companies last quarter?" Powered by Claude, with strict PII protection: employee names, NI numbers and bank details are never sent to the AI.
Got employee data in a non-standard spreadsheet? Payburo reads your headers and the shape of the first row (letters and digits are masked, so no name or NI number is sent to the AI), and suggests which column is which. Review the mapping, adjust anything you need, and import. No reformatting, no guesswork, no manual re-keying. How the import works.
Every payslip is available as a PDF the moment a pay run is issued. P45s are generated automatically when an employee leaves. P60s cover every completed tax year and are available per employee on demand, with a year picker so prior-year documents stay accessible. All produced in HMRC-compliant format, ready to send directly to employees.
The details that make a bureau run smoothly, built in from day one.
All your client companies in one account. Add team members as operators or viewers with role-based, per-client access control.
Bureau-level summaries across all clients. Filter by company or tax year, export to CSV for your own records and client reporting.
A Faster Payments CSV generated per run for your bank's bulk upload (check the layout your bank expects). A Bacs Standard 18 file is on the way.
Every action logged with timestamp and operator. Append-only audit history for compliance, dispute resolution, and regulatory review.
Weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly, or monthly. Set once per client, then used automatically for automation, period numbering, and RTI timing.
Fully browser-based. Nothing to install, no annual updates, no per-device licensing. Desktop, laptop, or tablet: it just works.
An honest look, including where we are behind. Figures are from each vendor's own site, checked 4 October 2026. Read the full comparison, with prices and sources.
| Feature | Payburo That's us | BrightPay | Moneysoft | Payroo Bureau |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Published price | Free, then £12 to £49 a month, plus £0.08 per employee over the allowance | Quote from its calculator | £95 to £285 a year by licence | £10 a month plus 20p per employee |
| HMRC RTI (FPS & EPS) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| On HMRC's recognised list | Not yet | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Runs in a browser | ✓ | ✓ | Downloaded | ✓ |
| Many clients in one account | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Employee payslip portal | PDFs to send | ✓ | Print or email | ✓ |
| AI checks on every payslip before approval | ✓ | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Pay runs prepared automatically for approval | ✓ | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
Feature comparison based on publicly available information. Bureau and multi-entity pricing varies; check each provider directly.
Free for one small client. Paid plans are sized by how many client companies you run, with an employee allowance and a small charge per employee above it, so growing never hits a wall.
One client company, up to 9 employees
Up to 3 client companies, 25 employees included
Up to 15 client companies, 100 employees included
Unlimited client companies, 300 employees included
Unlimited employees
Payburo is not VAT registered, so no VAT is charged and invoices carry no VAT element to reclaim. Plans are sized by total active employees pooled across all your client companies. 30-day free trial on all paid plans: cancel before day 30, no charge.
Plain-English guides to RTI and the 2026/27 rules, kept up to date. All guides and free calculators.
What goes in a Full Payment Submission, when to send it, and how to fix a rejection.
The situations that need an Employer Payment Summary, its deadlines, and how it differs from the FPS.
Paid from day one, no lower earnings limit, and 80% of average earnings for low earners.
Cars, fuel, vans and private medical through payroll, with Class 1A paid in real time.
Annual earnings periods, mid-year appointments, and what the FPS reports.
How week 53, 54 and 56 are taxed, and which tax years have one.
Straight answers about Payburo's payroll bureau platform.
Yes. Payburo submits FPS and EPS directly to HMRC's Government Gateway: no separate filing software, no re-keying. Every submission is tracked inside the platform, showing whether it has been submitted, accepted or rejected by HMRC.
Yes. Payburo is built specifically for bureaus and accounting practices. Manage all your client companies from one account, with each company's payroll data fully isolated. Assign team members as operators or viewers on a per-client basis.
After every calculation, the payslip figures (no names, no NI numbers) are reviewed by Claude AI for anomalies: unusual pay levels, NI or tax code inconsistencies, and deductions outside expected ranges. Findings appear as Error, Warning, or Info before you approve the run.
Yes. One client company with up to 9 employees, with direct HMRC RTI, payslips, P45s, P60s and the pension and payment exports, for nothing: no card, no time limit. It leaves out the AI features. Paid plans come with a 30-day free trial of everything, so you can run real payroll and import your client data before deciding; cancel before day 30 and you won't be charged a penny.
Set a client to Supervised mode. On each pay day, Payburo creates the run, runs the calculation, and emails your operators to review. Approve in one click, and payslips are issued and the FPS submitted to HMRC automatically. It runs at 9am London time, every pay cycle, including BST.
No. Payburo is entirely browser-based: there's nothing to install, no annual disc updates, and no per-device licensing. Access it from any modern browser on desktop, laptop, or tablet. Your data is backed up continuously.
Yes. Every payslip calculation assesses any not-yet-assessed employee against the DWP criteria (aged 22 to state pension age, earning more than the enrolment trigger for the pay period, on The Pensions Regulator's per-period figures) and enrols them if they qualify. Contributions run on qualifying earnings at employer and employee rates you set per client company, under relief at source or a net pay arrangement, with thresholds versioned by tax year. Opt-outs and postponements are respected, and every pay run exports a contribution schedule for NEST or NOW: Pensions.
Still yours to do: the statutory employee communications, the three-yearly re-enrolment cycle, and your declaration of compliance to The Pensions Regulator. Contribution files are in NEST and NOW: Pensions formats; for other providers the figures are in the payroll reports.
No card, no time limit. Run a real payroll and file to HMRC today.
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