An exciting and important update from Paycircle – read the press release! 😎 🚀
An exciting and important update from Paycircle – read the press release! 😎 🚀

Access People to acquire payroll provider Paycircle Access People, a division of The Access Group, a leading provider of business management software, has acquired Paycircle, a cloud-based collaborative payroll platform for modern payroll bureaus. Paycircle’s expertise in payroll management will integrate into Access People’s core suite, boosting current payroll offers for new and existing customers.   […]

Paycircle news
Our 2021 Roundup
Our 2021 Roundup

We’re really looking forward to 2022! But first, some highlights from 2021 💥💪👏 We’re really looking forward to this year as we have so much planned – more software, more team members, more customers, and lots more users! It really is set to be quite an exciting one. Before we set off full steam ahead […]

Paycircle news
Announcing the launch of the Paycircle User Community Forum!
Announcing the launch of the Paycircle User Community Forum!

We’re really excited to announce that we have recently launched our Paycircle User Community Forum and all Paycircle users are automatically entitled to be members! The main purpose of the forum is to enable and encourage conversation and the sharing of ideas, amongst people who have similar goals and interests. It’s for us (the Paycircle […]

Community
Paycircle news
Paycircle’s New Feature Webinar Series
Paycircle’s New Feature Webinar Series

Our New Feature Webinar Series for October and November 👊💥🚀 Paycircle customers, join us on our feature webinars to learn more about some of Paycircle’s key features. Here is the webinar event listing for October and November: 🙌 Friday 8th Oct 10 am – Importing (duration 45 mins)😊 Wednesday 13th Oct- 10am – Employee portal […]

Features
Training
Bringing the community together
Bringing the community together

JOIN US ON 4TH OCTOBER! 🗣📣💬 We’re launching our user community in October and we’d like to invite our bureau customers to a sneak preview of our Community Forum prior to its launch. It will be an opportunity to see how everything works and to give us your feedback. As a member of the Paycircle […]

Community
Expats, Medical, and Policies – feature roundup!
Expats, Medical, and Policies – feature roundup!

Over the last few weeks we have published some chunky new features for our bureau customers. Check out our round-up below! Expat Payrolls Appendix 4, 5, 6, 7a, and 7b for international mobility. Features include – tax equalisation, exchange rates, currencies, Non-UK bank accounts and Visa information.   Medical Payrolls This functionality is available in […]

Features
Payroll
Bureaus – introduce your customers to their new cloud payroll experience
Bureaus – introduce your customers to their new cloud payroll experience

Paycircle’s Employer Education Pack – now available to all Paycircle customers 🧐 📚 🤓 We’ve produced an Employer Education Pack for our bureau customer’s customers.The pack includes: ⭐️ The Top 10 benefits of payroll in the cloud🚀 A introduction to the Paycircle employer payroll portal👊 A guide to payroll processing in the cloud🎬 A video […]

Paycircle news
Training
Why good design is at the heart of everything we do
Why good design is at the heart of everything we do

Everyone loves design in some shape or form. Whether it’s that perfect suit you can picture yourself in at your best friend’s wedding, the sleek curves on a new Tesla that passed you on the motorway, or when you find out that the leaf on the Apple icon actually fits perfectly into the bite taken […]

Payroll
Technology
Loving the @mentions
Loving the @mentions

Just to let you know… 👀👇😎 We’ve recently made a couple of enhancements to our ‘Notes’ feature, specifically the @mentions functionality. We did this because our customers asked us to 💛 We’ve added in the ability for bureau teams to monitor each other’s @mentions. This is useful for when people go on holiday, or if […]

Payroll
Size matters
Size matters

Rarely do you want things in life to be smaller, naturally you always want bigger or more for your money. But when it comes to true cloud software, every additional megabyte counts and so smaller, in this case, is much much better. If a cloud software app is not lean, it’s costing companies and individuals […]

Technology
True Cloud
Paycircle’s ‘Black Box’ for audits and analysis
Paycircle’s ‘Black Box’ for audits and analysis

As Paycircle is a real-time collaborative platform, with potentially many people working with the same data at any one time, it’s important that all activity gets logged and that a detailed audit trail is kept. There’s also a ton of automation going on behind the scenes so it’s also important that users can see when […]

Features
Technology
Coming soon! The Paycircle Community Forum
Coming soon! The Paycircle Community Forum

To support and interact even more with all our bureau customers, we are launching a new Paycircle Community Forum! We’re serious about collaborating with our customers to build a first class payroll platform for everyone. This is why we thought it would be a good idea to start a community where our users can interact […]

Community
Paycircle news
Free Paycircle training for apprentices
Free Paycircle training for apprentices

This is our latest initiative to support the payroll bureau industry. It’s the least we can do 😉 We’re supporting bureaus, who are bringing new people into the industry, by offering free Paycircle training for all apprentices and new starters. So, while bureau’s are busy training people in payroll, we can be helpful by showing […]

Paycircle news
Training
Springtime and love is in the air
Springtime and love is in the air

At Paycircle we often talk about our ‘Love Features’. We like talking about them, we like building them and, most of all, we like delivering them! Our love features are features and enhancements that our users have asked us to deliver – to make their lives a little bit easier, or to improve their experience […]

Love features
Payroll
Announcing our new customer API
Announcing our new customer API

With the new Paycircle customer API, bureaus can now get direct access to their data and subscribe to services to receive alerts for payroll activities.  As a cloud platform, our entire application is built using API technology. Our internal user interface developers use APIs to send and receive information to and from our own platform […]

Paycircle news
Technology
Paycircle’s Guide to the Year End Process
Paycircle’s Guide to the Year End Process

  Here goes, ready… You click the run payroll button. Drop the mic 🎤 ⬇️ 💥 Shoutout to all payroll bureau folk. Please pass this on to the many who won’t see this post as they’re busy completing their year end process. We want to tell you all how the year end process works in […]

Automation
Features
It’s the end of an era, we’re growing up!
It’s the end of an era, we’re growing up!

It’s a sad time at Paycircle HQ. This month, we’re retiring some of our brand characters. We’re waving bye-bye to our Vikings, our robots, and our Hawaiian dancers.   In our next software release, we’ll be replacing our Vikings, hula dancers, and robots with newer brand graphics. It’s just a brand evolution and a point […]

Confetti Club
Paycircle news
Our 2020 achievements
Our 2020 achievements

We’re really proud of what we achieved in 2020. Even though it was a challenging year for sure, we motored on and produced a mass of new features and enhancements for our bureau customers. Check out our headline stats for 2020. We’re looking forward to blowing these out of the water in 2021!

Paycircle news
True cloud series #1
True cloud series #1

True Cloud or Cloud Cuckoo Land? By Jamie Costello, Paycircle CTO How can you tell if the provider you’re speaking with offers genuine cloud services or is simply playing at it? Our CTO Jamie Costello provides accountants with three simple questions to ask companies the next time they come knocking. Hardly a day goes by […]

Technology
True Cloud
Security in the cloud with IP address whitelisting
Security in the cloud with IP address whitelisting

Controlling who can ‘WFH’ It sounds more complicated than it actually is. It’s really simple to get your head around and even easier to manage. There are obvious benefits of being able to access your work tools online and being able to ‘work from home’ (or anywhere for that matter) but when data, such as […]

Features
Security
Payroll collaboration in the cloud
Payroll collaboration in the cloud

Introducing Paycircle’s new Workflow and Collaboration features – built to revolutionise the way that bureaus work, both internally and with their customers, to manage the process of running payrolls. Embraced properly, this new functionality is game-changing for sure. Here at Paycircle we think that the payroll industry has been neglected and overlooked, from a technology […]

Features
Payroll
Payroll for all – Introducing the customisable payroll portal
Payroll for all – Introducing the customisable payroll portal

Give people access to exactly what they need when they need it – nothing more, nothing less Take a traditional relationship between a payroll bureau team and their customers, where the process of running each company’s payroll uses a whole heap of disparate technology and disconnected process management tools. There’s email,  there are password protected […]

Features
Paycircle news
Custom reporting the Paycircle way
Custom reporting the Paycircle way

Harness the power of true cloud and access the reservoir of your data to build custom reports for your bureau and your customers. Select the type of report you require, choose the exact content, the format to display the results and run the report for a single company or across your entire bureau. And the […]

Features
Payroll
21st century data importing
21st century data importing

Let’s talk about imports. Whether you’re setting up a payroll for the first time or using data imports to update team members or make changes to payrolls each pay period, you need to be able to get data into the system in the most efficient and hassle-free way possible. ‘Smart column mapping’ is what it’s […]

Features
Payroll
Announcing our direct integration with The People’s Pension
Announcing our direct integration with The People’s Pension

We have now completed our integration with The People’s Pension and the automated communication channel for their workplace pension is now open and live in Paycircle. This is in addition to the direct integrations we already have in place with NEST and Smart Pensions. Since the introduction of auto enrolment, transmitting payroll data to pension […]

Pensions
Technology
The Power of an Interactive Payslip
The Power of an Interactive Payslip

Many people don’t have a clue what all the different numbers on their payslip mean. Nor do they know the calculations used to get to those numbers. How could they, why would they? Where do people go when they have a question about their pay or tax? And just why is it all so complicated […]

Payroll
Technology
Out of beta and beyond
Out of beta and beyond

Our November release marks the end of a phase of testing and development with over 13,000 beta customers – whose support we will be eternally grateful for. We launched Paycircle beta in January 2016 and we have been working tirelessly to get the product to a standard that will change the way payroll is managed […]

Paycircle news
Technology
Attention all accountants! If you like Xero, you’ll love Paycircle.
Attention all accountants! If you like Xero, you’ll love Paycircle.

Now hear this Attention all accountants who’ve embraced Xero with open arms! We are pleased to reveal a new tool which promises to make life even easier for accountants everywhere. What is it? It’s called Paycircle and it revolutionises the way accountants handle clients’ payroll. It’s cloud-based software and everybody gets their own login. This […]