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Paid-for payroll software: the whole recognised list

HMRC recognises 171 paid payroll products from 140 suppliers. This is all of them, which is the point: every other comparison page shows the ten or twenty that pay commission.

What the pricing column means

There is no price on this page, and that is deliberate. We tried reading prices off supplier pages automatically and got about half of them wrong: a customer testimonial became one supplier’s price, a promotional first-six-months rate became another’s, and a sentence about what accountants charge became a third’s. The methodology sets out exactly what went wrong. So the column reports the one thing we can establish reliably, which is whether the supplier is willing to tell you the price before you talk to a salesperson.

Across the whole HMRC list, 17 of 177 products come from suppliers who publish a price and 48 do not. The transparency report has the detail.

Other lists

Source: HMRC’s recognised payroll software list, under the Open Government Licence, plus each supplier’s own published pages. Inclusion is never paid for. We are not accountants and this is not advice about which product suits your business.