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Apollo Payroll
Sold by Commander Software Limited and recognised by HMRC for PAYE. General payroll for employers.
What we know, and what we do not
HMRC’s recognition list gives a supplier name and a product name. Everything below is either taken from that list, derived from the product’s own name, or read from Commander Software Limited’s website on 25 September 2026. We have not used the product, and we do not publish scores or star ratings, because we would be making them up.
| Recognised by HMRC | Yes, for PAYE |
|---|---|
| What its name says it does | General payroll for employers |
| Pricing | No pricing found We read the supplier’s site and found neither a price nor a quote request. Pricing may exist somewhere we did not reach. |
| Supplier site | apollo-payroll.uk |
| Last checked | 25 September 2026 |
We do not publish a price for this product. Not because we could not find a figure, but because reading prices off marketing pages automatically proved wrong about half the time: tiers, promotional rates, third-party costs and customer testimonials all look alike to a machine. The methodology gives the examples. Check Commander Software Limited’s own page for the price, and treat anyone publishing a confident figure for all 177 products with suspicion.
The company behind it
Commander Software Limited trades as COMMANDER SOFTWARE LIMITED, company number 01448836, on the Companies House register. It was incorporated 17 September 1979, which makes it 47 years old. Its registered office is in Harrow.
| Registered name | COMMANDER SOFTWARE LIMITED |
|---|---|
| Company number | 01448836 |
| Status | Active |
| Incorporated | 17 September 1979 (47 years) |
| Registered office | Harrow, HA1 1BH |
| Last accounts made up to | 31 December 2025 |
| Next accounts due | 30 September 2027 |
Company data from the Companies House register, read on 26 September 2026. Matched to the supplier by name, conservatively: where we could not be certain which company a supplier is, this section is left off rather than filled in with a guess.
Others of the same kind
Payroll products from elsewhere on HMRC’s list, with the ones that publish a price first.
| Product | Supplier | Pricing | Their page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primo Payroll | Accentra Technologies Ltd | Price published | Pricing |
| Solus Online Payroll | Accentra Technologies Limited | Price published | Pricing |
| LivePay | Central Computer Management Ltd | Price published | Pricing |
| Ciphr Payroll | Ciphr Limited | Price published | Pricing |
| Clear Books | Clear Books Limited | Price published | Pricing |
| Employment Hero Payroll | Employment Hero (UK) Ltd | Price published | Pricing |
| FreeAgent | FreeAgent Central Ltd | Price published | Pricing |
| Payroll Manager | Moneysoft Limited | Price published | Pricing |
Source: HMRC’s recognised payroll software list, under the Open Government Licence, plus Commander Software Limited’s own published pages. We are not accountants and this is not advice about which product suits your business. Inclusion here is never paid for, and outbound links may earn us a commission without changing what we publish: how we make money.