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Basic PAYE Tools
HMRC’s own payroll software, on the recognition list HMRC itself maintains. General payroll for employers. Free for employers with fewer than ten employees.
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 HMRC’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 We have not used the product, and we do not publish scores or star ratings, because we would be making them up.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, and listed in the free tier for employers with fewer than ten employees |
|---|---|
| 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 | www.gov.uk/basic-paye-tools |
| 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We do not publish a price for this product.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 HMRC’s own page for the price, and treat anyone publishing a confident figure for all 177 products with suspicion.
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 HMRC’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.