Let Us Take the Pressure Off Your Payroll
Running payroll is complex, time‑consuming, and high‑risk, especially in today’s regulatory environment. Why carry that burden internally?
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With up Outsourced Payroll, you can hand over the stress, cost, and operational risk to a specialist team and a platform built for modern compliance.
We manage your payroll and records end to end, so you don’t have to:
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No need to recruit or train payroll staff
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No need to expand internal teams
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No operational bottlenecks
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No compliance blind spots
Just accurate, compliant payroll, handled for you.
Why Outsource Your Payroll?
Significant Cost Savings Without Expanding Your Team.
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Building an in-house payroll function is expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to scale. Outsourcing payroll to up removes the need to recruit, train, manage, and retain specialist payroll staff, delivering immediate and ongoing financial savings.
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Salaries, pensions, National Insurance, and benefits for payroll employees
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Recruitment fees, onboarding costs, and staff turnover risk
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Ongoing training to keep pace with HMRC and legislative change
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Single‑point‑of‑failure risk when key payroll staff are absent or leave
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The cost of payroll software licences, upgrades, and maintenance
Instead of carrying a fixed employment cost, you gain access to an experienced payroll operation at a scalable cost aligned to your contractor volumes.
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Outsourced payroll converts payroll from a fixed overhead into a controlled operational service, freeing capital, reducing management burden, and improving cost efficiency across your business.
The introduction of Joint and Several Liability (JSL) has fundamentally reshaped the responsibilities of agencies and end clients within the contingent labour supply chain.
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Under JSL, agencies and end clients are now exposed to the payroll failures of others in the supply chain, even where payroll has been delegated or historically outsourced. Liability can transfer upstream, creating significant financial, regulatory, and reputational risk.
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For many organisations, attempting to manage this risk internally places an unsustainable burden on operations, compliance teams, and leadership.
Outsourcing Payroll to UP Makes Sense
Rather than relying on internal resource, periodic audits, or manual oversight, up assumes day-to-day payroll execution while engineering transparency directly into the process. This allows agencies and end clients to discharge their responsibilities under JSL without building complex internal payroll and compliance functions.
Traditional payroll and assurance models often remain:
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Retrospective rather than real-time
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Dependent on periodic audits
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Opaque in how payments are calculated and reported
up replaces this with a managed, outsourced payroll service that delivers continuous, system-level visibility, ensuring JSL obligations are met through design, not internal workload.
End‑to‑End Payroll Management
When you outsource payroll to UP, we handle every stage for you:
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Contractor onboarding and eligibility checks
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Payroll calculations and statutory deductions
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Fully taxable expenses processing
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Net pay outcomes with no hidden or disguised payments
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Real Time Information (RTI) submissions
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HMRC confirmations and audit evidence
Every stage is transparent, auditable, and aligned with HMRC requirements.
RTI Submissions Assurance
In a truly compliant payroll environment, information should never be delayed or restricted.
up enables:
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RTI submissions shared at the same time HMRC confirms receipt
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Payrolls run collectively, with intelligent segmentation by agency or end client
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Automatic sharing of HMRC responses with authorised stakeholders
This creates a single, trusted source of truth across the supply chain.
Mandatory Contractor Data Transparency
As part of UP’s JSL compliance framework, all contractors paid through the platform must actively confirm, via their secure portal, that they consent to their payroll and compliance data being shared across the supply chain.
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This confirmation is a mandatory condition of payment.
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Where consent is not provided, payroll cannot be completed and payment cannot be released.
This ensures:
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Lawful, informed data access for all relevant parties
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No selective disclosure or withheld payroll information
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Clear evidence of reasonable care and due diligence
Under Joint and Several Liability, transparency is not optional. UP enforces it by design.
Why Choose up?
The up team is led by a former HMRC Inspector, with extensive experience enforcing PAYE compliance. That insight is embedded directly into the system.
Our wider team brings over 50 years of combined experience, including:
Running daily umbrella payroll operations
Developing payroll software at scale
Managing payroll for large employers
What clients say
Praise for Speed & Efficiency
I can't praise this payroll software and CRM enough! The speed is
unbelievable. It effortlessly handles and processes thousands
of contractors, without a hitch. No other system has worked this well
for us, and the customer support is truly exceptional.
I highly recommend UP.
Game-Changing System
The customer care is second to none!
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You've truly gone above and beyond my expectations. It feells like our very
own system with it appearing in our brand colours. The payroll is
exceptionally quick. The automated timesheet-to-invoice process is fantastic.
It’s been a game-changer for us.
All-Encompassing Payroll
up is all-encompassing. For the first time, we are able to work from one
system so our payroll, emails, client files and text services are handled
and saved in one place. Having a single system instead of relying on
disparate systems, has meant quicker payroll processing and better outcomes.
