A specialist UK payroll desk for your overseas-hire clients. You keep the client, we run the payroll. Refer a client →
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A specialist UK payroll desk for your clients

When your overseas client hires in the UK but doesn't need an Employer of Record, someone still has to set the PAYE up and run it properly. That's the whole of what we do. You keep the client, we handle the payroll.

✓ We stick to the payroll lane, so we never compete with you.

The idea

We run UK payroll for overseas employers, the HMRC schemes (DPNI, NI-only and, in the specific cases HMRC's manual lists, DCNI) for companies with no UK entity, plus standard PAYE, auto-enrolment and the Self Assessment that often comes with it. It's the piece most firms would rather hand off. Send it our way and the relationship stays yours.

Formation agents, overseas accountants and US CPAs, EOR providers, immigration and employment lawyers, global-mobility advisers: if your clients hire into the UK, this is built for you.

Cases we take

We take

  • ✓ A UK-based employee of an overseas employer with no UK entity (DPNI, DCNI or NI-only). We will ask HMRC for the scheme that fits your facts, and they may suggest a different one once they have the full facts.
  • ✓ An overseas company's first one to five UK hires
  • ✓ A client who wants to stay the direct employer rather than take an EOR seat
  • ✓ Standard UK PAYE where there is a UK entity
  • ✓ Auto-enrolment pensions run alongside the payroll

What we don't take on

  • • Full Employer of Record or employment-liability transfer. We run payroll, we don't become the employer.
  • • Standalone bookkeeping, accounting or tax.
  • • Anything outside UK payroll and its pension and Self Assessment adjuncts.

How it works

1
You introduce them. Use the form below or just email us. Only ever with your client's permission, we never cold-approach a name.
2
We scope and quote. Published pricing, a real person, no "request a quote to find out."
3
We set it up and run it. We open the right scheme with HMRC and run the payroll, quietly and on time.
4
Your relationship stays yours. The client signs with us for the payroll only. We keep you copied on the key points, or stay hands-off, whichever you prefer. We never cross-sell into your work.

Two ways to work with us

Pick whichever suits the client in front of you. You can use either, or both.

1. Refer them to us

You introduce, we take it from there, and your relationship with the client stays yours. The client signs with us for the payroll only. Clients you introduce pay a reduced setup fee, with no deadline: £250 instead of £750 for an HMRC direct scheme, and £175 instead of £350 for the employer's own UK PAYE scheme. Reciprocal, with no fees and no invoices passing between us. Where we meet a need we don't cover, an EOR-shaped case or a UK incorporation, we send it back your way.

2. White-label it

The payroll goes out under your brand and your client never hears our name. You pay a wholesale rate and bill them whatever you choose: from £50/mo + £6 per payslip per client, for UK payroll. Minimum three payrolls. DPNI and DCNI clients are referred to us directly, not white-label. Full white-label details and pricing → No VAT is added, so the price you see is the total.

Either way we stay in the payroll lane and never cross-sell into your work. We're registered with the ICO.

Put our cost calculator on your site

A small calculator for your own website. It compares a year of Employer of Record fees with your client running their own UK payroll through us, at the reduced setup fee for clients you introduce. It has no cookies, no tracking and no forms, and it links back to our full comparison. Paste this into your page where you want it to appear:

<iframe src="https://onshorepartners.co.uk/embed/eor-cost-calculator" title="Employer of Record cost calculator by Onshore Partners" width="100%" height="900" style="border:0;max-width:520px" loading="lazy"></iframe>

See the calculator on its own →

Refer a client

Takes about thirty seconds. We'll only contact the client with your say-so.

How we use your details: Privacy Policy. We'll only use these details to follow up on the referral.