Hiring in the UK from abroad? We set up and run your UK payroll end-to-end, PAYE, HMRC, pensions and compliance, so you stay focused on your team, not the paperwork.
Most payroll firms treat overseas employers as an awkward edge case. For us, it's the whole point.
You're based abroad and hiring in the UK, with or without a UK entity. We handle PAYE registration, RTI, employer NI where it's due, and pensions, and we speak HMRC so you don't have to.
From your first employee to fifty, we run accurate, on-time monthly or weekly payroll with auto-enrolment handled and a real person on the end of the email.
Need a reliable UK payroll desk under your own brand? We run it white-label, so you can offer payroll without building a team. Wholesale rates from £50/mo + £6 per payslip per client, minimum three payrolls; DPNI and DCNI clients are referred to us directly. You bill your client, we stay invisible. See the payroll desk for accountants →
One UK specialist who owns the whole thing, quick, transparent, and built around your situation.
Full UK payroll for foreign-owned companies, including PAYE scheme setup and HMRC liaison.
Specialist setup and running of the HMRC schemes for an employer with no UK presence.
DPNI scheme setup service →Weekly or monthly runs, payslips, RTI submissions, starters & leavers, year-end and P60s.
Worker assessment, enrolment, statutory letters and pension provider liaison, handled every pay period.
Keep the tools you already use
Send us your pay data however it lives today. We take it from there, and run your payroll on software that files directly with HMRC.
Answer three quick questions and we'll point you to the right setup. No email required to see your result.
A secure form, by email. We work out the right scheme and give you a fixed, transparent quote.
We register or authorise the PAYE scheme, get authorised with HMRC, and configure pensions and payslips.
Each period we prepare, check and submit your payroll, and send you a clear summary of exactly what changed.
Switching payroll feels riskier than it is. There's no need to close your PAYE scheme or re-register anything, we simply take over the scheme you already have, at a point that suits you (a new tax month is cleanest, but mid-year is fine too).
The things a finance director abroad actually needs to know before signing off, payment, data, contract and checks, set out plainly, before you get to price.
We invoice in GBP and you settle by ordinary international bank transfer, no UK bank account needed on your side. Fees are fixed and published, so there are no currency surprises at renewal.
Employee and payroll data moves through secure, access-controlled channels only, never insecure email, and is handled under UK GDPR. We act as your data processor under a written agreement, and share data only with HMRC and your pension provider, as running the payroll requires.
A plain-English engagement letter, under English law, sets out scope, fees and who does what before any work begins. No auto-renewing lock-in, leave with notice and we hand everything over cleanly.
Before onboarding, we carry out standard client due diligence, verifying the business and the people behind it, in line with UK anti-money-laundering practice. It's done remotely, with an electronic identity check that sends you its own secure link, or certified copies, and we guide you through exactly what's needed. Usually a day or two, not a hurdle.
Indicative starting prices. Most competitors make you ask; we'd rather you knew.
Your workplace pension is in the price. Auto-enrolment is a legal requirement of employing people in the UK, not an optional extra, so every plan includes the full statutory duties and we never invoice them separately. Managed and our overseas plans also cover the discretionary side: choosing or switching scheme, salary sacrifice, and your employees’ own pension questions.
All prices are indicative. Fees are reviewed annually, and we always tell you in writing before a new fee applies. Setup is £500 rather than £750 if you go ahead within two weeks of your quote. No VAT is added to any fee, the price you see is the total. One-off setup fees: UK employers from £100 · overseas-client PAYE £350 · DPNI, DCNI, NI-only or tax-only £500 per scheme with the early-onboarding discount (standard £750), and we don't invoice the setup fee until your scheme is live.
Everything to get employee #1 paid, compliantly, as one package.
One package, one price, arranged in the right order so nothing waits on anything else. The pack is invoiced once your scheme is live, and no discounts apply to it. After the first three calendar months, the matching plan applies: from £55/mo + £7 per payslip for a UK employer, or from £225/mo + £8 per payslip for an overseas employer on its own UK PAYE. On an NI-only scheme it is £157/mo for one employee, or £150/mo + £7 per payslip for two or more. The pack is only for a scheme in your company's own name. We will ask HMRC for the scheme that fits your facts, and they may suggest a different one once they have the full facts.
Start my first hireYour company payroll and your personal tax return, one provider, nothing falls between them.
From £85/mo, with a 12-month minimum term. Covers your salary, dividends from your own company, bank interest and the usual reliefs. Your return for the tax year your Bundle starts is included; earlier unfiled returns are priced separately. Property income, foreign income, capital gains or self-employment are quoted separately and fixed before any work starts. Anyone else on the payroll is £7 per extra payslip. Setup is from £100 for a new PAYE scheme, and nothing if HMRC have already issued your references. Company accounts and Corporation Tax are not included.
Get my bundle quoteNot always. If you have a UK entity we run a standard PAYE scheme. If you don't, you may need a DPNI or NI-only scheme, we set up and operate the right one for your situation. If your employee works for a UK business that isn't their employer, such as a UK client they're placed with, that business may have to run PAYE instead.
If you already have a PAYE scheme, we can typically run your first payroll within one pay cycle, often within a week of receiving complete information. For a new scheme, we submit your HMRC registration within 2 to 3 business days of the engagement being signed and our identity checks being complete; HMRC then send your references by letter, and the timing varies. The wait doesn't block your payroll, HMRC's own rules let us run payroll and file once the references arrive. Specialist DPNI schemes take longer: we estimate 4 to 8 weeks at HMRC, and that is our own estimate, not an HMRC figure. See the DPNI timeline.
We calculate employer NI on every run where it's due, and your auto-enrolment pension duties are included on every plan: assessing staff each pay period, enrolling them, the statutory letters, contribution uploads, your declaration of compliance, and re-enrolment every three years. Auto-enrolment is a legal requirement of employing people in the UK, not an optional extra, so we don't charge separately for it. Managed and our overseas plans go further and cover the discretionary side too: choosing or switching scheme, salary sacrifice, and answering your employees' pension questions directly.
Identity documents come through our identity-check provider's secure link, or another route we agree with you, never by ordinary email. When we need documents from you, we may send you a private upload link. It works once, expires after no more than 14 days and accepts up to 10 files. Your files and their names are encrypted in your own browser before they leave your device, using a key that only Onshore Partners holds, so our hosting provider cannot read them. Our privacy notice says where they are held and for how long. Please send completed forms and payroll information through the private upload link we send you, or another secure route we agree with you.
For companies that simply need UK payroll run correctly, yes, usually significantly. EOR makes sense when you need a third party to legally employ your staff; for everything else, we're the leaner, more personal option. See what an Employer of Record costs per employee, against running your own payroll.
No. Your PAYE scheme stays exactly as it is, we take it over rather than starting again. You introduce us to your current provider, we collect the year-to-date figures and pension records, and we check our first run against the old numbers before anything goes out. There's no charge for the handover.
Send us data or questions any time, you don't have to be online when we are, and we reply within one UK business day, usually much faster. If you want to talk live, ask for a call and we will fix a time.
Use our free employer-cost calculator to see the total cost of an employee, gross pay plus employer NI and pension, alongside take-home and gross-up tools, for 2025/26 and 2026/27.
Try the free calculators →Message us on WhatsApp or send an enquiry and we'll map out exactly what your UK setup needs. No obligation.
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