Features and Screenshots

BrightPay, being a fully HMRC accredited payroll software product, has everything you need to process payroll for your employees.

But we have gone the extra mile, adding and enhancing payroll features to provide you with the absolute best tool for the job.

Consistent Interface Layout

All sections of the user interface follow the same layout guidelines. You'll feel at home in no time.

Free of Clutter

For any payroll task, you'll see exactly what you need to see on screen. Nothing more, nothing less.

Beautiful Graphics

Tender loving care has gone into every pixel of our software. We know you'll love it.

Attention to Detail

We have strived to make every aspect of payroll management as clear and elegant as possible.

Simple and Consistent

Payroll is, by nature, complicated. And to make it simple, a successful payroll software solution needs to be both clear and clever, which is exactly what we have strived to do. In fact, that's why we've named our solution BrightPay. Bright - a synonym for both requirements.

Compared to many other payroll software packages, BrightPay is a breath of fresh air. With a consistent user interface, minimal on-screen clutter, and fresh, great looking graphics, it makes payroll easy and enjoyable.

Assigning Employees

Simply choose a pay frequency and how the employee is paid.

Creating Pay Schedules

Pay schedules are set up as and when required, with full flexibility of dates.

Period Summaries

Each period is one click away, and includes its own summary of payslips. A handy popup helps you select the exact period you want.

Payslip Navigation

While viewing an employee's payslip, selecting a new period navigates straight to its payslip for that employee.

Mixed Pay Frequencies

BrightPay payroll software has full HMRC accreditation for weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly and monthly pay, including any week 53, week 54 and/or week 56 payments that may be required.

PAYE, NIC, Student Loan deductions, Statutory Sick/Parenting Pay, Pension Scheme deductions and Attachment Order deductions are correctly and quickly calculated for all pay frequencies.

Pay schedules are defined only when required, and can be adjusted if necessary.

Building Payslips

Payments, additions and deductions are added as required. Statutory pay is automatically added.

Printing / Exporting Payslips

Paysips can be printed or exported (to PDF or XPS) for some or all employees in any period.

Making Payments

Bright Pay will give you a cash breakdown, cheque/transfer summary, and create a BACS file.

Pre-Paid Holiday

Any number of continuous periods can be paid in advance. All items are broken down on the payslip.

Paying Wages

In day to day payroll, figuring out how to pay wages can be a very easy or rather complicated process, depending on an employee's current situation.

Our payroll software makes it easy. Payments, additions and deductions are added as required, keeping the interface clutter-free. There are no limits to what you can add, and items can be automatically repeated each period in the year.

Printing payslips is simple and flexible, with great looking results. Your employees will love it.

P45 Part 3

When an employee who has had a previous employment starts, BrightPay takes you through the process.

P46

When an employee without a P45 starts, the software lets you know exactly what to do.

P45

When an employee is leaving, final payments can be made, a P45 filed online, and a P45 printout provided.

Keeping You Right

Our payroll software let you know when you need to send a P45 Part 3 or P46 to HMRC.

Starters and Leavers

When a new employee starts or an existing employee leaves, employers have several responsibilities, from keeping the employee informed to notifying HMRC.

BrightPay not only tells (and reminds) you what you need to do in all situations - it also takes you through the entire process clearly and quickly.

Internet filing of forms is seamlessly built-in to the software, with full HMRC PAYE recognition.

All forms can printed as well.

Quick and Easy

Set working and non-working days, holiday, unpaid leave, absence, sick leave, parenting leave and more.

Smart Scaling

The payroll calendar fills the application window in the most optimal way possible.

Statutory Sick Pay

Mark days on calendar as Sick. SSP, if applicable, is automatically calculated and added to relevant payslip(s).

Statutory Parenting Pay

When you use the calendar to create a period of parenting leave, Statutory Pay is automatically calculated.

Employee Calendar

When done manually, working out dates and timeframes can be painful task and prone to error. In our payroll software, it's as simple as highlighting days on the interactive employee calendar, and pressing a button.

Working and non-working days, holidays, absences, parenting leave and sick leave - it's all there.

Best of all, our software calculates statutory pay amounts automatically, based on your selections, and adds them to the relevant payslip(s). If an employee does not qualify for statutory pay, BrightPay lets you know exactly why not.

Payments to HMRC

All figures are calculated for you. It's as simple as recording the payment amount and date.

P32

A clear, user-friendly P32 employer payment record can be printed or exported for some or all months.

P35 and P14s

P35 (Employer Annual Return) can be easily edited, previewed, filed online, printed and exported.

P60 Certificates

Print and export P60s for some or all employees. BrightPay has its own great looking design template.

Year Start to Year End

As the payroll year goes by, our software works out exactly how much is owed to HMRC each month, taking any pay corrections into account. An advanced P32 report breaks it all down.

At the end of the payroll year, BrightPay guides you through the completion of your P35. Internet filing of your P35 and P14 forms is seamless, and fully HMRC PAYE recognised.

Your P35, P14 and P60 forms can be printed and/or exported with ease, including full support for P35 continuation sheets.

Creating Departments

Departments can be created when setting up a new employer, or at a later stage. It's super easy.

Assigning Employees

An employee can be assigned to a single department or multiple departments with weightings.

Per Item Weightings

Any payslip item can have its own weighted associations across an employee's departments.

Departmental Reporting

When setting up a new report, the results can be optionally summarised by department.

Departments

Most payroll software packages will allow you to organise employees into departments. Ours goes one step further, allowing any employee to be assigned to a single department or multiple departments.

When assigned to multiple departments, by default, payments to that employee are divided equally in each department. If desired, you can set custom department weightings for an employee, and optionally override those weightings for any single item on a payslip.

It's flexible, catering to how simple or complicated your payroll is set up.

Setting Up Pension Schemes

Pension schemes can be set up as required, including dynamic creation while building a payslip.

Adding Deductions

Employee and/or employer, fixed or perctange, AVCs (where applicable), gross or net pay. It's all there.

Contracted-Out Schemes

Depending on the pension schemes an employee has joined, BrightPay suggests the correct NI table.

Basic Rate Reductions

BrightPay has full support for pension schemes for which deductions are reduced by the basic tax rate.

Pension Schemes

BrightPay supports a wide range of pension scheme types, including Personal Pensions, Group Personal Pensions, Contracted-out Pension Schemes, Stakeholder Pension Schemes, Freestanding Additional Voluntary (FSAVC) Contribution Schemes, and more.

When adding or removing pension scheme deductions, our payroll software will keep you right with National Insurance tables, SCONs and ECONs, making sure everything is valid.

Setting Up Attachment Orders

Choose the type of Attachment Order, enter the relevant details, and deductions are created automatically.

Shortfall Tracking

When protected earnings limit a deduction amount, shortfalls are tracked, and used in future if possible.

Attachment Orders

Our payroll software supports all current types of Attachment Orders, including Maintenace AEO, Civil Judgement Debt AEO, Magistrates Court AEO, Council Tax AEO, Northern Ireland AEO, Scottish EA, Scottish CMA and Child Support DEO.

All the features you need are available in the software, from protected earnings and administration charges to varying period amounts and cumulative tracking.

Creating a Report

Choose the report dates, employees, data and other options, and click Run Report. Done.

Viewing a Report

Data reports, once run, can be re-defined or have its columns resized, adjusted and re-ordered.

Saving Reports

Is your report set up exactly how you want it? Save its settings to quickly run it again in future.

Print All Reports

Print/export some or all open reports with a single click. Auto-scale to the paper in page setup.

Analysis and Reporting

BrightPay gives you analytical access to all payroll data. Choose the timeframe, the employees and the information you want to see, and the software reporting engine will do the rest.

Multiple reports can be opened together in a dynamic tabbed interface. Reports can be printed seperately or together in a single click. And course, reports can be exported in all popular formats.

Even more features are on the way for 2012/13. Watch this space.