About BrightPay

BrightPay, winner of Payroll Software of the Year 2018 is a payroll and automatic enrolment software that makes managing payroll easy. BrightPay is one of Ireland and the UK’s market payroll software providers for accountants and businesses helping your business comply with auto enrolment and run an efficient and accurate payroll. The safe, secure and intuitive payroll software minimises payroll administration helping you pay employees, automate tax calculations, and submit to HMRC. The innovative payroll software features automate key processes to help you run an efficient business or payroll bureau service. BrightPay Connect is an add-on that allows you to publish payslips, P60s and client payroll reports electronically from within your BrightPay payroll software to a secure online portal. The cloud technology offers powerful features including automatically backing up payroll information to the cloud, online annual leave management, employer/client dashboard and an employee self-service portal/smartphone app. The online payroll flexibility enables online access anywhere, anytime for your business or your clients and their employees.
BrightPay Software - Employee details
BrightPay Software - Employee enrollment
BrightPay Software - Pay slip
BrightPay Software - Pension scheme
BrightPay Software - Reporting
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BrightPay pricing

BrightPay does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. BrightPay paid version starts at £109.00/year.

Starting Price:
£109.00/year
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
Yes

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BrightPay Reviews for UK Users

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.8
Functionality
4.7
Ease of Use
4.8
Customer Support
4.8
5 reviews of 288 View all reviews
Andrea
  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 01/08/2018

Best payroll for small companies

Very good value for money, not complicated at all.

Pros

Very easy to use, much easier than Sage payroll. Had the free version before and even the support then was second to none. You write an email and in less than a day they get back to you whether you’re a paying customer or using the software for free.
You see straight away when you have to submit to HMRC which is for me the most important part as I don’t want to pay a fine. CIS is very easy to do. I’m in my third tear with BrightPay and never had a fault in the software whereas with sage it happens frequently.

Cons

There is nothing I don’t like, the least I would say that you have to download a new version with every tax year and not just an update.

Mark
  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
3
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

4
Reviewed on 11/02/2023

Cheap and easy to use. Could do with more customisation options

It does the job and is straightforward to use.

Pros

Inexpensive and talks directly to payroll software.

Cons

Lacking on customisation and some of the more advanced features available in other software

Response from Thesaurus Software

Hi Mark, thank you for your review and recommendation. It would be great to hear your customisation suggestions if you could email us at mar[email protected] and we can add them to the development list.

Replied 14/02/2023
Chris
  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Features
3
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
3

3
Reviewed on 13/08/2018

Pretty good experience overall

Pros

The interface and usability of this product is very well done and makes it enjoyable to use on a day to day basis.

Cons

The customer support is below average at times when I or my employees have had urgent questions and concerns.

Jonathan
  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 26/09/2018

Bright day cause of brightpay

Pros

I've tried a lot of payroll software and bright pay has the easiest software to navigate its a user friendly and covers almost all of the payroll concerns

Cons

what I wish brightpay must have is the capacity to trace back or correct some input of records foe example some alteration may have done but it is hard to trace back the records.

George
  • Industry: Accounting
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4.5

5
Reviewed on 08/07/2016

Thumbs up for BrightPay

Pros

I like that's it's so easy to use. You don't need to have payroll experience. Brightpay alerts you need to send through your RTI and pension contributions. It also is free for auto enrolment. My previous payroll software were charging extra for auto enrolment.

I've been using Brightpay for over 3 years. I pleased to say they have never increased their prices. It's an excellent product. The developers clearly have the end user in mind. If you get stuck their help guides are fantastic. 10/10

Cons

There's nothing I don't like about it. Brightpay keeps up to date. New features are being added all the time. I can't think of a single thing that I don't like about it.

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