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The 31 January deadline is nearly upon us – that means now is the time to make sure that all self assessments are filed, and paid.

With the rise of technology, accountants and bookkeepers should be leveraging social media to drive traffic to their page organically. Learn how to get started.

If you’re an accountant, bookkeeper, or bureau, here are 3 ways to handle holiday pay.

We unpack what branding is, and steps you can take to boost your branding and measure how well it’s doing.

Introducing dimensional reporting for accountants to provide an accurate and complete view of their clients' company performance for value-adding advisory.

Pension Awareness week flags high time to educate yourself more on auto-enrolment and pensions to reinforce your relationship with your clients.

The importance of payroll security cannot be underestimated. Discover steps you can your clients can take to keep payroll data safe.

Here are some basic marketing tips your accounting, bookkeeper, or payroll outsourcing firm can take to enhance your visibility, and create brand awareness.

In recent weeks, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in cyber attacks and data breaches across the world. Ensure your client payroll data is properly protected.

Offering outsourced payroll is an unsuspecting business goldmine - but how do you get started and start growing your practice? Learn how.

In the war for talent, few industries have been spared. If you’re looking to grow your team, consider expanding your horizons.

We asked our all-star KeyPay support team about hot topics that have been trending in their inbox lately. Find answers to what other partners are asking about.

We’re excited to announce our recent integration with FreeAgent, a cloud-based accounting software, making it easier than ever users to get things done quicker.

Looking for ways to expand your services? Here are the things you need to know before adding payroll advisory to your service offering.

Accountants must increasingly adapt to the growing needs of their clients by offering more value and flexibility. But how?

If you’re not sure if you’re getting the best value from your payroll software, it’s time to think about making the switch, regardless of the time of year.

With white label, or branded payroll you get to have a customised payroll system that your clients love - without having to do any of the development work.

Supported by a technological transformation, the potential of payroll to generate profit has never been greater.

Costed rosters add value to accountants' advisory services by offering clients additional reporting visibility. Find out the benefits of costed rosters here.

As a trusted provider in the eyes of your clients, here's what you need to consider when calculating holiday pay for your and your clients' employees.

Accountants and bookkeepers can add value to clients, save time and minimise manual effort with KeyPay's 40+ reporting functionality at their fingertips.

We have partnered with Comma to provide you and your clients with the world's first open banking payroll system.

Apply the relevant NI calculation method based on tax and insurance details provided for the calculation and reporting of an employees NI.

KeyPay turns 10 today! Today marks an entire decade of changing the way our clients work and pay. Reflect on the last 10 years of KeyPay with us.

As a payroll bureau, accountancy or bookkeeper firm, what do changes to HMRC's End of Year Expenses and Benefits Services mean for your clients?

Changing the way our partners work and pay is our aim. KeyPay is the first payroll software in the UK to help bureaus and their clients manage the CIS.

KeyPay has released an exciting integration with QuickFile for an end-to-end payroll and accounting experience.

KeyPay has released an integration with Zoho Books so that shared users can benefit from an automated payroll and accounting experience.

Introducing our newest feature - flatfile importing! You can now import employee data from other systems into KeyPay with minimal manual intervention required.

International Women’s Day is celebrated annually on 8 March, but we at KeyPay believe that gender equality and diversity should be a year-round focus.

No more manually approving timesheets against hours worked; if a timesheet matches the roster exactly, the system will auto-approve this for you!

Celebrate Valentine's Day with KeyPay, to find out why we (and our clients) love our payroll and employee management software.

January 28 2022 is World Data Privacy Day - in today’s day and age where online transactions are rampant, it’s key to take steps to protect your information.

Save time and cut down on manual effort by duplicating existing roster templates. No more re-building your preferred rosters from scratch!

Employees now have the ability to add a new qualification and edit existing qualifications within the employee portal to save even more time.

From award wins to expansion (and even making it back to face-to-face events!), we take a look at some of our highlights from 2021.

Introducing our newest feature - roster warning rules! Users can now set up warnings to ensure legislative compliance when creating shifts.

The festive season is almost here! We've made life easier by outlining how to prepare to run payroll during the holidays.

With the recent cyber attack on Frontier Software, there may be concerns over data security and protection. KeyPay takes measures to protect your information.

Our new Advanced Standard Hours feature saves time by allowing users to bulk import employees' hours, using an advanced importer to match data without errors.

Accountants, bookkeepers and payroll bureaus will now be able to automate the distribution of earnings across different locations.

The new Document Acknowledgement Report will allow KeyPay users to review the acknowledgment status and send reminders at the same time!

With KeyPay’s new WorkZone Calendar Events feature, users can see all calendar events from within the roster screen! No more switching from roster to calendar.

Thinking about expanding your business internationally? Here are 10 things to consider for business globalisation, from hiring, to payroll, to HR.

Bulk update employee pay rates quickly and easily using KeyPay’s new Update Pay Rates feature - saving hours of time and manual frustration.

KeyPay is putting more power into payroll admins' hands and enabling them to restore deleted items themselves, without the hassle of emailing back and forth!

Employees can now create timesheets from approved leave requests and rostered shifts. Plus! NZ and SG employees can now edit their personal details in WorkZone.

KeyPay's work anniversaries in calendar feeds, offers your clients better visibility so they are able to plan ahead for annual reviews or pay increases.

Pay run finalisation tasks like reporting and pay slip distribution can now be automated, saving time and manual frustrations.

To enhance security and accessibility, KeyPay provides 3 more options of accessing employee details for users.

Remote working has become the norm. Here's some tips for hiring remote workers in this new world by HR Partner.

Have easy access to a range of branded payroll functions straight from the partner dashboard.

Users can record, in advance, any future pay rate changes against an employee and the system will update the earnings in the pay run automatically.

In part 2 of our conversation with Nick Day, he discusses technology trends in payroll, and how to embrace innovation to enhance profitability.

In celebration of National Payroll Week, we spoke with Nick Day - Managing Director of JGA Recruitment on changing the undervalued perception of payroll.

KeyPay has introduced a Timesheet Interpretation Context Panel feature that provides clarity on how timesheets have been interpreted each pay run.

HMRC have made changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme including flexible furloughing from 1 July, and reductions in grants from August 1.

Businesses often focus on employee experience to boost morale, productivity and revenue. Payroll bureaus should be embracing the employee experience.

Restaurants often overlook the power of marketing and social media for website promotion. This blog post goes through techniques venues can use to drive sales.

External delivery partners can often charge restaurants up to 38% per order commission fees. Here's how you can move your restaurant online and increase profit.

Restaurant owner Adam Cheers discusses optimising financials to ensure your restaurant survives in unprecedented times.

On 15 April, HMRC provided additional information on the UK furloughed workers / Job Retention Scheme claim process. Here's all you need to know.

During uncertain times in COVID-19, now more than ever is a time to reassess your current system setup, moving to the cloud and putting employee safety first. 

There is no playbook for years like 2020 with COVID-19. But instead of getting overwhelmed amid the changes, there’s also opportunity. 

COVID-19 is an unnerving time and in this time of unease, we want to help you find opportunity for you, and your clients, through technology.

The UK Government has introduced a furloughing scheme in reaction to COVID-19. Here's all we know.

UK Tax Year End reporting has never been easier with KeyPay. Send your final report to HMRC and issue your P60s with ease.

Temporary changes have been made to SSP due to COVID-19. Here's what you need to know.

Tax Year-End is almost here! check out our handy checklist for everything you need to know come April 5th.

The UK government is making updates to the National Minimum Wages regulations and resuming the ‘public naming scheme’. Ensure payroll is compliant.

With the new tax year approaching it's time to ask whether your payroll solution is right for you.

KeyPay’s partner dashboard allows partners to enhance client services, generate new business, analyse client activity and save time on support requests.

We put KeyPay to the test every day for our payroll management, rostering and timesheet needs. See how we use it to its full potential in our own business.

What's the importance of change management during technology implementations? We discuss what you need to know to make your next change a success.

New WorkZone update brings added functionality for managers looking to reduce rostering inefficiencies and manage staff better on the go.

The Rostering vs Timesheet comparison report helps businesses identify financial costs to guide business development.

KeyPay automates Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculations so you don't have to switch between the HMRC calculator and payroll.

GDPR employee obligations are made easy with KeyPay by giving employers the tools to anonymise employee data and access to their personal data.

Value pricing can be used in payroll to charge clients based on value rather than a fixed cost. But when can payroll bureaux and accountants get this wrong?

Cloud software is becoming widely used, but some payroll administrators can't let go of desktop systems. Here's why you should switch to the cloud.

Your clients and their employees can now approve expense requests directly from their smartphone in WorkZone - KeyPay's employee app - anywhere and any time!

To help you keep on top of your pension obligations, we’ve added automated pension postponement rules in our latest KeyPay release.

It’s easy to miss cyclical re-enrolment. With KeyPay, you only have to set your re-enrolment date once and it will make cyclical re-enrolment a breeze.

With our latest release, KeyPay's integration with pensionsync is now simpler AND more powerful than ever before. Pension management has never been easier.

In our latest Employment Payment Summary release, submit no payment for a period, periods of inactivity and a final EPS with a ceasing scheme date.

KeyPay has just enhanced pension auto-enrolment to be even more streamlined so payroll managers can spend less time on pension administration.

In this blog we explore branded payroll and why branding your payroll product can improve client value, retention and brand perception.

With KeyPay's restricted reporting's enhanced feature, restricted users can now be given access to the employee group and location permissions. Learn more.

Clock Me In from KeyPay now allows managers to perform most of the admin features previously only afforded to full access users. Explore more.

WorkZone, KeyPay’s mobile app, now allows managers to approve leave requests and timesheets on the go. Download WorkZone today to explore more.

Employer Payment Record details amounts you've paid to HMRC each month. KeyPay UK has some tips for P32 reporting to make life easier for bureaux & employers.

Remove some or all manual handling of processing pays by setting up automated pay runs for you and your clients and spend that time focussing on other work.

It’s time for payroll bureau businesses to change the way they work and pay by adopting automation and cloud technology in their processes.

Pensions remain a major pain point for payroll managers and bureaux. This blog explores how to ensure your payroll is compliant in the easiest way possible.

Having trouble with pension processes? KeyPay is a payroll platform that seamlessly integrates with pension schemes, automates the pension process, and more.

Traditional payroll systems are inefficient and difficult to use. Bureaux should no longer settle for the norm and recognise the benefits of cloud payroll.

RTI remains a compliance issue for payroll bureaux, but the right payroll software technology can help us with RTI and create a smoother reporting process.

The UK is one of the top five most complex payroll systems in the world, but the right technology can help bureaux maximise their payroll efficiency.

Restricted users can now access to the pay slip, payment file & journal reports. This removes the responsibility of post payroll tasks for full access users.

KeyPay's enhanced features further streamline pension scheme management. Bureaux can now set up and customise multiple pension schemes. Explore more.