What are the pros and cons of payroll outsourcing?

There are many benefits of outsourcing your payroll to a trusted provider. They include eliminating the costs of inhouse payroll, no more manual errors or fines for missing compliance deadlines. An outsourced payroll means a more streamlined, efficient operation, resulting in cost efficiencies for your business. A possible downside is whether you will miss having control over payroll, although you can always choose partially or fully managed models.

What does it mean to outsource payroll?

Outsourcing payroll is when you hand over responsibility for your payroll function to a trusted provider like ADP. Businesses of all sizes have been trusting us with their payroll for over 70 years. Our payroll experts streamline your payroll, paying your people accurately, on time and ensuring compliance obligations are met. Depending on how much control you want to retain, you can opt for partially or fully managed models.

How much does it cost to outsource payroll?

This varies depending on your business size and specific needs. Outsourcing your payroll to ADP means experts with over 20 years of managed payroll experience take care of it. You’ll receive a clear view of the cost with no surprises – prices are fixed depending on employee numbers. You can customise the payroll services you outsource, either retaining control of some aspects, or choosing a fully managed service. Discover ADP Payroll Services.

Why choose ADP for payroll outsourcing?

Our payroll outsourcing services are recognised by HMRC, and our payroll experts are available globally. Depending on your business needs, our payroll software seamlessly integrates with human capital management (HCM) systems for your teams to take advantage of advanced HR reporting for more effective decisions.

Is outsourcing payroll with ADP right for our business?

ADP has over 70 years of payroll experience - with over 20 years of providing managed services to businesses, large and small. Outsourcing your payroll to ADP allows your people to focus on business strategy, vital right now. While our payroll experts pay your people accurately, on time and in compliance with regulations, your HR teams can now respond more quickly to market or environmental challenges as they arise.

Which ADP payroll outsourcing product should I choose?

ADP payroll outsourcing solutions are flexible and scale depending on your business size. We offer three types: Processing, Managed and Outsourcing. Our Processing service enables your teams to keep some control over your payroll processes, while our Managed service takes full responsibility for your payroll and human resource information system (HRIS). If your business would benefit from a managed service with dedicated experts on call, choose the outsourcing option.

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ADP offers industry-leading expertise, with over 70 years’ payroll experience, and over 20 years in providing managed services. Our payroll outsourcing services are fully HMRC compliant, so you can relax, knowing your payroll is in expert hands.

Unlike our competitors, we take on time-consuming tasks such as sick pay and legal surveys.

ADP's payroll outsourcing solutions:

Process payroll for you

Allowing your HR team to focus energy elsewhere.

Fully HMRC compliant

Bringing you peace of mind about compliance.

Give you access to experts

Offering you ADP call centre help 24/7.

What is payroll outsourcing?

Payroll outsourcing is when a specialist company like ADP manages your payroll, ensuring your employees receive their wages accurately each month, securely, and on time. Your payroll will operate seamlessly, freeing your HR, finance and admin teams from time-consuming work. Now you can keep compliant with regulations, including GDPR.

Benefits of outsourcing payroll with ADP

When you outsource your payroll to us, we ensure that your payroll processes run smoothly, safely and efficiently. We’ll pay your people accurately and on time, taking the stress out of time-consuming and often confusing processes. We also keep you up to date and compliant with ever-changing legislation. This is no mean feat when, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in just two months between March and April in 2020 we saw a 380% increase in legal communications, including an additional 900 new pieces of legislation on top of existing ones.¹

When you outsource your payroll to ADP, you’ll:

Receive compliance support
Benefit from automated online payroll processing
Have payroll taxes calculated and paid for you
Access expertise and unified technology
Free up HR to focus on engagement and productivity

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¹ The Hackett Group 2020. Seven payroll weaknesses exposed by COVID-19 and how to fix them.

Which ADP payroll outsourcing option is right for you?

ADP payroll outsourcing solutions are flexible and can be scaled and adapted to fit business needs, for all sizes of business.

Need your business to keep control over key payroll processes? Opt for ADP Payroll Processing Services.

It will give you access to ADP Payroll Software to process your payroll and we’ll share our knowledge, recommendations, guidelines and best practices in order to optimise and improve your experience.

It includes the following:

Customer support
Application updates and upgrades
Compliance monitoring services
Quality production control

With ADP Payroll Managed Services, we take care of every payroll process, so your business can focus on core areas. Meanwhile, we look after your payroll and human resource information system (HRIS), as a trusted provider with years of industry knowledge.

Need both payroll and human resource information systems (HRIS) managed, plus access to our experts to answer any pay-related questions? Then ADP Payroll Comprehensive Outsourcing Services are right for your business.

Is payroll outsourcing right for you?

To stay ahead of the competition, businesses not only need to be efficient and productive, but they also have to be agile and responsive. Outsourcing payroll to a trusted expert like ADP frees up your time, money and brain power to focus on business strategy.

Being able to respond to market and environmental changes is where HR can shine. ADP payroll enables your HR team to access data reporting that provides insight into how to prepare for the future – through improved development of employees, talent retention and accurate pay runs.

Outsourcing to ADP means you don’t have to worry about finding staff with the right payroll expertise if you don’t have a payroll department. And your staff don’t need to worry about the everyday problems of payroll and whether legislation may be changing.

How do payroll outsourcing services work?

Your employees’ information is transferred to ADP as your payroll outsourcing provider, including information such as hire dates, job titles and pay rates. ADP then calculates and transfers pay to each employee, accurately and on time, on your behalf via a direct deposit or payroll cheque. If your employees clock in and out, we will process this data. Each pay period is taken care of by the payroll outsourcing software.

We also calculate and pay your payroll taxes and insurance, and issue annual or monthly reports on all transactions, giving you meaningful data that can help you improve productivity and drive your business forward.

Tax and National Insurance contributions will be paid for you when they’re due, and reports provided to your business. Your payroll outsourcing provider may also be able to take care of new hire onboarding paperwork and required employee tax documents.

The ADP outsourcing process

Your employees’ information is transferred to ADP as your payroll outsourcing provider, including information such as hire dates, job titles and pay rates. ADP then calculates and transfers pay to each employee, accurately and on time, on your behalf. We also calculate and pay your payroll taxes and insurance, and issue annual or monthly reports on all transactions, giving you meaningful data that can help you improve productivity and drive your business forward.

What people say about ADP payroll outsourcing

ADP’s payroll system is a widely used solution and ADP a reputable provider. The level of service they provide was a major factor in the decision and they could prove that they could manage the payroll to the high standards that we were looking for.

Natasha Humphreys, Payroll and Benefits Specialist
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What are the pros and cons of payroll outsourcing?: There are many benefits of outsourcing your payroll to a trusted provider. They include eliminating the costs of inhouse payroll, no more manual errors or fines for missing compliance deadlines. An outsourced payroll means a more streamlined, efficient operation, resulting in cost efficiencies for your business. A possible downside is whether you will miss having control over payroll, although you can always choose partially or fully managed models.
What does it mean to outsource payroll?: Outsourcing payroll is when you hand over responsibility for your payroll function to a trusted provider like ADP. Businesses of all sizes have been trusting us with their payroll for over 70 years. Our payroll experts streamline your payroll, paying your people accurately, on time and ensuring compliance obligations are met. Depending on how much control you want to retain, you can opt for partially or fully managed models.
How much does it cost to outsource payroll?: This varies depending on your business size and specific needs. Outsourcing your payroll to ADP means experts with over 20 years of managed payroll experience take care of it. You’ll receive a clear view of the cost with no surprises – prices are fixed depending on employee numbers. You can customise the payroll services you outsource, either retaining control of some aspects, or choosing a fully managed service. Discover ADP Payroll Services.
Why choose ADP for payroll outsourcing?: Our payroll outsourcing services are recognised by HMRC, and our payroll experts are available globally. Depending on your business needs, our payroll software seamlessly integrates with human capital management (HCM) systems for your teams to take advantage of advanced HR reporting for more effective decisions.
Is outsourcing payroll with ADP right for our business?: ADP has over 70 years of payroll experience - with over 20 years of providing managed services to businesses, large and small. Outsourcing your payroll to ADP allows your people to focus on business strategy, vital right now. While our payroll experts pay your people accurately, on time and in compliance with regulations, your HR teams can now respond more quickly to market or environmental challenges as they arise.
Which ADP payroll outsourcing product should I choose?: ADP payroll outsourcing solutions are flexible and scale depending on your business size. We offer three types: Processing, Managed and Outsourcing. Our Processing service enables your teams to keep some control over your payroll processes, while our Managed service takes full responsibility for your payroll and human resource information system (HRIS). If your business would benefit from a managed service with dedicated experts on call, choose the outsourcing option.

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