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The only, true real-time payroll software

Pay your employees on time, every time with People First

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New levels of accuracy, visibility and flexibility for your payroll teams

While you focus on the marathon of an evolving business, let our payroll software do the heavy lifting. P45s, pensions and everything in between. Whether you want a platform to manage in-house or to leave it to our experts, your payroll will never hold you back again. 

Listen to Anna, HR Projects Manager at Robertson Group, discuss how People First empowers their employees.

Turn payroll from a monthly chore to a simple daily task with People First

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The power of real-time payroll

AI-based error detection

People First's anomaly detection AI continuously monitors expenses and overtime patterns, flagging outliers and breaches before they impact the bottom line by safeguarding your finances and ensuring compliance. Last-minute changes? No problem. Live customisable dashboards give you total payroll visibility to make any adjustments without disruptions.

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Clarity and confidence

We provide detailed, interactive payslips for greater visibility. Employees can view their payroll information anytime, including outlined earnings, deductions and net pay.

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Stress-free compliance

People First is regularly updated to ensure compliance with the latest UK legislation. Avoid the risk of fines for inaccurate FPS without lifting a finger.

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Keep HR teams moving

Real-time payroll means cut-offs don't stop your HR teams from working. HR can can continue making changes and avoid backlogs. New starters can get paid the month they start, and leavers can still be processed without making retrospective changes.

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Responsive expense scanning

With Optical Character Recognition (OCR) powered expense scanning, employees can simply snap a picture of their receipts, and let People First extract, verify and categorise details instantly - streamlining the reimbursement process and reducing administrative burden on your payroll teams.

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Organisation-wide benefits

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    Financial wellbeing

    We've partnered with Wagestream to bring you a holistic financial wellbeing platform that gives your employees the flexibility to choose their own pay cycle and build up savings without adding to your administrative burden.

    Outsourced payroll

    Our award-winning platforms combined with access to CIPP professionals means you can move forward with confidence, knowing your payroll is safe, secure and 99.999%+ accurate. With 40 years in the industry, we've got this.

    Stress-free pensions

    People First supports a variety of private and public pension schemes, where deadlines are met with no bottlenecks and legislative changes are handled automatically. Plus, our partnership with iConnect means returns are faster and easier than ever before.

“We're really excited to be moving over to the fully integrated People First payroll platform. It will save us an awful lot of time when processing payroll, through streamlining the process and minimising human error.”

Louise Embury
Head of HR
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“People First payroll allows team members to go into their profile and view their estimated pay for that month. Previously, we were often asked by team members who had worked overtime how much they were going to be paid, but now this is in the system available to them.”

Connor Clement
Senior HR Manager
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Want peaceful pay cycles every month? Book your demo and see People First in action. 

  • Get people paid on time, every time with constant real-time calculations to eliminate errors and ensure employees receive exactly what they've worked for 
  • Empower your HR and payroll teams with no frantic administration ahead of payroll-cutoffs  
  • Boost employees' financial wellbeing with total payroll visibility throughout the month and earned wage access 
  • Remain compliant and stress-free with fortnightly software updates to put you a step ahead of the latest UK legislation

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