Payroll Services

Zest Payroll Solutions offers all clients a friendly and reliable service, freeing them to concentrate on their own business or family lives.

Zest Payroll Solutions can take care of:

  • Net pay calculations
  • Payslips
  • All Real Time Information (RTI) Submissions
  • Processing starters and leavers (including P45s)
  • Statutory Maternity Pay / Statutory Paternity Pay (SMP / SPP) calculations
  • Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculations
  • Your PAYE calculations (Tax and National Insurance due to HMRC) and tell you when it needs to be paid by
  • All HMRC correspondence (apart from the late payment notices – you’re on your own with those)
  • Payroll reports suited to your requirements
  • Processing staff’s P60s
  • Payroll legislation advice
  • Registering you with HMRC as a new Employer if applicable

How does it work?

  • Complete a few forms to enable us to act as your payroll agent, and supply proof of your identity.
  • Give us details of your Employees and provide a P45 or Starter Checklist form for each of them (or their year to date figures if we are taking over a payroll already in operation)
  • Each month you submit by email or call us with details of your staff’s hours/salary, overtime, sickness etc.
  • Zest Payroll Solutions will then process your payroll and will return payslips and reports swiftly to enable you to make payments to your employees by your chosen payment method.
  • We will also advise how much PAYE is due to HMRC on a monthly basis.

Zest Payroll Solutions offers all clients a friendly and reliable service, freeing them to concentrate on their own business or family lives.

Important note

HMRC do not recommend you change your payroll software mid-way through a tax year.  It can cause duplicate RTI submissions which can create all sorts of problems for both yourself as the employer and for your staff.

Due to this, Zest Payroll Solutions can no longer take over a payroll if it has already been run since 6th April  unless it has been run on the Iris Payroll Professional software (formally Star Payroll Professional).
This does not affect new PAYE schemes which are set up mid-tax year.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Complete a few forms to enable us to act as your payroll agent, and supply proof of your identity.
  • Give us details of your Employees and provide a P45 or P46 tax form for each of them (or their year to date figures if we are taking over a payroll already in operation)

If you have not already done so, Zest Payroll Solutions will register you as an employer with HMRC, opening your PAYE scheme and obtaining the important PAYE references.

We then act on your behalf dealing with all HMRC correspondence.
Once we have your nanny’s details, you inform us of the salary or hours worked each month and we calculate what you need to pay your nanny and what is due to HMRC.

We will email you the payslips and any accounting reports that you may require for your own records and take care of all of the RTI reports.
You just have to make the payments.

Zest operates on a monthly pay-as-you-go basis (we don’t charge you an annual subscription fee upfront where you are tied in). 

We operate on a monthly pay as you go service. You are not tied into a yearly subscription. Please see our PRICING list for our current fees.

Zest Payroll Solutions uses the Iris Payroll Professional software. Iris Payroll Professional (formally Star Payroll Professional) is a long established, well respected and reliable programme which is used by many large accountancy firms.

Absolutely! We can register you as a new employer with HMRC and get you set up with your unique PAYE references at no additional charge.

  • Net pay calculations
  • Payslips
  • All Real Time Information (RTI) Submissions
  • Processing starters and leavers (including P45s)
  • Statutory Maternity Pay / Statutory Paternity Pay (SMP / SPP) calculations
  • Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculations
  • Your PAYE calculations (Tax and National Insurance due) and tell you when it needs to be paid by
  • All HMRC correspondence (apart from the late payment notices – you’re on your own with those)
  • Payroll reports suited to your requirements
  • Processing staff’s P60s
  • Payroll legislation advice
  • Registering you with HMRC as a new Employer if applicable
  • Each month you submit by email or call us with details of your staff’s hours/salary, overtime, sickness etc.
  • Zest Payroll Solutions will then process your payroll and will return payslips and reports swiftly to enable you to make payments to your employees by your chosen payment method.
  • We will also advise how much PAYE is due to HMRC on a monthly basis.

HMRC do not recommend you change your payroll software mid-way through a tax year.  It can cause duplicate RTI submissions which can create all sorts of problems for both yourself as the employer and for your staff.
Due to this, Zest Payroll Solutions can no longer take over a payroll if it has already been run since 6th April  unless it has been run on the Iris Payroll Professional software (formally Star Payroll Professional).
This does not affect new PAYE schemes which are set up mid-tax year.

Absolutely! We can register you as a new Employer with HMRC and get you set up with your unique PAYE references at no additional charge.