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About Essential Payroll

About Us - Payroll Management Specialists

Essential Payroll is a payroll bureau based in Southampton providing services to SME+ clients nationwide. We have experience in many sectors and have specialists in key areas such as education, care and recruitment/temporary staff agencies. 

We have extensive experience communicating with HMRC and have been involved in projects which have provided clients with considerable rebates from previous tax years.  

Essential Payroll was formed to take on the direct and partner side of an established payroll services provider.  For us, this enabled us to focus on communicating and marketing exactly what we do in a clear and concise way.  Internally this has clarified the way we communicate with clients and the processes we follow enabling our staff to focus on what they do best;

Client Charter 

  • All clients have a named contact accessible by phone and email
  • All clients have an escalation contact and/or an account manager accessible by phone and email
  • All our offices and staff are based in the UK
  • Our services are fully HMRC and GDPR compliant
  • We back up all our data on a daily basis
  • We have an SLA to ensure we reply to queries within agreed timescales
  • We have an SLA to ensure administration and processing is carried out within agreed timescales
  • Where possible, we endeavour to highlight potential errors from any data received 
  • We strive to make reconciliation and checking at your end as simple as possible
  • We have an ongoing commitment to using best practice/technology to ensure a more efficient and accurate service

Contact our experts

Let us relieve you of your obligations so that your organisation can continue to focus on its core business. We offer a full range of payroll services and have worked alongside clients in a wide range of sectors, including the education, hospitality and care industries. You won’t regret making us your partner – contact us today on 02382 023223.

Client Feedback

“We can focus on providing accountancy services to our clients knowing that payroll is covered”

DE, Accountant

“In 2014 we outsourced our payroll to Essential Payroll and our experience has been excellent. We run a very demanding payroll with over 600 employees in an industry that has a high turnover of staff. Essential Payroll manage this brilliantly. They go above and beyond to meet our deadlines and liaise with us regularly. Essential Payroll offer a friendly, helpful and informative service that we would thoroughly recommend.”

Commercial Cleaning Company, Hampshire (615 employees)

“We have been working with Essential Payroll for years now, and couldn’t be more satisfied with the services they provide. Very efficient, professional and proactive company. We could not recommend them enough.”

Care Home Group, Dorset (500 employees)

“Essential Payroll has been our payroll office for over 4 years. Everyone that I have dealt with at Essential Payroll has been extremely professional and helpful in dealing with our payrolls. They offer immediate assistance and provide answers to questions we may have. They offer great processing service with payroll being calculated accurately, paid on time and all government forms submitted in timely manner.”

Bar/Restaurant Group, Dorset (75 employees)

“Dorset Commercial Cleaning have worked with Essential Payroll since we started the business three years ago. I can honestly say I wouldn’t know how we’d live without them. Their expertise and guidance was fundamental to us setting up an efficient and swift payroll system and their flexibility and helpful attitude over the last three years has allowed us to concentrate on delivering outstanding service to our clients safe in the knowledge that payroll is happening perfectly."

James Lattimer, Dorset Commercial Cleaning

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