Payroll, when you take someone on
Most sole traders never need this. If you do take someone on, it is the same firm and the same accountant. You do not have to go and find a payroll provider.
What is included
- Wages and payslips
- Holiday pay and holiday-pay liability
- Incomes register filings, within the deadline each pay run sets
- Employer contributions
- Final settlements when an employment ends
How it is billed
€30 per payslip, and only for the months when wages are actually paid. A quiet month costs nothing. There is no standing payroll fee and nothing to cancel when the work stops.
This sits outside the bookkeeping ceiling: the €86 a month covers the bookkeeping, and payslips are counted separately, as the pricing page sets out.
Filing on time is the part that bites
The incomes register has its own deadline for every pay run, separate from VAT and separate from the tax return, and late filings carry their own penalty.
It is the most common thing to get wrong in the first month of employing anyone, which is the reason to hand it over rather than learn it.
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Frequently asked
- Do I need payroll as a sole trader?
- Only if you employ someone. A sole trader who employs nobody has no payroll and most never will. Your own drawings are not wages. It is here because the alternative (finding a payroll provider the month you hire someone, and having them work from books they cannot see) is the situation this is meant to avoid. The same accountant already has the figures.
- What does one payslip cost?
- €30 each, and only for the months when wages are actually paid. There is no standing payroll fee, so a month with no wages costs nothing and there is nothing to cancel when the work stops.
- Does payroll come out of the bookkeeping ceiling?
- No. The €86 a month covers the bookkeeping; payslips are counted separately at €30 each. That keeps the ceiling meaning what it says for the months you do run payroll.
- What is included besides the payslip itself?
- Holiday pay and holiday-pay liability, incomes register filings within the deadline each pay run sets, employer contributions, and final settlements when an employment ends. The incomes register deadline is the one most often missed in a first month of employing anyone.
Tell us what you need, and we will work out what it actually takes.
A free conversation, about 30 minutes: we go through what you invoice, how your paperwork arrives and which plan fits, and tell you which bookkeeping band you land in and what it costs a month. We do not charge for a quote, and the conversation commits you to nothing.