Cardiff is home to everything from independent shops and cafes to professional firms, care providers and fast-growing companies, and every one of them with staff has a payroll to run. We look after that payroll for businesses right across the city, from an office just up the A470 in Pontypridd, around twelve miles away.
The Cardiff business landscape
As the Welsh capital, Cardiff carries a broad and busy economy. The city centre and Cardiff Bay host professional services firms, agencies, financial and legal practices and a growing cluster of tech and creative companies. Alongside them, hospitality and retail employ thousands, from the restaurants and bars around Mermaid Quay and St Mary Street to the shops in the arcades and out at Cardiff Gate and Culverhouse Cross. Add in care providers, healthcare practices and the many small businesses in suburbs like Whitchurch, Roath and Cyncoed, and you have a huge number of employers who need their people paid correctly and on time.
Whatever the sector, the payroll rules are the same: accurate pay, correct tax codes, on-time filing and a workplace pension that stays compliant. It is the kind of work that eats into an owner or manager's week, and it is exactly the work we take off your plate.
Why Cardiff businesses use a nearby bureau
Plenty of payroll can be run from a distance, but there is a real difference between a faceless national processor and a bureau a short drive away that knows the area. We are based in Pontypridd, in the middle of South Wales, so Cardiff is genuinely local to us. When you call you get a real person who knows your account and your business, not a ticket number and a queue.
That closeness matters when questions come up: a new starter mid-cycle, a tricky maternity calculation, a query from HMRC, or a director who wants to understand a deduction. We answer the phone, we explain things in plain English, and we are on the same side of the Severn as you. For many of our clients, that local, personal relationship is the whole reason they moved to us, and a good number came on the recommendation of another Cardiff business.
What we handle for you
We run fully managed, outsourced payroll so the whole job is off your desk. Every pay run, we handle:
- Processing weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly or monthly pay runs on the cycle that suits you.
- Filing Real Time Information (RTI) with HMRC on or before payday, every time.
- Auto-enrolment and your workplace pension, including assessment and pension uploads.
- Clear, branded payslips for your staff, plus P45s, P60s and starter and leaver processing.
- Producing payslips, P45s, P60s and reports and sending them to you each pay period.
- Statutory pay for sickness, maternity, paternity and more, calculated correctly.
As a CIPP-member bureau, with CIPP-qualified people, ICAEW-affiliated and registered with the ICO for data protection, your payroll is in safe, accountable hands.
Transparent pricing
Our pricing is simple and easy to budget for. Fully managed payroll is a fixed £5 per employee, per month, plus VAT, with no long tie-ins and no surprises. You know what you are paying before you commit, and the price covers the processing, filing, payslips and support, right through to year end. You can see how it works on our pricing page, or tell us how many people you pay and how often and we will send a clear, no-obligation quote the same day.
Free, straightforward switching
Moving payroll provider sounds like hassle, but it rarely is when we do the work. Switching to us is free. We gather your existing figures, verify the year-to-date totals, set everyone up and make sure the first pay run under us lands exactly as it should. There is no gap, no double handling and no disruption for your staff. If you are in Cardiff and thinking about a change, whether you are on software you have outgrown or a bureau that has become hard to reach, get a quote and we will take it from there.
Areas we cover near Cardiff
As well as Cardiff, we look after payroll for businesses across the surrounding area, including Penarth, Barry, Caerphilly, Llantrisant, Bridgend and beyond. Wherever you are, your payroll is run the same way: accurately, on time, and off your plate.