For most practices, payroll quietly runs in the background. It’s the service you deliver most often, and the one that keeps you in touch with clients every single month, yet it’s rarely the one that gets reviewed for pricing, process or profit.

Fees set years ago haven’t always kept pace with the workload. Compliance keeps growing. And while the pay run itself is digital, getting employees paid often still isn’t, with bank file exports, uploads, chasing approvals and manual checks eating into time across every client, every month.

April 2027 is about to put payroll firmly in the spotlight. From 6 April 2027, company cars, car fuel, vans, van fuel and medical benefits must be payrolled, with most remaining benefits expected to follow from April 2028. Your clients will be looking to you for help, which makes now the right moment to get your payroll service in shape.

And payroll doesn’t have to end when the payslips are produced. Many firms stay out of paying employees because they assume it means becoming regulated, logging into client bank accounts or taking on more risk. In reality, modern payment tools let you offer a complete service, from pay run to payday, without holding client funds or adding manual work.

Join our panel of payroll, practice and payments specialists for a practical, discussion-led hour. This isn’t a product pitch. It’s practical, peer-to-peer advice from people who understand how practices work, covering what to do now, what to plan for, and how to close the gap between pay run and payday.