Per-employee pricing

The payroll safety net,priced per employee.

One platform for multi-country SME teams. From 2 people to 1,000, with seven countries fully modelled (IE, UK, DE, NL, BE, FR, PL) and the rest supported in generic mode — your bill grows in step with your team, and the compliance evidence is built in.

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Solo

€19/mo flat

Up to 3 people

€19 / month

Sole traders and 2–3 person teams who want clean payslips and a portal without spreadsheets.

  • Core payroll (IE, UK, DE, NL, BE, FR, PL)
  • Plain-English payslips & employee portal
  • Full payslip history & P60 downloads
  • Company Handbook with acknowledgements
  • First full pay cycle free — no card
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Starter

€6/emp/mo

Min €49/mo · up to 10 employees

≈ €60 / month at 10 employees

Small employers who need clean payroll, a branded portal and a basic audit trail.

  • Core payroll (IE, UK, DE, NL, BE, FR, PL)
  • Plain-English payslip explainer
  • Branded employee portal & secure delivery
  • Year In Pay rolling 12-month insights
  • Tamper-evident audit log (hash chain)
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Compliance

€10/emp/mo

Up to 50 employees · audit-ready by default

≈ €100 / month at 10 employees

Audit readiness: EU Pay Transparency, gender pay-gap reporting, GDPR DSAR queue, filing receipts and payroll governance — in one dashboard.

  • Everything in Starter
  • EU Pay Transparency: Art. 5 vacancy ranges, Art. 6 criteria, Art. 7 worker pay requests, Art. 9 reporting, Art. 10 joint assessments
  • Gender pay-gap dashboard + 5% action plan
  • GDPR Art. 32: DSAR queue · PII access log · retention
  • Filing receipts (Revenue, HMRC, ELSTER, …)
  • Anomaly detection · pension auto-enrolment monitoring
  • Compliance Health Score + Payday IQ cockpit
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Workforce IQ

€14/emp/mo

Up to 250 employees · model before you commit

≈ €140 / month at 10 employees

Add the modelling layer: payroll forecasting, workforce modelling, payroll impact simulation and retention insights.

  • Everything in Compliance
  • Payroll forecasting & multi-country cost projections
  • Payroll impact simulation against proposed legislation
  • What-if modelling (salary, headcount, tax & pension)
  • Leaver-risk & retention analytics
  • Versioned payroll-rules engine with approval & audit
  • Workforce intelligence insights & change-impact reports
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SSO + SCIM available

Enterprise

from €4k/mo

Unlimited employees · multi-entity

Tailored to your scale

Groups of companies, multi-country payroll, works-councils and custom integrations.

  • Everything in Workforce IQ
  • SAML 2.0 SSO + SCIM 2.0 (Okta, Azure AD, Google)
  • Multi-entity consolidated billing & group reporting
  • Group-wide pay-gap, policies, approvals & directory
  • Works-council collaboration workspace
  • Custom integrations (HRIS, ERP, finance)
  • Dedicated contact · contractual SLA available · custom DPA · EU data residency
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Annual billing is two months free (~17%) · EUR / GBP / PLN / USD at checkout · 30-day free trial

Payroll bureau or accountant?

MSP is built to sit beside the payroll software you already run — BrightPay, Sage, OPTiM and others — not to replace it. Bureaus pay one flat monthly fee for the whole book, banded by annual payslip volume, with unlimited clients included.

No integration with your payroll engine and no IT project — MSP checks the payslips you already produce. See bureau pricing on our partners page.

See bureau pricing

No commitment · NDA on request

Common questions

How does per-employee pricing work?+

You're billed monthly (or annually) for each active employee in your workspace. Add or remove people any time — your bill scales with you. Solo is a flat €19/mo for up to 3 people. Starter has a minimum monthly charge of €49. Annual billing saves ~17% across every tier (two months free).

What compliance features are included?+

Compliance and Workforce IQ ship with the full EU Pay Transparency Directive workflow — vacancy pay ranges (Art. 5), published pay and progression criteria (Art. 6), worker pay information requests answered inside the two-month deadline with the annual notice and pay-secrecy confirmation (Art. 7), gap reporting with submission and publication records (Art. 9) and joint pay assessments for unjustified 5%+ gaps (Art. 10) — gender pay-gap dashboard with a 5%-threshold action plan, GDPR Art. 32 tooling (DSAR queue, PII access log, retention policy), a tamper-evident audit log (SHA-256 hash chain), filing receipts for Revenue (IE), HMRC (UK), Finanzamt (DE) and equivalents in NL, BE, FR and PL, plus anomaly detection and a live Compliance Health Score on the Company Dashboard.

What is Payday IQ?+

Payday IQ is the payroll manager's cockpit on the Company Dashboard. It surfaces anomalies, pension auto-enrolment alerts, missing demographic data and pre-flight checks for every pay run — so payroll teams catch issues before they hit a payslip rather than after.

What is Year In Pay?+

Year In Pay is a rolling 12-month review inside each employee's Insights tab. It summarises total gross, net, tax and pension contributions, highlights pension tax relief and AVC headroom, flags high-tax months without pension, and shows the employee's best earning month — all from data already in their payslips.

What's the difference between Compliance and Workforce IQ?+

Compliance is the audit-readiness tier: pay-gap report, EU Pay Transparency disclosure, DSAR queue, tamper-evident audit trail, filing receipts and pension auto-enrolment monitoring. Workforce IQ adds the modelling layer on top: payroll forecasting, what-if modelling (salary, headcount, tax and pension scenarios), payroll impact simulation against proposed legislation, leaver-risk and retention analytics, and the versioned payroll-rules engine with approvals.

How secure are employee payslips?+

Every payslip is stored encrypted at rest with EU data residency. Access is gated by row-level security, scoped to the employee and their authorised admins, and protected by passkeys / WebAuthn on supported devices. Every read and download is recorded in the tamper-evident audit log (SHA-256 hash chain), so you have a defensible record of who saw what and when.

Can employees access previous payslips?+

Yes. Every employee gets a branded self-serve portal with their full payslip history, P60s and contracts available for download at any time — no email chasing, no re-issuing. Year In Pay surfaces the last 12 months as a single insight, and the underlying documents stay available for the life of the workspace.

How does the Company Handbook work?+

Each workspace gets a built-in Company Handbook for policies, procedures and statements of intent. Admins publish versioned sections, employees acknowledge them from their portal, and every acknowledgement is timestamped into the audit log — giving you a defensible record that staff have read and accepted current policy.

Which countries and currencies are supported?+

Seven countries are fully modelled — Ireland, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Poland — with tax labels, currency and statutory bands switching automatically per workspace. Any other country runs in generic mode: MSP still reads the payslip, checks that it balances, tracks history and flags anomalies, but it does not recompute local statutory deductions. Default pricing is in EUR; GBP, PLN and USD are available at checkout with localised rates.

Do you charge for setup or onboarding?+

No setup fee on Solo, Starter, Compliance or Workforce IQ. Enterprise includes dedicated onboarding, historical data migration and a custom DPA at no extra cost.

Is there a free trial?+

Yes. Every new workspace starts on a 30-day trial with no card required — you only enter payment details if you choose to continue. Enterprise trials are scoped with us directly.

Does MSP replace our payroll software?+

No. MSP reads the payslips your existing payroll engine already produces — BrightPay, Sage, OPTiM or anything else — checks that they balance against statutory rates, and flags anomalies before distribution. It does not calculate your payroll, file with Revenue or HMRC, or touch your engine. There is no integration to build and no IT project.

How we benchmark

Indicative per-employee pricing for a 25-person team running monthly payroll. Competitor list prices as published on their public pricing pages (Jun 2026, EUR-equivalent, ex-VAT). Feature coverage varies — see notes.

ProviderFrom (per emp/mo)Multi-country EUPay-gap / EU Pay TransparencyGDPR DSAR tooling
MySalaryPal · Compliance€10IE · UK · DE · NL · BE · FR · PLIncludedIncluded
BrightPay (IE/UK desktop)~€8–12*IE + UK onlyAdd-on / manualManual
Payfit~€14–18FR · ES · DE · UKPartial (FR)Partial
Deel Global Payrollfrom $29100+ countriesNot productisedEnterprise only
Remote Payrollfrom $29Multi-countryNot productisedEnterprise only
Rippling Global Payrollfrom $35Multi-countryNot productisedEnterprise only

*BrightPay sold per-employer licence; figure shown is normalised to 25 employees. All competitor prices from public list pricing, Jun 2026 — yours may vary by region, contract length and bundled modules. We benchmark on like-for-like core payroll + compliance scope; per-employee headline pricing only.

EU Pay Transparency hits June 2026. Be ready.

Start a 30-day trial on Compliance or Workforce IQ and have your pay-gap report, DSAR queue, audit trail and filing receipts live this week — across every country you run payroll in.