Some businesses, such as delivery companies for example, are based in more than one site. There is a main office, as well as satellite sites where vehicles are kept and maintained and storage and transportation is organised.

Other organisations may be running services, such as nurseries or day centres, which by their nature require local venues as well as central administration.

Whichever of these types of establishment, there could be implications for payroll organisation and efficiency. Each local section will have the information on staff hours, sickness, holidays and pay rates and will collate these and pass them on to the central office for checking and inputting into the system for staff payments. Difficulties may arise if each area does things in a slightly different way, leading to a great deal of work for the payroll administrator to make all the different methods tally.

The more complicated the task, the more likely it is that something may go wrong, so this system has inbuilt vulnerabilities that could lead to possible mistakes in the payroll solutions, either in salary payments or tax and NI.

The advantage of using a payroll company is that they will institute a standard system so that all the information is given in the same way and no payment will be made without correct authorisation. Here at Dataplan Payroll, we have many years experience of payroll processing services and can manage your payroll no matter how complicated. With our managed payroll services you can be confident that deductions and salaries will be correct and on time.

Written by Alison Clynes
Published on August 29, 2010