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One account that grows with your bureau

Every ThePayBureau account is a bureau โ€” even a bureau of one. Start free, add your team, and upgrade as you grow: Free โ†’ Unlimited โ†’ Bureau โ†’ Enterprise. No migrations, no new systems.

โœ… Available now ๐Ÿ”จ Coming next ๐Ÿ“‹ Planned ๐Ÿ”ญ Future vision

Plans & Pricing

Every tier includes everything in the tiers below it โ€” upgrade only when you need more.

Available

Free

Everything you need to run up to 50 clients

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forever ยท up to 50 clients
  • Client management (up to 50)
  • Payroll management
  • Pension declarations
  • CSV import & export
  • Bureau dashboard
  • Roles, team invitations & client assignment
  • Audit trail
  • Email support
Available

Unlimited

Remove the cap and automate the busywork

ยฃ19
from ยฃ19 per month
  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • Unlimited clients
  • Penny โ€” Payroll AI Assistant
  • CPD / training log
  • Automated & scheduled emails โ€” deadline reminders, client chasers, data-due notices
On the roadmap

Bureau

Multi-person depth for growing teams

ยฃ29
per user, per month ยท save with annual billing
  • Everything in Unlimited, plus:
  • Priority support (available now)
  • Advanced bureau & team dashboard
  • Insights & analytics
  • Organisation chart
Planned

Enterprise

Tooling for regulated, large-scale operations

Custom
pricing on application
  • Everything in Bureau, plus:
  • AML / KYC checks
  • Deep analytics & forecasting
  • Fee management & referral tracking
  • White labelling
  • Bureau benchmarking & team reviews

All prices exclude VAT. Every tier includes everything in the tiers below it.

The Roadmap in Detail

What's live today, what we're building next, and where we're heading.

Free

โœ… Available now

The full core platform, free forever for up to 50 clients โ€” including a live bureau dashboard for your whole team.

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Client Management

Manage up to 50 clients with roles for admins, managers and team members โ€” invite your team and assign clients and payrolls to the right people.

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Payroll Management

Track every payroll through its cycle, with pension declarations and CSV import & export built in.

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Bureau Dashboard

Live view of your bureau: client count, payrolls due this week, overdue items, status breakdown, team workload and upcoming deadlines.

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Audit Trail & Support

A basic audit trail of what happened and when, plus email support whenever you need a hand.

Unlimited

โœ… Available now

Remove the 50-client cap and let the platform do the chasing for you.

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Unlimited Clients

No cap. Grow your client list as fast as you can win the work.

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Penny โ€” Payroll AI Assistant

Your AI payroll assistant, on hand to answer questions and speed up day-to-day bureau work.

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CPD / Training Log

Log CPD and training hours for you and your team, and track progress against your targets.

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Automated Emails

Scheduled deadline reminders, client chasers and data-due notices โ€” sent automatically so nothing slips.

Bureau

๐Ÿ“‹ On the roadmap

Multi-person depth for teams: richer dashboards, real analytics and priority help.

โœ… Available now โญ

Priority Support

Jump the queue โ€” faster responses from people who know payroll.

๐Ÿ“‹ Planned ๐Ÿ“ˆ

Advanced Team Dashboard

A deeper bureau-wide view of workload, throughput and team activity.

๐Ÿ“‹ Planned ๐Ÿ”

Insights & Analytics

Financial, capacity, service-delivery and client-health analytics โ€” trends, ratios and team splits across your whole bureau.

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Organisation Chart

See your bureau's structure at a glance โ€” who reports to whom, and who looks after which clients.

Enterprise

๐Ÿ“‹ Planned

Regulated-operation tooling and predictive analytics for larger bureaus.

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AML / KYC Checks

Run anti-money-laundering and know-your-client checks inside the platform.

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Forecasting & Risk

Capacity forecasting, revenue forecasting and churn-risk scoring โ€” see problems before they arrive.

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Fees & Referrals

Fee management with under-charging flags, plus referral tracking.

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White Labelling

Put your own brand on the platform your clients and team see.

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Bureau Benchmarking

Compare your bureau against anonymised peers to see where you stand.

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Team Performance Reviews

Per-person performance, period over period โ€” built on real payroll data.

Metrics That Grow With You

Every tier adds a deeper layer of insight โ€” and higher tiers see everything below them.

1
Live dashboard Free

Every bureau gets the live essentials: client count, payrolls due this week, overdue items, status breakdown, team workload and upcoming deadlines.

2
Headline numbers Unlimited

Monthly recurring revenue, average revenue per client, on-time completion rate and CPD hours logged against target.

3
Bureau analytics Bureau

Trends and breakdowns across financials, capacity, service delivery and client health โ€” revenue per payroll, payrolls per person, retention, client concentration and more.

4
Predictive analytics Enterprise

Capacity and revenue forecasting, churn-risk scoring, peer benchmarking and team performance reviews.

Future Vision

The bigger picture we're building towards.

This is where we're heading โ€” a direction, not a committed timeline.

๐Ÿ”ญ Client Surveys ๐Ÿ”ญ Client Health Scores ๐Ÿ”ญ Client Onboarding ๐Ÿ”ญ Forms ๐Ÿ”ญ Custom Fields ๐Ÿ”ญ Contracts & Engagement Letters ๐Ÿ”ญ E-signatures ๐Ÿ”ญ HMRC Auth Dashboard ๐Ÿ”ญ Time Tracking ๐Ÿ”ญ Invoicing ๐Ÿ”ญ Contract Renewal Portal ๐Ÿ”ญ Custom Workflow Builder ๐Ÿ”ญ Recurring Task Templates ๐Ÿ”ญ Anomaly Detection ๐Ÿ”ญ Internal Team Messaging ๐Ÿ”ญ Client Communication Log ๐Ÿ”ญ Document Storage ๐Ÿ”ญ HMRC API Direct ๐Ÿ”ญ Multi-Bureau Groups ๐Ÿ”ญ Accounting Integration ๐Ÿ”ญ Open API Integrations

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Your free account is already a bureau. Upgrade when you're ready โ€” never because you have to.

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