From Pay Run to Payday: Preparing Your Payroll Service for 2027

Make payroll one of your most profitable services, and get it ready for the biggest change to benefits in kind in years.

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.

What you’ll take away:

• A clearer route to profitable payroll: how to price on value, remove manual steps and add services such as pensions, benefits and payments
• A practical checklist for April 2027: what’s changing with payrolling benefits in kind, key dates, and what it means for your clients
• Where time and risk really sit in the payment stage: and how to remove them with one joined up flow from pay run to payday
• The truth behind common payment myths: why getting involved in payments doesn’t automatically mean becoming regulated, accessing client bank accounts or taking on more risk
• One clear next step: whether that’s a demo, a readiness resource or a conversation with our team

Who should attend?

Whether you run a handful of director payrolls, a full bureau, or you’re thinking about offering payroll for the first time, this session is for you. Can’t make it live? Register anyway and we’ll send you the recording.

Meet your speakers:

• Jon Cooper, Principal Product Marketing Exec, IRIS Software Group (host)
• Brona Grogan FCA, Senior Director of Managed Payroll Services, IRIS Software Group
• Kayleigh Graham, Head of Partnerships and Growth, Telleroo