Stephanie Coward

• Autumn Budget 2026: key takeaways for HR and payroll

  Today, Chancellor John Healey presented his first Budget, setting out the tax and spending plans for Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Government. Healey began his Budget speech by calling it a Budget for the ‘working people...

  Stephanie Coward | 28th October 2026 | 5 min read

  

• Is it risky to switch payroll software mid-tax year?

  Are you looking to switch your payroll software mid-tax year? Changing payroll software partway through the tax year raises a fair few questions. Will employees be paid correctly? Will HMRC end up with two records...

  Stephanie Coward | 26th October 2026 | 12 min read

  

• How much does payroll software cost in the UK? (2026/27 guide)

  The price for payroll software you see on a website is often only the starting point. The true cost depends on factors such as how many employees you pay, how often you pay them and...

  Stephanie Coward | | 12 min read

  

• Staffology Payroll autumn 2026 software update

  The Staffology Payroll team have been hard at work updating the payroll software with plenty of new features. The autumn 2026 update adds four features to Staffology Payroll: AI processing notes with two-way chat, import...

  Stephanie Coward | 19th October 2026 | 5 min read

  

• HR and payroll for UK businesses with 250+ employees: what an HCM platform has to handle

  For businesses with more than 250 employees, a combined HR and payroll platform, often called an HCM (human capital management) platform, has to do a lot more than pay people and hold records. It has...

  Stephanie Coward | 14th October 2026 | 9 min read

  

• HR and payroll integration: what employee data should be entered once?

  When HR and payroll are connected, employee data is entered once by the person responsible for it, and payroll then uses that entry without the need for any manual re-keying.  The employee data that HR...

  Stephanie Coward | 8th October 2026 | 9 min read

  

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