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BrightPay for Windows

BrightPay's desktop solution is available on Windows. The easy-to-use payroll software is Revenue compliant and includes full PAYE Modernisation functionality. All BrightPay customers also get complimentary access to BrightExpenses, which is designed to ensure effortless compliance with Revenue's Enhanced Reporting Requirements.

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Payroll Journal Integration with Accounting Packages

BrightPay includes payroll journal API integration with a number of accounting packages, including BrightBooks (previously known as Surf Accounts), Xero, Sage Business Cloud Accounting, Quickbooks Online and AccountsIQ. This allows users to send the payroll journal directly to the accounts software from within BrightPay.
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Direct Payments in BrightPay

BrightPay’s integration with Modulr will give you a fast, secure and easy way to pay employees through BrightPay. Eliminate the need to create bank files and the manual workload associated with making payments to employees.
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Enhanced Reporting Requirements

Employers are required to report certain tax-free payments made to employees and directors to Revenue. This is known as Enhanced Reporting Requirements (or ERR). All BrightPay customers get complimentary access to BrightExpenses, which is designed to ensure effortless compliance with Revenue's Enhanced Reporting Requirements.
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PAYE Modernisation Compliant

BrightPay includes full functionality for PAYE Modernisation and is Revenue-compliant. BrightPay not only ensures you are kept fully compliant with new legislation requirements but makes it really clear and easy to understand. Retrieve Revenue Payroll Notifications (RPNs) each pay period and update employees as required. Send a Payroll Submission Request (PSR) each pay period.
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BrightPay Connect

With BrightPay Connect, employers have access to an online employer dashboard where they can view payslips, run payroll reports and manage employee leave. Payroll bureaus can request payroll data from their clients through the secure portal, seamlessly synchronising back to the payroll software.
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Switching to BrightPay

BrightPay provides an import utility to bring across your company and employee details from a number of payroll packages including Thesaurus Payroll Manager, Sage Micropay, Big Red Book and many more. Book a demo today to avail of a free consultation with our migration specialists.
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Key Features

BrightPay works the way you want. It's incredibly flexible, letting you do what you need to do to run your payroll, no matter what type of employer you are or what your situation is. There are no unnecessary limitations or pointless restrictions on what you can do. When payroll is straightforward, BrightPay keeps it simple. When payroll gets complicated, BrightPay makes it easy.
 
Payments
Process weekly, fortnightly, 4-weekly and monthly payment schedules. Run multiple payment schedules side-by-side with one-click access to any pay period. Add unlimited payments, additions and deductions to a payslip and assign an employee to one or multiple departments.
Payslips
Payslips can be emailed, printed, exported to PDF, or added to our employee self-service portal, BrightPay Connect. Payslips can be tailored to add/remove certain information on the payslip, for example, add a company logo or remove the payment method details. Employees can be paid by credit transfer, cheque or cash. 

Revenue Compliant
BrightPay includes full functionality for PAYE Modernisation and is Revenue-compliant. BrightPay not only ensures you are kept fully compliant with the new requirements, but makes it really clear and easy. Retrieve Revenue Payroll Notifications (RPN) each pay period and update employees as required. Send a Payroll Submission Request (PSR) each pay period.
Reports
BrightPay includes a flexible report builder allowing you to create a customised report of your choice. Choose from over 100 data items to include in reports and choose which employees to include. Reports can be printed, exported to PDF or saved for future use. Reports can also be made automatically available on our online employer dashboard, BrightPay Connect.
Payroll Journals
With BrightPay, you can create a CSV payroll journal for import into your accounting software. It includes built-in formats and nominal ledger code mappings for BrightBooks, Quickbooks, Sage, Xero and AccountsIQ. A 'generic' journal option is also available for those who use other accounting software packages. 


Benefit in Kind
PAYE, USC & PRSI must be operated by employers in respect of the taxable value of most benefits in kind and other non-cash benefits provided by them to their employees. BrightPay allows you to process all types of benefits that you provide to your employees. 

Safe and Secure
All the payroll data for an employer is contained in a single file for simple backup and transfer. Sensitive data is encrypted in the employer file. Employer files can be optionally password protected. Employer files can be stored on a cloud file sync service such as Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive giving you access to the employer files from multiple PCs.
Automatic Enrolment
The Irish Government is preparing to introduce automatic enrolment, where Irish employers will be required to enrol their employees into a workplace pension scheme and contribute towards the employee's pension pot. All BrightPay payroll packages will include auto enrolment functionality. We have the experience to guide you through the process after rolling out a similar system in the UK in 2012. 


Getting Set Up
BrightPay installation is quick and simple, with the ability to import employees from RPN, CSV, Thesaurus Payroll Manager or from many other payroll software packages. Start at the beginning of the tax year, start in the middle of the tax year, or continue partway in the tax year from migrated payroll records.


BrightPay Connect
BrightPay Connect is an optional add-on which enables secure automatic backups of your payroll data to the cloud. With BrightPay Connect, employers have access to an online employer dashboard where they can view payslips, run payroll reports, manage employee leave and much more. Invite employees to their own self-service portal and smartphone app.



Payroll Software you can trust...

BrightPay is Revenue-compliant and has passed through our own rigorous internal testing regime. We have been developing payroll software for over 30 years and you can benefit from all our hard work and experience. Over the past few years, we have added hundreds of powerful features and enhancements, with many more planned for the future.

 

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