Auto Enrolment Solutions with Primo Payroll

Signing-up to a pension scheme is just the beginning of AE compliance. There are many ongoing responsibilities that carry heavy penalties for non-compliance. Each time you process payroll, you must assess the workforce, auto-enroll, communicate, process opt-in and opt-out requests and so on. And in order to do these, you must transfer the data back and forth between your payroll and pension systems – every single week or month. This is an admin nightmare that can cost your business time and money as well as expose your employers to compliance risks.

With our unique approach to creating solutions for Bureau companies, we don’t settle for anything less than an automated solution. Exporting to CSV from one system and importing in to another system in every pay period is simply not an adequate solution for Payroll Bureaus!

And thanks to the combined expertise of the Accentra, Smart Pension and PensionSync teams, we have produced the most elegant solution in the industry. A truly unique auto-enrolment solution that virtually takes away all the burdens of AE compliance obligations from bureaus and employers alike.

It’s so simple and powerful, it’s an absolute game-changer.

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	Smart Pension Direct Fully Automated Solution	PensionSync API Mostly Automated Solution
Pension Providers Supported		Note: Integration with more providers coming soon, please ask for details
Bureau Exclusive Benefits	Automatic bulk Staging Date Retrieval Instant bulk sign-up direct from Primo Payroll to Pension Scheme Automated background processing for all AE tasks leaving nothing to remember or do Multi-company Compliance tracker screen across the entire client base	Choice of Pension Providers available Automatic bulk Staging Date Retrieval Automated background processing for all AE tasks except communication leaving very little to remember or do Multi-company Compliance tracker screen across the entire client base
Bureau and Employer Benefits	All compliance tasks including postponement period performed automatically in the background Instant & Automatic data transfer between Payroll & Pension systems Employee communication handled automatically Zero compliance risks	All compliance tasks after postponement period performed automatically in the background Automatic data transfer between Payroll & Pension systems
Cost	No Extra Cost	Pension Provider Fee: May charge a monthly fee. Ask your pension provider for details
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Migrating from another Payroll and/or Pension Provider?

Whether you wish to migrate from another Payroll software or a Pension Provider or both, our dedicated migration team will be on standby to make sure your precious data and settings are migrated smoothly and verified correctly. Regardless of the current status of your auto enrolment compliance, we can help you migrate.

1. Yet to sign-up with a Pension Provider

Primo Payroll offers a payroll migration service helping you to move from your existing payroll software to Primo Payroll.

Even if you are part way through your tax year, Primo Payroll can help you move across easily so you can benefit from its low-cost fully automated AE solutions in time for your next pay run.

2. Already signed-up with a Pension Provider and yet to Stage

No problem, we can help you to move to one of the pension providers that supports API automation integration.

Acting now will save you time, money and more importantly the risks of non-compliance.

3. Already signed-up with a Pension Provider and also Staged

We can help you with that too!

Smart Pension’s state of the art platform allows migrating from other pension providers with ease. Primo Payroll supports such migrations gracefully allowing you to save time, money and avoid compliance risks.

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Automatic retrieval of staging dates for multiple clients

The AE notification panel alerts you to clients that have no staging date set up yet. A single click will retrieve the staging dates for all of them at once, without having to leave Primo Payroll.

Single click signup for multiple clients

Get notified instantly of the clients that are due to sign up for the pension scheme. Then simply click the notification icon to view the list of clients and, with another click, complete the sign-up process for all clients. All clients get signed-up automatically with Smart Pension and their employees get registered on Smart Pension’s platform. New starters after the signup get registered with Smart Pension automatically too. Its just one system and one screen that does the job for a multitude of clients – as opposed to dealing with two systems for each client separately!

Ongoing compliance automation across the board

As you know, signing up to a pension scheme is just the beginning of AE compliance. There are ongoing responsibilities that you must remember to complete for each client such as assessment, enrolment, communication and so on, and then you must transfer this data back-and-forth between your clients’ payroll and the pension system – every week/month! An expensive and risky proposition when you have to deal with several clients.

With Primo Payroll, as you go about completing tasks such as running the payroll and closing the period, all tasks get completed and the data transferred is between Primo Payroll and Smart Pension, all automatically.

There’s nothing to remember – it just works.