Dynamics 365 Business Central

UK Payroll Alongside Business Central

Run compliant UK payroll on the trusted Opera engine, alongside your Dynamics 365 Business Central system, set up and supported by a Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Pegasus partner.

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Opera Payroll Engine

Trusted Pegasus payroll processing

HMRC Compliant

RTI submissions, up to date legislation

Employee Self-Service

Payslips and P60s online

Multi-Company Support

Run payroll across every entity

Opera Payroll Engine

Trusted Pegasus payroll processing behind the scenes

HMRC Compliant

Automated RTI submissions and current legislation

Employee Self-Service

Payslips, P60s and holiday requests online

Multi-Company Support

Manage payroll across multiple entities and companies

Choosing the right fit

Opera 3 Payroll vs a typical cloud payroll add-on for Business Central

Most cloud payroll apps built for Business Central are designed to be simple and light touch. Opera 3 Payroll is built for the full weight of UK statutory payroll. Here is an honest look at where each one wins.

	Opera 3 Payroll	Typical cloud add-on
HMRC PAYE and RTI recognition	Yes	Yes
Directors’ NI with start date precision	Yes	Limited
SMP, SSP, SPP and SAP handled automatically	Yes	Varies
Scottish Rate of Income Tax	Yes	Varies
Multi-company payroll on one system	Yes	No
Weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly and monthly together	Yes	Varies
Full auto enrolment and pension provider integration	Yes	Basic
Native, live sync into Business Central	No, journal import	Yes
Set up and running in a day	No	Yes

This is a general comparison based on typical cloud payroll add-ons for Business Central. Individual products vary, and we are happy to talk through specifics for your setup.

Opera 3 Payroll screens, including P60s and payslips

Full of automated procedures that take away the pain of payroll processing

HMRC PAYE recognition

Submit Real Time Information (RTI) to HMRC

All statutory deductions, including tax, NI, SMP, SSP, SPP (A), SPP (B) and SAP

Directors’ NI with start date precision

Automate P6/P9 with HMRC DPS tools

Retrospective NI changes

Apprentice and Young Person’s employer’s NI

Advanced pension processing, including qualifying auto enrolment pension schemes, stakeholder and group personal pension schemes with full reporting

Run scheduled data backups and other routine tasks outside business hours to minimise disruption

P32 processing, consolidation and payment recording

Fully automated Attachment Order processing and reporting

Holiday pay accruals and holiday pay averaging

Global payment and deduction changes based on values or percentages

Automatic management of Student Loan repayments for both Plan 1 and Plan 2

View historical employee information and regenerate payslips

Retained detailed history and payslip images for up to 999 periods

Employment allowance

Starter and leaver processing

Payroll groups for multiple pay periods

User access set at company level, with payroll groups and processing functions that can be restricted

Individual group or multi-group consolidation

Analysis by cost centre and department

Weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly and monthly paid employees maintained all on one company

Fully automated audit log tracks all key changes by date, user and process for the entire payroll year

Scottish Rate of Income Tax

Pensions and auto enrolment

Auto enrolment of pensions

Our Business Central Payroll offers auto enrolment functionality as standard, automating many of the processes involved and making it easier for you to fulfil your auto enrolment obligations.

The calculation function in the payroll software assesses employees for auto enrolment based on age and earnings, and determines whether they are an eligible jobholder, a non-eligible jobholder or an entitled worker.

Further functionality includes recording the employer’s staging date and the earnings thresholds that determine whether an employee should be automatically enrolled. The software also records the statutory settings required for auto enrolment as defined by The Pensions Regulator, and caters fully for cyclical automatic re-enrolment.

Pension provider integration is built in as standard for NEST and NOW: Pensions, and through the wider network of Pegasus developers, 99.9% of pension providers are covered. Bespoke pension integration is also available for anything outside that.

Watch the overview

Opera 3 Payroll Overview

A short walkthrough of Opera 3 Payroll and HR, including auto enrolment, RTI submission and email payslips.

Reporting

Payroll reporting and dashboards

The Payroll & HR software contains an extensive range of standard reports. In addition, Pegasus XRL provides the ability to design in-depth custom reports and analysis by linking the payroll with Microsoft Excel.

Departmental reporting

Payslip, cheque and BACS list generation

End-of-Year reports and In-Year reports

P11 Deductions Working Sheet

P32 employer’s Payment Record, with payment and funding recording and multi-company consolidation this Period and To Date summaries

P6, P9 automation

Comprehensive statutory payments

Attachment Orders and pension contribution reports

Talk to us about Payroll for Business Central

Get in touch and we will talk you through how Opera 3 Payroll works alongside your Business Central setup.