For those considering GDPR requirements with MoneySoft payroll:-
http://www.paydashboard.com/blog/moneysoft-epayslips-integration-update
Webinars coming soon covering:-
Generating data from Moneysoft
Uploading payroll data to PayDashboard to generate payslips
Document transfer between Agents and Employers
PAYE forms
Other functionality of PayDashboard
Pricing
Questions
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Nobody will be able to afford being in business soon.
Companies will just have staff doing admin for the Government.
I am keen to try this, after receiving an email today informing me that the beta testing is now complete and the function is working, however, I cannot find any mention of price.
I usually loose interest immediately in companies who don't show prices, particularly subscription type models, however I'll give this one some time seeing as it's new.
Any beta testers amongst us?
We've just got price details today for this and it looks like it will cost us at least £75 excl VAT per month, which is way too much for us to justify, so I will be trialling BrightPay now or looking at other solutions - such a shame.
For those not keen on scrolling, here's Paydashboard's response to some of the queries on this thread about the £30 quote:
Hi all
Thank you for your comments. We would just like to provide some clarity on the pricing. Our price starts from £30 plus VAT which covers online payslips, a document transfer portal, hosting fees and a UK based support centre to assist with not only your support questions but those from your clients as well. The price does depend on how many clients/payslips you require to use the portal for and also if you select any additional modules such as employee benefits packages - which is why we do not put any pricing on our website.
However we do treat all enquiries on a case-by-case basis and are willing to discuss all pricing queries to come up with pricing to suit the client.
Kind regards
PayDashboard
Exactly. It always makes me think they are expensive and hence they need you to call up so they can have somebody go through the old sales pitch.
Will it not be possible to email encrypted payslips from Moneysoft without adding the dashboard?
Another firm scaremongering and looking to cash in.
Just use password protection:
https://moneysoft.co.uk/support/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/
Reminds me of when Auto Enrolment was coming in and compliance companies sprang out of nowhere to charge silly money
Wow, £75 a month?? Are you having a giraffe? I presume that’s based on the number of payslips? I shall continue to email password protected payslips from Brightpay. I was on one of BP’s GDPR webinars this week and they said that this method would be fine under GDPR. I think as long as you are seen to be taking steps to protect the data you send to clients and their employees you are pretty much covered.
I was given a free Brightpay connect licence recently which looks the same as the dashboard - online payslips, reports, holidays, data is backed up, etc, etc. It’s £50 per employer but the price goes down the more licences you purchase. I've started using it for two of my clients and so far so good.
Is paydashboard integrated with other providers?
It's not clear what improved functionality I get for £75 (+ VAT, I assume) a month.
To put it in perspective, its more than I spend on other software put together.
I’m sure that it is more expensive than all the other software put together. One of the main benefits of Moneysoft and Brightpay is that they are affordable and good which gives us the opportunity to make a bit more money from clients. If we used paydashboard it would leave us with nothing. Maybe they are targeting larger firms that have hundreds of payrolls. I assume the price goes down the more payslips or employees you have?
What drives me potty is the lack of pricing on the website. They want you to ‘contact them’ so you can then listen to a 20 minute sales pitch. I’m always suspicious of any company that doesn’t publish prices on their website. They seem to be using GDPR to scare companies. I’m still getting my head around GDPR but from what I gather it’s okay to email password protected payslips going forward.
Crikey, 75 pound a year and I'd still have to give it some thought, but per month? No thanks!
Ridiculous pricing. Jumping on a bandwagon and they must feel aggrieved at what some Accountant did to them a few years ago! Having a laugh!!
Flabbergasted!
Quoted 30p per payslip (+VAT) with a minimum fee of £30 (+VAT) per month and a maximum of 50 employers (basically for my £30 I can generate 2 payslips per employer, if I had 50 that is). No discount if I exceed 100 payslips per month either, still 30p per payslip. Sorry, but I have to agree with other commentators, rip off. I'm also very disappointed that Moneysoft are promoting this.
I saw some mention of Brightpay as an alternative product for payroll and online portal BUT their prices are no better, if not worse actually.
Will stick to what I do now, password protected pdf's, it's simple and cost effective (ie FREE) and is compliant.
Give it a year or two and with more competition we'll see the prices of these portals plummet.
Just checked them out on Companies House and the director is Richard Turpin! Explains a lot...
We love Moneysoft so were very excited to read about this. I attended a PayDashboard webinar last week and the product looks good but as others have mentioned, the prices are way too high.
Prices are monthly and based on a combination of number of clients and number of payslips. The prices below are for up to 50 clients, and exc VAT.
0 - 500 payslips = £150 pcm
500 - 1000 £255
1500 £330
1000 - 2000 £445
2000 - 3000 £595
We were mainly looking at using it for our biggest client with c. 200 payslips per week. Given that BrightPay Connect is only £49 pa for one client, with no restriction of number of employees/payslips, we're likely to jump ship from Moneysoft to Brightpay.
Connect will meet our needs at a fraction of PayDashboard's cost. We'll also be free of Moneysoft's 250-employee restriction.
Hi all
Thank you for your comments. We would just like to provide some clarity on the pricing. Our price starts from £30 plus VAT which covers online payslips, a document transfer portal, hosting fees and a UK based support centre to assist with not only your support questions but those from your clients as well. The price does depend on how many clients/payslips you require to use the portal for and also if you select any additional modules such as employee benefits packages - which is why we do not put any pricing on our website.
However we do treat all enquiries on a case-by-case basis and are willing to discuss all pricing queries to come up with pricing to suit the client.
Kind regards
PayDashboard
I've just gone ahead with PayDashboard. I'm a small bookkeeper with just 12 payroll clients, generating around 80 payslips per month. The price I will be paying is £30 plus VAT for their starter package - which is up to 25 clients and up to 100 payslips per month. If I go over this, I have to go to the next level, which is basically double price for double clients and double the payslips.
I had to sign to be tied in for 1 year, with a 90 day notice period to get out of it - and it may also be prudent for people to be aware, that you need to ensure you tell your employers/employees, that its their responsibility to download their payslips, as if we were to stop using the service, they wouldn't be able to access them anymore!
I'm hoping its going to work well for us though.
So 37½p a payslip + VAT and it comes with its own set of new problems .....
Oh well, better than £150 a month.
Hi Lady of Ledger, Out of interest is this something you will charge your clients for or are you absorbing the cost yourself? I'd be very keen to know how you get on.
We contacted PayDashboard as soon as Moneysoft advertised the feature. We had a long discussion & demo and subsequently promised a pricing structure to meet our needs.
It never came and PayDashboard have never been back in touch since.
We suspect, as we run low volume employee's (1 or 2) for hundreds of individual employers this would have proved to be too costly to justify, so they thought they would just not bother...
Hi Wieslaw
I'm really sorry that pricing hasn't been sent to you. If you wouldn't mind emailing [email protected] I will get that pricing information over to you today.
Kind regards
Oh come on PayDashboard - why not make it transparent for all of us!!!!!!!!!
From £30 - and the rest!!
Slim Freddie - yes, I will be passing some of this cost onto my clients, particularly the ones with over 5 employees.
The response from my clients has been very positive, they see it that its one tick in the box with regards to GDPR compliance without them having to do anything except explain to their staff what's happening, get an email address off them, then the rest is down to the employees.
It's going well up to now - pretty easy and intuitive to set up - and employees are also quite impressed with the extra bits of info that they're getting access to.