Have questions about your Director Pays account or free trial? We’re here to help! Email is the best way to contact us and is available outside of business hours and on weekends. The setup guide below outlines the onboarding process for getting started with Director Pays.
Send us a support requestHave questions about your Director Pays account or free trial? We’re here to help! Email is the best way to contact us and is available outside of business hours and on weekends. The setup guide below outlines the onboarding process for getting started with Director Pays.
Welcome to Director Pays! Our setup guide will walk you through all you need to cover in order to seamlessly automate your director clients' payroll.
Set up Director Pays with ease by following these steps covered in our getting started support article.
Enter your client’s company house registration number, business name, legal name number of employees and address. You’ll need to add a business for each separate PAYE scheme directors will be paid under.
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Located under “payroll settings” Enter the HMRC settings for your client’s business. These settings will be used to submit the FPS and EPS reports to HMRC.
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Add directors using “add employee” wizard. Under “Employment details” section, you can set the pay rate, hours per week and the primary pay category. Under the "Tax and NI" section be sure to tick "is company director".
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Transferring directors from another payroll system and paid them during this tax year? Enter the YTD earnings figure, YTD PAYE figure and National Insurance figure for your directors under the “opening balances” page.
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Director Pays allows you to create a trial pay run and review the figures prior to the finalisation of your pay run which allows you to submit the FPS to HRMC.
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Automate your pay runs so you won’t have to do everything manually for the rest of the year! By going to “payroll settings” followed by “payroll schedule settings” you’ll be able to access the “pay run automation” settings wizard.
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Looking to allow your payroll data to flow into other systems you use to run your business? Our Journal Service page allows you to configure an external service (or file export) for your business to integrate with to export accounting journals.
Our report packs feature allows you to configure an individual or a bundle or reports to be sent to a list of email recipients either at specific times or on a recurring schedule you select.
Never worry about keeping up with HMRC deadlines anymore! Follow these steps for your EPS to be automatically sent to the HMRC on the specified date each month.