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Alison Clynes
How a fast-growing van accessories manufacturer swapped last-minute firefighting for a payroll partnership built on care and attention. Rhino Products designs and makes roof bars, racking, ladders and accessories for working vans across the UK. Over the last decade the...
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Stewart Waddell
I’ve had a lot of conversations with business owners and finance leaders over the past few months. Different sectors, different sizes, different payroll set-ups. But the same story keeps coming up, and it’s one that frustrates me. Payroll is drifting...
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Paul Chappell
Here’s an uncomfortable truth. Millions of people hand HMRC more than they need to every year, usually because nobody told them what they’re entitled to. We’re payroll people, so spotting money that should be in your pocket is what we...
- Paul Chappell
October 2026 brings the second big wave of the Employment Rights Act 2025, in 2 parts – 1 October and 30 October. If April’s changes felt like a warm-up lap, this is where the race starts. The Act received Royal...
- Alison Clynes
For 19 years, J.O. Sims, the Spalding-based fresh fruit and fruit ingredients supplier, stayed with the same outsourced payroll provider, and for most of that time, things worked well. “Across the course of those years, things worked very well,” Steve...
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Josh Donner
Last night, Ascend Payroll was named the winner of the Team Excellence Award at the Reward Strategy Awards. An award that celebrates a team demonstrating outstanding collaboration, expertise and dedication to its clients. We are especially delighted to have won...
- Paul Chappell
At Ascend, we spend our days buried in payroll data, so we’re used to spotting the small errors that quietly turn into big problems years down the line. National Insurance is a classic example. Get a few years wrong, and...
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We’re proud to announce that Ascend Payroll has been named a Partner Champion for the ICB Future Skills Challenge. Every year, payroll software does more of the heavy lifting. Compliance checks, calculations and reconciliations keep getting faster and more automated,...
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Victoria McKay
After 22 years working in payroll, across both military and civilian roles, I can honestly say that if I had the chance to go back and choose my career all over again, I would choose payroll. Every single time. I’m...
- Josh Donner
Calculating a payment and actually getting the money into the recipient’s account are two separate jobs. For payroll, you can calculate every salary correctly, produce the payslips and make your HMRC submissions on time. Someone still needs to create the...
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