Our blogs
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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...
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Alison Clynes
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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Adele Blackham
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...
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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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Alison Clynes
Tracey Ellis has been running payroll at Richard’s Chassis, the Rotherham-based Land Rover chassis manufacturer, for years. They first moved payroll outside the business around three years ago and they found a small, friendly bureau that delivered a good service,...
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Paul Chappell
The Fair Work Agency has published its first delivery plan, covering 2026 to 2027. For payroll teams, this is more than another piece of employment law reading. It’s the clearest signal yet of how enforcement of pay, tips and holiday...
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Liam Ridgill
There’s a nice moment that happens every December. Someone in payroll remembers to tell the team the Christmas pay date has moved earlier because of the bank holidays, and someone else forgets, and a handful of employees end up wondering...
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Maddison Wescott
When you mention you work in payroll to friends and family, they often don’t really understand what is involved. People receive their pay and expect it to be right every time, without ever thinking about what goes on behind the...
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Paul Chappell
Payrolled Benefits Payrolling benefits in kind is supposed to make life easier. Tax gets collected through the payroll as you go, rather than clawed back later through a tax code change. That only works, though, if you actually know what...
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