Essential Payroll Services in Cornwall
From £5 per employee / month — accurate, compliant payroll with RTI, pensions and year-end included.
Essential Payroll Overview
Running payroll takes more time than it should — and the compliance traps are easy to miss. Harbour Payroll Essentials handles the whole end-to-end process: gross-to-net calculations, RTI submissions, payslips, auto-enrolment pensions and year-end reporting. Your team gets paid correctly and on time, every run — by an experienced UK-based specialist who keeps things accurate, compliant and straightforward
The Essential Package
The Essential Payroll Cycle
Thinking of switching payroll provider?
If payroll is last-minute, liabilities don’t match, or pensions feel messy, you’re not stuck. We’ll move you across cleanly and take control of the numbers — without disruption.
From the Founder
“I’ve seen too many businesses lose hours to payroll admin — or worry they’ve missed something important. Payroll Essentials keeps it simple: payroll processed properly, RTI and pensions handled on time, and your team paid correctly, every run.”
Dale Simkiss – Founder Harbour Business Support
Frequently asked questions
Essential Payroll is the core — but it doesn’t sit in isolation.
As part of our Complete managed payroll service, we also help with:
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HMRC submissions and reconciliations
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Auto-enrolment pensions (setup and ongoing)
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Payroll journals correctly posted into Xero
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Understanding payroll costs, liabilities and timing
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Fixing historic payroll or HMRC issues
Think of us as payroll + oversight, not just processing.
We make it straightforward. We’ll confirm year-to-date figures, pick up employee details, align pay elements, and manage the handover so you don’t create HMRC issues or lose history.
Yes. Many clients come to us after issues with a previous provider. We review your setup, correct problems, align payroll with HMRC and your accounts, and then manage it properly going forward.
Yes. We support auto-enrolment pensions including setup, submissions, ongoing compliance.
As part of the essentials package we provide designed payroll journals for your accounts. Take our complete payroll option and we ensure payroll journals are posted correctly and consistently, so payroll costs, PAYE and pension liabilities align with your management accounts and cashflow.
Yes — we can help with the basics as an optional add-on (onboarding admin, contract templates/updates, handbook basics and holiday setup/tracking aligned to payroll). We’ll also give you our practical thoughts based on what we see day-to-day, but if it’s complex or higher risk (disciplinary, grievances, tribunals) we’d point you to a specialist.
Yes, we can manage your CIS payments as part of our contractor payroll service.
We do. This includes new employer payroll setup, switching providers, and fixing payrolls that have gone wrong — including incorrect HMRC balances, pension issues or mismatched payroll journals. This is part of our ‘Set up & Diagnostics’ package
