After you’ve worked all week, you will want to make sure your pay is maximised compliantly and you receive your hard earned money on time.
- Access to a customer service team who will genuinely care about your pay and work with you and your agency to solve any concerns
- A call by one of our experienced consultants, who will explain all the benefits and work with you to complete your registration
- Full insurance – To give you peace of mind and let you concentrate on your work
- Faster Payments – made as standard
- Regular text & email notifications once payment has been made and expenses have been received (if SDC test is passed)
- Payslips – emailed as soon as payment is processed
- Regular updates on any upcoming changes in legislation or relevant contractor news
All of our solutions are compliant.
SAG’s Payroll Bureau Service is for workers who fall under Supervision, Direction and Control (SDC) or working on a lower pay scale. We take care of all
the PAYE & National Insurance (NI) liabilities, to allow contractors to
concentrate on their assignments.
Agencies working in partnership with SAG Payroll will benefit from a low cost,
fast & efficient payroll bureau with the option to outsource employment
costs.
SAG Payroll contractors will benefit from:
- A quick and easy setup – one of SAG’s registration team will guide you through every step
- Inclusive text and email alerts once your hard earned pay has been processed
- Comprehensive insurance
- Full employment benefits – including SSP, SMP, SPP and much more
- Easy to use online portal to view payslips and submit expenses
- Holiday pay – ethically paid, every time
- Faster payment – made as standard
- Payslips – emailed as soon as pay is processed
- Experienced customer service team to resolve all employee queries
SAG Payroll's Umbrella model is an ideal solution for contractors working on a series of short to medium length assignments. Whether Supervised, Directed or Controlled (SDC) or not, our Umbrella solution is tailored to suit your needs.
Contractors will be given our comprehensive SDC assessment for each assignment by one of our experienced registration team. On completion of their assessment, the worker’s ability to reclaim genuine business expenses will be determined. If the contractor passes the SDC assessment they will be eligible to submit mileage and genuine fixed travel & subsistence expenses for their current assignment.
All umbrella employee’s whether they have passed the SDC assessment or not will benefit from:
- A quick and easy setup – one of SAG’s registration team will guide you through every step
- Inclusive text and email alerts once your hard earned pay has been processed
- Comprehensive insurance
- Full employment benefits – including SSP, SMP, SPP and much more
- Holiday pay – ethically paid, every time
- Faster payment – made as standard
- Payslips – emailed as soon as pay is processed
- Experienced customer service team to resolve all employee queries
Self Employed
With SAG’s self-employed solution, you can be safe in the knowledge that we are industry specialists in determining self-employment status. With our in-depth self-employed assessment, we will speak with every contractor on each assignment to ensure that they are the correct solution for their specialism.
The team at SAG Payroll will speak with all contractors individually to identify the appropriate solution for them depending on their requirements and work within any guidelines specified by our partner agencies.
We provide genuine independent contractors & freelancers with the benefits and freedom of being self-employed and can offset allowable business expenses against income on their self-assessment tax returns.
CIS
Our CIS solution offers all the benefits of being self-employed and also enables freelancers falling under the rules of the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) to operate as self-employed sole traders. CIS contractors receive all payments net of the appropriate CIS tax rate, as verified by HMRC.
SAG's CIS/Self-Employed offers the following benefits:
- Dedicated registration team to ensure employment status is thoroughly assessed therefore reducing the risk to both agency and contractor
- Comprehensive insurance
- A high-quality, focused service and support team that will guide you through your contracting
- Faster payment made as standard
- Quick and easy set up
- Easy-to-understand payslips
- Inclusive text and email alerts once your hard earned pay has been processed
- Access to accountancy services, including help with your self-assessment tax return, at very competitive prices
A SIMPLE 5 STEP REGISTRATION PROCESS
We establish your requirements
We offer a simple set-up process, initially requiring just a contact name and number for the worker(s) you wish to register with us. We call each worker to welcome them to SAG Payroll and to find the best payroll solution for them. We take all their details to register with us and explain the products available and best-suited depending on Job Title and Pay rate.
We call & explain which payroll solution is best suited to you
We offer; Umbrella, CIS and Contractor payroll solutions. Contractor and Umbrella work on a PAYE method where expenses can be offered to suitable workers to help reduce their weekly tax. CIS is offered to our skilled professionals who want to be paid Self Employed via a UTR number. All products a fully compliant and cost-effective for you and your workers to maximise their payments.
We issue your contracts and check ID’s
Once we have registered your worker(s) with us, we will request a copy of their ID and send a contract of engagement, making sure IDs are compliant and all admin is taken care of before payment is made.
Once compliant, we set you up ready for payroll
Once the above steps are completed, your worker(s) are ready for payment with us. We process all payments to credit first thing on a Friday morning and we notify all workers by a text message and an emailed/posted payslip on a Thursday afternoon. This means our workers know exactly what is due in their bank for when their payment credits Friday morning.
We then process all invoices and your payments on time each week
We also offer same-day payments on a Friday, so any timesheet information missed by a client can still be paid to your workers up until 5.30 pm - Ensuring a perfect payroll process every week!
