Desktop Payroll Software for Power Users
Aimed squarely at UK accountants and bureaus that value speed, efficiency and control, with a stunning user interface that makes working in payroll a pleasure. No cloud lock-in, no subscription fees, no performance compromise.
Batch Editor
A smart spreadsheet-style editor for bulk payroll input. Supports mulitple rows per employee for several items of the same type, keyboard shortcuts for switching tab navigation direction, adding and removing items and editing rates. Just choose your columns and input your data at lightening speed!
All Tax Years in One App
Switch instantly between tax years and generate reports across tax years to match your financial year or just to compare. Tax years are switched per open employer so you can work in multiple tax years at the same time. No more switching between year-specific installs, complete continuity, zero friction.
Excel Integration
Import employee or payroll data directly from Excel files. Export detailed payroll reports in beautifully formatted spreadsheets — client-ready, no reformatting required. Supports multiple sheets for import, export multi period reports to one or multiple named sheets, use tables for export, use formulas for totals rows for easy excel editing.
Validate & Edit Before Committing
Import employee and pay data using our spreadhseet-style import editor. Extensive validation checks point out any issues before you import and you can edit all data directly in the import window. No more dealing with errors or failed imports after the fact, or reopening files to make corrections!
All Input Fields are Calculators
Every numeric input field in Snappy is a fully functioning calculator. No more pulling your phone out or switching to a calculator app, just calculated in the field you're working on.
UI Built for Speed
Keyboard-first navigation, instant search, handy one click actions and zero page loads. Snappy is engineered for bureaus and accountants who live inside their payroll software and need it to keep up.
And much more!
Pensions & Auto-Enrolment
Assessments, postponements, enrolments, re-enrolments and statutory letters are all handled with ease in Snappy. CSV submission files for popular pension providers and API submissions for NEST with more API integrations coming.
Statutory Pay & Holidays
Full support for all statutory pay types using the built in calendar. Set holiday entitlement and record holidays on the calendar using various fixed and accrual type methods.
Reports
Incredibly flexible and beautifully presented reports using PDF, Excel or CSV. In the app, report tables include drag 'n' drop columns, one click sort by any column, quick actions and many filtering options
CIS
Snappy Payroll includes a fully functional CIS module for recording payments to subcontractors, verifying subcontractors and issuing payment & deduction statements and year end summaries.
Batch Actions
Add and remove payslip items across multiple employees at once with ultimate flexibility, review minimum wage compliance and update all employee rates in one screen, bulk update departments + lots more.
Tax code Notices
Fetch tax code notices from HMRC and apply to your employees with a full history available any time. RTI notices and generic notifications coming soon.
Other features we know you'll love
- Automatic Updates — Snappy checks for updates in the background when you start the app and every 6 hours while it's open. When an update is available it will be downloaded and applied automatically so you can be sure you're using the latest version with all legislative, security and feature updates.
- Pay periods — Set up as many pay period schedules as you like with flexible period and pay date logic, including multiple pay periods of the same frequency. Easily switch employees to another schedule.
- Employer management — Dashboard for managing your employers, open multiple employers at the same time in one or multiple windows with an easy switching menu
- True Multi window — spawn another window in one click, open the same employer in both windows and view different sections or tax years, or have multiple employers open in independent windows.
- Snapshots — create and manage backups in a flash in the app, including batch backups for all or multiple employers in your dashboard. View the full snapshot history with your own labelling and descriptions, cleanup old snapshots without leaving Snappy.
- Logical folders — Set your main employer folder and Snappy will create a sub folder each employer, and folders for different reports, exports, pension files, snapshots etc.
- HMRC Liabilities — View liabilities to HMRC, export a P30, add adjustments, manage employment allowance, CIS suffered and apprenticeship levy and track payments.
- Employer wide rates — add hourly and daily rates, additions and deductions that can be used across all employees with a fixed or employee specific rate that can be linked to employees' standard rates. Set default hourly and daily rates for new employees or use minimum wage.
- Reports — So many handy features to generate the report you need quickly - departmental grouping, employee filters, smart columns that exclude any zero value columns, sidebar for live report editing, smart page breaks and new page per period for PDFs, All on one or one sheet per period on excel exports and more.
- + Way too much to include here! — Why not see for yourself? Just create your account, download the software and start exploring!
The Roadmap
What's coming next
Employee & Employer Portal
Ready by June 2026 - full featured cloud portal for employees and employers to view documents, update details, manage holidays and more.
HMRC Agent Authorisation
Request agent authorisation for your clients, enter authorisation codes and view authorisation status directly from Snappy Payroll.
Modulr Payments
Pay employees and HMRC directly from Snappy via Modulr. Eliminate manual errors and save time by uploading payments straight from Snappy.
Automation Suite
Fed up of repeating the same sequence after entering payroll data? We're working on one click automations to send the FPS, run the payroll summary, email it to the client, and submit pensions & payments (with NEST), plus handy keyboard shortcuts for common processes that can be mapped to a streamdeck or similar device.
Bureau Payroll Manager
There are plenty of CRM and Task management tools out there but none of them really handle the recurring task setup you want for payroll very well (at least not without extensive work to set up custom solutions). We're working on a client and task management suite that works perfectly out of the box.
Simultaneous Multi user access
You thought that was only avilable in cloud software? Enter cloud hosted databases - data lives in the cloud with local replicas, program logic lives on your desktop so you have the best of both worlds - convenience, portability and team compatibility of cloud, with the performance and reliability of desktop.
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