Run payroll in Xero with confidence: employees, pay runs, pensions and filings, learned by doing each step yourself.
Outcomes
Curriculum
An indicative outline of the modules and what each covers. Work through them in order, at your own pace.
Portfolio
A certificate proves you finished. The work you build along the way is what gets you hired.
A month of payroll for a small team: setup, pay runs, pensions and filings, processed end to end.
A short, clear guide to how payroll runs in your file, good enough to hand to whoever covers your holiday.
Fit
When not to buy this course
If you are not yet comfortable in Xero itself, do the Certificate in Xero first. And if you want the full picture, the Advanced Xero Bundle includes Xero, Advanced Xero and this course together.
Better together
All 3 for £179 instead of £307
Good to know
It helps. If you can find your way around Xero and reconcile a bank account, you are ready. If not, start with the Certificate in Xero.
Xero is a subscription product with a free trial, and the course exercises are designed to work with it. If your workplace already runs Xero payroll, practise there with care, or use a trial file.
Deliberately not. Rates and thresholds change, so we teach the process in Xero and where each figure comes from. The current numbers always come from HMRC, and Xero keeps them updated.
Yes, it is taught with UK payroll in Xero: HMRC submissions and workplace pensions. The pay run process itself transfers well if you later work with payroll elsewhere.
Every course has a 7-day money-back guarantee. Try it, and if it does not fit, we refund you.
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