QuickBooks Online

QuickBooks Online starts from £21/mo (sub + payroll), which bundles the accounting subscription and payroll together rather than pricing them as fully separate products. On top of that base fee, each employee is charged at £1.50/emp/mo, so total cost scales with headcount on top of the flat starting subscription.

Yes. QuickBooks is on HMRC's recognised payroll software list, submits RTI Full Payment Submissions for every pay run, and handles workplace pension auto-enrolment with major pension providers including NEST. Statutory pay and P60/P45 issuance are included as standard parts of the payroll module.

Yes. QuickBooks Online includes Construction Industry Scheme support for deducting and reporting subcontractor payments to HMRC, alongside standard PAYE payroll for direct employees, so a construction business can run both from a single subscription.

QuickBooks includes Intuit Assist natively, an AI assistant built into the platform for payroll and accounting tasks. Intuit is also rolling out an early-preview native MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, which would let AI agents connect directly to QuickBooks data; this is still an early preview rather than a fully released feature.

QuickBooks suits UK small businesses that want an affordable, widely recognised accounting platform with payroll built in. Rated 4.4 out of 5 on Capterra from 917 reviews, it particularly suits sole traders and small companies already in the Intuit ecosystem, with phone and chat support included.

Yes. QuickBooks includes an employee self-service portal where staff can view payslips and access payroll documents without contacting the payroll administrator directly, alongside leave and timesheet tracking built into the same platform.