Payroll integration
We want to make NEST as easy as possible for everyone to use. That’s why we’ve developed an innovative solution to make the data management process more straightforward.
Web services for payroll integration
Employers can run the NEST scheme - whatever payroll system they’re using. Now we’re working with leading payroll providers on web services to make sending data even simpler.
This innovation simplifies the exchange of information between employers and NEST by enabling payroll software to ‘talk’ to NEST. That means employers can manage NEST through their payroll software, meeting their day-to-day auto enrolment duties without needing to log into their NEST account.
By eliminating the need to log into two systems and reducing data processing errors, this will save time and administration effort for employers and their delegates. The ability to submit key data in one click will also result in faster processing times.
Web services case study
Whether you’re running a NEST scheme yourself or for someone else, web services is designed to make set-up straightforward while saving time and reducing errors. We spoke to Nannypaye, a payroll bureau representing families that employ domestic workers about how NEST’s web services has changed their business. Find out below how director Shelly Cliffin has used web services to streamline operations at Nannypaye and what it means for their clients.
Case study: Shelly Cliffin, Director at NannyPaye
"We can do it all through our payroll system."
Watch the video or read the case study
Payroll providers currently developing or offering NEST web services
- Accentra Primo Payroll
- AEclipse
- BrightPay - https://go.thesaurussoftware.com/nest-integration
- IRIS SME Solutions
- Maitland Wright Associates Ltd
- Moneysoft Ltd - https://moneysoft.co.uk/support/using-payroll-manager-nest-pensions/
- My Paye
- OptEnrol
- PayCircle Ltd - https://paycircle.co.uk/user-guide/8-easy-steps-to-set-up-your-nest-workplace-pension/
- QTAC
- Star Payroll Professional
- Superpay
- Pensionsync - payroll to pension integration service provider - www.pensionsync.com
- Systematics Software Ltd
- The Payroll Site - www.thepayrollsite.co.uk/help/payroll_help_guides/nest_pension_guide.htm
- TRG Advantage
- Enable Limited
- Able Internet Payroll Ltd
- AE Exchange
- Payroo Ltd
- Systems AXIS Limited
- Sage
- KeyPay - https://www.keypay.co.uk
If you’re a payroll software developer or provider and would like to develop our web services, please see our technical guides and information on our testing facility.
Other ways of getting information to NEST
You can also submit data to us directly. If you prefer, you can continue to do this after the relevant payroll software provider starts offering our web services functionality.
We’ve created a range of guides and tools to help you find the most practical and cost-effective ways to exchange data with NEST. These include:
- CSV templates and XSD files to get all your information in the right order
- NEST file tester to validate the information in your files
- Employer payroll guide (PDF) for full guidance on the payroll data we need to process contributions
Shelly Cliffin, director at NannyPaye
NannyPaye is a payroll bureau representing families who employ domestic workers. NannyPaye makes employing domestic staff simpler by managing all of the financial arrangements, including setting up and managing workers’ pension schemes as well as producing their payslips, calculating National Insurance and tax bills, and reminding the employer when payment is due.
How web services works for me
“We went live with our very first NEST pension in 2015. Originally, we set everything up through the NEST website. We would log in and type in all the employer’s details. We input all of the payroll figures manually. They’d be checked twice before they could be verified, and then we’d submit them for bank processing. It’s quite a long process so thankfully we didn’t have too many clients on the system at that point.
Designed to be straightforward
Now we’re representing around five and a half thousand employers. With web services, it’s much easier. We designed the way we work around it. We use software called QTAC which allows us to push the data from our own software. There are only a few extra bits we need to input, then we just push a button and it submits all that information to NEST. And we can submit payment this way as well. Because the two systems are now streamlined, we can do it all through our payroll system. The main saving for us is in not having to log in to an external website to do things.”