Cloud backup.
Employee self service.
What is BrightPay Connect?
BrightPay Connect is an add-on to BrightPay on that introduces powerful new features by linking your payroll data to the cloud.
Firstly, BrightPay Connect provides a secure, automated and user-friendly way to backup and restore your payroll data on your PC to and from the cloud.
Secondly, BrightPay Connect provides a web/mobile based self service dashboard for employees and employers to log in and access their payroll data. Employees can even directly request things like annual leave and updates to their personal details which, once approved, will synchronise back to BrightPay on your PC.
There's a lot to it, all of which makes BrightPay Connect an essential tool for keeping your payroll data safe and streamlining employee communications.
Automatic Cloud Backup
Never lose your payroll data again.
With BrightPay Connect, you don't need to worry about manually backing up your payroll data. When you link an employer to BrightPay Connect, it will be automatically synchronised online as you run your payroll or make any changes.
BrightPay Connect maintains a chronological history of your backups. You can restore or download any of the backups to your PC at any time.
You can restore a backup onto your existing PC (e.g. to roll back your employer data file to a previous version), or you can simply download a backup onto a new computer (e.g. to get up and running right where you left off).
Employee Self Service
Give your employees easy access to their payroll documents and data.
When you have connected your employer file to BrightPay Connect, you will be able to invite your employees to access Self Service, allowing them to:
- Browse and download their history of payslips and other payroll documents.
- View their payroll calendar, including annual leave, sick leave and parenting leave.
- Request annual leave directly from Self Service. Approved requests will flow directly back down to BrightPay on your PC.
- View the personal details you currently hold for them, and request to make updates. Approved requests will flow directly back down to BrightPay on your PC.
Employees can access Self Service from any computer (PC or Mac), tablet (e.g. iPad), or smartphone (e.g. iPhone, Android).
Employer Dashboard for Bureau Clients
Save time, reduce admin, and effortlessly collect the payroll info you need.
Using BrightPay Connect, you can not only give the employees of your clients access to Self Service, but you can also give your clients access to their own employer dashboard, allowing them to:
- Access the data for each of their employees, including the ability to set annual leave on the calendar and make updates to employee information (which all flows back to BrightPay on your PC).
- View payroll reports exactly as you have set them up in BrightPay.
- View the schedule of Revenue payments, outstanding amounts, and access the P30 for each tax period.
BrightPay Connect is also a great way to simply and securely share and collect information:
- Send your clients a 'Payroll Entry' request which allows them to enter the data for pay run (e.g. hours) online.
- Send your clients a 'Payroll Approval' request which allows them to preview a pay run before it's processed.
- Share documents and resources.
Multiple Users
For employers using BrightPay Connect
Whether it's your accountant, boss, colleague, departmental heads, or anyone else who may need to view the payroll data for your company, use BrightPay Connect to grant them access to the employer dashboard and let them get what they need.
For bureaus using BrightPay Connect
Grant access to the client dashboard for as many users as required for each of your payroll customers. Or share administrative access to all clients with your colleagues.
Safe and Reliable
Our number one priority is security.
All communication between BrightPay on your PC and the BrightPay Connect servers is carried out on a safe channel with maximum security.
As you or your employees browse the online dashboards, we use various methods to protect against things like data injection, authentication hacking, cross site scripting, exposure flaws, request forgery, and the many other types of vulnerabilities.
BrightPay Connect is powered using the latest web technologies and hosted on Microsoft Azure for ultimate performance, reliability and scalability.
How much does Connect cost?
Connect is billed at the end of each month based on your total number of active employees in that month. All prices quoted below are exclusive of VAT.
Calculate Your Monthly Bill
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Example Monthly Bills
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€0.63 per month1 employee
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€2.63 per month5 employees
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€4.90 per month10 employees
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€10.93 per month25 employees
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€19.88 per month50 employees
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€35.07 per month100 employees
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€72.50 per month250 employees
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€124.04 per month500 employees
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€199.99 per month1000 employees
How is the bill worked out?
Your total number of active employees is used to calculate your bill for each calendar month. If this number changes throughout the month, the highest value at any given point is used.
An active employee is one whose dates of employment overlap with the calendar month. You won't be charged for employees who left before the month, or who you have on file but are not due to start until after the month.
For Bureau customers, the total number of active employees is calculated across all clients that you have linked to Connect. For example, you would be billed the same for one client with 10 employees, and 10 clients with one employee each.
When and how is payment taken?
Payment for any given month is taken in the first week of the following month. To enable us to do this, you must add at least one valid payment method in your Bright ID billing preferences.
If you do not have a payment method set up or if payment collection fails, and you do not respond to our reminders and final notices to remedy it within time, your Connect service will be suspended (causing backups and self service access to cease). When suspended, monthly charges will continue to accrue based on the number of active employees you had when your data was last synchronised, and all outstanding usage must be paid before access is granted again.
Is there a contract option?
You can save on your monthly bill by signing a 12-month contract. Get in touch with our sales team to find out more.
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