“Kinore has allowed a space in our finance manager’s role to provide the higher value add, the strategic commercial advice that we need.”
Payroll looks simple on paper, but quickly becomes a time sink in practice. Between calculating PAYE, PRSI, and USC, keeping up with real-time Revenue submissions, and now navigating My Future Fund auto-enrolment, the administrative weight on Irish employers has never been heavier.
Kinore’s outsourced payroll services in Ireland manages your payroll end-to-end. We handle the calculations, the compliance, and the filings, freeing your organisation to focus on growing your core business.
Outsourcing payroll is not just about offloading admin. It is about removing a compliance risk that can snowball quickly if it is not handled properly.
Under PAYE Modernisation, every Irish employer must submit payroll data to Revenue in real time, on or before each pay date. Every pay run is a live compliance event. Errors are flagged immediately, and the cost of getting it wrong is both financial and reputational.
Then there is the pace of regulatory change. From 1 October 2025, employee PRSI increased to 4.2% and employer PRSI to 11.25% for employees earning above €552 per week, with a further 0.15% increase for both due from 1 October 2026. The My Future Fund pension auto-enrolment scheme became a legal requirement on 1 January 2026, bringing new employer contribution and reporting obligations. Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR), effective since 1 January 2024, mean employers must also report certain non-taxable payments and benefits in real time.
Many business owners try to manage payroll in-house. It works until it doesn’t. Staff turnover, sick leave, or a single missed filing can derail the process.
Payroll processing for salaries, wages, overtime, bonuses, deductions, and pension calculations, including My Future Fund contributions.
Revenue submissions for PAYE, PRSI, and USC in real time, fully compliant with PAYE Modernisation.
Payslip generation for all employees and directors, with clear itemisation of gross pay, deductions, and net pay.
Payroll reports and audit-ready documentation to support your finance team and year-end reconciliation.
Software integration with Xero, Sage, and other cloud-based platforms for automated data flow between payroll and accounts.
BrightPay Connect, included free for all clients, with built-in employee self-service, leave management, document sharing, and payslip access, giving your team HR functionality alongside payroll at no extra cost. BrightPay integrates directly with Xero, Sage, and other cloud-based platforms for automated data flow between payroll and accounts. If you prefer to use your own payroll management software, such as Sage Micropay, we are happy to work with your existing setup.
Dedicated expertise, not a single point of failure. Our payroll team are IPASS (Irish Payroll Association) qualified, holding Ireland’s foremost professional payroll credential. You are not relying on one in-house staff member who might be on leave, out sick, or juggling five other priorities. With Kinore, the process continues seamlessly regardless of what is happening in your organisation. Every pay run goes through two layers of checks: one preparer and one independent reviewer, so errors are caught before they ever reach your employees or Revenue.
Secure, compliant payroll management. PRSI rates, USC bands, benefit-in-kind rules, and reporting obligations shift regularly. We monitor every update and apply the latest rules to each pay run. Your data is protected by encryption and handled through secure processes at every step.
Scalable to your needs. Whether you have three employees or three hundred, our service scales with your business. If you operate across Ireland and the UK, we have the expertise to process multi-jurisdiction payroll correctly.
Since 1 January 2026, Ireland’s My Future Fund pension auto-enrolment scheme is a legal requirement. Employees aged 23 to 60 earning €20,000 or more per year who are not already contributing to a qualifying pension scheme must be auto-enrolled. Contributions start at 1.5% each from the employee and employer, with a 0.5% State top-up, increasing gradually over ten years and capped at €80,000 gross annual salary. The scheme is administered by NAERSA, but the obligation to deduct and remit contributions sits with employers through their payroll process.
Kinore builds this into your payroll as standard. We track eligibility, apply the correct calculations, and handle NAERSA reporting, so you stay compliant without adding headcount.
Getting set up is straightforward. We need three things:
As a fully managed payroll provider, we handle the rest, from initial setup through to your first pay run and beyond.
Just set up your company? We can pair payroll with company formation in Ireland, so you’re compliant from day one.
PPS numbers, addresses, and agreed salary or wage details for Revenue Payroll Notification (RPN) requests.
Hours worked or salary figures for the first pay period, along with any previous payroll records.
Company and employee bank details for secure payment setup.
Hear directly from the businesses we’ve helped grow, adapt, and stay compliant, and see how the right finance partner can give you confidence and time back to focus on what matters most.
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“Kinore has allowed a space in our finance manager’s role to provide the higher value add, the strategic commercial advice that we need.”
Aebhín Cawley
We are not just a payroll bureau. We are a Chartered accountancy firm with deep expertise in accounting, tax, and business advisory. Your payroll connects directly into your management accounts, tax planning, and wider finance function, and because payroll sits alongside our accountancy services and online bookkeeping, your numbers stay joined up all year.
Outsourcing your payroll to Kinore means gaining a trusted partner who helps you manage your obligations and frees up time to focus on what you do best.
Every calculation is checked through our preparer-reviewer process, every filing is timely, and every regulation is accounted for, delivered by an IPASS-qualified team
Weekly, fortnightly, or monthly processing, fitted to your business.
Outsourcing eliminates the cost of hiring, training, and retaining in-house payroll staff, while reducing costly errors.
Our specialist payroll processing team answers your questions, manages ad-hoc queries, and guides you through legislative changes.
Every client receives a free BrightPay Connect subscription with built-in employee self-service and HR features. Xero, Sage, and other platforms connect automatically into your payroll operations. Already using your own payroll software? We can work with that too.
Ultimate statutory liability for PAYE, PRSI, and USC always sits with the employer — outsourcing doesn’t transfer that legal responsibility. What it does is dramatically reduce the risk of an error happening in the first place, through our preparer-reviewer process and IPASS-qualified oversight. Our engagement terms set out clearly where our responsibility for accuracy and timeliness begins and ends.
Because every pay run is filed in real time and fully documented, you have audit-ready records available at any point, not just at year-end. We can support you through a Revenue query or audit by providing the underlying submission history, RPN records, and reconciliations Revenue typically requests.
Beyond standard salary processing, we handle the areas that carry the most compliance risk: BIK on company vehicles or health insurance, share-based remuneration, and the specific tax treatment of redundancy or termination payments, which have their own exemptions and reporting rules under Revenue.
Yes. Payroll integrates seamlessly with our bookkeeping, management accounts, and tax compliance services. Many clients start with payroll and expand to a full outsourced finance function over time.
Payroll involves some of the most sensitive data a business holds, PPS numbers, salaries, bank details. Access is controlled, data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and our processes are built around GDPR obligations for both us as a processor and you as the data controller.
Yes. Because Kinore is a Chartered accountancy firm rather than a payroll bureau, your payroll costs, accruals, and pension liabilities flow directly into your management accounts and cash flow forecasts. There’s no manual reconciliation between separate payroll and accounting systems, and no data lag between what’s paid and what’s reported.
Yes, switching mid-year is straightforward. We transfer your year-to-date pay history, tax credits, and RPN data from your outgoing provider or in-house system, so there’s no gap in Revenue submissions and no disruption to employee payslips. Most switches are completed within one pay cycle.
No. Kinore’s payroll service scales with your business without you needing to hire additional payroll staff. Adding employees, a new pay frequency, commission structures, or a second payroll run (for example, a UK entity alongside an Irish one) is a configuration change on our side, not a resourcing problem on yours.
