# Payfit review (2026): is it worth it? > Managed UK payroll and HR with an AI assistant Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Payfit is a payroll and HR platform that, in the edition the site shows from this location, is built around UK payroll: its own payroll team prepares and checks each pay run, and the client approves it before payday. The same platform covers leave and absences, expenses, performance reviews and reporting, and an AI assistant answers payroll and HR questions. Prices are not published. - **Category:** Payroll - **Made by:** Payfit - **Website:** https://payfit.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: no prices are published, so cost cannot be compared in advance. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing Payfit's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Ways to pay less - **First month free for new clients until 30 November 2026** (Other savings): A site banner offers a free first month to new clients who subscribe on or before 30 November 2026. Source: https://payfit.com/ ## Key features - **Payroll run by Payfit's team:** UK payroll experts, described as CIPP-qualified, prepare and check each pay run; the client reviews and approves before payday. - **HMRC and pension submissions:** Sends Full Payment Submissions and Employer Payment Summaries to HMRC, applies tax code changes, and submits to pension providers including NEST, Smart Pension, Aviva, NOW Pensions and People's Pension. - **Starters, leavers and statutory pay:** Handles new-starter notifications, P45s, notice-pay calculations and statutory pay entitlements, and generates P11Ds at no extra cost. - **Payments:** Pays staff through Telleroo or produces a BACS file for upload to the company's bank. - **Connected HR modules:** Leave and absence, expenses, performance reviews and reporting sit on the same platform as payroll. ## Good for - UK employers that want payroll prepared by a provider but still approved by them - Teams already using Xero or QuickBooks, which Payfit lists as integrations ## Worth knowing - No prices are published; the site offers a demo and a Try now button, so cost cannot be compared in advance. - The pages read from this location describe UK payroll; availability and features in other countries are not shown on them. - Payfit says it takes legal responsibility for HMRC compliance on the payroll it runs. - Pages describe sizes from small businesses of up to 25 employees to mid-market firms of 300 or more. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Payfit runs payroll for you, with HMRC and pension submissions and HR modules. No prices are published, and the pages we read describe the UK only. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published; the site offers a demo and a Try now button. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial are on record for this listing. - **Features: B.** Payroll run by Payfit's team, HMRC and pension submissions, starters, leavers and statutory pay, payments and HR modules. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. A team sets up and runs the payroll with you. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with links to Xero, QuickBooks, Kota, Spendesk and BambooHR. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Payfit's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among payroll services - Payfit's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 11 of the 40 other payroll services we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on features (B, above 17 of 40) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/payroll ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Payfit you would be making payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 24 of the 40 other payroll services grade higher. - You could make: Time off, expense tracking and employee records: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Xero, QuickBooks and Kota among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Xero, QuickBooks, Kota, Spendesk, BambooHR **Tags:** Payroll, Time off, Expense tracking, Employee records, AI features ## Alternatives - [BrightPay](https://toolgpa.com/tools/brightpay): UK cloud payroll with HMRC submissions and auto-enrolment. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/brightpay-vs-payfit) - [Employment Hero](https://toolgpa.com/tools/employment-hero): Payroll, HR and hiring for Australia, NZ, the UK and Asia. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/employment-hero-vs-payfit) - [Rippling](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rippling): HR, IT and finance platform with US and global payroll, by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/payfit-vs-rippling) - [Paycor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/paycor): US payroll and HR software, with published prices under 50 staff. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/paycor-vs-payfit) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://payfit.com/ - https://payfit.com/payroll/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/payfit Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).