Payroll, people and compliance in one place

Look after people.
We will look after the rest.

Northwind People runs the payroll, holds the records, chases the paperwork and watches the filings, so the person who does HR at your company can go back to doing HR at your company.

Under 4 weeksFrom first call to your first run with us
Rated 4.9Across 300 reviews from HR teams
northwind.people / payroll / July
July run, 80 people$436,770.00
Pays Friday
Gross$436,770
Deductions$98,420
Net to pay$338,350
Run checked, 3 of 4 teams approved
Engineering24 people
Approved$182,400.00
Operations16 people
Approved$94,720.00
Customer teams31 people
In review$121,050.00
Contractors9 people
Scheduled$38,600.00
Filings submittedNothing left for you to do

The platform

One place for everything
a person needs from you

Most companies run HR out of four tools and a folder of spreadsheets, and every one of them disagrees about how many people work there. Northwind holds one record per person and keeps it honest.

Payroll that runs itself

Hours, leave, starters and leavers flow into the run as they happen. You review a summary and approve it, and that is the whole job.

One record per person

Contract, salary history, equipment, reviews and time off all live on the same page, and it is the page everyone is looking at.

Time off without the thread

Requests route to the right manager, show the team calendar underneath, and land in payroll the moment they are approved.

Compliance kept quietly

Filings, minimum wage checks, holiday accrual and right to work renewals are watched in the background and raised before they matter.

Reporting your board can read

Headcount, cost by team, attrition and pay bands in one view, exported the way your finance team already wants it.

Support from real humans

A payroll specialist you can call by name, in your own timezone, who has seen your account before you finish the sentence.

Onboarding

From signed offer to first payday,
without a single reminder

01

Offer accepted

The offer is signed in the browser and the record opens itself. No forwarding, no scanning, no printing anything.

02

Paperwork done early

Tax forms, right to work and bank details are collected before the first morning, in a flow that takes about nine minutes.

03

Day one is ready

Laptop ordered, accounts created, a buddy assigned, and a first week laid out that somebody actually thought about.

04

Paid on time, always

The new starter lands in the next payroll run automatically, pro rated to the day they began. Nobody has to remember.

Your company, drawn

Who reports where, always current

The chart is built from the records, not maintained beside them. Move someone once and the chart, the approvals and the payroll all agree by lunchtime.

Chief ExecutiveLeadershipHead of Engineering24 peopleHead of Operations16 peopleHead of Customer31 peopleHead of Finance9 peoplePlatform team9 peopleProduct team15 peopleSupport team18 peopleSuccess team13 people

Payroll and compliance

Approve a summary.
We do the rest.

Hours, leave, starters, leavers and every mid month change are already in the run by the time you look at it. What you approve is a summary, not a spreadsheet, and the filings go out without being asked.

Gross to net for every person, every currency you pay in, with a full audit trail on each line.

Payroll filings submittedEvery period, on the day it is due
Current
Holiday accrual checkedRecalculated on every contract change
Current
Right to work renewalsTwo documents expire in the next ninety days
Watching
Minimum wage floorAll bands clear the statutory floor
Current
Pension enrolmentThree new starters assessed this month
Current
0min
Median time a new starter spends on paperwork
0%
Of runs filed on the day they were due
0h
Given back to the HR team every month
0+
Countries we can pay a contractor in

Our first run took an afternoon to check. Now it takes about ten minutes and we trust every line of it.

Verified customer review

New starters arrive with everything already done, which is the first impression we always wanted to make.

Verified customer review

The compliance alerts have caught two renewals we would have missed completely.

Verified customer review

Give your people a company that runs on time

A specialist migrates your records, runs a parallel payroll beside your old one, and only switches over when the numbers match to the cent.