Specialist Education Payroll Software & Services
Our education payroll solutions are purpose built to manage your spine points, pensions, working patterns, and more. Driven by extensive experience with colleges, schools, academies, and MATs, Cintra takes the stress out of handling education complexities for you.
Education payroll services built for colleges, schools, academies, and MATs
There’s no payroll quite like education payroll; multiple pay scales and spine points across diverse role tyles, multiple jobs per employee, multiple pensions, intense government compliance. With over 40 years’ experience delivering schools’ payroll, we know the ins-and-outs of your needs and challenges; so we’ve built a suite of payroll and HR services to manage everything with ease.
Trusted by education
We work with hundreds of education customers across the UK on their school's payroll. They trust us with their requirements, and so can you.
Built for your needs
We’ve built education specific functionality across both education payroll software and outsourced services—from position management to reporting to pensions.
Personalised, holistic support
Our support team aren’t just real people, but real payrollers. They understand how education payroll works so they can offer you holistic, human support.
Total control of your payroll
Our payroll software for schools is packed with advanced functionality; there are no limitations to your spine points, pensions, and everything else.
“Cintra isn’t an off-the-shelf system, it’s built to meet our specific needs. We deal with multiple pension schemes, different sick pay rules for teachers and support staff, and various local authority requirements. Cintra handles all of that because it’s customisable in ways no other system can match. It’s tailored to us, and that makes all the difference. We’d never go anywhere else.”
— Jon Mannion, HR Manager
Manage pay structures and spine points with ease
Multiple roles? Multiple pay structures? Multiple pensions? Both our education payroll software and cloud-portal for service customers have post-specific features allowing you to manage multiple spine points, roles and salaries on a per-employee basis with ease—ensuring accuracy, consistency and compliance.
- Multiple pay scales and spine points
- Multiple pensions
- Multiple contracts and roles per employee
- Date-driven
- Automated calculations and deductions
- Automated payslip, P60 and P45 creation and delivery
Powerful reporting, total compliance
Easily run every essential report you need in Cintra. Our education payroll solutions come with pre-built reports that automate your compulsory reporting and provide additional insights, including:
- Local Government Pension Scheme reports
- HMRC required reports
- Teachers’ Pension and MCR reports
- Further Education Workforce Data Collection
- Performance and productivity
- Planning and financial drivers
CASE STUDY
£90,000 saved on absence
St Chad’s Academies Trust, with 19 schools and 755 employees within the Diocese of Lichfield, saved £90,000 on absence annually and 2 days of payroll resource per month with Cintra’s part-managed education payroll. Here’s how.
Ease your pension admin burden
We know how difficult it can be to keep on top of pension requirements in education. Alongside our payroll software for schools, our full pension administration service is here to ease your burden across both education and private pensions, including:
- Teachers' Pension Scheme
- Local Authority Schemes (LGPS)
- Private pension schemes
- Pension provider payments
- Pension reporting
Partner with real people with in-depth expertise
We’re proud of our support model. Whether you’re looking for education payroll software or an outsourced service, we’ve got people at every level who wholly understand the education sector, and are on hand to support when you need it.
- Software support team made of real payrollers
- Dedicated account management
- Large teams for service continuity
- Qualified payrollers running our outsourced service
- 90% of support calls answered first-time
- 100% of support calls returned in 2 hours
EDUCATION PAYROLL BROCHURE
Find out more about Cintra’s payroll software for schools, and how it powers both our in-house software and outsourced services. We’ve invested over £10 million into our services in the last 3 years along to bring you the best education payroll services, and we’d love to show you how.
We’re passionate about education payroll
From our Head of Support to our Solutions Consultants to our Product Managers, our team is filled with people who truly care about your school’s payroll. We’re committed to staying up to speed on your compliance requirements, and we’re always listening to your needs—so we can bring you new features and services that make a difference. Our education payroll software & services are:
Tailored
From position management to FE workforce data to pensions, it’s fully tailored to your industry’s needs.
HMRC compliant
We’re HMRC compliant, keeping you up to date with legislative changes to help ease your compliance burden.
Cloud-based
Whether you’re accessing payroll or employees are self-serving, our cloud-based solutions are easily accessible.
Fully secure
We’re proud to be ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified, along with our BACS and CIPP PAS accreditations.
Date-driven
Enable easy maintenance of TPA and LGPS banded contributions and accurately backdate pay, tax, NI, and pensions.
Fully integrated
To not just sync your back-office systems, but to enable transformational HR change that's backed by solid payroll engine.
Fully secure and accredited payroll software for schools
Discover HR and payroll services for the education sector
Payroll Software
Manage your complex payroll in-house with Cintra’s specialist education payroll software.
Payroll Outsourcing
Enjoy the peace of mind of a fully managed education payroll services—flexible and scalable to your needs.
HR Software
Cloud-based HR software that helps education transform their people and payroll processes within a single platform.
HR Outsourcing
Everything you need from an entire HR team, at a fraction of the in-house cost, to deal with your complexities.
“Cintra provides its clients with exceptional service, from consultation, to implementation, support and beyond. Every single employee, whether it be from support, the bureau, reception, implementation, training, or project team, could not be more friendly, supportive or helpful if they tried. You will not find a better organisation to help, assist, support and facilitate in all your Payroll or HR software needs.”
— HR Manager, Long Road Sixth Form College
Chat with us about your education payroll
Our payroll and HR experts are always on hand to talk about your challenges, and how our education payroll services help colleges, schools, academies, and MATs. They’ve been developed especially for your unique needs—so get in touch to see it in action!