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Pento

4.9
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Run UK payroll like it's 2020.

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Pento Features

Features Summary

Functionality

4.7

/5

13

Total features

18

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Pento features

401(k) Tracking
API
Alerts/Notifications
Approval Process Control
Benefits Management
Calendar Management
Compensation Management
Compliance Management

Common features of Payroll software

401(k) Tracking
API
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
Approval Process Control
Benefits Management
Calendar Management

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Functionality

4.7

/5

13

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Total Features

18

Unique features

  • Calendar Management

Functionality

4.8

/5

2.4K

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8

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Total Features

188

Features in Common

17

Unique features

  • HR Metrics Library

  • Benefits Dashboard

  • Activity Tracking

  • Online Time Clock

Functionality

4.5

/5

3.7K

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Per month

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Total Features

67

Features in Common

12

Unique features

  • Employee Handbook

  • Employee Profiles

  • Check Printing

  • Task Management

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Jakob K.

Financial Services, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Plug & Play, saves time and costs

Reviewed 3 years ago

Pento was easy to set up and start running for our UK employees. Could never go back to our previous set up with outsourced payroll provider.

Pros

We always thought of payroll as something boring and annoying. Now it’s just a few clicks every month and that’s it.

Cons

Not much, every time we have a small issue Pento support is there and addresses it very fast.

Vendor response

Thank you for the kind review. We'll keep improving Pento for you.

CJ
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Christian J.

Venture Capital & Private Equity, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Big Time Saver

Reviewed 3 years ago

Pento is a great payroll product. Once it's up and running, it will save you a lot of time and headache. Definitely worth making the switch.

Pros

Once everything was up and running, I probably spend less than two minutes per month running payroll. UI is pretty intuitive and easy to navigate. When you have experience with other products, running payroll with one click feels like magic.

Cons

The setup took some time, as we needed to set up all employees and link the bank account. Be sure not to change in the last days of the month.

GS
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Georgina S.

Utilities, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Ease of use
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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Pretty good

Reviewed a year ago

It is a simple system that would work fantastically if you had everyone on salaries with no extras and not too many changes

Pros

Pento integrates with bamboo hr which makes things a lot easier. It is also fairly self explanatory what is where. It is good that employees get email payslips

Cons

Sometimes the pensions integration is dodgy or there are bugs that we spot in auditing and have to ask pento to fix

CP
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Cath P.

Restaurants, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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quick and easy to process payroll every month!

Reviewed 4 months ago

The product is great and the team are super helpful. New updates being made every so often so you can see that there is still more to come so exciting to see where it goes.

Pros

Pento has a great user interface and it makes payroll very easy to process each month. a lot of the payroll tasks which usually used to be manual are automated and also reassures that you are doing the same method of calculation each month e.g calculating gross pay for joiners and leavers mid-month, nil pay for employees etc...

Cons

Not being able to see future payrolls and essentially being able to plan ahead. A few other bits that you need to contact the CS team for e.g. adding new approval users. The price is also quite expensive to the other traditional payroll softwares out there but can see it's use case for those that do not have any payroll background. Also, I usually request sales & CS bonuses from the leads every month and would be nice to have them update the figure directly themselves rather than it go through me to avoid errors and save time.

RB
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Rasmus B.

Consumer Services, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Perfect payroll tool

Reviewed 3 years ago

I like spending time on things that develop and grow our business - and not on things that are just a chore. Payroll is a chore and Pento finally solves it in a way that makes sense.

Pros

The Pento app works perfectly. It saves you a lot of time and it makes us running payroll a breeze. We used to spend days coordinating payroll changes, but now it’s all done within a few minutes.

Cons

The export functions could be a bit more advanced. Pento assured me they are working on it.

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Steffen H.

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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We now run payroll in 5 minutes

Reviewed 3 years ago

Really impressed by what Pento has done for us on the payroll side. Something that used to be a real hassle is now just a few clicks. Highly recommended.

Pros

Payroll used to be a real hassle for us. We would outsource it but it still took a lot of time and effort wrangling with spreadsheets and emails. Now we use it Pento for our Danish employees - and the whole payroll process takes literally 5 minutes once a month. We also plan to use Pento in UK once we hire the first employees there.

Cons

There are a few small features missing on the reporting side, but Pento is telling us they are working on more comprehensive export functionality.

Vendor response

Thanks! We're working hard on the more elaborate exporting functionality. Coming soon!

UM
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Urban M.

Consumer Services, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Payroll like we always wanted

Reviewed 3 years ago

Traditional payroll process was dragging down our admin in UK for quite long time. We were really happy to find Pento - now our payroll process is much simplified and takes about 5 minutes each month.

Pros

Super simple, all cumbersome processes like pension enrollment, bank transactions etc are automated. Also really happy with support so far - [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] is awesome.

Cons

None that we have experienced so far.