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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.

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Georgina S.

Utilities, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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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

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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.

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Viktor H.

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Finally - takes the pain out of payroll

Reviewed 3 years ago

So impressed with Pento. It is literally saving us days of painstaking work to run payroll each month. Would recommend it to every growing company.

Pros

So easy to use and run payroll. The best bit is that's it, all done. Our finance team can now easily manage the whole payroll process and it has actually become an enjoyable one. Before we were dealing with and always waiting for our external payroll company. Now we can simply do it all ourselves - Pento connects to HMRC, sends payments to employees and payslips. Also, support is always fast and awesome.

Cons

I can't think of anything bad to be honest. It really has revolutionized the way we run payroll for our company.

Vendor response

Thank you Victor for kind words, it means a lot! We promise to keep making Pento even better for you and your team.

FN
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Frederik N.

Computer Software, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Best payroll software out there

Reviewed 3 years ago

I've been using several of the competitors during the last couple of years and actually thought it was working OK. But when I first was introduced to Pento, I was very surprised! I never thought payroll software could be this quick, easy to use and understandable. I'm literally capable of running everything related to wages/salary in minutes.

Pros

Directly integrates with taxes, automatic bank payments, and also payslips get sent to our employees automatically. At this point I’m not even sure what else they could add to make it even better. Also, anytime we needed anything their support was very fast.

Cons

Nothing in particular. So far has everything been working flawless for me and my employees

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Emil S.

Internet, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Super easy payroll

Reviewed 3 years ago

Just take it and forget about payroll. Payroll should be easy and everything else we used before just wasn't. Then we started using Pento and it suddently makes sense - payroll can be simple!

Pros

Never actually had any problems. Money gets paid when it needs to be, everything is reported to tax authorities and employees receive nice payslips.

Cons

Nothing really. Sometimes I would like a bit more control over who can approve the payroll. But Pento has assured me that they are working on deeper approval flows.

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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!

AR
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Financial Services, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Great way to organize payslips

Reviewed 2 years ago

Pento is a great platform for checking all work-related administrative information like payslips and holidays.

Pros

Pento provides an easy-to-navigate panel where you can see your payslips from past months. The interface is very user-friendly!

Cons

There aren't that many features aside from the overview of your payslips and holidays. I haven't used the software long enough to discover any major issues.

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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.

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Thor T.

Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

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Pento payroll has been very smooth for us

Reviewed 3 years ago

We’ve used Pento since we started the company and it’s been a great experience so far. Super responsive and helpful support and the software just works.

Pros

We basically don’t have to think about payroll. It’s just there and it just works. We log in once a month for a few minutes to confirm everything and that’s about it.

Cons

Nothing so far. We’ve had a few small issues in the beginning but Pento support and development has always been on top of it quickly.

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Hakon J.

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

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A great product solving an anoying pain

Reviewed 3 years ago
Pros

Great to spot mistakes in payroll which I've had many times in my career Loved the transparency and UX from the user side

Cons

None specifically it's very simple and used only once a month, would love an integration to investment apps.