PCC Excel Payroll has been specially developed by PC Challenge as an application program for Microsoft Excel ('97 or later version). It comes with on-screen friendly menus, dialog boxes to lead and guide you, a context sensitive Payroll Help file and a Reference Manual containing Tutorials. Version 17.0 for 2008-09 is now available.

The number of payrolls that can be set up is unlimited, each with up to 60 employees, for weekly, 2-weekly, 4-weekly, monthly, 3-monthly, 6-monthly or annual pay periods. Normal payroll processing of tax and NICs produces pay-slips for each pay period that may be browsed on screen and then printed to plain A4 paper. Other features include:

• employees' pension contributions as a fixed amount or percentage of Gross Pay, with or without tax relief;
  
  
• NICs on benefits or expenses paid through the payroll;
  
  
• a bank giro payment form for direct payments to employees' banks;
  
  
• up to three hourly rates of pay for each employee;
  
  
• a regular deduction from (or addition to) employees' Net Pay;
  
  
• year-end reporting utility;
  
  
• optional director's NICs on annual or pro rata basis;
  
  
• Automatic backup procedure for employee data.

The latest version of PCC Excel Payroll meets all Inland Revenue requirements with regard to the calculation of Income Tax and NICs; it also covers the deduction of Student Loan repayments.

The cost for 2008-09 is £125 plus VAT, to include 12 months Free Telephone Support and a 21-day money-back guarantee.