Here's a complete list of features for QuickBooks Online Standard Payroll and Advanced Payroll, so you can choose which is best for you and your business.
| Feature | Standard Payroll | Advanced Payroll |
| HMRC recognised | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatically calculates NI, tax and student loan | ✔ | ✔ |
| Can also pay overtime, bonus and other payments | ✔ | ✔ |
| Deductions | After-tax deductions and repayments | ✔ |
| Pay schedules | Monthly and weekly | Weekly, fortnightly, monthly, four weekly, quarterly, annually |
| Send FPS (full payment submission) to HMRC | ✔ | ✔ |
| Send EPS (employer payment summary) to HMRC | Manual | Automatic or Manual |
| Generate payslips for employees | ✔ | ✔ |
| Assess employees for workplace pensions and calculate pension contributions | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatic pension submissions | NEST | NEST, Aviva, NOW, Smart Pensions, The People's Pension |
| Supports Multiple pension schemes including non-workplace pension schemes | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatically calculates statutory payments | SMP, SSP, SPP | SMP, SSP, SPP, bereavement leave, adoption leave |
| Automatic tax code updates | ✔ | ✔ |
| Self-serve employee portal | Self set-up, view payslips and view P60s | View payslips, request leave, view rotas, clock in and out, submit expense claims |
| Self-serve employee mobile app | ✔ | |
| Time tracking | Sync approved hours from T-Sheets | ✔ |
| Automatically update at the start of the new tax year, tax tables and tax codes | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatic payroll runs | ✔ | |
| Report your Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) Suffered | Automatic | Manual |
| View RTI summary and filings | ✔ | ✔ |
| Reports | ✔ | ✔ |
| Import information from previous payroll software for quick and easy setup | ✔ | |
| Pay Statutory Sick Pay without any waiting days and track furloughed employees | ✔ | ✔ |
| Customised journal mapping | Automatic/No data entry | Automatic/No data entry and can be categorised by class and location |