When you own a business there are often times when there are things that you need to produce, use or supply  to your customers that you would be far better off by having someone else do or provide, rather than trying to do everything yourself.

As a business owner your main concentration is on producing profit – unless you are a non-profit, of course, but in that case your operation is not technically a business. Business is all about profit, and it is also about running it in a way that is beneficial to your customers and your staff. The latter are the people who help to create your profits, so it is necessary for them to have a good working environment.

So, you might be a manufacturer of certain products which need to be polished or finished in some other way, but you don’t have a machine that can do it. Rather than investing money in the machine, it may be afar better idea to send the products out to a company that does the polishing and finishing, who can do it faster and for less than it would cost you to do it yourself.

Take a company such as Deliveroo, for instance. While they cook some food and deliver it, they also carry out deliveries for other companies. So, you may order your food from McDonald’s but find that it is actually delivered by Deliveroo because McDonald’s finds it more profitable to do that than hire and pay its own drivers. They also use UberEats.

You can use outsourcing as it suits you. For instance, you may run a business where sales move in cycles. So, at certain times of the year, you are busier than others. You can outsource some things when you are busy, and then bring them back in house when things are slower.

You might run a business and want to be able to offer some add-ons to your customers, but it would not be profitable to buy and stock them yourself, or you do not have the facilities to produce them. By outsourcing, you can add an extra source of income that you cannot justify doing yourself.

Many businesses today outsource their payroll functions to companies such as us at Pay Check because we are specialists in that area. When you have employees, you have to run payroll however often you do it, and you have to deal with all the complexities of tax returns to HMRC and send them the money. You also have to write and hand out your employees' pay cheques or make payment into their bank accounts. The more employees a business has, the more complicated this all becomes which is why so many businesses today prefer to outsource the whole thing to us and let us deal with it. We have the software and systems in place that will run your payroll seamlessly, pay your employees, and also run your auto-enrolment pension scheme if you wish.

We also operate payroll services for bookkeepers in London too. If you operate a bookkeeping business, you may want to offer a service to your clients to run their payroll for them as well. This can be a useful source of extra income for your business, and it is also a regular payment every month. But if you don’t want to handle all the complexities of doing it yourself, we can do it for you with our payroll services for bookkeepers in London, so that you can provide the service and simply collect the extra income that it creates.