UK payroll capability embedded in your product

Building payroll from scratch takes years. With Shape Embedded, you can use the Shape payroll API to delight your customers more and grow your business, today.

Shape have spent 5 years building our collection of payroll tools so that you can embed payroll into your product in days.

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For over 5 years, Shape has been building a platform for fast, accurate payroll for UK businesses. With Shape Embedded, developers can now leverage our APIs and components to power their own products.

shape elements

Our suite of pre build UI components to surface payroll flows in your product.

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shape API

Run gross to net calculations, make HMRC RTI submissions, process pensions and integrate with pension providers.

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Who can Shape embedded help?

HR / Time & Attendance Software

Save your customers time and money by embedding Shape’s white-label payroll directly into your solution, whilst adding addition features for their employees.

Recruitment & Employer of Record Platforms

Embed payroll and payment features within your technology to improve your candidate & employee experience .

Vertical / Industry-specific Software

There’s no such thing as “one-size-fits-all”, which is why we partner with specialist SaaS platforms to help pay their customer’s employees correctly, everytime.

Accountancy-tech

Whether you're looking to deliver a modern client experience or focusing on value-added services to grow, Shape’s technology makes us the ideal partner.

Banking and Fintech

Shape’s expertise removes payroll complexity, so you can help your customers manage and maximize their finances.

Super-fast payroll, built to scale

Our robust API gives you industry-leading tools for a first-class developer experience, combined with world-class support to help you get the most from the Shape platform as and when you need it.

Increase revenue quickly

Enhance customer experience

Launch and maintain at very low cost

Tried and tested at scale

Understand your customers more

Partner with the market-leader

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Here’s what our customers say about us

We’ve always seen payroll as a natural extension of our product — and our customers did too. That’s why we investigated payroll APIs and Shape was by far the best technology out there to help us create the all-in-one solution our customers wanted.

Rupert LassenManaging Director, Chronicle Computing

Payroll your way

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