Vendor Analysis
published on Sep 16, 2025
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes activpayroll's offerings and capabilities in Payroll Services
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s Payroll Services profile on activpayroll is a comprehensive assessment of activpayroll’s offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of Payroll Services and identifying vendor suitability for Payroll Services RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the Payroll Services sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of activpayroll’s Payroll Services offerings, capabilities, and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, challenges, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base, including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization, including the location of delivery centers.
Key Findings & Highlights:
activpayroll, headquartered in Scotland, provides global payroll outsourcing, global mobility, and international payments for ~150 countries. activpayroll offers two core solutions:
- Managed services, including HR services, Employer of Record (EOR) services, and global managed payroll services and global payments using its proprietary platform, activ8. It offers pre-configured integrations to leading HCM and payroll platforms
- Advisory & Assurance Services: global mobility, tax, and employment law expertise. It supports tax compliance, double tax treaty guidance, cost analysis for international growth and employee costs, employment structuring, remuneration planning, contracts, policy design for international assignments and tax equalization, management and tracking of days in a country and mobile populations and assignments, planning, and advisory (e.g., immigration, employment law, international benefits and taxation of equity income).
In 2020, activpayroll launched its global HR service offering expanding its services to include HR Compliance Support services, HR Project Support Services, and an HR Advisory Service. It supports employment law and contracts, talent acquisition, employee onboarding, record-keeping, performance management, employee lifecycle management, and planning and advisory services.