Payroll?
Give it the nod.
They run payroll. You just nod. Your finance team preps the pay run straight from Xero. You check the total, give it the nod, and approve securely in Starling — everyone’s paid. No shared logins. No handing over your phone. No changing banks.
No subscription. Pence per payment.
Your finance team runs payroll. Starling won’t let them pay it.
Starling Business gives non-directors view-only access — so every payday boomerangs back to you. Nodpay fixes the gap: they prepare and check the pay run; you keep control of the bank account and give it one nod when it’s ready. The full story →
Three steps. One of them is yours.
Nodpay sits between your payroll and your bank. Delegate the work. Keep the control.
Xero does the typing
Whoever runs your payroll — accounts person, finance manager, outside bookkeeper — pulls the latest run, names, amounts and references, with one click. Nothing re-keyed, nothing to get wrong. Not on Xero? Upload the pay run as a spreadsheet — every payroll package exports one.
You give the nod
A notification lands on your phone. Total, headcount, anything unusual — then one tap, confirmed in your own banking app. Seconds, from anywhere.
Starling pays everyone
Faster Payments go straight from your account to your team’s. Your money stays in your bank until the moment you nod — Nodpay never holds a penny.
Checked and signed off — before the boss sees a thing.
Nodpay lays out the three checks — right people, right amounts, right accounts — with anything unusual in amber. Your finance person signs it off, sets the payment date, and the run sits ready for the nod.
Then the run rests Ready — and on the payment date, Nodpay delivers the nod to the director. Nobody chases anybody.
Anything unusual is impossible to miss.
Payroll mistakes hide in the small print — a changed sort code, a new starter, bank details you’ve never paid before. Nodpay puts the small print in lights, before the button, every time. New starter? Flagged. Bank details changed? Flagged. Identical to last month? It says so. Nothing new gets paid without being put in front of you first. And every nod is logged: who prepped it, who checked it, who approved it, and when — on a receipt you can open any time. Even the runs Nodpay doesn’t pay get watched: it matches them against your bank feed and says so when the amounts don’t line up.
Pay as you pay.
Nodpay fixes the step between payroll and the bank — and charges like it.
£2 /pay run + 20p /employee
That’s the whole price. Quiet month? Costs you nothing.
No subscription. No tiers. No contract.
Asked and answered.
Why can't my bookkeeper make payments from our Starling business account?
Starling only gives payment access to directors and PSCs — there's no bookkeeper or delegate role. Nodpay fixes it without changing banks: your bookkeeper preps and checks the pay run in Nodpay, and you approve the whole thing with one tap, secured by Starling's own authorisation.
How does Nodpay work with Xero and Starling?
Nodpay pulls the posted pay run from Xero Payroll, matches every employee to your saved Starling payees, flags anything new or changed, and shows each person's difference versus last run. Your finance person signs it off with a payment date — and on that date, the nod comes to you.
Do I need Xero to use Nodpay?
No. Xero Payroll is the smoothest route — Nodpay pulls the posted pay run directly. On any other payroll package, upload the pay run as a simple spreadsheet (name, sort code, account number, amount — there's a template) and every check still runs, with account details matched exactly against your saved Starling payees. The Starling problem isn't a Xero problem.
Can Nodpay pay suppliers as well as payroll?
It’s built for payroll — that’s the job it does properly. You can also raise a one-off payment for the same nod: whoever runs your payroll picks someone already saved as a payee in your bank, sets the amount, reference and date, and it rests until then like any pay run. It’s for the odd subcontractor invoice, not a full accounts-payable system.
Does Nodpay hold our money?
Never. Your money stays in your bank until the moment you nod, then goes directly from your account to your team's. Nodpay is not a wallet. Payments are initiated over Open Banking by an FCA-authorised payment initiation provider.
How much does it cost?
£2 per pay run + 20p per employee. No subscription, no tiers, no contract. Twelve people is about £4.40 a payday; thirty is £8.
Does the boss need an app?
No app, no password. The approval arrives as a secure link — review, nod, done. Your bank's own authorisation is the security step.
Want the full story?
We've written the deep dive on the Starling problem — what access exists, why the workarounds go wrong, and how the authority split fixes it. Read the guide →
Payday should be the easiest thing you do all month.
We’re onboarding a small group of UK businesses that bank with Starling — running Xero Payroll, or any payroll that can export a spreadsheet. You’ve hired someone to run accounts — let them finish the job. First pay runs are on us.