Payroll specialists for recruitment businesses
Your workers get paid Friday. Know what is sitting behind it.
Kingsway is a payroll-specialist broker for recruitment businesses that pay people weekly. We use Friday Test data, built from your own figures, to quantify payroll and funding costs where the information supports it, and to identify where systems, delivery or the back office are putting pressure on Friday. Where a figure is missing, the result says so rather than inventing one. Then we recommend the commercial next move, and if your current arrangement holds up, that is the recommendation you get.
Expect a commercial recommendation, not a neutral directory. We disclose our commercial interest, and no provider receives your details until you approve the introduction. Already have an arrangement? Pressure-test my provider.
The week your payroll actually runs
Weekly cycle
A missed pay deadline can damage worker trust, retention and client service.
Choose your route
Start with the problem, not the service list
Four ways in, one for each problem that usually brings someone here. Each starts with your own figures rather than a sales conversation, and nothing you enter reaches a provider without your say so.
Review weekly payroll
Friday works, but nobody can say what it costs, what it depends on, or whether the current arrangement still fits the book.
Outcome: a Stay, Fix or Move verdict from your own figures, with the reasons visible.
Start the payroll review Route 02 · FundingTest the funding behind Friday
Wages leave weekly, client cash arrives in 30 to 60 days, and the true cost of bridging that gap has never been one number.
Outcome: your estimated exposure, facility cost and headroom questions, and a Stay, Fix or Explore position.
See the funding picture Route 03 · LiabilityMap umbrella and PAYE exposure
Since April 2026, an umbrella's unpaid PAYE can be recovered from the agency contracted with the end client. If the contractual chain has not been mapped, that exposure is an assumption.
Outcome: a contract-by-contract map of where exposure sits and the structural routes worth examining.
Map the supply chain Route 04 · Global workforceMobilise an international construction workforce
The project needs skilled people in countries where you have no entity, local payroll or settled engagement route.
Outcome: an initial country-by-country assessment of employment, contractor and payroll routes, with provider availability confirmed separately.
Assess the international workforceThe Friday Map
What the Friday Test establishes
Six pressure points sit behind a weekly pay run. The Friday Test scores each one red, amber or green from your figures, so the first conversation starts from your actual position, not from what a provider would like to sell you. It also shows which of the six is doing the damage, because a payroll symptom is often a funding or systems problem wearing payroll's clothes.
Sectors
Built for weekly, not monthly
If you pay a lot of people every week, on timesheets, with the list changing constantly, that is the work we cover.
Care
Domiciliary care, supported living and care homes running weekly or fortnightly pay across large rotas and mixed VAT treatment.
Driving
HGV, van and multi-drop desks running weekly pay across shifting rotas and last-minute cover.
Industrial
Production, packing and manufacturing lines with high turnover and seasonal peaks.
Warehousing
Pick, pack and distribution sites where headcount moves week to week.
GLAA-regulated
Labour supply into agriculture, food processing, shellfish gathering and packaging, where applicable licensing and supply-chain checks matter.
Cleaning & security
Contract cleaning and manned guarding, where large numbers of part-time and shift workers are paid across multiple sites.
Construction
CIS and PAYE mixed books, subcontractor verification and weekly site payments.
Other weekly workforces
Not on this list? We first check whether a provider in our network has the relevant sector experience, capacity and operating model.
How the team works
First the position, then the recommendation
The Friday Test gives the structure and the conversation supplies the context. Together they produce a position we will put in writing: Stay, Fix or Move, what the decision actually turns on, and what still needs checking before anyone commits money to it.
Start with data or a conversation
Run the Friday Test yourself, or bring the problem straight to the team and we will run the figures with you. Either way, the first job is getting the position straight.
Pressure-test the position
We challenge the inputs and follow the dependencies. A pay run that wobbles on Friday may be a payroll problem, but it may also begin in funding, systems or operations, with payroll paying the price.
Get a recommendation you can question
We tell you what we think makes commercial sense and why. If change is justified, we recommend one route and make one informed introduction with your approval, rather than passing your details to a panel.
Your Kingsway Map
The Kingsway Map is the structure a review works to: where you are, what constrains you, and the next move. This is its shape, with illustrative content.
The Kingsway No-Ambush Promise
You get a point of view, and you keep control
We are a broker. That means we have a commercial interest in some outcomes and not in others, and the only honest way to run that is in the open. Here is the deal, stated plainly.
Expect a recommendation
We will tell you what we think makes commercial sense, including when the right answer is to fix the current arrangement rather than replace it, or to stay exactly where you are.
Your information stays yours
No provider receives your details without your separate permission, named introduction by named introduction. There is no lead auction and no swarm of calls from a panel.
How Kingsway is paid
A provider may pay Kingsway where an introduction leads to business. Before any introduction we tell you who may pay us and on what basis, so you can weigh the recommendation knowing exactly where our interest sits.
Beyond the pay run
Where the evidence often leads
A problem that shows up on Friday frequently starts somewhere else: in the funding, the systems, the back office or the contracts. Kingsway does not provide these services and does not pretend to. Where the evidence points at one of them, we say so, set out the questions worth asking, and introduce a specialist only when you decide you want one.
Speak to the team
Bring us the problem behind Friday
Tell us what is happening across payroll, funding or back office. A person reads it, and we usually respond within one UK working day. The first conversation establishes where the evidence points and what is worth doing about it; it commits you to nothing.