A UK HR team evaluating Cezanne may want salary changes, absence records and payslips to live in the same system. Cezanne addresses that workflow with native UK payroll and a separate managed payroll service for companies that want payroll professionals to run it.
Borderless AI becomes relevant when the problem extends to employing someone abroad without your own local entity. Its EOR service supplies the legal employer and handles employment administration.
For a UK payroll replacement, start by assessing Cezanne's two delivery options. For an overseas employee who needs a local employer, assess EOR. A business can have both needs at once.
What are you actually buying?
The distinction is responsibility. Payroll processing serves an employment arrangement; an EOR becomes the employer under that arrangement.
Cezanne's strongest case: connected UK HR and payroll
Cezanne gives employers a choice between keeping payroll expertise internally and outsourcing processing while retaining its HR system. Its native payroll is an HRIS module, so buyers seeking a standalone payroll application should account for that wider system decision.
Its in-house software is HMRC-recognised and supports RTI submissions, statutory payment calculations, pension auto-enrolment assessment and employee access to payslips and tax documents. Cezanne also lists a configurable journal with split cost centres for importing payroll costs into a general ledger.
Those details matter for an HR and finance team replacing spreadsheets and repeated data transfers. In a demonstration, follow a salary change from approval through the pay run, employee document and accounting output. That is more revealing than checking whether a feature list contains “payroll.”
With Smart Managed Payroll, the customer keeps pay-related information current in Cezanne while its payroll team validates data, calculates deductions and produces reports and payslips. The service supports monthly, four-weekly, fortnightly and weekly runs.
Check the payment step separately: Cezanne lists payment processing as an add-on. Generating the payroll calculation and arranging the bank payment are distinct parts of the buying decision.
Does Cezanne support international payroll?
Cezanne's global HR platform supports international people administration, including different local calendars, approval structures, HR permissions and financial information recorded in local currencies.
That makes it relevant to multinational organisations. It does not mean its native payroll calculates pay and statutory deductions in every country where an employee record can exist. The native and managed payroll pages describe UK payroll services.
A US or Canadian headquarters can therefore evaluate Cezanne for UK staff without treating it as a US or Canadian payroll edition. For another payroll jurisdiction, ask which provider performs the calculations, makes filings and handles payment, and how data moves from HR to that provider.
When Borderless AI fits alongside Cezanne
An overseas hire creates a different decision if the business has no local employer available. Borderless AI's employer of record service covers employment agreements, onboarding, payroll, taxes and benefits while the client manages the person's day-to-day work. Confirm availability and employment terms for the particular country and role.
Keeping Cezanne for an established UK workforce while using EOR for an overseas employee can be sensible. Before contracting, decide where that employee's master record sits, who approves compensation changes and how employment costs reach finance.
If your business already has the appropriate employer infrastructure abroad, assess global payroll separately. An international payment requirement alone does not establish a need for EOR.
How should you compare pricing?
Cezanne offers personalised quotes. Its HR subscription changes with the modules selected and average headcount in the previous month, and a minimum monthly fee applies. The pricing page includes implementation, data upload and ongoing support within the subscription.
Request a breakdown of HR modules, native or managed payroll, payment processing and any minimum charges. For Borderless, request the service fee and employment costs separately for the proposed EOR hire.
An HR subscription, an outsourced payroll fee and the cost of employing someone are different purchases. Compare each proposal against the work your team needs done. If the immediate problem is UK payroll administration, Cezanne deserves a place on the shortlist. Add EOR when a specific overseas employee needs an employer.