As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot create compliant payslips for your UK employees.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the current employee payslip guidance on GOV.UK and your payroll records for the relevant pay period.
   2. Gather the employer details, employee identifier, pay period, pay date, gross-pay components, deductions, statutory payments and year-to-date figures for each employee.
   3. Remove unnecessary personal information, then paste the remaining payroll data into the prompt and ask the chatbot to produce a draft with missing information and assumptions clearly separated.
   4. Compare every drafted figure with the payroll record and recalculate the gross pay, deductions and net pay using your established payroll process.
   5. Check each required payslip field against the current GOV.UK guidance, marking any item the chatbot could not verify from your records.
   6. Send the draft, source records and unresolved checks to your payroll professional or approved payroll software, and issue the payslip only after that check is complete.

   Prompt

   Prepare a draft UK employee payslip from the payroll data below. This is a draft for checking, not a final compliant payslip. Use only the information supplied and invent nothing. First list any missing information, inconsistencies or figures that need confirmation. Then calculate and show gross pay, each deduction, net pay and any employer information that should appear. Keep employee identifiers to the minimum needed. Check the draft against the current payslip guidance on GOV.UK, identify each requirement you cannot verify from the supplied data, and separate confirmed figures from assumptions. Do not guess tax, National Insurance, pension, student loan or other deductions. Do not claim that the payslip is compliant. Return a clearly labelled draft, a calculation table, and a list of checks that a payroll professional or payroll software must complete before issue.
   
   Employer details:
   [employer name and address]
   
   Employee details:
   [employee name or payroll identifier]
   [employee address if needed]
   
   Pay period and pay date:
   [pay period]
   [pay date]
   
   Payroll data:
   [basic pay]
   [ overtime, bonus, commission or other payments ]
   [ tax and National Insurance figures, if already calculated by an approved payroll process ]
   [ pension, student loan and other deductions ]
   [ statutory payments or leave information ]
   [ year-to-date figures ]
   [ other relevant details ]

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.