RewardsPilot for care providers
A care provider's largest cost by far is its staff: a monthly payroll that can be ten times its supplier bills, plus agency staff on invoice. Funded through CrestPay under the RewardsPilot programme, wages and PAYE earn 4 RewardsPilot points per £1. A provider with £138,000 a month of payroll earns 552,000 points a month on it.
The bills that earn
- Care-staff payroll through CrestPay
- Agency staff invoices
- Food, medical and cleaning supplies
- Utilities and property costs
- PAYE bills
What members in the sector do
- A residential care member stated £138,000 a month of payroll and £15,000 of supplier spend on joining.
- Care, pharmacy and health members put supplier invoices through within their first weeks.
Figures are RewardsPilot members’ own, rounded, with no business named.
A typical month
| Supplier bills | Payroll | HMRC bills | Eligible spend | Points a month | Points a year | Or cash a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £15,000 | £138,000 | £35,000 | £188,000 | 752,000 | 9,024,000 | £5,640 |
A month of £15,000 supplier bills, £138,000 payroll and £35,000 HMRC bills is £188,000 of eligible spend: 752,000 points a month, 9,024,000 a year, or £5,640 a month as cash. At 4 points per £1 of net spend; each point is one airline mile. See what the points buy on the Avios calculator.
Questions
Do agency staff invoices count?
Yes. An agency's invoice is a supplier bill, paid by bank transfer against the invoice with its reference.
Is CQC-regulated care eligible?
Membership is open to any VAT-registered UK business with genuine corporate expenditure. Care providers that are not VAT-registered should ask; the programme's eligibility rules are set out in the Programme Rules.
How does a care provider earn points with RewardsPilot?
By paying the bills it already pays through the programme: supplier invoices, payroll through CrestPay, and HMRC bills such as VAT and PAYE. RewardsPilot invoices the business, pays the bill on its behalf, and credits 4 RewardsPilot points per £1 of the net amount when the invoice payment clears.
Does the supplier or HMRC know the difference?
No. The payee is paid by bank transfer with the business's own reference, on time: RewardsPilot's invoice is due one day before the bill's pay-by date.
What are the points worth?
Each point transfers to one airline mile, Avios included, for flights, upgrades, hotels and car hire. Or the business sells them back for cash at 3% of the spend behind them, paid within 24 hours. Points never expire.
What does it cost?
There is no subscription or set-up fee for qualifying clients. RewardsPilot's invoice carries VAT on its service; for a VAT-registered business using it for taxable activities that VAT is intended to be recoverable through the normal VAT return, subject to its own position. This is not tax advice.
Programme facts come from the published RewardsPilot rate and the Rewards Programme Rules. Rewards are corporate rewards earned on genuine business expenditure. Other sectors: Construction and trades · Logistics and haulage · Recruitment and staffing · Hospitality · Wholesale, retail and e-commerce · Facilities and cleaning.