RewardsPilot for recruitment and staffing
A recruitment agency's biggest outgoing is payroll: temps paid weekly, contractors paid on invoice, PAYE paid monthly. Funded through CrestPay under the RewardsPilot programme, wages and PAYE earn 4 RewardsPilot points per £1. An agency running £150,000 a month of payroll earns 600,000 points a month on it.
The bills that earn
- Weekly temp payroll through CrestPay
- Contractor and umbrella company invoices
- PAYE and employer's National Insurance
- Job board and software subscriptions
- VAT bills
What members in the sector do
- A staffing agency member put £22,000 of supplier invoices and £10,000 of payroll through in its first weeks.
- A hospitality recruitment member stated £150,000 a month of payroll on joining.
- Five of RewardsPilot's members are recruitment, staffing or security-staffing agencies.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £20,000 | £150,000 | £40,000 | £210,000 | 840,000 | 10,080,000 | £6,300 |
A month of £20,000 supplier bills, £150,000 payroll and £40,000 HMRC bills is £210,000 of eligible spend: 840,000 points a month, 10,080,000 a year, or £6,300 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
Does weekly payroll work?
Yes. CrestPay funds the payroll run on its date and reports the wages and PAYE; points are credited at the business's usual rate when the invoice payment clears. Pension contributions do not earn points.
Do umbrella company payments count?
Yes. An umbrella company's invoice is a supplier bill, paid by bank transfer against the invoice.
How does a recruitment agency 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 · Hospitality · Wholesale, retail and e-commerce · Facilities and cleaning · Care providers.