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Parasol Umbrella
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Parasol is one of the original 'pure' umbrella companies. They started trading around 2002 and focused just on the umbrella company solution as opposed to many companies who treated the umbrella company service as a sideline.
- Minimum earnings threshold of £10 ph and will only take you on if you earn more than this.
Their website is readable and makes sense to a newcomer. It's clearly designed and easy to navigate around. It includes a wealth of contractor information together with a regular blog to keep you updated.
As a customer, you can access your personal records from their web-portal, at your convenience, as well as using it to submit your time-sheet details each month.
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If you're a contractor or freelancer, join Parasol today and discover how we're different to other umbrella companies. All you have to do is enter your timesheets and claim your expenses on our secure portal, then we invoice your client and pay your money into your bank account just as soon as we receive it.
In fact, we run 4 or 5 payrolls a day. And have processed over 1 million transactions since 2006. So you can rest assured that your hard earned cash will be in your pocket on time, every time - ready for you to get on with spending it
Benefits of Parasol's contractor services
At Parasol we know that contracting isn't for the faint-hearted, there are no guarantees that the phone will ring and, let's face it, nothing is predictable in this economic climate.
That said, it's still a great career move for the 1.4 million people in the UK who enjoy the challenge, flexibility and financial rewards of freelancing. That's why we go out of our way to offer the umbrella contractors we employ unrivalled support - and benefits that are second-to-none.
With Parasol you don't have to spend your precious weekends poring over your business accounts because you know that they're being expertly handled by our friendly, experienced contractor management team, who take care of every little last detail and give you total confidence that you are fully HMRC compliant.
We offer you a competitively priced, value-for-money service with no sneaky hidden costs or tie-in fees. In fact, if you look at what our employees tell us, you'll see that many think we're the best contractor company in the UK. Who are we to argue?!
In a Nutshell
Pricey for what you get
Monthly Fee of £140 provides you with
- Company with 11 years experience in the industry
- £ 10m of Employers Liability Insurance
- £ 5m of Public Liability Insurance
- £ 8m of Professional Indemnity
- Extra charges - Timesheetresubmission
- Reply Time - Less Than 4 Hours
- Opening Times - Mon to Fri 8am 8pm Fri 6pm
