
The complexity of French administration is worldwide known. Before setting up a local subsidiary, you may need to hire employees in France to test the market with low financial and legal risks. FredPayroll makes French payroll all simple for you, ensuring an efficient and timely payroll processing .
Our French payroll solution
Based on its long experience and its perfect mastery of French social and legislative practices, FredPayroll offers you customized support for the management of your French staff.
Our company has a strong track record in French payroll and HR management, operating in France since 2000. Our clients are companies from various countries (USA, China, Australia, UK, Canada, Netherlands, Italy, Latvia etc.) trusting us with their payroll processing, HR documentation and legal assistance in labour law.
When you have chosen the best candidate you want to hire, FredPayroll introduces you to a local lawyer. He will establish an employment contract according to the collective bargaining agreement and other negotiated clauses. It can be in both English and French. We take care of registering your employees with the French social security authorities and, in case of contract termination, we draft all the necessary documents for the employee and the administration.
Our English/French/Romanian speaking team assists you throughout the entire process. You can reach them by email, telephone, or videoconferencing.
Our French payroll services
Here is an overview of our main categories of services :
- Management of employees
We are experts in payroll management and payroll taxes, management of relationships with social agencies and staff administration. We also offer assistance in Human Resources management and other related fields. - Administrative and legal formalities
We take care of the registration and declaration to the French agencies (URSSAF, INSEE, Pôle Emploi, tax administration, health insurance fund, supplementary pension etc.) for you. - Employment contract
We offer consulting with drafting up all types of contact, all collective agreements, all activity fields, in French or in English.

We can help set up your outsourced payroll in the blink of an eye. As in the image above, we start by a kick-off audit of your current payroll situation, we create your account and we operate the necessary configurations on our payroll platform to cater to your exact needs. We then gather your monthly payroll variables, we issue the pay slips for your employees and deal with any other payroll management related issue for you, such as :
- processing of special payments (like bonuses)
- entry and clearance documents
- management of absences and sickness leaves, paid leaves, maternity leaves etc.
- issuing and transmitting the monthly nominative social declaration (Déclaration Sociale Nominative or DSN)
Whatever the size of your project, you can count on our experts to simplify your development in France. We can provide an outsourcing package specially adapted to your company’s needs so you don’t have to worry about anything and you can then concentrate on your core business.
Our French payroll portal
As our client, you have access to our payroll portal. It is a user-friendly interface that allows you to transmit your employees’ variable information (absence, sick leave, bonuses, over time hours etc.) to your dedicated payroll manager. Think of it as your virtual RH office, where you can get access at anytime, from anywhere.
Through the payroll platform, you also get access to a secure cloud to store and download the monthly pay slips and payroll related documents (integrative accounting entries in .txt format, social insurance and tax statement report etc.) for your staff.
Before you start using it, we’ll organize a presentation to explain you each functionality and how you can best benefit from it. It’s a very intuitive tool, so you will appreciate being autonomous after only a brief training session.
If, after a certain period, you wish to change your company’s status and create a legal entity, we will be able to continue dealing with the payroll for your employees.
Should you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us directly via the form below. You will hear back from one of our experts in no time !