Earned Wage Access is a Two Horse Race
The Earned Wage Access Code of Practice
In their review of the UK Earned Wage Access market, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) encourages employers to “only contract with providers adhering to this code.” Currently, these are:
Access Group
AnyDay
Ceridian
FlexEarn
Hatee
Income Group
Level
Salary Finance
Wagestream
Access Group & Ceridian
These integrated solutions are the best choice for existing, happy customer of their payroll and workforce management services. For everyone else, these can be discounted.
Automated Earned Wage Access
That leaves seven providers however, Level and Wagestream are the only ones that have the technology to fully automate Earned Wage Access. This is highly recommended as it avoids extra work for your payroll team; specifically, removing the need for them to make manual deductions each time an employee accesses some of their earned income before payday.
Level and Wagestream
Both companies offer fully automated, trustworthy earned wage access products. If you already use workforce management software to organise shifts, often, the best choice will come down to which of the two is pre-integrated with this.
The other major consideration is debt. While both companies' Earned Wage Access products are consumer debt-free, Level strongly opposes offering any products in its app that involve debt. Wagestream however also offer credit products alongside Earned Wage Access within their app, like credit cards. Level does not, and never will.
