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Sage Payroll Features
Stay up to date and be confident that you have all the essential
calculations of tax, National Insurance and statutory payments
with our HMRC accredited payroll software.
Payroll made simple with automatic calculations
Payroll legislation can be complex,
but with Sage 50 Payroll you'll have all the payroll essentials
covered. Make light work of:
- Tax and National Insurance
- Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP),
Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP), Statutory Paternity Pay
(SPP)
- Student Loans, Attachments of Earnings Orders (AEO),
Pensions
The nuts and bolts of processing your payroll
Pre and post-tax multiple payments and deductions: Sage 50
Payroll caters for all business types by dealing with payments
such as overtime rates, shift allowances and commissions
- Net to gross payments: You can enter payment information as
a net or gross amount and all calculations will be taken care
of
- Net payment types: You can add one-off or regular additional
payments based at net value and all calculations are taken
care of
- Batch timesheet entry: Makes payment entry even quicker
- Multi-company: If you're running a bureau or processing
over more than one company, you can update the payroll
for all or a selected range of companies
- Multi-user: The network functionality allows more than
one user to process the payroll
Pay everyone at the right rate
No matter how you pay your employees, whether you use commission,
bonus, piecework or a simple hourly rate, Sage 50 Payroll can
help make sure you meet your legal obligations to pay the
appropriate minimum wage, by taking care of all the
calculations.
Easier to manage your payroll
When it comes to importing information into your payroll software,
Sage 50 Payroll helps you keep control of every detail.
You'll no longer have to enter different rates of pay for things
like overtime, bonuses and commissions on separate lines. Ideal
if you process payroll remotely or receive timesheets from a
number of different departments.
Enter payments and deductions on the same screen, so things like
social club membership subscriptions are easy to identify and
account for.
Manage your payroll costs
Understand how changes to your payroll can affect your finances.
Predict the impact of pay increases, bonuses or overtime plans
with the salary forecast tool.
One payroll: many payment intervals
Sage 50 Payroll deals with weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly and
monthly payment periods, making it easy for you to manage your
multiple payment intervals.
Say goodbye to complex final pay calculations for leavers
It's easy to calculate final pay when an employee leaves with
Sage 50 Payroll. You can automatically calculate outstanding
payments and deductions, including attachment of earnings,
holiday payments or company loans.
Overtime, bonus and commission calculations at the touch of a button
Save yourself some time every pay run by automating extra payments
for your employees, such as calculating double time, tax-free payments,
percentage bonuses and extra pay.
By creating formulas for each of your rewards, which can be
applied to any employee's base rate, you don't have to spend
time manually calculating extra pay.
Take a break from complex holiday calculations
When you've got people that work varying hours or shifts, it can
become complex working out holiday entitlement and managing
multiple holiday schemes. With Sage 50 Payroll you can calculate
average pay and the holiday payment due for staff working both
regular and irregular hours.
Your payslips
There's a wide choice of layouts for your payslips which can be
printed on plain paper or Sage Stationery. And if you want to
personalise them, you can by adding messages and logos.
Go green with secure electronic payslips
Provide a greener and speedier alternative to traditional printed
forms with electronic payslips. Apply password protection for
added security and peace of mind. By using or adapting the
ready-made email payslip templates all you'll need to do is
tick a box and Sage 50 Payroll will automatically generate
and email them out.
Paying your staff
Whether you pay your employees by cash, cheque, BACS or e-Banking,
all of these are taken care of with Sage 50 Payroll.
Making the most of online banking
With Sage 50 Payroll, we've included all the tools you need to
use e-banking services as standard. So even if your bank charges
you an additional fee for its online services, we don't.
Because we know that all businesses will have to make payments to
HMRC online, it's our way of helping you stay one step ahead
by making the best of technology.
Working with your accountancy software
Sage 50 Payroll can link with your Sage 50 Accounts software
so you can update your accounts with your payroll payments,
and spend less time re-keying data.
Managing your employees
Give your people the information they need
By law, everyone must be provided with a Written Statement
of Employment Particulars.
Take the hassle out of recording the right information with
Sage 50 Payroll. When you add a new person their statement
is created automatically and prompts will remind you to update
contracts when necessary. You can print or email your contracts,
scan and store them within your software, giving you a complete
history.
Your employee records in one place
Store all your employee information securely in one place.
You can also store information on: appraisals, disciplinary r
ecords, job and salary history. And the absence and holiday
diary lets you record all employee absences.
Apply changes to more than one record in one go
Sage 50 Payroll gives you the tools you need to apply many
changes to a whole range of employees all in one go.
Create your own individual employee groups
Select groups of employees not linked by department or cost
centre and apply actions to this group. For example, select
your part-time staff to do a separate pay run. Save these
groups for future use.
Add notes to keep track of changes
Add notes when entering payments as a reminder of why a specific
event or action was taken when you're processing the payroll.
Save time with your in-year submissions
There's no need for you to spend hours re-keying information
from HMRC when you get your in-year submissions via the
internet.
Amendments received from HMRC, such as tax code changes, can
be applied directly to employee records, saving you time and
effort. And as it is a secure mailbox you know only you and
HMRC can access it.
Manage your documents effectively
Make your HR information more accessible and easier to manage
with our Document Manager. You can store, modify and print
documents from software such as Microsoft Word and Excel,
giving you instant access to documents pertaining to employee
and company data.
Apply password protection to secure PDF documents and ensure your
business information remains confidential.
Add new employees quickly and easily
Take the effort out of adding new employees by simply entering
their personal details and copy information such as payment
rates, pension and holiday schemes from another employee.
Security you can trust
Sage 50 Payroll allows you to be confident that you are
storing and handling staff information securely. You even
have the flexibility to restrict access to information contained
with an employee record.
Managing your time
Keep track of all your day-to-day tasks with a clear calendar
and reminders. See all your daily task reminders on one screen.
Simply open for more details, dismiss or delete them to make
sure everyhting's crossed off your 'to do' list.
Never forget a deadline or due date
Automatic reminders prompt you when you need to take actions,
for example when you're due to submit returns to HMRC.
Managing your reports and analysis
Create the right reports and stay compliant
Automatically collate the right data and produce your statutory
reports, such as P11, P32 and P45, from within your Sage 50
Payroll software.
Save time producing your most popular reports
Identify the reports you run most frequently from a choice
of over 250. You can then group them and produce multiple
reports at the touch of a button.
The right reports for your business
This feature allows you to edit existing reports or create your
own. This way you can produce reports to meet with your needs.
All reports can be emailed in HTML or PDF format.
Stay in control, no matter what
Be confident that your payroll data is reliable and up to date
with tools to help you validate your payroll against current
legislation. So you'll have peace of mind before you submit
the details to HMRC.
And if you do have a visit from HMRC you'll have the right
information on hand, and in the correct format for the inspector
with our comprehensive reports.
Have more control over your figures
Get more out of your payroll data by breaking down figures
by department or cost centre.
Easily access your historical data
Eliminate the need for restoring prior-year back-ups or
searching through endless paperwork to answer employee or
HMRC queries. With seven-year storage, you can easily reprint
or view payslips and produce statutory reports from previous
tax years.
Work with your other software
If other people in your company need to access or analyse
payroll information, simply link your Microsoft® Excel
spreadsheet directly to your payroll data. This information
can then be viewed without the need to install Sage 50 Payroll
on their computer.
And as it integrates with Microsoft® Office you can also
export your data and do useful things like run mail merges
for employee letters.
Keep track of changes
You can easily track any changes that have taken place:
when they took place and who made them.
Advanced Data Import wizard
Import information from sources including Excel, CSV and
other payroll software by mapping columns to their
equivalents in your payroll. Save your settings to perform
the same data imports time and time again with the minimum
of fuss and less chance of mistakes.
Import and export employee data
Import and export between CSV files and Sage 50 Payroll
to help you set up your payroll or import data from
timesheets.
Easily import timesheet data
Import and export data contained within a CSV file to and
from Sage 50 Payroll. This can be used to set up payroll
and import timesheets, ideal if timesheets are managed by
other personnel such as operational or departmental managers.
Managing your payroll year end
With you every step of the way
The useful wizards and special user guides will take you
through all the steps you need to take to make sure your
payroll year end goes smoothly.
Take care of all your year end reports
Your P11s, P14s and P60s are all taken care of with Sage
50 Payroll, so you can be sure you are running an efficient
and compliant payroll year end.
Continue processing over payroll year end
Reduce the pressure of payroll year end on your business
by continuing to process in the new tax year before
completing your year end.
Submissions/HMRC Secure Mailbox
Speed up your year end returns by submitting them
electronically, totally securely.
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