Sage 50 Payroll is a powerful Payroll system that will allow you to not only manage your customers and suppliers but also help control your cashflow, submit VAT returns online to HMRC and access detailed Management reports at the click of a button.

Sage Payroll software is the UK’s most popular way to pay employees. If you are a business or organisation looking to manage your payroll in-house on a computerised system then we have the solution for you. It is fully Accredited by HM Revenue & Customs and is fully compliant with HMRC New Legislation. Over 200,000 organisations benefit from time and cost savings of preparing their payroll in-house.

• Overview
• Features & Benefits
• System Requirements

• Sage 50 Payroll Overview

  Sage 50 Payroll gives you the confidence that you’re paying the right person, the right amount of money at the right time – automatically working out payments and deductions, including tax, National Insurance, pensions and sick pay.

  Not only will it save you time and give you more control over your payroll process but you’ll have greater peace of mind that you’re up to speed with the latest employment legislation, such as Real Time Information and the Workplace Pension Reform.

  Recognised by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Sage 50 Payroll puts you in control of your entire payroll process from everyday tasks such as paying your staff and maintaining your employee records to those less frequent ones such as managing starters and leavers.

  With Sage 50 Payroll you can;

  • Create and maintain employee records
  • Store written statements of employment
  • Automatically calculate statutory payments such as sick pay and maternity payment
  • Predict the impact of pay increases, with Salary Review Forecasting
  • Manage employees’ holidays and absence
  • Manage appraisals and disciplinary records
  • Process paperwork for leavers and easily set up new starters
  • Append documents to an employee’s records e.g. Job Contracts and Pay Awards

• Sage 50 Payroll Features & Benefits

  Easy to get up and running

  • Easy to get started
  • Download instantly when you buy online
  • 44 days free support
  • Simple installation
  • Easy set-up wizard to get you started
  • “Show me how” videos to guide you through common tasks
  • Import your existing data from a CSV file
  • Connect with Microsoft Office

  Store employee records

  All the information you need in one place including:

  • Appraisals
  • Absence
  • Holidays
  • Disciplinary records
  • Job and salary history
  • Written statements of employment
  • Attach documents to employee records

  Manage holidays and absence

  • Manage holiday entitlement for individual employees
  • Record holidays and absence in days or hours
  • Record your own custom absence types
  • Automatically record statutory payment absence types such as SMP and SSP
  • Easily & accurately accrue employee holidays
  • Automatically calculate payments & deductions for different absence types

  Manage your payroll

  • Process weekly, two-weekly, four-weekly and monthly payroll
  • Choose from a range of payslip layouts
  • Print or email payslips to employees
  • Automatically calculate payments and deductions
  • Calculate and process employee loans
  • Record and calculate Salary Sacrifice deductions such as childcare vouchers and Cycle to Work scheme
  • Record and calculate holiday pay
  • Electronically pay employees using e-banking
  • Easily calculate your PAYE & NI liability
  • Post salary journals to Sage Accounts software

  Analyse your payroll data

  • Easily generate payslips, payment summaries, holiday and absence reports and more
  • Quickly print a range of reports in one batch
  • Save your favourite reports for quick & easy access
  • Run statutory reports such as P32, P35, P60 and P11
  • Analyse data by cost centre and department
  • Create your own reports with the report designer

  Keep your payroll accurate and secure

  • Easy backup and restore your data
  • Roll your data back to correct errors from previous payroll runs
  • Apply access rights to restrict users from accessing certain areas of the program
  • Securely email payslips to employees
  • Password protect PDF reports to keep them secure

  Prepare for Automatic Enrolment

  • Create your personalised action plan based on The Pensions Regulator’s best practice, using our pension centre
  • Easily set up your pensions with Pension’s Fast-Track
  • Calculate contributions and understand the cost of Automatic Enrolment to your business

  Up to date with the latest payroll legislation

  • HMRC recognised software
  • Comply with the very latest legislation for the tax year
  • Directly submit PAYE data to HMRC online
  • Exchange employee data direct with HMRC online
  • Automatically calculate statutory sick, maternity, paternity and adoption pay
  • Record student loans and attachment of earnings orders
  • Record fixed amount or percentage calculated pension schemes
  • Stay up-to-date with National Minimum Wage
  • Keep records for Class 1A company cars

  Comply with Real Time Information (RTI)

  • Automatically send RTI data to HMRC
  • RTI Data Health Check tool ensures your data is error-free before you submit it to HMRC
  • RTI Centre with help & support when you need it
  • Submissions log lets you view and track the status of HMRC submissions

  Online HMRC submissions

  • Send all your submissions to HMRC securely online
  • Track forms by status and sender
  • Comply with the latest legislation

• Sage 50 Payroll System Requirements

  Recommended
  Processor	2GHz processor or higher
  Memory (RAM)	1GB RAM – Windows XP 2GB RAM – Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003, Server 2008 or Small Business Server 2011 4GB RAM – For all PCs running 64-bit operating system
  Hard Disk Space	10GB (additional space is required for data files)
  Network users only	1Gbps network (100 Mbps minimum)
  Operating System	All 32 or 64-bit variants of Microsoft: Windows 8 Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008
  Other Requirements	Integrates with Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 (32-bit edition) Internet Explorer v7 or higher Screen Resolution of 1024×768 Internet Connection