Sage Payroll

Sage Payroll software, is accredited by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), and is one of the UK's favourite ways to pay staff.  Sage Payroll is ideal if you want to bring your payroll in-house or have more than 10 employees on your payroll.

It's packed with all the essentials you need to run an effective and compliant payroll, and gives you greater control of both your payroll process and your employee information.

In short, it helps you save valuable time when dealing with your payroll and your people and makes light work of complex payroll calculations.

Choose Sage Payroll if:

• You manage your payroll manually and are finding it increasingly time consuming
• You need to submit your year-end returns online to meet HMRC regulations
• You are outsourcing your payroll and wish to control your payroll costs in-house
• You have taken on more staff and outgrown your current payroll software
• You employ more than 10 employees
• You want to file your year-end reports securely online

Features and Benefits

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 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
• Batch timesheet entry
• 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
• Enter payments and deductions on the same screen, so things like social club membership subscriptions are easy to identify and account for.
• 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.
• Sage Payroll deals with weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly and monthly payment periods, making it easy for you to manage your multiple payment intervals.
• Complex final pay calculations for leavers.  It’s easy to calculate final pay when an employee leaves with Sage 50 Payroll 2009. You can automatically calculate outstanding payments and deductions, including attachment of earnings, holiday payments or company loans.
• 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 Payroll will automatically generate and email them out.  You can customise the layout to add your own logos, text and images.
• Because we know that by 2010 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.
• Sage Payroll can link with your Sage accounts software so you can update your accounts with your payroll payments and spend less time re-keying data.
• By law, everyone must be provided with a Written Statement of Employment Particulars. Take the hassle out of recording the right information with Sage 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.
• You can also store information on: appraisals, disciplinary records, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. 
• Integration with Microsoft® Office you can also export your data and do useful things like run mail merges for employee letters.
• 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.
• 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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