Sage 50 Canada

Is there a way to change all of the employees WSIB rate like the federal and provincial tax credits?

There use to be an update WSIB rate feature under the Maintenance Menu which would allow you to update all or just the highlighted employees. I can't find it anymore. Why would they have removed this feature? Our WSIB rate has been frozen since the beginning…

I am wondering if Sage has the capability to track banked time in an efficient manner. If yes, how to set it up and use it efficiently.

Our source deduction remittance frequency has changed from monthly to twice a month. How can I change this in sage 50?

It would be very helpful to have the linkage automatically prompted for completion when a new Income is created. The same for other required linkages in the program. It wouldn’t take much programming as the system “knows” the link is required, so a prompt…

I'm trying to change the rate for 71 employees in my company. They have 12 different rates including shift differentials and it's really consuming to make it manually due to the short period of time I have before processing payroll with the new rates…

Hi, I have a client that never used the Payroll module because they used a third party payroll company. Now they are going to bring it in house. My Sage 50 premiums includes payroll and they are registered under my account (From what I can see on the…

We allocate time slips to projects. Some projects incur LOA (living out allowance) expenses for our employees. When I enter LOA into the employee's paycheque (as "other amounts"), I am unable to specify which project it should be allocated to. Instead…

Hi, Our company pays employees by a daily rate. Before I started doing payroll, the employees' daily rate was put into Sage as an hourly rate. So on their paycheques, it looks like they've worked 10 hours in 2 weeks. On the paystubs, it shows 10 hours…

When doing our payroll entry, sometimes the direct deposit number box is blank. The number is entered in the Settings --> Company --> Forms section, and for a while they accumulate correctly, but after a month or so, the number is blank again when we…

Hi everyone, I am looking for help on setting up my payroll to be as efficient as possible. I hope I can explain this well enough for someone to offer me some guidance! I will explain this as a single employee. I have an employee that works a 40 hour…

Can someone tell me if in "Use these settings for employer tax expenses" I have to change the QHSF and EI rates for 2017? Right now they are set as EI factor 1.4 and QHSF is 2.70. From what I see the rate for QHSF or FSS in French should be 2.50% for…

For the past 2 weeks we've been having trouble with EFT payroll transactions, after it was integrated into SAGE50 (following last update). We are getting rejected transactions every time an EFT file is uploaded to our bank, after much investigation…

I want to add a new income category to pay out Banked Time Used as I am tracking Banked Time earned in a separate spreadsheet. I don't want vacation calculated on this new income as it is over time that is banked. When I rename the new category, link…

Can you set up a contractor if you have Sage 50 Premium? If so how... or do I have to upgrade to Quantam? We are a small company and do not require all the additional users. I have been trying to figure out a way to pay our one contractor but am not…

Hi Just received this e-mais from Service Canada. Will Sage make the appropriate changes by April,1 2016 or before? Danielle In an effort to standardize the ROE Web file versions, the following ROE Web formats will be discontinued on March 31…

Having difficulty understanding two aspects of setting up Direct Deposit. I go to the employee record in question and click on the Direct Deposit tab. I enter Branch number, Institution Number and Account Number. It then says Enter either an amount or…

I began working for the subject company in October and continued to do payroll and remittances as it was done before. When I went to do T4's I noted that there was NOTHING in the Total Remittances field of the summary. Thought I'd try to correct this…