• Payroll

    Every time I try to enter Payroll information, I get an error message that tells me to remember to manually calculate payroll tax, because my account has not finished setting up. I have checked all my settings against another client account, everything…
  • Advancing cheque number problem

    Hello, I print payroll cheques with a two stub format and have always printed a full plain paper copy of the cheque/stubs as well to keep on file with the employee time sheets. There has never been a problem printing the cheque and the plain paper copy…
  • Family members in payroll

    I cannot get Sage 50 to allocate tax deductions to family EI expense, family CPP expense and family WSIB expense. It will allocate the wages to wages family expense. In the employee record under the income tab for an employee it allows one to link wages…
  • Change rates by job category

    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…
  • Adding Payroll Module

    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…
  • Weekly project allocation

    Right now we allocate time to a project through the paycheque function bi-weekly. Is there a way to allocate time at smaller intervals (ie. weekly) without having to post an actual paycheque? I tried to use the Timeslips function but it doesn't seem to…
  • Employee & Payroll /Remittances

    I am a new user to Sage 50 2019. Our company only has 1 employee/owner so I set him up as an employee under the "employee & payroll" feature instead of purchasing the payroll module. I enter all the deductions manually but under the WSIB tab, I put in…
  • Emailing Paystubs

    I would like to start emailing pay stubs to my staff. Is there a way to password protect the email upon receipt? My husband's company require that you enter a password (first 3 letters of last name and first 3 digits of SIN) in order to view the pay stub…
  • multiple source deduction categories

    I have a client who has 2 locations for their business. They are now going to split them out to keep all income and expenses separate (used to be combined). Not a problem for the income and expenses as I can create separate accounts for each location…
  • Payroll

    I'm trying to "finish entering history", but I have 3 errors to fix concerning payroll. But our company does not use payroll. It's telling me the CPP payable, CPP expense and the wage expense linked accounts are not defined. We do not need these 3 accounts…
  • Hrs for truckers paid by the mile

    Is there a way that I could set up an "income" to record hours for our drivers? They get paid by the mile so no hr is calculated automatically. When someone leaves and I have to do an ROE, I have to go back through all the log books and calculate hrs…
  • Modifying an employee from hourly to salaried

    Hello, I have an employee that moved from hourly to salaried during pay period. Please let me know how I can modify the record to show the start date? Do i Select the employee record / modify / and just click or unclick in the "Use" column? Regards…
  • Allocating "Other Amounts" to a project.

    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…
  • separate tax accounts

    After reading through some of the posts they seem to indicate that it's possible to have separate expense accounts for EI & CPP for different groups of employees although only in premium version or higher. I have a client that has 3 locations and wants…
  • Daily Rates in Payroll?

    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…
  • Historical transactions - Pay check lookup screen

    Hi All, Need help. When I try to look up for the Pay cheques of the employees, I can view only for this financial year. How do I lookup the historical transactions? Thanks, Mangala
  • Payroll module

    I originally set up Sage 50 premium as a non profit and didn't need the payroll module. Now I do. How can I add it back in? If I create new companies it's there . Please help.
  • Direct Deposit Numbers Randomly not appearing

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    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…
  • Overtime

    Hello, I am trying to enter hours of overtime for an employee, but it doesn't come up as an option in the payroll journal under the income tab. I have the boxes checked for our employees so that they do receive overtime, but it isn't letting me enter…
  • Payroll advice or creative solutions!

    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…
  • Direct Deposit Stub Security

    Does anyone know if Sage 50 EFT Direct Deposit stubs can be password protected when being emailed to employees?
  • Non Taxable Benefits where Employer and Employee Pay 50%

    I am trying to setup a Group Insurance Premium. The amount is $207, $103.50 is paid by Employee and $103.50 is paid by Employer The problem is that the gross salary shows premium paid by the Employer although the benefit is non-taxable. The Pensionable…
  • Quebec payroll 2017-QHSF and EI rates

    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…
  • set up provincial and federal tax deductions in payroll for Ontario?

    I am new at setting up payroll, I am used to only maintaining pre set up Company. How do I set up Provincial and Federal tax payroll deductions so they are going to correct accounts?? I tried and when I go to pay remittance the federal tax is incorrect…
  • How do I add a holiday acquired after payroll history is closed?

    Je n'ai pas transféré les montant de vacances acquises lors de l'ouverture d'un nouveau livre. l'historique est fermé. Comment puis-je mettre le montant acquis? I have not transferred the holiday amount gained from the opening of a new book. history…