• CPP2

    Hello, We have an arrangement where our employees are paid/reimbursed their portion off CPP every pay period. We are not able to continue this with CPP2. We've created the income account and linked them but the line item does not show on the employee…
  • how do i pay remaining vacation Hrs for prior year?

    We need to pay vacation hrs. that employees did not use last year. How do I pay remaining vacation Hrs. for prior year?
  • I can't open the payroll Run

    Hi My question is i can't open my payroll cheque run to add the payroll and sage 50 show me that you can't run until you have finished entering payroll history. I did it. what i can to do it? I really appreciate to answer me.
  • Still not able to save a payroll run with the new update.

    I have just installed the new 2024 update without issue....thanks! However, once again am very disappointed that the ability to save a payroll cheque run was not integrated into the program. :(
  • Payroll Direct Deposit using RBC Express, File Transfer

    Does anyone here use RBC File Transfer to upload payroll direct deposits? When I click on upload, Sage takes me to the Worldline Authentication screen. Apparently Worldline is optional, but I can't get past this screen. Is there an option to choose your…
  • How can I look up a pay cheques from two years ago?

    How can I look up a pay cheques from two years ago? Got a call from CRA asking about an employee's payroll info back in 2020. Sage won't let me go back to 2020. The only period I'm allowed is 2021 to current. This is an issue because I'm working from…
  • Why are the totals different on my remittance summary?

    I am trying to do the monthly payroll remittance, however, I noticed that the totals are different on my remittance summary in the "Amount" columns and the "Balance" columns. Why is this? The Amount column is a lesser amount than the Balance column…
  • How to pay a bonus?

    I thought this would be reasonably easy but I am a bit lost on this. How do I pay myself a bonus apart from my regular salary? There appears to be no "bonus" category in the Payroll Cheque form section. Instead, I see Regular, Salary, Overtime, Commission…
  • Overpaid Vacation

    My employee was taking some vacation hours for some days he had off in the two week pay period, but also worked some days. So, he wanted to use 15 vacation hours and he actually worked 60 hours, totaling his usual 75 hours. I entered the total hours in…
  • How to track and pay "sick days" aka Personal Emergency Leave (PEL) days for Ontario

    As of 2018 in Ontario, employees are entitled to 10 PEL days a year, and 2 of these days must be paid PEL days. This is a two part question regarding PEL days aka "sick days". 1. It seems like the ENTITLEMENT section of the payroll module is meant…
  • How to break down EI,CPP,FEDERAL TAXES

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    Quick overview We currently own 5 business that are owned by us. Each payroll is being done in each seperatee set of books.. Now we want to set up payroll in one set of books, and pay out from there. Problem is how do we track CPP, EI, AND FEDERAL…
  • Changing Pay Periods

    We have been paying employees on a monthly basis. They actually get an advance/loan in the midmonth pay and then we pay as normal less the loan at the end of the month. All employees are on salary. If I change the pay periods to semi monthly do I need…
  • How to start direct deposit?

    Hi all, I search the forums for something recent and relevant. I have a company of about 12 employees with roughly 3 new ones starting up. Currently I have the payroll solutions but not direct deposit. I had write all the cheques which poses a problem…
  • mobile payroll

    I am going away for 10 days to Ontario and during that time I have to do payroll for some of my clients. I have an old laptop but it's heavy and I want to travel light (and I don't trust it will work properly when I am there since it has issues). Is there…
  • Entering electronic payroll remittance

    Hi there. I am new to small business accounting and to SAGE 50. I went to pay our January payroll tax remittance by going to EMPLOYEES AND PAYROLL > PAY REMITTANCE. I calculated the appropriate figures and processed a cheque for remittance. However, it…
  • Payroll module for 3 employees?????

    ANYONE ELSE JUST A LITTLE *** ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO USE THEIR PAYROLL MODULE ANYMORE??? Sage seems to have had a "marketing meeting" that would one day be a great business school lecture on how to RUIN a company. One exec starts the meeting with …
  • Payroll won't unlock

    Recently purchased Sage 50 CA with payroll. It won't unlock payroll to calculate without Payroll ID. Went to Sage customer portal and unlock key is not there. Ask for temporary ID and it doesn't work. Any advice?
  • Upload direct deposit, Payroll

    HI, I used to have EFT separated from Sage (2016.3). Now EFT is inside Sage. Since June, I use the Upload direct ddeposit and it worked fine till Septembre 1st. On September 8th, I had this message: "An error happened and Sage 50 cannot create file…
  • Payroll shut-down

    I've been reading on these forums about the discontinuance of manual payroll. We have Sage 50 2016 and so far are able to manually enter payroll. Any idea why manual payroll is still working for us and when we can expect it to no longer work? Thanks…
  • A customer review of Sage 50 Pro shows that manual entry of payroll calculations is no longer possible. Is this true?

    I read recently that the latest version of Sage 50 Pro doesn't allow manual entry of payroll. So if you choose not to pay for payroll service and calculate payroll deductions yourself using the CRA tool, for example, you can no longer enter these calculations…
  • Tracking an employee's CPP & EI separately

    I'm helping a charity prep for audit (they use Sage 50 Pro Accounting Release 2014.2), but we've run into a snag where an employee's pay, EI, and CPP used to be tracked in accounts separate from that of other workers (for reporting to the board), and…