Sage 50 Canada

I have been buying the payroll edition year after year through Staples or Best Buy because it always comes in alot cheaper than buying it through Sage. For the first time in 10 years I can no longer find it or locate it at any stores i'v looked. Of course…

Any idea if the new update will allow payroll run to be saved? This needs to be implemented. You can do it with a bank reconciliation not sure why we still can't with a payroll run.

Hi! I am doing the 2022 payroll in Quebec. I have changed for calendar year 2022. I changed the basic employee exemptions. The amount of federal tax is higher than on my model (impot.net). The other deductions are ok Do you have any idea why? thank you…

The company I work for does projects across the country. Some employees work in more than one province during the year as a result. How should I process their payroll so T4's are generated for each province worked in (with the least amount of manual calculation…

In previous versions when the max amount was reached for CPP Sage 50 indicated the employee had reached their max yearly amount and automatically stopped calculating. Version 2021.2 keeps on calculating CPP after the max yearly amount. Is there something…

Our normal pay period is bimonthly (24 pay days) One person's payroll does not make sense because some periods, his pay stub is correct (march1-15, then 16-30) but some months, the pay stub is incorrect (april1-15, then 25-31). The bi-monthly salary…

I need to record a non-cash bonus in payroll. I can't find any resources on how to do this. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I received a PIER review from CRA for the 2019 T4 filing. The discrepancy was with Employer portion of EI premiums, after much searching and troubleshooting to figure WHY it was overcalculating the Employer's portion, I was able to figure this much out…

Hi friends, One of my clients closed for Christmas from December 21 - January 7 2019/2020 - We are now uncertain whether or not to pay full time employees for the January 1 stat - this is for BC. I would love to receive links to past discussions and…

Hi All, Next year has 27 pay periods for my company. When should I make the change in the system to set it to 27 pay periods from 26? My first payroll of the year is January 3 so I want to ensure that I have the right information set up for proper reporting…

This course is designed for customers wanting to use the payroll module in their Sage 50 Accounting product. You will learn how to set up the Payroll module and how to process paycheques individually or in a batch. You will also learn about electronic…

Hello everyone! The organization I work for hired someone to fill a 1 year maternity replacement position. Typically staff would enroll in our RRSP plan and take advantage of our health benefit plan. In lieu of RRSP and health benefits I was asked to…

We have a valuable employee that had some student and credit card debt. He's the General Manager, and has been with the company for five or six years. To keep him, and keep him for a long time, we paid off his debts of $100k, and each year that he stays…

Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with the program or my data set? I have a payroll which includes a reimbursment income code. This is a true, non-taxable reimbursement - employees hand in actual receipts for expenditures made on behalf…

I cannot manually create a paycheque, the option is blanked out and cannot be clicked on. All I can do is find a paycheque. What is the problem please? Thanks

I need verification on the EI & QHSF factor rate for 2019 for Quebec. In the settings in Payroll--Taxes--Use these settings for employer tax expenses: we now have EI Factor for new employees: 1.40 and QHSF Factor: 2.50. Can someone please confirm that…

The CPP deductions seem to be calculating wrong on salaries that are higher than the CPP maximum amount since the 2019.1 update. Example: Salary: 100,000 CPP Exemption: 3,500/26=134.62 CPP rate: 5.1% 100,000/26 =3846.15 3846.15-134.62=3711…

Hi, We have a family company, and I want to include my brother as a salaried employee. He has another job, and pays into all the source deductions (that's his primary job), our family company is a secondary, part-time one for him. We live in Quebec…

I have a client who for the first half of the year took a salary so I processed them through the payroll system. He switched over part way through to draws (which will be dividends). I've just received the year end adjustments from his accountant (yr…

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…

I have an employee who just went on short term disability. How do I post his paycheque in Sage 50 Quantum ? He will be paid by Manulife directly.The employee is paid hourly, works 40 hours a week and being paid semi-monthly. Thank you!

An employee used company materials and has asked me to just deduct it from paycheque. What's the best way to do this? Currently what I'm doing is making a purchase invoice to our company. (As if company purchased something from itself). I post…

In December I installed the payroll updates for 2018 and changed the personal exemption to 11,809 federal 15,012 provincial and everything seemed fine. At the end of March I was sent another update from Sage which I installed and since then the amount…

The PIER report is verified and showing that the employer has not deducted enough CPP or EI. If the bank is already reconciled for the year (Dec. 31 calendar year end), how can I remit the short deductions in the new calendar with out affecting the bank…

I have started a new year for 2016, performed the back-up and all necessary aspects but when I entered payroll cheques all retained vacation pay was at $0.00. There is retained vacation pay earned by a number of employees, how do I carry it over from…