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…

It would be great if Sage would prompt when Employees have reached the time that their vacation pay increases from 4% to 6% etc. Currently there is no way to prompt the system to alert you when they have reached the time worked to increase the vacation…

Hi, I terminated an employee (salaried). How do I pay out his retained vacation on his last pay cheque?

Hi, My payroll remittance and tax amounts are showing different than the initial payments I have made. for example in de 2021 sage is showing following numbers but I at the time of payment it was totally a different amount. CPP $8011.22 EI $3422…

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…

Can I post into a new year prior to starting the new fiscal year?

I have an unusual situation. The employer is too small for Group RRSP, so they have agreed to pay one employee a rrsp contribution each paycheque. The amount is $100.00, which then the employee is responsible to contribute to an RRSP. How do I record…

When changing the calendar year ( Jan 1- Dec 31), what are the correct steps for this procedure? I did a rookie mistake and when I opened Sage 50 this morning, I went to change the session date to today's date and it prompted me to change the calendar…

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…

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…

Hi, Our employee will sometimes use their own car for deliveries or pickups. We have them record their mileage. How do I pay them back using the payroll feature in Sage?

We are expecting to have Paid Sick Leave in Ontario. Law enforcement will come after the parliament approval, but the premier had said Ontarions will get extra pay on top of Federal benefit. I am thinking it will be about the same as 2018 Jan -…

We have a group RRSP plan and our employer contributes 50% and the employee contributes 50%. How do we set it up in Sage so that the employers amount is not taxable? We are currently showing it as part of our income and getting taxed on it. Can we set…

Looking to find information on the correct posting for LTD Benefits 100% paid by employee. The LTD payment by employee is being posted to LTD Payable account 2000 through the Payable module The LTD payment made to the insurance company is being paid…

Hi there! It is our year-end and I am switching from manual bookkeeping to Sage. We have residual 2020 vacation pay owed to employees. I have created employee records, but need to enter the historical amounts of vacation owed to each employee. I thought…

CRA's rule is, when payroll periods and CEWS periods are different, business needs to stick to CEWS period without using prorate. So. I needed to make a copy file for CEWS with different period, different pay frequency to many company's payroll. However…

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…

Using Accountant's Edition version 2021 I have never had this happen before. I set this file up a number of years ago (payroll was working then) then the client took it for about 4 or 5 years now I have it back but the payroll journals are not working…

I am unable to use the option to calculate taxes automatically. I confirm that I have a service contract with payroll but it still will not auto calculate

Mes employés font parti du CPEEP et accumule 2.31% de leurs heures en maladies, mais ce % n'était pas cumulé par l'ancienne personne qui s'occupe de la comptabilité. Comment faire pour ajuster ça?

We pay employees either monthly or semi monthly depending on their role. Does anyone know an easy way to calculate the CEWS weekly wages other than going back and manually figuring hours worked / to fit in the weekly dates required by CRA? I will also…

We recently hired new staff and they were set up and paid already - one has informed me she reached her YTD maximum CPP & EI contributions already at the company she worked with before she came here as verified by her final paystub from the former company…

A few of our employees payroll for the entire year have been allocated to 5960, when they should have been allocated to 5110. How to I fix this and move them over to the right account to reflect on reports.

I have setup a phone allowance as a taxable benefit and now the system is autogenerating an entry to, essentially, a non-existent account called, 'Benefits & Tips', and deducting the full amount of the benefit, after it's deducted tax. I have not set…

I am trying to pay into Shareholder loans using payroll. I've cut a paycheque to a shareholder to include all taxes paid, but instead of actually cashing the paycheque, I want to move it right into shareholder loans. How do I do this? Thru General Journal…