Sage 50 Canada

I have a fund in Sage that I track all of my operating expenses through. How can I allocate the employer portion of payroll costs through that fund? I have their salary going through a staff account but want the employer costs going through a separate…

I have never had this issue before... I have added a new employee and their income is not allocating to their expense or job category group as allocated. It is showing in unallocated salaries. Is there something I have checked or not checked that has…

Hi, I have no problem with changing the name on the below incomes, except the ones that are highlighted in blue below.....do you know why? and how I can re-name the Overtime 1 and Overtime 2 listed below ?

How can you update the provincial tax for payroll? Ours is showing Quebec where it should be Ontario.

My non profit is beginning to offer a benefit plan for some employees. i can not figure out how to enter the taxable benefit setting and the amount to deduct from the employees income, which are different amounts. If i enter a benefit amount in the Income…

Under the income tab on paycheque - the employees income is showing up under rate instead of income. How do I fix that? Thanks!

Is there a way to calculate workers compensation on retained vacation pay. Workers compensation premiums are due on all assessable earnings including vacation pay earned but not yet paid out. Can the software be configured to calculate the liability without…

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

We are trying to set up EFT Direct in Sage 50 Premium Accounting so that we can pay our employees directly and have the funds go directly into their bank accounts. The bank we deal with is Blueshore Financial. Sage says we need the originator number from…

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.

Hello, I am trying to change the payroll unit measure from Period to Hour. If anyone can assist in how I can do this? Thank you,

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

If I have 3 wage expense accounts: general, management, dining that I would like to add linked accounts to, how do I set up the Payroll names? Sage provides "Regular" as the default wage account and "Income 1" as the default salary account. Should I be…

I am setting up an Entitlement for banked time to track. I would like to track in hours. In the settings it allows to track by hours but when I go to process payroll it shows as days earned. Then when I go to post it says the days accrued exceed the maximum…

We have been using sage payroll for some time. We only have 6 employees, but I job all of their time. Is there a way that I can set up a time sheet/card that can be posted directly to the payroll and have it go into all of the appropriate categories?

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…

Hi There, I am currently using Sage 50, I am having an issue with employees time sheets not showing under the job they are allocated too. There for I can't see the total Expenses against a Job. When I add in a timesheet for an employee, I am allocating…

In our payroll ledgers the 'record wage expense in' is set to our Wage account but with different departments for different employees. The departments started to change randomly in December 2021 and we have already had to change it back several times…

Hello, In Settings-->Payroll-->Linked Accounts-->Income, when selecting an expense account to link, the account doesn't show up as an option even though it's in my COA in the 5000's? Thanks, Sean

I am setting up the Payroll module and am trying to enter the year-to-date figures for employee earnings and deductions. I can't find how to open the historical mode. The YTD columns for employees won't open and shows a notation as "YTD amounts as of…

Just wondering has anyone run into a problem when opening the paychecks screen and an employee shows nothing under the income tab. The employee record does show information but it will not show on the paycheck screen.

I have just taken over doing the bookkeeping and payroll for a company. I want to use Sage to keep track the allocation and usage of vacation and sick days, whether they get paid for it or not. What would be the proper way to do this through Sage if…

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…

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…

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…