Sage 50 Canada

Hello I'm a bookkeeper, 1st time using Sage Payroll, but i see the auto DR/Payment company is A) very expensive and B) does not handle Source deduction payments which is disapppointing. How are folks handling the source payments? In particular for clients…

Hi all, Our owner has requested that he no longer accrue vacation pay. I have deselected "retain vacation" and set his vacation rate percentage to zero in the payroll ledger. When I process his pay statement, the "Vacation Paid" line for the period…

Is there a setting in the payroll module for "Outside Canada/Beyond the Limits of any Provincial Border" in Sage 50? Currently it only shows options for the actual province or territory and the tax table T4032OC needs to be used otherwise the tax calculation…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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!

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…

We are a company that rents items to clients. We have our rental items setup in Sage as inventory items. Often, we rent 1 item for multiple days. On the quote / invoice, we have to put '3', if the client rented it for 3 days. Many clients are confused…

Is there a way with Sage 50 to enter an hourly deduction for employee benefits that self calculates based off posted hours? (Where we enter the hours worked and it calculates a deduction total based off a per hour benefit cost). Example: Benefits cost…

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…