Sage 50 Payroll

On Sage 50Cloud Payroll, is it possible to allocate an employee's pay across more than one department to allow us to time apportion their salary? There are older questions on here similar to this but is this possible in V27

Hi, Please could you explain the two checkboxes in the payment settings: Include for holiday accrual & Include for weekly averages. For instance the pay element holiday pay. Do these 2 x boxes need selecting? Also we now have a pay element…

We employee some short-term contract EEA citizens who come to the UK from their home country for up to 6 weeks to work for us in the UK. As they are in the UK for less than 183 days, they are not tax resident in the UK but tax resident in their home country…

Hi guys Can anyone tell me what we need to do now we are reaching the 50 employee limit on Sage 50cloud Payroll? I have been looking around for Sage payroll software for 51+ employees and can't find anything, Thanks! Martin

Hi, We are a payroll bureau and Sage is but one of the systems we use so apologies if this question seems naive... I've just set up the above scheme for a client. They pay elements have all been configured to (or not as appropriate) to be included…

Hi there, I have received notification from a number of employees who have had issues when logging into the online portal to access their payslips. One employee advised they copy and pasted the original password which was set up when I added them as…

I have successfully uploaded the P60's, however, no notifications have been sent to any employees to say that it is there for them to access. How can a notification be sent to everyone to advise their electronic P60 is available for viewing. Th…

I would like to run a report which shows each employees pension contribution rate please. It isn't the contribution value that I want to see, but rather their rate stored within each employees record. Some of our employees have chosen to increase their…

A number of our part time employees work some Bank Holidays. If my settings has 'include Bank Holiday entitlement' ticked, will it affect their entitlement?

We have two new starters that are joining us on the 29th. Will sage payroll calculate the national insurance correctly if we don't run them on the month they started and instead gave them 1 month and 3 days in the next month? Thanks in advance.

It's that time of year again, when everyone starts to think of the holiday period and a bit of time to relax. But for those of you who do the company payroll, the period leading up to Christmas can be a bit stressful, with queries about advancing pay…

I've received a letter from DWP re DEA and although calculation seems straightforward, mechanisms of payment seem separate to payroll return process. Is this right does anyone know? cheers

I have a new payroll client who has one employee who commenced employment in August 2014 but the employer was unaware of the RTI rules. His employee was paid above the LEL but under the NI threshold so there are no deductions to report but he should have…

"HMRC is hoping that payroll software developers and suppliers will change their RTI specifications to cater for always including employees†home addresses on RTI returns". When I next submit a FPS does Sage software include employees' home addresses…

Are there standard global increases for tax code suffixes/prefixes for the start of the 2016/7 tax year?

I have a client who is a director of a company and was being paid wages up to 30th September 2015 when he reached retirement age. He requested that his wages be put on hold until further notice so I have been submitting a monthly EPS to HMRC to advise…

I have a client whose AE pension contributions started on 1st April 2016 and I have noticed that the tax on the wages is being calculated after the pension contributions have been deducted. I am not sure that this is correct as it is not a salary sacrifice…

I am currently setting up a new payroll for a client who has two apprentices. I notice that there is now an "apprentices" box on the new employee wizard to tick. What effect does this have as I have some existing clients who employ apprentices but this…

Hi, Can someone tell me why my Leavers report does not work. I have checked the dates are correct, and we had several leavers during the period requested. I have tried other dates, and it still does not work. Each time it just says the following: The…

I need to make a payment to an ex-employee who has had their P45 processed and is now in Sage50 as a 'Leaver'. Is there a way of doing this without making them a 'new' employee, processing the payment and then making them a 'leaver'again, plus having…

I am just about to start sending my FPS for this week and note that the following is included in the Important Notice page of the FPS: "You have selected to submit the FPS details for ...... to the Government Gateway and, on an anonymous basis, send…

Can anyone tell me why the AE PAPDIS v1 report appears to deduct £112.00 from each employees Pensionable Earnings? Thank you

Can anyone help me with the reporting module. I want to pull out an employee's first name only, but the only standard field is for all their forenames. I had a play with trying to write an expression to drop in the middle names, which worked until it…

Throughout September we’re running Sage 50 Payroll surgeries twice a day. In these online events, one of our Sage 50 Payroll experts will be giving quick demos of processes and routines, answering common queries and you’ll get the chance to ask your questions…

Hi All, We have recently been non-live parallel run's on Sage 50 Payroll ahead of our first live run on 5th May (Very nervous). We had loaded our entire staff list from our outsourced payroll provider on to Sage in order to ensure our parallel run…