Payroll Company File

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Hi,

Where can I find the Sage Payroll Company file? It exists somewhere on our PC's that use Sage Payroll, but I need to setup another PC with Payroll and need to add the Payroll company file to that one.

I can easily find the Sage Accounts Company file, but not the Payroll one. Where in C ProgramData or ProgramFiles etc. would it be?

Thank you.

Bruce

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    Hi Bruce,

    Thanks for using Sage City Slight smile

    I notice this query hasn't had a community response.

    If that's the data for a company you're looking for, you can check your exact payroll data location right in Sage 50 Payroll. Log into the company you'd like to check, then click Help then About.

    Check under the Program Details heading. The Data Directory link is where the data for this company is stored.

    If you're not able to log into a company at the moment, the default location for 50 payroll company data is within a numbered folder named COMPANY_XXX in C:\ProgramData\Sage\Payroll.

    I'd add though, if you set up more than one computer with the same company where each computer holds a set of data for that company, any processing done on one computer won't show up on the other automatically. If you'd like any processing on one computer to update the other you'd need to have a shared data location, such as a server which holds the data for this company, that payroll on each computer connects to.

    If this has answered your question please click More > Verify Answer.

    Regards,
    John Howells
    Sage UKI

  • 0 in reply to John Howells

    Hi,

    Thank you for your reply. However, I am aware of how and where to store and find the company data. 

    What I am after is the company file which for Sage Accounts is simply called "Company" with no file extension. We have around ten companies that we use in Sage Accounts and Payroll. In Sage Accounts, the Company file lists the paths of all the data files. Its contents will look something like this, and sits in C:\ProgramData\Sage\Accounts\2022 (as per pic below)...

    \\FINANCE_DATA\SAGEACCOUNTS\COMPANY.001
    \\FINANCE_DATA\SAGEACCOUNTS\COMPANY.002
    \\FINANCE_DATA\SAGEACCOUNTS\COMPANY.003
    \\FINANCE_DATA\SAGEACCOUNTS\COMPANY.004

    etc.

    I need to locate the Payroll version of this file. I have setup Payroll on a new PC, and need to add this file to that PC so that when my user runs Payroll he sees the paths listed for all ten companies. This is to save him adding them all in one by one. I can easily add the file for whenever I setup Sage Accounts on a new PC, but for Payroll, it is not as easy. So if anyone knows where the "company" file is, that would be great.

    Thank you.

    Bruce

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    Hi Bruce,

    Ah I see, thank you for clarifying that. In payroll you'll need to copy two files over to the new computer for this.

    1. Install 50 payroll on the new computer and ensure it's closed and not running before the next steps.
    2. On a computer with the company list setup as you'd like to copy over, browse to C:\ProgramData\Sage\Payroll.
    3. Copy pay.usr and payroll.usr from this folder into C:\ProgramData\Sage\Payroll on the new computer. If you're asked whether to replace the existing versions of these two files in this location, click Yes.

    You can now open 50 payroll on the new computer and the company list will be as it is on the computer you copied from.

  • 0 in reply to John Howells

    Hi John,

    Great, that sounds like it. I don't have access to the PC in question right now as someone else is working on part of the setup. But I will try that the first chance I get.

    Thank you ever so much for your help!

    Bruce

  • 0 in reply to Bruce Lewis

    Hi Bruce, great to see John's been able to help there, if the solution works for you it would be great if you could click More > Verify answer on his reply to help us build up a bank of verified solutions. Many thanks.

  • 0 in reply to John Howells

    Hi,

    That is working just fine now, thank you ever so much for your help!

    Bruce