• What is Satago?

    Satago is an intelligent, cloud-based solution which can help you make better decisions when offering customers credit. It helps to reduce the time you spend chasing payments from your customers, making sure you get paid on time. There are many benefits…
  • Useful tips and resources for payroll

    We've gathered together some fantastic resources to keep you up to date with changes in legislation, as well as the latest information and help available to you. Find out more >
  • Sage University - Free Sage 50cloud Payroll courses

    Sage University has 100's of free courses available across all Sage products to help you unlock your software's full potential. There are a wide range of free courses covering all topics within your Sage software. Master payroll and become an expert…
  • Payslip Frequency

    I have now had multiple clients requesting that the pay frequency on the payslips states Quaterly. As we have clients that are paid every third month, some require the payslip stating they are paid Quarterly, or it looks like their monthly wage. Which…
  • Do you do the payroll for your business or outsource your payroll? I'd like to hear from you

    Hi, I'm a Product Manager here at Sage bringing to life some of the features that make things easier for your business. If you do the payroll for your company or you outsource your payroll I'd like to learn more about your current payroll process…
  • The Job Retention Bonus

    In July 2020, Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered his summer statement t o aid the UK economy's recovery from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and includes the Job Retention Bonus. To help you understand what it means for you, we've gathered all…
  • Useful tips and resources for payroll

    We've gathered together some fantastic resources to keep you up to date with changes in legislation, as well as the latest information and help available to you. Read more >
  • Right to work checks

    As an employer, you have a legal obligation to ensure that anyone you're employing has the right to work in the UK, by carrying out the necessary checks. You can easily record details about the checks you carry out and the type of documents your employees…
  • CakeHR

    Why not improve the way you do HR and upload your payslips to CakeHR by Sage Online Services? No more printing payslips or buying stationery, as your employees can access their own payslips any time online from their computer, tablet or mobile device…
  • The Kickstart Scheme

    The Kickstart Scheme is a £2 billion fund to create thousands of 6-month work placements across England, Scotland and Wales. It's aimed at 16 to 24 year olds who are on Universal Credit and deemed to be at risk of long term unemployment. Eligible 16…
  • Flexible furloughing - Help with calculating the normal and average hours

    To help you calculate the hours that you need to enter for flexibly furloughed employees when processing your Job Retention Scheme claim. We've created an article that provides some examples of the calculations for employees whose hours are fixed and…
  • Returning to work

    If your office has been closed during the coronavirus pandemic you may now be starting to think about when to re-open. To ensure a smooth transition back to your normal payroll processing in Sage 50cloud Payroll, we've put together a handy guide. Check…
  • E-submission / IR-secure Mailbox

    would be great if we could select all employees when it comes to change their tax codes form HRMC under IR- secure mailbox and just apply to all. Also once new tax code have been applied the record doesn't disappear, have to come out of Mailbox first…
  • Pension schemes data

    would be good if there was an excel spreadsheet to be able to import Annual Pensionable Salary and Effective From under employees records: Pensions/Manage schemes, as this information is provided on a pension report and not all pay elements are pensionable…
  • Global changes

    Would be great, if we could select employees and change their pay elements In Use or Not In Use under global changes
  • Reset payment wizard

    I think would be easier and quicker to be able to select pay/deduction elements first and just change ALL hours/no and rate. Our company have loads of pay elements and takes ages to clear.
  • Your August Job Retention Scheme Module update is available now

    The latest Job Retention Scheme Module update is available to download and install now. The update includes all the changes to allow you to process until the Job Retention Scheme ends. If there are any further changes to the scheme, we'll continue to…
  • The Coronavirus SSP Rebate Scheme

    The Coronavirus SSP Rebate Scheme repays statutory sick pay (SSP) to you for any current or former employees that you've paid coronavirus-related SSP on or after Friday 13 March 2020. If you top-up your employee's pay while they're off sick you can…
  • Pension module

    Every time I do the pension update or submit the pensions, I now have to log on which is something that I have never had to do previously. Only since moving to the subscription based payroll. Any ideas?
  • Online services payroll unable to register

    Hi everyone, I have an issue with Online Services in Payroll 50cloud. I registered last week, uploaded payslips and everything was fine. When I came to upload them again this week, it asked me to log in and then there was info about registering my…
  • P60s deadline reminder

    You must give a P60 to anyone who's employed by you on 5 April 2020. You must provide them with this by 31 May 2020. For further information about producing P60s, please refer to the following article > If you prefer to send your employees paper…
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19) and SSP

    The Government's latest guidance states: "Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) will now be available for eligible individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 or those who are unable to work because they are self-isolating in line with Government advice. This is in addition…
  • Pension Contributions Split

    Our biggest difficulty with Sage 50 payroll is that in our line of work, we have to do a lot of reporting to the Local Government Pension Scheme and a lot of the staff who we pay have multiple job roles for the same employer. For LGPS purposes, those…
  • Custom Payslip Report - Online Payslips

    We are currently exploring the possibility of introducing some of our customers of the Sage portal where their staff members can log in to view or download their payslips. Currently however, a major stumbling block for us is that it appears as though…
  • Rounding could cause breach of minimum wage

    This is very nit-picky, but; sage payroll is set to round mathematically meaning if an employee is paid at minimum wage for fractions of an hour (e.g every 1/4 or 1/2) they will likely technically be underpaid. It is only by pence per pay element, but…