• What's new in Sage Payroll v29.01

    The latest version of the software is now available to download and it includes some great new features including: Enhanced help and support within your software Option to import employee details from Sage HR Online Services New email version…
  • Nominal Link between payroll and Sage 50 crashing causing corruption

    Hello I am having problems with Payroll and the sending the nominal link to Sage50. There is no rhyme or reason or when or if it will happen, but when it does it causes errors, corruption and I am having to re-enter all back to the latest backup. The…
  • Changing to New Lap Top/Sage Payroll 50 Transfer

    Does anyone have a step by step guide of how I can transfer Sage Payroll onto a new Windows laptop please? Also will Sage ever release the accounts/payroll software for use on a Mac?
  • Salary Sacrifice on Factored Pay elements

    Sage Payroll does not have a Salary Sacrifice check box on Pay elements that have a status of Factor. I have been told this is by design! Please redesign this feature!
  • Allow ODBC link or other access to views

    Allowing ODBC links to payroll will enable back and forth automation for payroll, also enabling live insight reports on KPIs without the need to export reports.
  • Create Nominal Link for Apprenticeship Levy

    Currently the Apprenticeship Levy is correctly being submitted to HMRC vis FPS / EPS. However there is no area in the Nominal settings to have this posted as part of the Nominal Link. As such the P32 is showing a total inclusive of Apprenticeship…
  • An upload function to change employee status

    As a recruitment agency, we have hundreds of staff members that may not work and require to be put on hold. The current process is highlighting individually one by one and using the global tasks method but this is extremely timeconsuming and scrolling…
  • Add HMRC "Employee Statement" to "All Employee Header Details File" import template

    We are experiencing issues with Sage 50 Cloud Payroll after using the "All Employee Header Details File" template to import new starters into Sage. The issue also occurs when using the "Employee Details" template. The steps to recreate the issue are as…
  • Using a multi company licence in Sage 50 Payroll

    With a multi company licence in Sage 50 Payroll, you can access and process payroll for more than one company in your software. Typically this is useful to easily access multiple different company datasets, or if you want to easily view an old backup…
  • Add new employees near the end of the tax year

    When you go to add a new employee in Sage 50 Payroll you may find this option is unavailable. This can occur for a number of reasons. One of these is that you've reached your employee licence limit. This limit is the total of current employees and current…
  • Why is the option to add a new employee unavailable?

    When you go to add a new employee in Sage 50 Payroll you may find this option is unavailable. This can occur for a number of reasons. Don't worry though, find out what to check in our guide Unable to create a new employee record in Sage 50 Payroll and…
  • Student loan Refund

    I have been requested by HMRC to stop taking student loan deduction from an employee, as is not liable for this and repay the employee all the student Loan deduction taken from 6th April 2022. Can you please advise how can this be made? Regards, …
  • Moving from Sage 50 to the Cloud

    Hello, I have an employee count of around 110 staff and currently use Sage 50 Payroll via a remote connection, as I have been working from home since the pandemic started. I would like to know more about moving from Sage 50 to the Cloud as this would…
  • Sage data upload template - pension contributions and pension plan numbers

    Hi, It would be useful to have a template to upload the personalised pension contributions (Eee and Eer) and pension plan numbers for new employees via an upload template. I have tried to create a map for this via the advanced import option but was…
  • Active Employees Report

    When you run the active employees report in SAGE Payroll there is a column for leaving date. But the report does not generate the date even if the criteria is set for leavers. This would be a useful report if it did.
  • Upload to the Sage portal for clients an e-banking txt file

    Hi We often have to send clients an e-banking file produced from sage. The client then imports the file into the bank to process the employees payments. The file we send the clients is a 'txt' file. Unfortunately a 'txt' file is not able to be uploaded…
  • Allow custom made payslips to be uploaded in Sage HR Online Services

    Feel like I am starting to bang my head against a brick wall with this one as I was promised that this feature would be incorporated in to future Sage updates over 18 months ago. However, having read the latest pop up when logging in to say that Sage…
  • Reminders

    Does anyone know how to stop those annoying reminders that the Sage Payroll 50 program generates (not me). These tell me that I haven't run a P32 from 2015 or whatever. The answer that referred to the calendar seems to relate to reminders we have created…
  • Move Sage Payroll to 64bit

    For companies that use Sage 50 Payroll with over 100 employees can we not have an upgrade to 64-bit technology so that it runs a bit faster? After all 64 bit computing is celebrating it's 20th birthday in mainstream computing this year! So come on Sage…
  • Changing SSP qualifying days.

    Hi, I have inherited a payroll where the qualifying days for SSP have been set to NQQQQQN, however we operatate 7 days a week. Is there a way that we can do a universal change everyone to QQQQQQQ and set it up as the default for new hires? Any help…
  • Apprenticeship Levy

    Hi Please can something be done to allow the apprenticeship levy to be posted directly to SAGE accounts as part of the nominal. Thanks
  • Sage Payroll Bureau Manager - Make Report's editable

    We have just started to use the new Payroll Bureau Manager and are disappointed to find that we can't edit the reports that are automatically uploaded to the portal or as a bare minimum edit the name of the reports before we publish them to make them…
  • Pension Assessment update

    If an employee has multiple pension scheme set against their record - the Pension assessment shows the pension still - at present, if there is more than one it cant cope and even though deductions show on the payslip - they aren't showing on the assessment…
  • AZURE File Share Support

    Hi, I have just spoken to Sage Support on putting my Sage Payroll data possibly in the cloud using Azure File Share. To be honest I am gob smacked by the response I received. Basically it was a NO but with the Payroll DB being a ACCESS DB and the stableness…
  • The attached Pension report is not showing under Employee.