• How can I change an hourly employee to salary?

    How can I change an hourly employee to a salary employee?
  • 401k Contribution Limit

    Does Sage 50 recognize when an employee reaches the annual maximum 401k contribution and stop withholding the normal contribution from the employee's pay?
  • Third Party Sick Pay for a New Jersey Employee.

    How do I record Third-Party Sick Pay for a New Jersey Employee? Is the employer responsible for the FICA, Medicare, & Federal? How does this get entered on the 941 & W-2?
  • uncashed payroll checks

    I have two payroll checks that the employee has not cashed, 1 from Nov. 2022 and 1 from Jan. 2023, despite repeated requests. So they have been outstanding a long time on my reconciliations. He no longer works for the company since May 2023. How do…
  • Payroll deduction

    Hello- I could use community help on a payroll issue. I have an employee that maxed out their Simple Plan employee contribution for the year 2 months ago. I mistakenly took deducted $100 from this month's paycheck for their employee contribution…
  • Fringe benefit

    We are a PEO processing payroll for site clients, a new joint employee will be recieving a $300 month stipend for home office. How will that post through payroll as a fringe benefit? Subject to Federal and State tax but no FICA for EE or ER?
  • Employee payroll tax exemption for state

    Does anyone know how to exempt the state payroll tax deduction for employees in v2024 SAGE50 US?
  • I have been looking into our payroll and the SS & Med and the SS ER & Med ER are not matching

    My sage SS & Med EE & ER are not matching what should be deducted. Sage is telling me I changed something and I did not. Has anyone else has this problem? Any help would be appreciated.
  • Federal Tax Exempt Employee

    Can anyone help me add a new employee that is tax exempt? The IRS website tells how to do it on the form, but those steps do not math my Sage steps
  • Ohio withholding

    Ohio changed their tax rates on 1 Nov 23. Any idea when we'll get an update?
  • IRS for the 2024 FIRE and BSO requirement

    Do we as payroll tax preparers need to sign up with the IRS for the 2024 FIRE and BSO? I'm trying to determine if that requirement is part of the payroll and 1099 e-file with AAtrix. I've been unable to find an answer.
  • Recording employer portion of social security tax on disability benefits

    How do I record the short term disability payments that one of our employee has been receiving. We owe the employer-portion of social security on this amount. How do I record just this liability?
  • Posting Paychecks to Account Register

    New Sage 50 user - Barely trained by prior staff who retired. I'm trying to figure out how to get the direct deposit paychecks I did yesterday to show up in my account register. They show up on the account register report but not in the physical register…
  • Payroll gross YTD not matching YTD

    Through pay period ending 12-3-21 (checks issued 12-8-21) my payroll stubs reflect the same gross and year to date figures. I don't know if this anything to do with it, but on 12-13 I did my year end closing so the open periods I have are 2021 and 2022…
  • local withholding rates

    For the first time I have a client that has employees needing different withholding rates. For example John Doe should have 1% local withholding. Sue Smith should have 2.75% local withholding. How can I set it up so employees have the correct amounts…
  • YTD

    Many times I need to make copies of an employees check for mortgage companies, etc. When I print it out the YTD amount is not correct. The YTD amount should reflect the actual amount when the check was first processed. Is this something I am able to correct…
  • Sage 50 Accounting US Edition keeps bombing

    Hello, Has anyone had an issue with the payroll module. Every time I try to make any edits to employe records Sage closes. The support folks are not very helpful. Their suggestion to reinstall did not work. Thanks
  • Doing multiple weeks of direct deposit at the same time.

    I am going to be out of town and would like to set up all the direct deposits in advance. Is there any issue doing this and will they go in the days I request?
  • 941 incorrect amounts calculating

    Anyone else dealing with this? It has long been known that when you void or reissue a paycheck, the 941 report has incorrect amounts resulting from negative symbols being deleted in the background and the amounts then added together for the day. This…
  • Hourly Employee Pay Type

    We have pay type that we need to assign a few hourly employees each pay period. I would like this to automatically add this 100.00 to their pay type without having it be a "hourly wage" so we do not have to enter 1 hour for them to be paid for this. What…
  • Payroll IRA catchup not working

    When I changed catchup to Yes in maintain employee for Simple IRA plan for employees over 50, no IRA deduction is done. If catchup is set to no, it works fine, but we have some employees for which teh setting should be yes for later in the year. We have…
  • Payroll - unclaimed payroll check

    I need to void/cancel 2 payroll checks that former employees have not cashed from 2015 & 2021. The bank account has been closed and these 2 checks are still showing on the bank reconciliation. The moneies will be turned over to the unclaimed property…
  • Employee Beginning Balance

    I can't add more info in the beginning balance. There are only 5 weeks listed. I thought there were supposse to be 52 available. I'm trying to add the wages for short term disability pay.
  • Sage 50 US - Defining Non-Taxable Earning Codes

    Using Sage 50 2022, we have a few pay code (Field name) define. At the point of doing an payroll entry a value is enter for field name : Traveling. How do we configure Sage 50 Payrol so that the system knows that the pay code is non-taxable.
  • Payroll Formulas

    I need to set up a retirement calculation in payroll formulas that ties to the hourly rate. I cannot find the identifier I would use to include the hourly rate in the formula. The customer service reps are no help and told me I needed to hire a consultant…