• Sage 50 - adding Payroll

    I am considering purchasing Sage 50 from Amazon for my business. We are a contractor / manufacturing business and I had used Quickbooks for 15 + years and they no longer have the version that I was using, and there new version is extremely costly. I…
  • Payroll

    Extra state withholding will not work. Shows on employee field, but will not take out. This started after last tax update. How do I fix?
  • How to fix issues with Payroll Tax Formulas

    I am in the process of setting up Payroll in a new company. We already have payroll set up in another company and are trying to recreate their settings in the new one. I tried using import/export, but for various reasons 98% of the information wouldn…
  • Alabama Overtime Exemption Formula

    We have 5 pay types - regular, OT, incentive, holiday, and vacation. The current formula I am using, from the first January update, only taxed the regular pay, and I noticed too late that it was only taxing the regular pay and nothing else. I was hoping…
  • Sage 50 to Sage HR Payslip Sync

    Good Morning, does anyone know how to sync only the CURRENT payslips from Sage 50 to Sage HR? My company has 2 payroll cycles: semi-monthly for full time and bi-weekly for part time. The sync picks up the part-timers prior checks when when we sync…
  • Kentucky Local Occupational

    I'm trying to setup a local withholding tax formula for Kentucky - Elizabethtown Occupational tax. The program keeps saying its not setup for the filing status. I have triple checked that the local identifier on the Withholding Info tab is the same as…
  • W2's

    In Oregon we need to include Or Transit Tax on line 14. It has worked in Sage for the past several years, but this year no information is showing up in the test drive. Anyone have this problem or a suggestion as to where to rectify?
  • Local Taxes and Aatrix

    I am an Ohio/Indiana contractor. In preparing my w-2s, I cannot get some new local withholdings from IN and OH to import into the Aatrix grid. I add the localities in the company set up and go back to the aatrix grid and the column headings are there…
  • 2024 Federal Tax Bracket Update

    I have updated Sage 50 Payroll to 20240101. The federal tax brackets were to change for 2024, but when I go process payroll for the new year the federal amounts for all employees have stayed the same as 2023. Spoke to support yesterday and all they said…
  • AL tax exemption

    From what I understand about the new state taxes, any hours over 40 in a 7 day span (no matter that we pay bi-weekly) is state tax exempt. Some of our employees have a regular schedule of 48 hrs in the 1st 4 days. Do we need to set up a seperate "reguar…
  • 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?
  • Officer Insurance

    How do I set up insurance paid by the company for an officer of the company? It should show in box 2 of the 941 but is not subtracted from the officer's gross. It should appear in box 14 on the officer's W-2.
  • Support PAYROLL LIABILITY PAYMENTS including Federal, State, Local and Private(Garnishments)

    There is no support or facilitation of Paying any Payroll liabilities. The provided manual makes no indication regard Paying Liabilities related to Federal, State or Local withholding nor in Paying Garnishments. Regardless of which payroll method…
  • Summary Reports are not flexible

    Summary Reporting is available for a specific case. Cahngeing the available detail does not result in a report with the desired Summarized Data. Example. If the Detail for Employees, regardless of Date in the filtered Date Range, is not achievable…
  • Need to have ability to enter new benefits i.e., Personal Time.

    Need to have ability to enter new benefits i.e., Personal Time. Sick and Vacation time is already set up, but how can I add a new one?
  • FUTA Withholding for Multi State Employee

    We recently had an employee move from one state to another. I did see that Sage50 suggests creating separate Employee IDs for each state the employee works in and I have done that and I think I have the state unemployment set up correctly. Now my concern…
  • Change Field Name from Sick to PTO

    Is there any way to change the field name from Sick pay to PTO? We do all of our vacation and "sick" leave as PTO and would like to reference it that way on paychecks instead of "sick" or "vacation".
  • 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.
  • Workers Comp Payroll Report Needed

    I need to print a payroll summary, by employee, that shows gross payroll and overtime paid over a specific time period. For instance, For the period 1/1/13 - 4/30/13 Employee Gross Wages OT Wages John Doe 10000 425 Jane Doe 6500 0 Johnny Doe…
  • Remove YTD Totals on custom Report

    I migrated from decades of Quickbooks, and am still learning this new system. I created a custom report for our Simple IRA (Quickbooks had one). I needed a report to give me each employees gross earnings for the week, their contribution amount to their…
  • Void direct deposit

    I made an extremely rookie mistake (30-yr Sage/PT veteran) - I was intending to void a payroll check for this week, prior to transmitting direct deposits. I inadvertently pulled one from December and voided it, obviously long after the transmission -…
  • How to manually remove Aatrix

    Did you know that you can manually remove Aatrix and its key should you need to fix an issue with the dynamic link library? Head over to our article to find out more!
  • Ability for Sage products to produce a NACHA formatted file for direct deposit

    I would love to be able to process payroll, email stubs and then produce a NACHA file that can be uploaded to my bank for processing.
  • Email Paystubs

    Can we get an option to have paystubs email to the employees email address on file when printing the stubs for accounting records. We process payroll through our bank via direct deposit, but having to email the stubs after is rather tedious.
  • Allow user to generate payroll outside of current 2 years

    SBA is requiring payroll reports for years prior to the current 2 year window.