Sage 50 Payroll: managing your wages and salaries

Peace of mind with HMRC accredited software

Stay up to date and be confident that you have all the essential calculations of tax, National Insurance and statutory payments with our HMRC accredited software.

Payroll made simple with automatic calculations

Payroll legislation can be complex, but with Sage 50 Payroll 2008 you’ll have all the payroll essentials covered. Make light work of:

• Tax and National Insurance
• Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP), Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP)
• Student Loans, Attachments of Earnings Orders (AEO), Pensions

The nuts and bolts of processing your payroll

• Pre and post-tax multiple payments and deductions: Sage 50 Payroll 2008 caters for all business types by dealing with payments such as overtime rates, shift allowances and commissions
• Net to gross payments: You can enter payment information as a net or gross amount and all calculations will be taken care of
• Net payment types: You can add one-off or regular additional payments based at net value and all calculations are taken care of
• Batch timesheet entry: Makes payment entry even quicker
• Multi-company: If you're running a bureau or processing over more than one company, you can update the payroll for all or a selected range of companies
• Multi-user: The network functionality allows more than one user to process the payroll

Pay everyone at the right rate

No matter how you pay your employees, whether you use commission, bonus, piecework or a simple hourly rate, Sage 50 Payroll 2008 can help make sure you meet your legal obligations to pay the appropriate minimum wage, by taking care of all the calculations.

Easier to manage your payroll

When it comes to importing information into your payroll software, Sage 50 Payroll 2008 helps you keep control of every detail. You’ll no longer have to enter different rates of pay for things like overtime, bonuses and commissions on separate lines. Ideal if you process payroll remotely or receive timesheets from a number of different departments. Enter payments and deductions on the same screen, so things like social club membership subscriptions are easy to identify and account for.

One payroll: many payment intervals

Sage 50 Payroll 2008 deals with weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly and monthly payment periods, making it easy for you to manage your multiple payment intervals.

Say goodbye to complex final pay calculations for leavers

It’s easy to calculate final pay when an employee leaves with Sage 50 Payroll 2008. You can automatically calculate outstanding payments and deductions, including attachment of earnings, holiday payments or company loans.

Overtime, bonus and commission calculations at the touch of a button

Save yourself some time every pay run by automating extra payments for your people, such as calculating double time, tax-free payments, percentage bonuses and extra pay. By creating formulas for each of your rewards, which can be applied to any employee's base rate, you don't have to spend time manually calculating extra pay.

Take a break from complex holiday calculations

When you've got people that work varying hours or shifts, it can become complex working out holiday entitlement and managing multiple holiday schemes. With Sage 50 Payroll 2008 you can calculate average pay and the holiday payment due for people working both regular and irregular hours.

Your payslips

There’s a wide choice of layouts for your payslips which can be printed on plain paper or Sage Stationery. And if you want to personalise them, you can by adding messages and logos.

Go green with electronic payslips

Provide a greener and speedier alternative to traditional printed forms with electronic payslips. By using or adapting the ready-made email payslip templates all you’ll need to do is tick a box and Sage 50 Payroll 2008 will automatically generate and email them out.

Paying your staff

Whether you pay your people by cash, cheque, BACS or e-Banking, all of these are taken care of with Sage 50 Payroll 2008.

Making the most of online banking

With Sage 50 Payroll 2008, we’ve included all the tools you need to use e-banking services as standard. So even if your bank charges you an additional fee for its online services, we don’t.

Because we know that by 2010 all businesses will have to make payments to HMRC online, it’s our way of helping you stay one step ahead by making the best of technology.

Working with your accountancy software

Sage 50 Payroll 2008 can link with your Sage 50 Accounts so you can update your accounts with your payroll payments, and spend less time re-keying data.