Sage 50 Payroll 2008

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.

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.

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.

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.

Give your people the information they need

By law, everyone must be provided with a Written Statement of Employment Particulars. Take the hassle out of recording the right information with Sage 50 Payroll 2008. When you add a new person their statement is created automatically and prompts will remind you to update contracts when necessary. You can print or email your contracts, scan and store them within your software, giving you a complete history.

Your employee records in one place

Have all your employee information stored securely in one place, such as: name, address, tax, National Insurance details, payment/deduction details, bank account, holiday and absence details. You can also store information on: appraisals, disciplinary records, job and salary history. And the absence and holiday diary lets you record all employee absences.

Manage your documents effectively

Make your HR information more accessible and easier to manage with our Document Manager. You can store, modify and print documents from software such as Microsoft® Word and Excel, giving you instant access to documents pertaining to employee and company data.

Security you can trust

Sage 50 Payroll 2008 allows you to be confident that you are storing and handling staff information securely. You even have the flexibility to restrict access to information contained within an employee record.

Create the right reports and stay compliant

Automatically collate the right data and produce your statutory reports, such as P11, P32 and P45, from within your Sage 50 Payroll 2008 software.

Save time producing your most popular reports

Identify the reports you run most frequently from a choice of over 250, you can then group them and produce multiple reports at the touch of a button.

The right reports for your business

This feature allows you to edit existing reports or create your own. This way you can produce reports to meet with your needs. All reports can be emailed in HTML or PDF format.

Have more control over your figures

Get more out of your payroll data by breaking down figures by department or cost centre.

Work with your other software

If other people in your company need to access or analyse payroll information, simply link your Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet directly to your payroll data. This information can then be viewed without the need to install Sage 50 Payroll on their computer. And as it integrates with Microsoft® Office you can also export your data and do useful things like run mail merges for employee letters.

Forecast the effect of pay increases (Professional and Bureau)

Our Salary Review Forecast feature allows you to project any wage increases and the effect to employees' pay. It also calculates any liability implications, so you can really understand the effect on your business.

Keep track of changes

You can easily track any changes that have taken place, when they took place and who made them.

Import and export employee data

Import and export between CSV files and Sage 50 Payroll to help you set up your payroll or import data from timesheets.

With you every step of the way

The useful wizards and special user guides will take you through all the steps you need to take to make sure your payroll year end goes smoothly.