Sage 50 Payroll 2011 - Features

Manage your people

Sage 50 Payroll 2011 helps you manage and maintain all of your employee records from keeping track of job history, appraisals and disciplinary records to automatic statement of employment generation and management of holiday and absence.

With Sage 50 Payroll 2011 you can:

Create and maintain employee records
Store written statements of employment particulars
Automatically calculate statutory payments such as sick pay and maternity payment
Predict the impact of pay increases with Salary Review Forecasting
Manage employees' holidays and absence
Start holiday years on any day of the year
Manage appraisals and disciplinary records
Process paperwork for leavers and easily set up new starters
Append documents to an employees records e.g. Job Contracts and Pay Awards

Manage your payroll

The most important thing about running your payroll is paying your employees the right amount of money and on time. The process of paying employees is simple and efficient with Sage 50 Payroll 2011, meaning you can complete your payroll quickly and easily.

With Sage 50 Payroll 2011 you can:

Pay the right people the right amount of money on the right day
Pay 1 to 50 employees
Automatically calculate statutory payments such as Tax, National Insurance, statutory sick pay and maternity pay
Change tax parameters and tax codes over selected or all companies
Correct mistakes in a previous pay period and run it again
Choose to print or email secure payslips directly to employees
Make electronic payments direct to employee bank accounts
Receive and submit forms electronically to HMRC
Process Student Loans, Attachments of Earnings and Employees Loans
Process Pensions; including Salary Sacrifice

Manage your business

Sage 50 Payroll 2011 allows you to work the way you want to. You can set-up, store and manage your payroll data in a way that fits your business.

With Sage 50 Payroll 2011 you can:

Archive PDF versions of year-end reports so theyre quick and easy to access
Import and export employee and timesheet data from Microsoft Excel, CSV and other payroll software
Send your salary journals directly to Sage Instant Accounts and Sage 50 Accounts
Store up to seven years of processing history, allowing easier production of historical payslips, summary reports and create personalised historical reports
Create reminders to occur by date and time to assist in running your payroll tasks
Use the Audit Trail log to keep track of changes made to your employee payroll payments
Employer Compliance Report to help you provide secure information to HMRC if they want to undertake an Audit
Automatic back-up points to enable you to recover any processing errors

Process your payroll year-end

Payroll year-end can be a daunting time for any business, which is why with Sage 50 Payroll 2011 you can:

Simple step by step or Process Map to make the process of PYE simple and efficient
Submit forms electronically and securely online to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) - a requirement from 2010
Receive forms from HMRC electronically
Start next years payroll before closing current year