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New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition

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Prepare for Automatic Enrolment

Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Editionand The Pensions Module

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Manage your people


What is Sage 50 Payroll?

What is Sage 50 Payroll?

Sage 50 Payroll gives you the confidence that you’re paying the right person, the right amount of money at the right time - automatically working out payments and deductions, including tax, National Insurance, pensions and sick pay.

Workplace pension law is changing. You’ll soon have new legal duties to help your workers save for retirement. The responsibility for complying will rest with you, the employer. But don’t worry, Sage 50 Payroll will make your compliance with Automatic Enrolment legislation as simple as possible.

Manage your people

Sage 50 Payroll helps you manage and maintain all of your employee records from keeping track of job history, appraisals and disciplinary records to the management of holiday and absences.

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Getting startedOur easy set-up wizard will get you up and running quickly.

Sage 50 Payroll can be installed with a single click in many cases, with the option to customise the installation if required.

If you’re new to Sage 50 Payroll you have the added comfort of knowing that you get 45 days free telephone and online support to help you get started.

Not only will it save you time and give you more control over your payroll process, but you’ll have greater peace of mind that you’re up to speed with the latest employment legislation, such as Automatic Enrolment.

Recognised by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Sage 50 Payroll puts you in control of your entire payroll process from everyday tasks such as paying your staff and maintaining your employee records to those less frequent ones such as managing starters and leavers. This makes it ideal for business owners, office managers, bookkeepers and accountants alike, who need to manage the payroll for over 10 employees.

With Sage 50 Payroll you can:• Create and maintain employee records

• Store written statements of employment

• 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

• Manage appraisals and disciplinary records

• Process paperwork for leavers and easily set up new starters

• Append documents to an employee’s records e.g. Job Contracts and Pay Awards

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Manage your payroll

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, meaning you can complete your payroll quickly and easily.

Manage your business

Sage 50 Payroll 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.

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With Sage 50 Payroll you can:• Pay the right people the right amount of money on the

right day

• Automatically calculate statutory payments such as tax, National Insurance, statutory sick pay and maternity pay

• Correct mistakes in a previous pay period and run it again

• Choose your preferred layout for payslips, P45s and P60s

• 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

• Set-up salary sacrifice deductions including pensions and childcare vouchers

• Easily make RTI submissions to HMRC

• Stay up to date with the latest legislation such as RTI and Automatic Enrolment

With Sage 50 Payroll you can:• Choose the layout of payslips and P45/P60s to fit your

stationery and printer

• Archive PDF versions of year-end reports so they’re 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

• Multi-company tasks allows you to update information for all or a selection of companies

• 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 employees 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

employees are paid by a Sage Payroll Solution

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What’s new in Sage 50 Payroll Auto Enrolment Edition

What’s new in Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition?

Complex legislation made simple

The introduction of Automatic Enrolment legislation means you’ll have new legal duties to help your employees save for retirement. It’ll mean a big change to the way that you manage your employees’ pension; and the legislation carries with it a significant amount of administrative obligations.

At Sage we’re dedicated to making your compliance with Automatic Enrolment legislation as simple as possible, that’s why New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition has been designed with features to help you get prepared for this significant legislation change now.

Automatic Enrolment

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Pensions Centre

All the knowledge, tools and resources you need to create the most seamless and stress free move into Automatic Enrolment for your business in the most user friendly format possible.

What are the benefits?

• Enter your staging date into the Pensions Centre and create your personalised Action Plan based on The Pensions Regulator’s best practice and Sage research to help you get prepared and stay on track.

• Set up your Pensions quickly and easily with Fast Track Pensions; with direct access to leading Pension providers such as NEST and NOW Pensions from your product.

• Understand the cost of Automatic Enrolment on your business by calculating the contributions and trying scenarios.

• Create reminders to keep everyone up to date with what needs to be done and export to Outlook, iCal and other calendars.

• Access all of the Automatic Enrolment information you need in the best format for you; using “show me how”, get to grips with the jargon with quick audio clips and learn from video clips as you work.

• Keep track of your Automatic Enrolment preparation progress, showing you where you’re up to and what needs to be completed.

It’s like having one of our Automatic Enrolment experts, armed with a tailored Automatic Enrolment plan for your business, available to you every time you open Sage 50 Payroll.

Ensure that the journey to staging date is as smooth, seamless and stress free as possible.

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HMRC Reconciliation

HMRC reconciliation quickly provides all the information you need to answer your payroll queries on data and values sent to HMRC quickly, effectively and without stress. Now included in Show Me How.


• Always have all of your HMRC information to hand with a quick view of all your previous submissions.

• Easily tailor your RTI reports to give you exactly the information you need, report by submission and individual employee to save you time.

• Quickly access all of your RTI related reports in one place.

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Sage Business Community

The Sage Business Community is an exclusive online environment for Sage Cover customers where business advice and support is exchanged 24/7 and it’s now available from directly within Sage 50 Payroll.


• Connect and network with like-minded businesses including potential new customers and suppliers.

• Share your expertise and advice with other members through forum and discussion areas.

• Learn hints and tips from other members and Sage to help you when using your Sage products and gain access to expert articles.

Experiences, tips and advice from over 175,000 Sage payroll users. Directly within Sage 50 Payroll.

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Automatically Manage Pensions Data and Payments

• Automatically create the your data file in the correct formatto be sent to your pension provider.

• Complete your Pensions Provider payments easily with thecorrect files automatically created detailing the right paymentinformation to the right Pensions Provider.

• Keep a record of all your data and payments submissionsshowing when they were made, by who and store yourreceipt from the pension provider. Queue all of your pendingsubmissions and The Pensions Module will tell you when theyneed to be sent.

Automatically Communicate with Your Employees

• Automatically create the right, individually addressed,communication for your employee as defined by the PensionsRegulator for each eventuality.

• Automatically prepare the email or print the communicationready to send. All your communications are prepared andready, and The Pensions Module will tell you when they needto be sent and record when you’ve sent them. The PensionsModule will even attach a copy to your employee’s record tokeep your audit trails up to date.


The Pensions Module

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The Pensions Module

Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition will help you prepare for Automatic Enrolment. To complement this we are also introducing The Pensions Module, an additional paid for feature which will automate the process, eliminating the on-going day to day administration burden of Automatic Enrolment.

Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition together with The Pensions Module will eliminate the burden of Automatic Enrolment for you and your business.

The Pensions Module will:Automatically Assess your workforce

• Assess your entire workforce against Automatic Enrolmentlegislation according to UK worker status, age and earnings foreach pay reference period at the click of a button.

• Automatically put your workforce into the correct category;Eligible Jobholder, non eligible jobholder or Entitled worker andautomatically enrol all your eligible jobholders into the correctqualifying pensions scheme.

• Easily manage postponements where necessary andaccording to the rules you set up; such as to manageprobation periods or where the employee may have anearnings spike.

• Quickly manage opt-in’s and opt-outs as they’re received fromyour pension’s provider and add any additional informationeasily to the list.

You can add The Pensions Module to the latest version of Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition from £14.99 per month


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Complex legislationmade simple

Eligiblejob holder

Earnings areabove £9,440

(under 22yrs or atretirement age)

Non eligiblejob holder

Earnings are between£5,668 & £9,440

(aged between16yrs and 24yrs)

EntitledworkerEarnings arebelow £5,668

(aged between16yrs and 24yrs)


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Your Payroll, your choice

Your Payroll, your choiceWhen it comes to payroll, employees and legislation we understand every business is different and one size doesn’t fit all. That’s why, we offer Sage 50 Payroll in a range of ways to fit your business needs, simply choose what’s right for your business:

Sage 50 Payroll Annual Licence Plan: • I have under 25 employees

• I would like a choice of three levels of support

25UP TO 25+

Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition and The Pensions Module

employees were paid by a Sage Payroll solution in the 2012/13 tax year

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Sage 50 Payroll

• I have OVER 25 employees


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Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Editionand The Pensions Module

Complex legislation made simple

Automatic EnrolmentYou’re in with Sage

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