New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition
Section title
Sage 50 Payroll:
Auto Enrolment Edition
and The Pensions Module
Prepare for Automatic Enrolment
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New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition
New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition
What is Sage 50 Payroll?
Manage your people
What is Sage 50 Payroll?
Manage your people
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.
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.
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.
Getting started
With Sage 50 Payroll you can:
Our easy set-up wizard will get you up and running quickly.
• Create and maintain employee records
• Manage employees’ holidays and absence
Sage 50 Payroll can be installed with a single click in many
cases, with the option to customise the installation if required.
• Store written statements of employment
• Manage appraisals and disciplinary records
• Automatically calculate statutory payments such as
sick pay and maternity payment
• Process paperwork for leavers and easily set up new starters
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.
Did you know?
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.
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• Predict the impact of pay increases, with Salary
Review Forecasting
• Append documents to an employee’s records e.g. Job
Contracts and Pay Awards
New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition
New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition
Manage your payroll
Manage your business
Manage your payroll
Manage your business
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.
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.
With Sage 50 Payroll you can:
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
• Receive and submit forms electronically to HMRC
• Process student loans, attachments of earnings and
employees loans
• 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
• Correct mistakes in a previous pay period and run it again
• Set-up salary sacrifice deductions including pensions and
childcare vouchers
• Choose your preferred layout for payslips, P45s and P60s
• Easily make RTI submissions to HMRC
• Import and export employee and timesheet data from
Microsoft Excel, CSV and other payroll software
• Choose to print or email secure payslips directly to employees
• Stay up to date with the latest legislation such as
RTI and Automatic Enrolment
• Send your salary journals directly to Sage Instant Accounts
and Sage 50 Accounts
• Make electronic payments direct to employee bank 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
Did you know:
employees are paid by a Sage Payroll Solution
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New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition
What’s new in Sage 50 Payroll Auto Enrolment Edition
Automatic
Enrolment
What’s new in Sage 50 Payroll:
Auto Enrolment Edition?
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.
Complex legislation made simple
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New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition
New Sage 50 Payroll Auto Enrolment Edition
What’s new in Sage 50 Payroll Auto Enrolment Edition
What’s new in Sage 50 Payroll Auto Enrolment Edition
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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What’s new in Sage 50 Payroll Auto Enrolment Edition
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.
What are the benefits?
• 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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New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition
New Sage 50 Payroll Auto Enrolment Edition
What’s new in Sage 50 Payroll Auto Enrolment Edition
What’s new in Sage 50 Payroll Auto Enrolment Edition
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.
Experiences, tips and advice
from over 175,000 Sage
payroll users. Directly within
Sage 50 Payroll.
What are the benefits?
• 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.
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New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition
The Pensions Module
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 ongoing 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
Automatically Manage Pensions Data and Payments
• Assess your entire workforce against Automatic Enrolment
legislation according to UK worker status, age and earnings for
each pay reference period at the click of a button.
• Automatically create the your data file in the correct format
to be sent to your pension provider.
• Automatically put your workforce into the correct category;
Eligible Jobholder, non eligible jobholder or Entitled worker and
automatically enrol all your eligible jobholders into the correct
qualifying pensions scheme.
• Easily manage postponements where necessary and
according to the rules you set up; such as to manage
probation periods or where the employee may have an
earnings spike.
• Quickly manage opt-in’s and opt-outs as they’re received from
your pension’s provider and add any additional information
easily to the list.
• Complete your Pensions Provider payments easily with the
correct files automatically created detailing the right payment
information to the right Pensions Provider.
• Keep a record of all your data and payments submissions
showing when they were made, by who and store your
receipt from the pension provider. Queue all of your pending
submissions and The Pensions Module will tell you when they
need to be sent.
Automatically Communicate with Your Employees
• Automatically create the right, individually addressed,
communication for your employee as defined by the Pensions
Regulator for each eventuality.
• Automatically prepare the email or print the communication
ready to send. All your communications are prepared and
ready, and The Pensions Module will tell you when they need
to be sent and record when you’ve sent them. The Pensions
Module will even attach a copy to your employee’s record to
keep your audit trails up to date.
You can add The Pensions Module to the latest
version of Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment
Edition from £14.99 per month
For more information call us on:
0800 44 77 77
Minutes
Not Months
with Sage
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Eligible
job holder
Section title
Entitled
worker
Earnings are
£5,668 or below
(aged between
16yrs and 74yrs)
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Earnings are
above £9,440
(between 22yrs and
retirement age)
Non eligible
job holder
Earnings are between
£5,668 & £9,440
(aged between
16yrs and 74yrs)
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made simple
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New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition
New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition
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Your Payroll, your choice
Your Payroll, your choice
Sage 50 Payroll:
Auto Enrolment Edition
and The Pensions Module
When 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:
UP
TO
25
Sage 50 Payroll
Subscription:
25+
• I have under 25 employees
• I have OVER 25 employees
• I would like a choice of three levels of support
• I always want to be on the latest version of the software
• I want the very best Sage Cover support
From
£17.92 + VAT per month
From
£50.00 +VAT per month
Did you know we also provide payroll software for smaller companies?
View our full range at www.sage.co.uk/smallbusinesspayroll
Did you know?
employees were paid by a Sage Payroll
solution in the 2012/13 tax year
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New Sage 50 Payroll: Auto Enrolment Edition
Section title
Sage 50 Payroll:
Auto Enrolment Edition
and The Pensions Module
To find out more:
Call 0800 44 77 77 or
Visit: sage.co.uk/sage50payroll
Sage (UK) Limited,
North Park,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE13 9AA
Automatic
Enrolment
You’re in with Sage
Tel 0845 111 9988
Fax 0845 245 0297
www.sage.co.uk
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Complex legislation made simple