Sage Pastel - Beyond Accounting
Sage Pastel - Beyond Accounting

Sage Payroll

The standard Sage Payroll module will provide you with much more than a basic payroll processing tool. Sage Payroll not only enables you to pay your employees accurately and on time, but also helps you to manage your HR and employee records, prepare for audits, interact more efficiently with the Inland Revenue, comply with European Working Time Directive, track changes and much more

Paying your employees.

Includes a range of payment features, to suit how and when you choose to pay your staff and ensure you are paying your employees correctly. Employee records and HR integration Store comprehensive employee information, including photographs, personal details and also maintain essential HR records such as appraisal and disciplinary records.

Essential features to help you find and access information required for external sources, such as historical information for a tax audit or requests from the Benefits Agency.

Enables you to quickly access information, print copies of reports and track when changes were made. European Working Time Directive New holiday by hours feature will enable you to manage your employee working hours more accurately to ensure compliance with the European Working Time Directive. This also allows for unlimited help and support, legislation updates and online advice.

Paying your employees

Feel confident your payroll meets Inland Revenue requirements.

  • Pay your employees quickly, easily and accurately.
  • Use simple data entry screens, help pages and wizards to guide you through the process.
  • Pay your staff by cash, cheque or BACS. Process your employee wages weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly and monthly.
  • Quickly produce statutory forms such as forms P11, P14/60, P32, P35 and P45.
  • Follow the easy step-by-step year end procedure. Set yourself or others useful task and date reminders to ensure that you complete essential payroll tasks on time.

Standard processing, legislation and reporting features include:

Processing

Pre & post tax payments

Pre & post tax deductions

Net to gross

Net payments

Statutory Sick Pay

Statutory Maternity Pay

Statutory Paternity Pay

Statutory Adoption Pay

Attachment of Earnings Orders

Tax credits

Student loan repayments

Multiple pension scheme payments

Holiday funds

Employee loans

Advance holiday pay

Reset payments

e-Banking capability

Internet Submissions

Post salary journals to accounts

Payments to Collector of Taxes

Statutory funding Processing for employees and directors

Batch timesheet entry

Reporting

Payslips

Cheques

Form P32

Forms P14/60

Form P35

Forms P11

Form P46 (Car)

Analysis reports

Summary reports

Employee reports

Employer reports

Absence reports

BACS payment reports

Favourites Report selection

s Custom reports

e-Mail reports

Design your own reports

Administration

Installation

Upgrade path & wizard

Data backup & restore

Import data from Sage Personnel

Global changes & updates Wizards for common tasks

Rollback data to earlier pay periods

Security & access rights Employee find facility

Year End wizard

Task reminders

Weblinks to useful payroll sites

Analysis

Year to date values

Weekly averages

Legislation

PAYE

National Insurance

Statutory Sick Pay

Statutory Maternity Pay

Statutory Paternity Pay

Statutory Adoption Pay

Statutory Paternity Pay (Adoption)

Attachment of Earnings Orders

Working Tax Credits

Student Loans

Class 1A NIC on company cars

Employee Records & HR integration
Store and maintain essential employee information, including appraisal and disciplinary records, job and salary history and standard employee records

Employee

Personal details

Contact details

Employment details

Appraisal records

Disciplinary records

Job history

Photographs

Bank and second bank details

Company car and fuel usage (Class 1A NIC)

Personal car details

Employee notes

Holiday allocation & usage

Absence & holiday diary

New starter wizard

Quick new employee entry

Leaver wizard & P45 production

Different methods of payment

Four different payment frequencies for employees


Historical data and audit information
  • Store historical data for up to 7 years
  • Print copies of payslips and copies of statutory reports, including P14/60, P32, P11, P35 and P45, from your stored data
  • Maintain an audit trail of changes to your payroll records for improved reporting

European Working Time Directive
Record employee holidays in hours to ensure that you comply with European Working Time Directive regulations.