Sage 50 Payroll 2009 - New Features

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What's New in Sage 50 Payroll 2009?

Email anything confidential with password protected PDFs
You can now password-protect sensitive information that you want to send by email. Whether it's an e-payslip, holiday booking form or employment contract, you'll have peace of mind that it's secure. Because its paperless, it's great to know you're doing your bit for the environment, as well as saving yourself money.

A wizard at transferring information quickly and easily with Advanced Data Import
It's now easier to import information from different sources, making it completely flexible and a real time-saver. So for example, if you've got data in Microsoft Excel or CVS format, you can simply map it to the chosen fields in Sage 50 Payroll 2009. You'll get the figures you want in the order you need, without tedious copying and pasting. And because you can save your settings, you can perform the same data imports time and time agian, with the minimum fuss.

When it comes to legislation, it's good to be prepared
One of the biggest challenges for any business is keeping up to date with current legislation. As the economy continues to fluctuate, now more than ever, it's vital that you keep on top of changes in order to avoid any potential legislative issues. Sage 50 Payroll 2009 incorporates the latest National Minimum Wage rates and tax parameters, and helps you provide your people with information required by law, like a Written statement of Employment Particulars. Best of all, it offers reassurance because it's accredited by HMRC.

Create your own selections with Employee Groups
Want to do a separate pay run for your part-time employees, or give a bonus to those with additional skills or qualification? There are a number of reasons why you might want to look at a group of employees who may not be part of the same department or cost centre. This new tool gives you flexibility to define your own headings. Simply select the relevant people and apply the actions you want to take. You can even save these groups for future reference and add notes to their payment details to keep track of changes.

Calendar view and Reminders
Managing your precious time means keeping track of all your day-to-day tasks. The new improved calendar and reminders are now similar to Microsoft Outlook so when you open up the calendar, you'll see all your reminders on one screen. Sage have also added some future events that you may need prompting about within the payroll process, such as a reminder to submit year-end figures. Simply open your calendar for more details, dismiss or delete them and make sure everything's crossed off your 'to do' list.

Store Notes in History while processing
This small but extremely useful feature allows you to add notes whilst entering payments. So now you can simply go into an employee's records to understand why a specific event or action was taken when processing the payroll.

New in all variants
See into the future with Salary Review Forecast*
For most businesses, the wage bill is one of the biggest fixed costs, so it's important to understand how changes here can affect your finances. Not quite a crystal ball but close enough, Salary Review Forecast can predict the impact of things like future pay increases, bonuses or overtime on your bottom line.

* Previously only available in Sage 50 Payroll Professional and above

Sage 50 Payroll - Overview

1 in 3 people in the UK are paid by Sage Payroll. This is a strong testament as to how good this product is, how far it can scale and how popular it's users rate the product. Sage Payroll truly is a solution which can suit any business needs.

Payroll made easy for small businesses.

Sage Payroll offers flexible and easy to use facilities that will save hours of work every payday. Over 150,000 satisfied customers use Sage Payroll to automate their payroll processing. Payroll saves valuable time, simplifies the payroll process and ensures accuracy.

Sage Payroll user can have the confidence and peace of mind that your payroll is being calculated correctly, as Sage Payroll has undergone the Inland Revenue Payroll Standard accreditation process and have been awarded the Payroll Standard accreditation logo.

The logo signifies that the product is up to date and covers all those areas, which are considered essential for the accurate calculation of tax, National Insurance and tax credits. The Inland Revenue is encouraging all employers to submit their payroll year-end returns electronically. The Sage Payroll range provides full Internet submission functionality allowing you to take full advantage of this latest technology.

Payroll Professional

Sage Payroll Professional has been specially developed and designed to meet the needs of companies requiring greater payroll processing capabilities. In addition to the features within Sage Payroll, the latest version of Sage Payroll Professional now includes even more features to support the processing of large volumes of payroll data quickly and accurately.

Sage Payroll Professional contains many features to help speed up your payroll processing - saving both time and money - notably the in-built personnel functionality - enabling you to reduce your filing and paperwork; and enjoy quick and easy access to appraisal and disciplinary records, job and salary history and additional employee information.

Sage 50 Payroll - Features & Benefits

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Sage Payroll takes care of all the complex and time-consuming tasks involved in paying employees accurately, completing year end returns and complying with all relevant government legislation:

Feel confident your payroll meets Inland Revenue requirements.
Pay your employees quickly, easily and accurately.
Use simple data entry screens, help pages and wizard to guide you through the process.
Pay your staff by cash, cheque or BACS.
Process your employees weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly and monthly.
Quickly produce statutory forms such as forms P11D, P14/60, P32, P35 and P45.
Follow the easy step-by-step year end procedure.
Have the ability to submit your year end forms electronically.

Sage Payroll Professional is a fast, sophisticated program suitable for employers who have a need for volume processing by multiple staff, at the same time. Sage Payroll Professional takes care of the entire complex and time-consuming tasks involved in paying employees accurately and include the following benefits:

Strong and flexible security settings help you control access to your payroll data.
Store essential employee data, including appraisal and disciplinary records.
Quickly input timesheets, including the option to import timesheets using CSV files.
Improve reconciliation with a quick and simple drill-down to check how pay values have been calculated.
Set yourself reminders to complete important tasks.
Integrate with Microsoft Office.