• Download instantly when you buy online.
• Straightforward installation.
• Easy set-up wizard to get you started.
• Simple to use – no need to be, or hire a payroll expert.
• “Show me how” videos to guide you through common tasks.
• Connect with Microsoft Office by importing your existing data from a CSV file.
• Link your payroll software directly to Sage 50 Accounts and Sage 50 HR and transfer your data in a few simple steps.
• Payroll Onsite Support is available as a standalone feature.

• Create your personalised action plan based on The Pensions Regulator’s best practice, using the pension centre.
• Easily set up your pension with Pension’s Fast-Track.
• Calculate contributions and understand the cost of Automatic Enrolment to your business.
• Optional Pensions Module available (at additional cost)

• Process weekly, two-weekly, four-weekly and monthly payroll.
• Choose from a range of payslip layouts.
• Print or email payslips to employees.
• Automatically calculate payments and deductions.
• Calculate and process employee loans.
• Record and calculate holiday pay.
• Electronically pay employees using e-banking.
• Easily calculate your PAYE & NI liability.
• Post salary journals to Sage Accounts software.
• Set variances in pay or hours and be alerted when these are reached.
• Record and calculate Salary Sacrifice deductions such as childcare vouchers and Cycle to Work scheme.

• HMRC recognised software.
• Comply with the very latest legislation for the tax year.
• Directly submit PAYE data to HMRC online.
• Exchange employee data direct with HMRC online.
• Automatically calculate statutory sick, maternity, paternity and adoption pay.
• Record student loans and attachment of earnings orders.
• Record fixed amount or percentage calculated pension schemes.
• Prepare for and manage the impact of the new National Living wage.
• Keep records for Class 1A company cars.

• Pay employees straight from your software with Sage Payments*.
• Save time and reduce errors by automating processes.
• Manage and track payments quickly and conveniently.
• Trust that your payments are safe, secure and controlled by authorisation processes and access rights.

*Sage Payments is provided by Sage Payments (UK) Ltd which is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (Register Reference: 900180) for the issuing of electronic money.

• Appraisals
• Absence
• Holidays
• Disciplinary records
• Job and salary history
• Written statements of employment
• Attach documents to employee records

• Automatically send RTI data to HMRC.
• RTI Data Health Check tool ensures your data is error-free before you submit it to HMRC.
• RTI Centre with help & support when you need it.
• Submissions log lets you view and track the status of HMRC submissions.

• Send all your submissions to HMRC securely online.
• Track forms by status and sender.
• Comply with the latest legislation.

• Manage holiday entitlement for individual employees.
• Record holidays and absence in days or hours.
• Record your own custom absence types.
• Automatically record statutory payment absence types such as SMP and SSP.
• Easily & accurately accrue employee holidays.
• Automatically calculate payments & deductions for different absence types.
• Calculate payments for sick pay, maternity/paternity, overtime, bonus and pensions.

• Easily generate payslips, payment summaries, holiday and absence reports and more.
• Quickly print a range of reports in one batch.
• Save your favourite reports for quick & easy access.
• Analyse data by cost centre and department.
• Create your own reports with the report designer.
• Run statutory reports such as P32, P35, P60 and P11.

• Easy backup and restore your data.
• Roll your data back to correct errors from previous payroll runs.
• Apply access rights to restrict users from accessing certain areas of the program.
• Securely email payslips to employees.
• Password protect PDF reports to keep them secure.

Optional add-ons are available for Sage 50 Payroll:

• Sage 50 Payroll Pensions Module: prepare for Auto Enrolment and eliminate the complexities of workplace pensions.
• Sage 50 Payroll NHS Pensions Module: simplify and avoid time-consuming processes associated with NHS tiers.
• Sage Payments: pay your suppliers and employees securely and on time, straight from the software.