SAGE 50 PAYROLL

Sage Payoll 2011 New Features and Benefits

What’s new in Sage 50 Payroll 2011?

Sage 50 Payroll 2011 continues to build upon the market leading solution to pay employees and ensure compliance with the HMRC legislation.

The need for improvements has been clearly supported by evidence captured through ongoing customer involvement using Customers, Accounting and Business Partners, supported by wish-lists, complaints, call comment analysis and Tech Support feedback.

This release targets improvements to usability, process challenges and customer pain points including:

Installation & Licensing

Sage 50 Payroll 2011 is the choice for a simple, quick and compelling installation and registration process

Simplified Installation Experience – feedback from customers told us that the first time and upgrade installation experience of Payroll is too complex and daunting, where in the majority of occasions customers are simply installing Sage 50 Payroll using the default single user installation settings... With Sage 50 Payroll 2011 we have simplified this experience by presenting reducing the number of steps/options the customer is presented with.

64Bit Compatibility - most new PC purchases present the buyer with the choice of having either a 32Bit or 64Bit operating system installed by default. 64Bit PCs give the user more memory and processing power and the ability to run 32 and 64Bit applications and is becoming the choice of most PC users. To future proof our software; Sage 50 Payroll 2011 will be a 32Bit application that will be compatible with 64Bit operating systems.

Simplified Licensing – the registration process in current versions of Sage 50 Payroll can be a complex and daunting experience for our customers, presented with 3 different licensing files to ensure they get the right version of the software they are entitled to. With Sage 50 Payroll 2011 we have simplified and improved this experience by having a single licensing file and future proofing this experience for years to come.

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Sage Payoll 2011 Brochure

Reporting - Sage 50 Payroll 2011 will deliver a consistent and

compelling reporting experience that is familiar across the
SBD product range New Report Designer

New Report Designer – currently across our SBD product portfolio our customers are experiencing different reporting experiences. Moving to a true suite vision Sage 50 Payroll 2011 introduces the new look and feel of the Report Designer shipped with Sage 50 Accounts where the experience of creating and amending reports is a much simpler, intuitive and compelling experience.

Specify Reports Location – currently Sage 50 Payroll stores any user defined reports locally to their installation of the software, requiring customers to copy the reports to different PCs if they have networked installations. With Sage 50 Payroll 2011 we have introduced a simple method that enables customers to choose where they want to store any user defined reports....for example you can specify if you want them to be stored locally to your Payroll installation, where your Payroll data files are stored or even down to individual companies.Starter and Leaver Management

Starter and Leaver Management

Sage 50 Payroll 2011 delivers a quick and simple experience of taking
on new employees, ensuring accuracy of processing Payroll through to
efficiently making employees leavers and submitting P45 forms electronically to HMRC.

Quick Link for creating a new employee – what do I need to do when I take on a new employee? Where do I go to within the software to do this? Sage 50 Payroll 2011 makes the process of creating a new employee record for any new starter quick, simple and more intuitive.

P46 button in Quick Employee/Employee Record – my new starter has got a P46 that I need to enter details into Payroll, how do I do this? Where do I need to go to do this? How do I submit this to HMRC? Sage 50 Payroll 2011 makes the process of recording and then submitting P46 details for a new starter quick, simple and more memorable.

Quick Link for making an employee a leaver – what do I need to do when I need to make an employee a leaver? Where do I go within the software to do this? Sage 50 Payroll 2011 makes the process of making employees leavers and submitting their P45 to HMRC quick, intuitive and more memorable.

Renamed Final Pay check box and improved messaging - How do I ensure I pay my employee any outstanding Holiday Funds or National Insurance Contributions for Directors? What do I need to do to complete the leaver process? Sage 50 Payroll 2011 will help you ensure your employees final payment and leaver procedures are accurate and efficient.

Pay Element Management

Sage 50 Payroll delivers a simple and seamless experience of
setting uppayment and deduction types ensuring accurate
payment of employee wages.

Add or create payments or deductions in Enter Payments – in previous versions if a customer was processing a payroll and needed to setup new payments and deduction types for employees they had to navigate back to their Employee Record and then back to Enter Payments......Sage 50 Payroll 2011 simplifies this process by with a Add Payments, Deductions, Attachments and Loans button within Enter Payments.

CSV Import Payments and or Deductions directly to Employee Record – in previous versions if setting up a new payroll and importing directly from CSV files you could import payment and deductions at Company Level but it would require the user to manually apply them to each Employee. Sage 50 Payroll 2011 quickly and efficiently enables you to import Payment and Deduction types directly into the Employee Record.

Error Recovery

Sage 50 Payroll 2011 provides a simple and seamless process that will help
users recover from errors or data loss.

Automatic Backup – forgot to take backups? Don’t know where you took your backup to? Sage 50 Payroll 2011 now automatically takes a backup of your Payroll data each time you update your records, ensuring that you will always have a backup to refer to should you need it.

Recover Wizard – need to correct an error for all your employees? Not sure you took a backup? Don’t know which backup you need to restore and where you saved it too? Sage 50 Payroll 2011 includes a Recover Wizard that utilises the new Automatic Backups features which will hand hold you through choosing the right pay period you want to go back to and automatically locates and restores the backup for you.