Payroll Professional

Paying your staff is important. Running a payroll can be repetitive, time consuming and prone to errors. Sage Payroll Professional offers powerful, flexible and easy to use facilities that will save you hours of work every payday.

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 you both time and money - notably the NET TO GROSS calculations and the calculation of the gross amount for a fixed bonus, along with faster payroll processing.

This software has been checked as meeting the requirement of the published IR Payroll Standard valid December 2000. It incorporates electronic filing capability by Internet.
 

Sage Payroll Professional

Sage Payroll Professional has been specially developed to meet the needs of companies with larger, more complex payroll requirements that require more than one member of staff to handle payroll. In addition to the features within Sage Payroll, Sage Payroll Professional gives you extra control and capacity to process large volumes of payroll data quickly and accurately.

Ideal for processing large payroll processes and provides a network option for multi-users.

Sage Payroll Professional Version 9 - extending the power

Giving you greater capability and flexibility, these significant additions are top of customers' priorities as revealed by Sage research into the needs of larger, more complex businesses.

NEW Payroll Professional Features

More productivity from easier links with Microsoft Office - Would you like a simple way to send letters or e-mails to selected employees on matters of pay, create spreadsheets to show, for example, an individual's absences or set yourself reminders of upcoming payroll tasks? These are simply some of the opportunities opened up by the new seamless integration of Sage Payroll Professional with Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel and Outlook.

Save time with Comma Separated Variables (CSV) Import and Export - Would it be a relief not to have to input data manually from software relating to employees' pay (such as time and attendance programs) which are incompatible with your payroll program? The new CSV function in Sage Payroll Professional allows you to transfer data in and out at the click of a mouse, saving you time and tedium.

Other features include:

	NEW Seven year Data Storage - Would it be a relief to be able to supply payroll information going back as long as it may be needed for a tax audit? The new Archive feature allows you to store data for up to seven years.
	NEW Historical Payslips - When employees require payslips, for example, for six months to support a mortgage application, it's no problem to provide copies. This new feature enables you to provide copies of any historical payslips from the stored payroll data.
	Added flexibility with NEW Loans facility - Now it's easier to provide loans to employees, for example, to pay for a travel season ticket. This new feature enables you to manage a whole variety of short-term loans deductible from employee salary - for any number of loans, for any period or repayment rate - and allows for extra contributions from the employee.
	Saving time with Net-to-Gross calculations - Would you like a fast way to find out how much gross pay is required to pay a net wage, such as £250 a week? Sage Payroll now calculates the gross amount automatically, allowing for tax and National Insurance contributions. Say goodbye to the time and trouble of manual gross calculations.
	Faster calculation of gross amounts for fixed bonuses - Would it be an advantage to find out quickly the amount required to pay a set bonus of, say, £1000 for meeting a sales target? Now it's easy. Sage Payroll instantly works out the gross pay needed to give an employee a fixed after-tax bonus.

Features List Feature Payroll Professional Bureau Attachment tables SSP over year end Diary - SMP dates Repdes install Database security & encryption Multiple Pensions Payslip amendments Enter Payments Batch YTD Global Changes Nominal Link Reports - Payment Summary Quick Keys UI changes Access rights for payment frequency Diary - bank holidays Reports - L100 Pay Totals Search/find/filter Custom absences Company sort 12 week average Historical payslips Negative deductions Loans Net-to-gross calculations Multi-User   Network enabled   Salary Review Forecast   Microsoft Integration   Batch timesheet entry   Multiple Company Tasks

Specifications

Processing payroll
Processes weekly, fortnightly and monthly payments. Also calculates and records contributions for different pension schemes, including stakeholder pensions. Gross and net pay, tax and National Insurance calculated instantly, additionally payslips are printed quickly and easily.

Salary Payments
Handles weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly and monthly payments, or a mixture; prints cheques, calculates coin and cash requirements, handles BACS payments and works with a E-Banking option, for easy transfer of payment information to the major UK banks*.

SSP / SMP and holiday pay
Calculates and records Statutory Sick Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay; also holiday pay including allowing/disallowing holidays brought forward from the previous year.

Flexible payment methods
Supports electronic payments and e-banking as well as paying employees by BACS, cheques and cash.

Statutory forms
Automatically produces statutory year-end forms: P14/P60, P11 Deductions Working Card, P32, P35, P45 and P46 (Car).

Employee Records
Quick access to current and historical personnel details, there is also a holiday and absence diary that records employee attendance graphically and provides full reports.

Attachment of earnings
Calculates deductions at source of earnings in accordance with current government legislation and relevant tables.

Multi-user
Enables two or more of your staff to process payroll using the same software simultaneously. For example, one user could work on weekly payroll while another user works on monthly payroll.

Network data hosting
Stores payroll data on a dedicated server or other network location so individual PCs aren't clogged up with data storage and data is easily accessible to multiple users. It also manages the statutory requirements for unlimited employees and multiple companies - easily and quickly.

Batch time sheet entry
Updates multiple time sheets in a single batch; particularly useful if a whole department works similar hours/overtime.

Salary review forecast
Forecasts the effects of possible wage increases. Reports can be created for the whole company or individual departments or cost centres.

Security access levels
Includes 9 different access levels so you can control who sees sensitive information.

Quick keys option
For faster inputting of employee data.

Stakeholder Pensions
Providing payment details to more than one pension provider is simple and quick with Sage Payroll.

Student Loan Deductions
Makes simple work of this complex area.

Global Changes
Update multiple employee records quickly and easily.

E-mail facility and web links
Links directly to the e-mail addresses of contacts such as your pension provider, bank, employee, and Sage Support. Also direct access to useful web addresses.

Accounts links
Automatically transfers your wages bill into Sage accounting software, saving you time and reducing errors.

Export data into other products
Export data easily into other products such as Microsoft Excel, Word or Access for further analysis or presentation.

Powerful report writer
Produces standard reports for analysing each period, plus custom reports to your own design.

Helpful wizards
Designed to give you step-by-step guidance through complicated tasks.
 

SONAL COMPUTERS are well placed to offer a suitable Sage solution from the budget cost Instant  range to the fully integrated, feature rich Line100, which is capable of extensive amendments. All products are supported by Sonal Computers, equally well versed in discussing accounting matters or computer systems.

Sonal Computers are able to offer the following services : Supply Sage software, installation and configuration,  On-site training to suit your particular requirements, Additional support to that offered by Sagecover ( telephone hotline ), Assistance with Report formats and Report Generator, Help with upgrades, Review of use of the software, Day to day input of data and documents (book-keeping on Sage), Sage Payroll - either as a bureau service or at the clients' premises, Add-on packages to Sage.