Sage 50 Payroll Professional 2011

Is 50 Payroll Professional right for me?

This powerful payroll software allows you to process large volumes of payroll data quickly and accurately. Sage 50 Payroll Professional helps you to calculate different rates for overtime, enables your business to take advantage of tax benefits, and even monitors your costs to ensure productivity and profitability.

Sage 50 Payroll Professional 2011 will help you make light work of:

Tax and National Insurance

Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP), Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP)

Student Loans, Attachments of Earnings Orders (AEO), Pensions

Plus all the essentials of processing your payroll:

Pre and post-tax multiple payments and deductions: caters for all business types by dealing with payments such as overtime, shift allowances and commissions. 

Net to gross payments: enter payment information as a net or gross amount and all calculations will be done automatically.

Net payment types: add one-off or regular additional payments based at net value and all calculations are taken care of.

Batch timesheet entry: makes large volume payment entries quicker than ever.

Multi-company: if you're running a bureau or processing over more than one company, you can update the payroll for all or a selected range of companies.

Multi-user: the network functionality allows more than one user to process the payroll.

Data Import wizard: to import and export employee & timesheet data from sources including Excel, CSV and other payroll software.

Easy to set up and use
Follow the simple installation guide and import payroll data from other sources to get up and running in no time. Common tasks are highlighted and ‘quick links’ mean you can manage payroll without any hassle.

Ensure your payroll is legally compliant
Sage 50 Payroll Professional 2011 automatically checks you are using the right version of the software for the current tax year, as well as taking care of legislation changes like October 2010’s new minimum wage.

Fast and secure payroll processing
Make sure your payroll runs smoothly and ensure your people get paid on time. Produce electronic payslips with password protection for added security, and print historically.

Store your payroll information
Don’t waste time searching through lots of spreadsheets, Sage 50 Payroll Professional records Job History, Appraisal Record, Disciplinaries, Personal cars & additional notes in one place.

Manage all the payroll essentials
No matter how your business is run Sage 50 Payroll Professional provides true flexibility. Calculate extra pay, absence overtime, shift work and select different payment frequencies. You can also take care Full-Time, Part-Time, Temporary and Contract workers.

Manage Payroll Year End
Sage 50 Payroll Professional takes the pain out of Payroll Year End. It automatically produces all the right forms and reports including P11, P14, P35 & P60, and lets you electronically submit to HMRC or send to employees directly from the software. It’s so easy you can even continue processing your payroll while the software does the hard work for you!

Stay on top of employee holidays
Take care of the complexities of holiday entitlement with ease. Specify hourly holiday entitlement, accrue based on start date and increase holiday entitlement based on length of service.

Take care of starters and leavers in a flash
Sage 50 Payroll Professional’s new quick links let you enter a P46 Notice of new Employee and submit it directly to the HMRC at the touch of a button, and automatically calculate final payments and submit a P45 for your leavers.

Create payments while processing payroll - new for 2011!
When you’re processing your payroll you can now create or add payments, deductions, attachments or loans with one click without having to change screens.

Flexible reporting & analysis
The Sage 50 Payroll Professional dashboard provides an instant view of tasks to carry out, absence and an easy to follow graphical analysis of your payroll. The Report Designer makes it easy to customise reports, and share them across your business over your network.

Manage your payroll budget
Stay on top of your people costs, always know where you stand financially and plan for the future confidently. The salary forecast tool lets you predict the impact of minimum wage increases, bonuses & overtime.

Manage your time with reminders
Keep track of your day-to-day tasks with a clear calendar and reminders to prompt you when you need to take actions. Plus, at Payroll Year end we’ll walk you through all the necessary checks, deadlines and vital submissions.

Automatically back up your payroll data - new for 2011!
Sage 50 Payroll Professional 2011 automatically backs up your Payroll data each time you update your records, meaning you’ll always have a recovery point should things ever go wrong.

Manage Salary Sacrifice pensions - new for 2011!
Sage 50 Payroll Professional 2011 you simply tick a box and specify the level of sacrifice and the software does all the calculations for you when exchanging salary for non-cash benefits.

Produce Written Statements of Employment Particulars
Provide the information you need to comply with the law. Automatically create statements for new starters and get reminders when contracts are due for renewal.

More flexibility with e-banking
Make payments to both employees and HMRC through your Internet banking services from your software, with no extra charge from us.

Integrate with your other software
Link with Sage 50 Accounts and Sage 50 HR to keep your accounts up to date and analyse your data using Microsoft® Excel.

Future proof payroll software - new for 2011!
Sage 50 Payroll Professional 2011 is compatible with both 32Bit and 64Bit Windows operating systems.

Recommended hardware

    * An IBM®-compatible computer with a 2GHz (or equivalent) processor
    * At least 1GB RAM
    * At least 600MB of free disk space after Microsoft® Windows has been installed
    * Network users only: 1Gbps network with Microsoft Windows networking

Minimum hardware

    * An IBM-compatible computer with a 1GHz (or equivalent) processor
    * 512MB RAM
    * 400MB of free disk space after Microsoft Windows has been installed
    * Network users only: 100Mbps network with Microsoft Windows networking

Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks.

Works with Microsoft Office 2000 and all later editions.

This product will not install or run on the Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows NT4 operating systems.

One of the following operating systems:

    * Microsoft Windows 2000
    * Windows Server 2003
    * Windows XP (Recommended)
    * Windows Vista

Please make sure that you have the latest Microsoft updates installed.

Please note: It is not possible to install multiple copies of this product on a single computer.