New Features:

• Give your people the information they need
  By law, everyone must be provided with a Written Statement of Employment Particulars. Take the hassle out of recording the right information with Sage 50 Payroll 2008. When you add a new person their statement is created automatically and prompts will remind you to update contracts when necessary. You can print or email your contracts, scan and store them within your software, giving you a complete history.
• Pay everyone at the right rate
  No matter how you pay your employees, whether you use commission, bonus, piecework or a simple hourly rate, Sage 50 Payroll 2008 can help make sure you meet your legal obligations to pay the appropriate minimum wage, by taking care of all the calculations.
• Go green with electronic payslips
  Provide a greener and speedier alternative to traditional printed forms with electronic payslips. By using or adapting the ready-made email payslip templates all you’ll need to do is tick a box and Sage 50 Payroll 2008 will automatically generate and email them out.
• Making the most of online banking
  With Sage 50 Payroll 2008, we’ve included all the tools you need to use e-banking services as standard. So even if your bank charges you an additional fee for its online services, we don’t.
  Because we know that by 2010 all businesses will have to make payments to HMRC online, it’s our way of helping you stay one step ahead by making the best of technology.
• Easier to manage your payroll
  When it comes to importing information into your payroll software, Sage 50 Payroll 2008 helps you keep control of every detail.
  You’ll no longer have to enter different rates of pay for things like overtime, bonuses and commissions on separate lines. Ideal if you process payroll remotely or receive timesheets from a number of different departments.
  Enter payments and deductions on the same screen, so things like social club membership subscriptions are easy to identify and account for.
• Stay in control, no matter what
  Be confident that your payroll data is reliable and up to date with tools to help you validate your payroll against current legislation. So you’ll have peace of mind before you submit the details to HMRC.
  And if you do have a visit from HMRC you’ll have the right information on hand, and in the correct format for the inspector with our comprehensive reports.

Features:

Managing your wages and salaries

• Payroll made simple with automatic calculations
  Payroll legislation can be complex, but with Sage 50 Payroll 2008 you’ll have all the payroll essentials covered. 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), Pension
• The nuts and bolts of processing your payroll
  - Pre and post-tax multiple payments and deductions: Sage 50 Payroll 2008 caters for all business types by dealing with payments such as overtime rates, shift allowances and commissions
  - Net to gross payments: You can enter payment information as a net or gross amount and all calculations will be taken care of
  - Net payment types: You can add one-off or regular additional payments based at net value and all calculations are taken care of
  - Batch timesheet entry: Makes payment entry even quicker
  - 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.
• Pay everyone at the right rate
  No matter how you pay your employees, whether you use commission, bonus, piecework or a simple hourly rate, Sage 50 Payroll 2008 can help make sure you meet your legal obligations to pay the appropriate minimum wage, by taking care of all the calculations.
• Plus many more...

Managing your employees

• Give your people the information they need
  By law, everyone must be provided with a Written Statement of Employment Particulars. Take the hassle out of recording the right information with Sage 50 Payroll 2008. When you add a new person their statement is created automatically and prompts will remind you to update contracts when necessary. You can print or email your contracts, scan and store them within your software, giving you a complete history.
• Your employee records in one place
  Have all your employee information stored securely in one place, such as: name, address, tax, National Insurance details, payment/deduction details, bank account, holiday and absence details. You can also store information on: appraisals, disciplinary records, job and salary history. And the absence and holiday diary lets you record all employee absences.
• Apply changes to more than one record in one go
  Sage 50 Payroll 2008 gives you the tools you need to apply many changes to a whole range of employees all in one go.
• Save time with your in-year submissions
  There’s no need for you to spend hours re-keying information from HMRC when you get your in-year submissions via the internet. Amendments received from HMRC, such as tax code changes, can be applied directly to employee records, saving you time and effort. And as it is a secure mailbox you know only you and HMRC can access it.
• Plus many more....

Managing your reports and analysis

• Create the right reports and stay compliant
  Automatically collate the right data and produce your statutory reports, such as P11, P32 and P45, from within your Sage 50 Payroll 2008 software.
• Save time producing your most popular reports
  Identify the reports you run most frequently from a choice of over 250, you can then group them and produce multiple reports at the touch of a button.
• The right reports for your business
  This feature allows you to edit existing reports or create your own. This way you can produce reports to meet with your needs. All reports can be emailed in HTML or PDF format.
• Stay in control, no matter what
  Be confident that your payroll data is reliable and up to date with tools to help you validate your payroll against current legislation. So you’ll have peace of mind before you submit the details to HMRC.
  And if you do have a visit from HMRC you’ll have the right information on hand, and in the correct format for the inspector with our comprehensive reports.
• Plus many more....

Managing your payroll year end

• With you every step of the way
  The useful wizards and special user guides will take you through all the steps you need to take to make sure your payroll year end goes smoothly.
• Take care of all your year end reports
  Your P11s, P14s and P60s are all taken care of with Sage 50 Payroll 2008, so you can be sure you are running an efficient and compliant payroll year end.
• Continue processing over payroll year end
  Reduce the pressure of payroll year end on your business by continuing to process in the new tax year before completing your year end.
• Submissions/HMRC Secure Mailbox
  Speed up your year end returns by submitting them electronically, totally securely.
  

Minimum hardware:

• An IBM compatible computer with a 2GHz (or equivalent) processor; at least 1GB RAM; at least 600MB of free disk space after Windows has been installed.
• Please ensure that you have the latest Microsoft™ updates installed.*
  Microsoft™ Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP (Recommended), Windows Vista.

Recommended hardware:

• An IBM compatible computer with a 2GHz (or equivalent) processor; at least 1GB RAM; at least 600MB of free disk space after Windows has been installed.
• One of the following operating systems*
• Microsoft™ Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP (Recommended), Windows Vista.

* Please ensure that you have the latest Microsoft™ updates installed. Performance will be improved with higher specification computers & 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.

Educational Pricing:

* SageCover for Line 50 includes: Unlimited support from 300 technicians for the cost of a local rate call (lines open Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm). Unlimited e-mail support, with 95% of e-mails answered by the next working day. Online business advice and helpful fact sheets, available 24 hours a day. Solutions, a quarterly magazine packed with business news, current legislation and great tips to help you get the most out of your Sage software. Significant upgrade discounts, as well as incentives for staying on the latest version

**These provide accounting software for training purposes and are available with an unlimited site license. The software provided is a full working copy, but all printouts indicate that the software is for training purposes only. Classroom packs are available with an unlimited site license. This means you can install them on as many machines as you like as long as they are resident at one site. The software is single user only.

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