• Payroll Entries

    Hi, have never used the payroll function in sage for very long. I want to confirm how to deal with the payroll entries specifically with relation to benefits. I cannot find an answer. We enter the paycheck into Sage and then we pay it online manually…
  • GRPP/DPSP

    it is almost time to issue T4's. Last year we introduced the GRSP and DPSP. how do we report these on T4's. All I see is this image attached below. so my questions are do we report GRSP on T4 as well as I believe everybody should be receiving T4E from…
  • Changing Timesheet format

    Hello, The organization I work at uses a csv template for timesheets that has multiple fields (name and different types of hours worked) including; Name of employee,Regular Hours,Team Lead Regular,Team Lead Night Sleep,Night Awake Hours,Night Sleep…
  • 2024 premium edition with payroll not available retail

    I have been buying the payroll edition year after year through Staples or Best Buy because it always comes in alot cheaper than buying it through Sage. For the first time in 10 years I can no longer find it or locate it at any stores i'v looked. Of course…
  • Vacation Pay

    Hi all, Our owner has requested that he no longer accrue vacation pay. I have deselected "retain vacation" and set his vacation rate percentage to zero in the payroll ledger. When I process his pay statement, the "Vacation Paid" line for the period…
  • Payroll Module message

    My payroll subscription is up to date but when I enter into my payroll module I get this message. "The payroll taxes cannot be recalculated for this employee because your payroll plan only allows you to pay the first 0 active employees on payroll."…
  • Using Sage 50 Version 2021.2 CPP Maximum reached but Sage 50 is still calculating

    In previous versions when the max amount was reached for CPP Sage 50 indicated the employee had reached their max yearly amount and automatically stopped calculating. Version 2021.2 keeps on calculating CPP after the max yearly amount. Is there something…
  • varying pay periods

    Our normal pay period is bimonthly (24 pay days) One person's payroll does not make sense because some periods, his pay stub is correct (march1-15, then 16-30) but some months, the pay stub is incorrect (april1-15, then 25-31). The bi-monthly salary…
  • Employee Authorization for Direct Deposit form

    Can anyone point me in the right direction for a form template that a client can use for Direct Deposit Authorization please? Specifically, something to hand out to each employee that they can attach a blank cheque to and sign off that they agree with…
  • Change rates by job category

    I'm trying to change the rate for 71 employees in my company. They have 12 different rates including shift differentials and it's really consuming to make it manually due to the short period of time I have before processing payroll with the new rates…
  • 27 Pay periods in 2010

    Hi All, Next year has 27 pay periods for my company. When should I make the change in the system to set it to 27 pay periods from 26? My first payroll of the year is January 3 so I want to ensure that I have the right information set up for proper reporting…
  • Overpaid Vacation

    My employee was taking some vacation hours for some days he had off in the two week pay period, but also worked some days. So, he wanted to use 15 vacation hours and he actually worked 60 hours, totaling his usual 75 hours. I entered the total hours in…
  • Employee used company materials, how to deduct from paychq?

    An employee used company materials and has asked me to just deduct it from paycheque. What's the best way to do this? Currently what I'm doing is making a purchase invoice to our company. (As if company purchased something from itself). I post…
  • Does anyone know why the Quebec payroll taxes changed as of April 1 2018?

    In December I installed the payroll updates for 2018 and changed the personal exemption to 11,809 federal 15,012 provincial and everything seemed fine. At the end of March I was sent another update from Sage which I installed and since then the amount…
  • How to create a remittance of employer uncontributed EI or CPP in the next calendar year

    The PIER report is verified and showing that the employer has not deducted enough CPP or EI. If the bank is already reconciled for the year (Dec. 31 calendar year end), how can I remit the short deductions in the new calendar with out affecting the bank…
  • Adding Additional Income Fields to Payroll

    When going into >Setup>Settings>Payroll>Incomes, it would seem that Sage 50 has a maximum number of income fields available for payroll. It starts off with a number of automatically generated ones, which it will not allow me to edit or delete (even though…