Sage 50 Canada

My client has a staff that they pay through the company, that is accounted for in the shareholder loan. Is there a way to link the shareholder loan instead of the wage expense accounts so that I do not have to make manual general journal entries each…

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…

Hi, How to post the journal entries for the paying the benefits statement to the benefits company at the beginning of the month the employee and employer portion is automatic out of the account. How to post the payroll entry with the employee deduction…

Hi, I am new to SAGE 50 Canadian version. After every payroll cycle we pay source deductions to CRA. My question is how to do the entry on SAGE for this payment. We already have a line item as 'payroll receiver general'. Should I directly record it as…

Sage 50 Canada - We have always allocated payroll costs to projects. When trying to post a paycheque this week I'm getting the error message "one or more project is overallocated because you have decreased this transaction's payroll hours or expenses…

Looking at an Income statement for a period, under Payroll Expenses is "Wages & Salaries" along with EI and CPP employer portions. Clicking on "Wages & Salaries" here opens its General Ledger and Vacation pay amounts are not included. Do we have something…

We just switched banks and I need to know how to change my bank account for Payroll deposits-direct deposits? please help

Hi, I terminated an employee (salaried). How do I pay out his retained vacation on his last pay cheque?

I have an unusual situation. The employer is too small for Group RRSP, so they have agreed to pay one employee a rrsp contribution each paycheque. The amount is $100.00, which then the employee is responsible to contribute to an RRSP. How do I record…

Hi, Our employee will sometimes use their own car for deliveries or pickups. We have them record their mileage. How do I pay them back using the payroll feature in Sage?

Looking to find information on the correct posting for LTD Benefits 100% paid by employee. The LTD payment by employee is being posted to LTD Payable account 2000 through the Payable module The LTD payment made to the insurance company is being paid…

Hi there! It is our year-end and I am switching from manual bookkeeping to Sage. We have residual 2020 vacation pay owed to employees. I have created employee records, but need to enter the historical amounts of vacation owed to each employee. I thought…

We recently hired new staff and they were set up and paid already - one has informed me she reached her YTD maximum CPP & EI contributions already at the company she worked with before she came here as verified by her final paystub from the former company…

I have setup a phone allowance as a taxable benefit and now the system is autogenerating an entry to, essentially, a non-existent account called, 'Benefits & Tips', and deducting the full amount of the benefit, after it's deducted tax. I have not set…

I am trying to pay into Shareholder loans using payroll. I've cut a paycheque to a shareholder to include all taxes paid, but instead of actually cashing the paycheque, I want to move it right into shareholder loans. How do I do this? Thru General Journal…

Has anyone had a problem with setting up direct deposit for staff I deal with RBC and I deed to have a Originator # or cusotmer number from the bank and no one knows what that is so now I have added direct payroll to my account and can't use it can some…

Last year we purchased Sage 50 Pro and it did not have the payroll module. I had hoped on manually inputting payroll, as we only have two employees, only to discover that all the payroll accounts were marked as read-only. I couldn't post any transactions…

Hi. Using Sage 50 Premium Accounting (Canada) I want to show the commission paid to our employees as a different account/income account. I created a new one and linked it, but when I do up a pay cheque, the income is all out of the same account…

I use Ceridian as our payroll provider and am wondering what is the best way to enter employer and employee deductions in sage when entering in the payment to the payroll provider?

Good Afternoon, My former bookkeeper posted an entry on Sage50 for an employee, who has the following details: Regular wage $14, Overtime wage $21 per hour. Bi weekly pay - 80 hours per a period Vacation is 6% retained Deductions: Group…

When creating an employee who gets paid by salary semi-monthly, how do I put that in? For example if I have an employee who gets paid 40,000 a year but they get their pay semi-monthly, how would I put that in?

One November employee has disappeared - He shows up in the remittance report, but his name does not show on the employee list/pay stub report. Therefore, my November employee detail total doesn't match my November remittance.

Lambourne: Hello Alwyn, This is my first time on Sage City and I was trying to figure out how to ask a question on the support page? Any chance you can tell me that, I can't seem to figure it out. Maybe you can also answer my question: can I start my…

HI, I just found there is an underpaid employee. She has already left our company last year and there is 10hors under paid for her. What should I do ? How do I enter into simply accounting ? Is there anyone who could help me ?

I am new with SA Canadian edition. Our year end is Oct 31/2019 and I need to issue payroll, cheques and bank deposits. I can't move forward close the year as I haven't received year end entries from the accountant yet (obviously) Is there an easy way…