• Qualifying earnings for pensions

    Hi, Can you shed any light on how Sage 50 uses Qualifying Earnings for pension purposes please? We are finding that Pensionable Earnings figures for clients who have pension schemes set up to calculate contributions on the Qualifying Earnings-based…
  • Pension Data Resend?

    Hi everyone, I have recently taken over our weekly Payroll role temporarily whilst we await a new member of staff. I normally only do holiday cover but my colleague has suddenly left the business. They have obviously had an issue from week 36 (7th Dec…
  • Payroll Reports are incorrect

    My payroll reports are not matching what actually happened. I have employees with first month of pension contribution that show on there payslip but not on the reports. The reports show zero pension contribution for two employees. Has anyone seen this…
  • Need to run a pension assessment?

    To make sure you comply with legislation you must assess your employees every pay period. Don't worry, the Pensions Module does this for you and determines what type of worker each employee is. Find out more
  • Need a hand with pensions?

    Find out everything you need to know about pensions in our pension hub. From automatic enrolment, to opting out, we have everything. Find out more
  • Pension Data Exchange Issues

    Hi All, We run the payroll for 4 Companies using Sage50 Cloud Payroll. This problem is affecting all Companies at present. A bit of background, I updated our Sage50 Cloud Payroll at the end of last month before running the Sep-21 payroll. Nothing…
  • Opting out of a pension?

    Do your employees what to opt out of a pension scheme. Follow our quick and simple guide giving you hints and tips as well as the correct steps. Find out more
  • Opting out of a pension?

    Do your employees what to opt out of a pension scheme. Follow our quick and simple guide giving you hints and tips as well as the correct steps. Find out more
  • Assess your employees

    To make sure you comply with legislation you must assess your employees every pay period, and determine what type of worker each employee is. Find out more
  • Enhance your software!

    Enhance your payroll software with Sage software add-ons and get more out of your Sage software! Our payroll add-ons allow you to carry out specific tasks easier and without hassle. Find out more >
  • Payroll add-ons

    Enhance your payroll software with Sage software add-ons and get more out of your Sage software! Our payroll add-ons allow you to carry out specific tasks easier and without hassle. Find out more >
  • Help with pensions in Sage 50cloud Payroll

    You can use the Pension Checker tool in this article to check your payroll subscription and to help you set up and send pension information to your provider using Sage 50cloud Payroll. Find out more
  • Import report to include updating Annual Pensionable pay and Effective from date

    Within the Pensions tab for the Annual Pensionable pay and Effective date to have an import report where these fields can be updated globally. At present these have to be done individually and when there are global changes ie annual pay global increase…
  • Calculate Salary Sacrifice on Factored pay elements

    What is says on the title. Currently if you have a factored pay elements a Salary Sacrifice Pension will not be calculated on the factored element. Allow this to happen. Factored elemetns are great to automatically work out the hourly rate when you…
  • Transferring RTI to Sage 50cloud Payroll

    We currently use sage accounting and have added sage 50 payroll. I'm in the process of migrating the information over from HMRC RTI and have a few questions: 1. Once we have migrated the information do I need to do anything with the HMRC RTI? run P32…
  • Sage calculated negative employer pension deduction, why/how?

    Hey, Hopefully someone here can help me as I cannot find an answer online. In my July payroll, one staff members er pension has been calculated as a deduction of -£539.15. The employee pension is correct @ £69.02. Nest will not accept the…
  • Pension schemes data

    would be good if there was an excel spreadsheet to be able to import Annual Pensionable Salary and Effective From under employees records: Pensions/Manage schemes, as this information is provided on a pension report and not all pay elements are pensionable…
  • Pension Contributions Split

    Our biggest difficulty with Sage 50 payroll is that in our line of work, we have to do a lot of reporting to the Local Government Pension Scheme and a lot of the staff who we pay have multiple job roles for the same employer. For LGPS purposes, those…
  • Nest Pensions

    Hello, I am having a huge back and forwards issue with Sage and Nest. I am locked out of Nest about 20 times a day (ridiculous I know!). Between calling to reset my password as the unlock code emails never seem to reach me, every morning without doubt…
  • The Peoples Pension - Pension Data Exchange

    We submit our pensions using the pension data exchange, but every month I have to re-log into every single Peoples Pension account on the data exchange. It takes foreverrrr!!!! Does anyone else have this issue, or is there something wrong with our…
  • Additional Payment Capabilities

    The ability to pay your P32 through the software The ability to pay things like arrestments and personal pensions through the software I moved over from IRIS (formally Star) to Sage50 about 3 months ago and have found that there is some differences…
  • Salary Sacrifice Pension schemes

    We currently have a standard autoenrollment scheme set up. We have now offered a salary sacrifice scheme for our employees if they wish to join. Can I please get some advice on how to set up this additional scheme - our pension adviser said 'its just…
  • Automatic Pension Assessments

    Hello Any chance Sage Payroll can have automatic pension assessments rather than manually having to assess employees within each company? Also one click submissions for other Pension providers
  • Pension cyclical re-enrolment process

    My cyclical re-enrolment date is 1/11/19. I run payroll once a month on 20th of the month each month (or closest working day). Can I go ahead and run pension assessment now and complete my re-enrolment ahead of running my payroll at the end of this…
  • Opt in again?

    Morning. One of my employees opted out of Sage but has now chosen to opt back in again. How do I process this request on Sage.