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  • Free, Live Webinar - Festive Payroll Tips - Recording available

    Covering seasonal topics such as advance pay, bonus payments, taking on temporary staff and advancing your holiday year. These sessions have now taken place, but a recording is available:
  • Calculating and recording holiday for irregular workers?

    Due to the nature of our business (tourism sector), a large number of employees work irregular hours. For example, someone could work the odd weekend during the winter then full-time during the summer, or students might not work at all for weeks/months…
  • Webinar - Festive payroll tips - Recording now available

    Join us on for a special festive webinar, covering themes such as: Advancing pay Bonus payments Taking on seasonal staff and advancing your holiday year This webinar has now taken place but a recording is now available: Open webinar recordings…
  • The full annual entitlement

    How can I find out, and include in a report, the full annual entitlement, not just the YTD entitlement. Everything I try seems to just show YTD. I would have thought this was a basic feature? Our holiday schemes (of which we have 7) are based on hours…
  • We don't pay Overtime rate on PTO. How can we get Sage 300 Payroll to deduct PTO hours from OT calculations?

    Like most companies, if an employee has over 40 hours solely due to PTO (vacation, holiday, sick, etc..) in a given week, we do not apply the overtime rate to the hours over 40. However, we can't find a way to get Sage Payroll to not factor in the…
  • Mass Add earning code to all timecards

    Does HRMS allow for mass add earning code to all timecards? Example, instead of going into each ee's timecard to add the holiday code, is there a way to just add it to all timecards? Thanks!
  • 2020-2021 Sage North America Year-end Winter Schedule

    The Winter season—and year-end—are fast approaching and we want to share our office closure schedule with you: Sage Canada closures Sage US closures December 25: Christmas Day January 1: New Year’s Day November…
  • Advance Holiday Year Error Message

    Our holiday year starts on 1st April. I have tried to advance the holiday year but get an error saying "Operation failed, no current record". I have successfully advanced the absence year so the problem only relates to the holiday year. I have tried…
  • Holiday Pay Reference Period calculation

    Is Sage going to be providing a way to calculate the average weekly pay of an employee that is paid hourly and does variable overtime, using the new Reference Period of 52 paid weeks that comes into effect from April 20, excluding weeks that have zero…
  • Make custom entity Look and feel similar to Holiday List

    Hi All, I am looking to creae two custom entities and have a parent child relationship between them. This is doable, but furthermore, I need to have the look and feel similar to Holiday Set available under Admin -> System -> Timings. So, user…
  • Specified entitlement holiday scheme - picking up holiday taken

    Hi, We are a payroll bureau and Sage is but one of the systems we use so apologies if this question seems naive... I've just set up the above scheme for a client. They pay elements have all been configured to (or not as appropriate) to be included…
  • Remaining holiday incorrect on Online Payslip

    A number of our employees have told us that their remaining holidays are showing incorrectly on their online payslip. For example, one employee's shows - Holiday taken: 1, Remaining: 27. However on the absence page on Sage, it is showing - 0 Taken…
  • National holiday entitlement

    A number of our part time employees work some Bank Holidays. If my settings has 'include Bank Holiday entitlement' ticked, will it affect their entitlement?
  • Holiday remaining incorrect on payslip

    I processed July's payroll and distributed the payslips. One employee has came back and said that her holiday remaining is wrong. The payslip still shows 28 days remaining and 0 taken. I've checked the other employees and they're all correct on the payslips…
  • Holiday Pay and Overtime

    Good morning, We have just starting using Sage 50 Payroll and I have read a few discussions/questions on here regarding about how Sage deals with Holiday Pay & Overtime. However I can't see anywhere the holiday fund can be changed to accrue Overtime…
  • An option to list general holiday pay for salaried employees

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    With the new labor standard laws in Alberta it is now a requirement to have all general holidays listed on a pay stub. This is not an option currently and can only be done manually in the setup of the reports and forms. This has to be entered before each…
  • December—the short month with 31 days (five things to do now for year-end)

    December may have 31 days, but it’s also a short month. Between planning for holidays, taking vacation, and making New Year’s resolutions, it can be hard enough finding time to get your “day job” done, let alone year-end activities! But a little prep…
  • There's no holiday break for small businesses

    Small business owners works really, really hard. Did you know almost half of small business owners won't take a break over the holidays? Well, this year, Sage is giving one small business owner in United States and one small business owner in Canada…
  • Upcoming Holiday Closures for Sage CRE *Please Read*

    The holiday season is upon us! With pies baking, gravy bubbling, and ham roasting, Sage CRE will be closed in observance of the following holiday(s): Thanksgiving (11/27-11/28) Christmas (12/25-12/26) New Years Day (1/1/15) Take this…