Sage 50 Payroll

Set up or edit payments

Sage 50 Payroll lets you create and edit payments and add them to employees, stopping you having to add the same information every pay run.

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Using Sage Copilot

Ensure you have set up Sage Copilot

Accessing Sage Copilot

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How to Change an Employee’s tax code manually

If HMRC sends you a P9 or P6 notification to change an employee’s tax code, you need to apply it in your software.

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Activating Sage Copilot

Note: Users receive Copilot access individually, and Copilot accesses only the same data as the user can access.

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Correcting errors in a previous tax year

If you notice an error in the previous tax year, you will need to fix it.

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Setting up Making Tax Digital for Income Tax for Sole Traders

Note: This is just for sole traders and not for Landlords

Generating reports in Sage 50 Payroll

Summary

There are several different ways you can generate reports in Sage 50 Payroll. Each way is quick and easy.

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Bank Reconciliation

It is always a good idea to reconcile your bank accounts on a regular basis, mainly every time you receive a statement from your bank, and especially before you submit your VAT return to ensure that your have entered the correct figures, not missed anything or duplicated anything.

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It is a good idea to keep your Sage 50 Accounts program up to date to take advantage of the latest features and fixes for any bugs.

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Errors when emailing documents from program

ERROR: ’Outlook doesn’t recognize one or more names’ in event viewer

Sage Payroll Year end

Payroll New Year

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You might want to add your own Chart of Accounts just to report on specific nominal codes.  You can have numerous Charts of Accounts.

Benefits in Kind

A Benefit in Kind (BIK) is a notional payment, which increases you employee’s taxable pay without increasing their net pay.  You can also set a BIK payment as subject to NI if required.

Sage 50 Accounts – Chart of Accounts

When you run management accounts in Sage the Chart of Accounts categories your nominal codes.  This allows you to analyse your income, expenditure, assets, liabilities, and capital to assess your business performance.

Sage Payroll Year end

There are things you can do to start to prepare for the Sage Payroll year end.

Check if you have a week 53.

If you pay your employees weekly, fortnightly or four weekly and your regular pay date falls on Sunday 5^th April 2026, then you have a week 53

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Management Reports

In Sage 50 Accounts there are various management reports which show the overall value or profitability of your business in a few short reports, such as a balance sheet, profit and loss and trial balance report

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Advance Holiday Year Wizard

When you reach the end of your holiday and/or absence year, it is easy to advance the year.  This updates the balance for the new year based on your settings.

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Email Debt chase Letters

In Sage 50 Accounts there are various customer debt chase letter that can easily be emailed to customers on a regular basis quickly and easily, which can save you time and money and help improve cash flow.

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Customise your payroll desktop and employee list

You can customise your employee list in Sage 50 Payroll to make it easier to find what you want.

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How to filter lists

Using the Filter options in Sage 50 Accounts can help to locate records quickly and easily or hide unused ones.  For example, filter customers to only show those with a balance.  This is available in all modules except Transactions, filtered results apply to reports you run.