When payroll becomes complex, it can be hard to know how much each employee is getting paid

Our National Minimum Wage tool highlights any errors

So you can be sure you’re paying everyone the National Minimum Wage based on their age

Our pensions module eliminates admin, automatically calculating how much you need to contribute for each employee

Simple data exchanges between you and your pension provider make pensions simple, accurate and secure

And comply with complex pension legislation

The pensions module comes for an additional fee and integrates seamlessly with Sage 50cloud Payroll

Our Personal Data Management tool lets you search your data for keywords

For example, you can search for an employee's name

And the relevant data will appear

This is useful for GDPR-related tasks, such as checking what employee data you're storing

You can use filters to select people who are paid weekly

And those who are paid monthly

Managing different payment patterns couldn't be simpler

Sage provides full flexibility on when you pay your people

Meaning, if you want to pay employees early before Christmas, you can

The normal payroll date will still show, so you can comply with HMRC guidance

We believe that payroll should reflect the way that your company operates

You can pick whether holidays accrue in hours or days

You can also choose whether holidays can be carried forward or brought back

When you're looking at the list of employees, you can hide those that don't need your immediate attention

For example, employees who are off on maternity leave, who have quit, or are on holiday

Pegg is a chatbot that you can access within our payroll software. Ask her any question…

…And Pegg searches through thousands of pieces of content to find you the right answer

In addition to Pegg, you can talk to our UK-based support team over the phone or by email

If you're about to do something that’s outside of your pre-set tolerances, Sage 50cloud Payroll provides a warning

Payroll Assistant will tell you what is coming up over a given period of time

Enter the date range you're interested in to see the relevant upcoming payroll events

Payroll Assistant will show you everything from who is about to start or finish parental leave, to which apprenticeships are about to end

It will organise these events so you can see which are urgent, which will come up in the next pay period, and which are general tasks to help you maintain accurate records

It also integrates with Outlook, so you can automatically import payroll events into your Outlook calendar

Press F1 to see the most relevant help content for the page you're viewing

Set up commonly-used reports as favourites

You can select multiple reports

Then all you need to do is click to generate the reports

The task is easy to hand over if the person who usually does payroll is going on holiday

Enter the changes that you're thinking of making, e.g. a salary increase of £1,000

And we'll show you the impact that change will have on your costs over a set period of time

This will include things like the impact an extra £1,000 would have on employer contributions towards national insurance and pensions

Employees can log in online

They then click on “my payslips” or “my P60s”

From there, employees can view or download payslips and P60s

This service is included with Sage 50cloud Payroll free of charge

This self-service tool allows employees to complete their timesheets wherever and whenever they need to

Import your data as a CSV or XLS file

Simply select the import file to match each payroll field

And the data will be pulled in automatically

We'll help you complete new tasks, such as adding an employee to the system

Just follow the step-by-step guide

Adding their information where needed

Share payroll costs with your accounts team at the click of a button

You can also import P11D data into your HR software, so you only have to set up employees once