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Power up your pay run with Sage Payroll. It’s time.

Roll over to Sage Payroll for the features you’re used to plus more ease, visibility, and flexibility than ever. Here’s everything you need to know to make the switch from Instant Payroll. 
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Payroll with cloud control.
What’s in it for you?

Get more visibility

Access your payroll on any device (PC, Mac, tablet or smartphone), anytime, from anywhere. Grant secure access to multiple users.

Obliterate effort

Pay your people accurately, every time, in just four simple steps. Enter hourly pay or salaries and leave the calculations to us.

File pensions faster

Automatically assess and enrol your people into a workplace pension as part of your 4-step pay run. Send data direct to popular auto-enrolment providers in one easy step.

Access real-time reports

Keep the facts at your fingertips to analyse your payroll and make informed decisions.

Nail compliance

Peace of mind is built in, with automatic submissions to HMRC, and automatic updates that keep you constantly in line with the latest legislation.

Empower your people

Keep your team engaged and informed wherever they are, with secure, self-service access to online payslips and P60s.

That’s just the start - there’s also…

Are you ready to stay organised? Everything is stored in the cloud, so you never need to take a back–up again. Reduce admin by automating key processes, managing everything via a single platform.

Integrate your accounting

Seamless integration with Sage Accounting automatically posts salary journals into your accounts to give you a complete overview of your business. 

Stay on it

Stay on the pulse and save hours of admin by automating processes and managing everything on a single platform.

Bye-bye backups

With secure cloud storage, you’ll never need to make a backup again. And your data will always be quick and easy to find. 

Expert support on hand

Rest easy with our UK-based, award-winning support at your service 24/7. 

Why you’ll know it’s the right choice

With Sage Payroll you can:

  • Manage your payroll from any device.
  • Enable your people to access their payslips and P60s online.
  • Set up payments and deductions without having to understand tax rules.
  • Export payroll reports to Excel (via CSV).
  • Submit pension information to providers online.
  • Pay up to 100 employees with ease.
  • Pay calendar rules (no weekends).

Boss it yourself

Bring on the switch! Simply transfer your data to Sage Payroll using the import feature and your Instant Payroll reports. You’ll be invited to log on as soon as the transfer is complete.
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FAQs

This means that we will not provide an annual compliance update for Instant Payroll at the end of this tax year. Any transactions or submissions processed between now and the end of the tax year will be compliant but, in order to remain compliant moving forward, we recommend customers switch to our cloud based payroll software - Sage Payroll

At Sage we’re focused on helping our customers boss it not just now but long into the future. We’ve taken this decision in order to focus on the development of our core payroll software—Sage Payroll. By investing in this we can deliver a cutting-edge, feature-rich experience that enhances the way you manage your business. By streamlining our services and support, we can focus on the innovations and service needed to help businesses get even more value from us now and for years to come. With that in mind, we’ve decided that from 5 April 2022 we can no longer support Instant Payroll.

Your business is important to us and we want you to have the most up-to-date, effective software to drive it forward, which is why we are recommending you switch to Sage Payroll, so you can take advantage of all the extra benefits and value built into it for the same price you’re paying now. Once you’ve made the switch you can even amend your payroll tier within the software to suit the number of employees in your organisation, meaning that, in some cases, you may even make a saving.

Making the switch couldn’t be simpler. We’ve created a range of how-to videos to guide you through the process step by step, showing which reports you need from Instant Payroll, how to automatically import all your employee details and year-to-date values into Sage Payroll, and how to set up and carry out your first pay run in your new software. Just fill in the callback request form and one of our experts will be right on it to get you set up and walk you through.

Yes. If you’re part-way through an annual licence period and you’ve paid in advance, we’ll automatically arrange to refund you for any outstanding months.

Yes, you’ll be able to access all of your historic data indefinitely in Instant Payroll. This won’t be transferred to Sage Payroll as part of the employee detail FPS import process but will remain available to you within the Instant Payroll desktop product.

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