Latest enhancements to Sage Payroll  

No matter what type of business you run, making sure your people are paid properly and on time is a non-negotiable standard that you’re probably already prioritising.   

To make this task as fast, simple, and accurate as possible, we release frequent updates and improvements to Sage Payroll.  

These are designed based on feedback from our users, including which parts of the software they find the most useful, and any suggestions for new capabilities.   

This article is where we list the newest additions, so make sure to bookmark this page to keep up to date.  

The latest enhancements to Sage Payroll are:  

Enhanced reporting requirements 

Since 1 January 2024, all employers have been required to report to Revenue 3 categories of non-taxable employee remuneration. This is called Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR). 

New payment types have been added to Sage Payroll that help you easily pay employees their remuneration. These payments are created in the same way as regular salary and hourly payments. 

Share remuneration 

If you run share schemes or are a trustee of approved share schemes, you must file an annual return. You also need to handle payroll taxes for all share awards. 

On 1 January 2024, the responsibility to pay taxes on share option gains shifted from employees to employers, who will then pay Income Tax, Universal Social Charge (USC), and Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) through payroll. 

To better report Share Remuneration in payroll we have: 

• Created a new Taxable Shares payment—subject to Tax, USC and Employee PRSI (not subject to Employer PRSI). 
• Created a new Non-Taxable Shares payment—subject to USC and Employee PRSI (not subject to Tax or Employer PRSI). 
• Updated migrations to include share remuneration. 
• Updated submissions to Revenue to include share values according to the submission schema. 
• Updated reports to include share values. 

Pay run corrections  

You can now quickly and easily correct a completed pay run. Then, you can choose whether to show the difference in net pay in the next pay run to reflect any changes you’ve made.   

Delete an employee record 

You can now easily delete any employee records you set up in error, even after you’ve processed a pay run.  

National Minimum Wage check 

A new feature allows you to immediately check that you’re correctly paying your employees the National Minimum Wage, as well as view the latest bands and rates in line with current requirements. 

Bulk payslip messages 

You can now edit payslip messages for multiple employees at the same time, making it easy and simple to send out bulk communications in the pay run. 

New absences report 

Our new absences report shows you any employee time off that has been recorded. It can be for any of your employees and shows data for any time period since you started using Sage Payroll. 

Absences for the current and previous tax years appear as part of your pay run. So, this report is particularly useful if you want to see absences before the previous tax year or for employees that are no longer part of your active pay runs. You can also save a record of absences by themselves.