Payroll updates

You can now check you pay your employees National Minimum Wage. This makes it easier to ensure you meet the minimum wage requirements. You can also view the minimum wage bands and rates for your employees on a new report.

For more information, see the National Minimum Wage check article.

We've recently updated our Sage brand and you'll start to see changes in the look and feel of Sage Business Cloud Payroll. These changes do not affect how you use the product.

You can now edit payslip messages for multiple employees at the same time. This makes it easier to manage messages that apply to lots of people.

For more information, see the Payslip messages article.

The Absences report shows you any employee time off that you've recorded as an absence. The report can be run for any of your employees and can show data for any time period since you started using Sage Business Cloud Payroll.

Absences for the current and previous tax years, appear as part of your pay run. Therefore, 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. Or if you want to save a record of absences by themselves.

For more information, see the Absences report article.

In December we released the Salary Journal report.

You can use salary information from a pay run to create a Salary Journal report.  If you use an accounting product, you can import the report as a journal transaction. This can save you time and reduce processing errors.

For more information about the report see our Salary journals article.

This release includes changes to allow you to complete year end processing for 2021 and to start processing in 2022.

This new update includes :

• Updated pay calendars for 2022 tax year, so you can process pay runs in the new tax year.
• Updated PRSI (Pay Related Social Insurance) and USC (Universal Social Charge) thresholds for 2022 tax year to accommodate the increase in National Minimum Wage (increase from €10.20 to €10.50).
• Extension of the EWSS (Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme) until 30th April 2022.
• For more information about legislation changes, visit the Revenue Budget Summary 2022.
• For help processing your year end, access our Payroll year end guide.

You can now process payroll for up to 100 employees with the addition of two new subscription options : 51 - 75 employees and 76 - 100 employees.

To accommodate for your company’s growth, you can now simply choose to Upgrade from the Employees screen when you reach the maximum number of employees in your subscription. 

Go to the Subscription and Invoices section. Alternatively, find this under Manage My Account.

We've created some new reports to help you check and reconcile your pay. Find them on the new Reporting option on the menu.

Choose an appropriate reporting period to view. You can easily export the report as a PDF or CSV file for further analysis and sharing.

These reports cover Employee Net Pay, Payslip Summary, Employer Costs, Liability Totals and Pay History (UK Only). The detailed payroll report which combines these reports can still be accessed from your completed pay run.

This release includes changes to allow you to complete year end processing for the 2020 tax year and to process pay and make submissions in the 2021 tax year. 

A further update will follow in December to introduce EDS changes. We will update this page with more information in due course.

New with this update 

• Updated pay calendars for 2021, so you can process pay runs in the new tax year.
• Updated PRSI and USC thresholds for 2021 tax year to accommodate the increase in National Minimum Wage.
• For more information about legislation changes, visit the revenue website.
• For help processing your year end, see our help article. 

Sage Business Cloud Payroll is now available for businesses with up to 50 employees with the addition of two new tiers. This is great news for new and existing customers looking for an intuitive, cloud-based payroll solution that offers automatic integration with Sage Accounting.

The two new tiers and full pricing details are available here.

We’ve introduced a new payment type to help process payments under the Wage Subsidy scheme. More information about making these payments is available from our help article.

We’re here to help businesses nationwide and are doing everything we can to ensure our customers are supported as well as providing advice and guidance to anyone who needs it.

Visit our hub to find the latest government advice, how you can get support, work more effectively from home and free training. We'll be updating this resource regularly.

We’ve released a software update to help you process payments to your employees under the new wage subsidy scheme launched in Ireland to help businesses that have been impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic.

For details on how to process these payments in Sage Business Cloud Payroll, read our help article.

• Employee Details Statement report
  This new report shows the total values included in payroll submissions to the Revenue in the current employment per employee.
  Export the reports and send to them to your employees. Your Employees can use this to check their pay against the Employee Details Summary issued by the Revenue to replace the P60.
• Liability Report
  This new report shows the total amount you owe the Revenue for PAYE, PRSI, USC and LPT for each reporting period. Use this to check and track the amount owed to the Revenue for each reporting period. 

This release includes changes to allow you to complete year end processing for 2019 tax year and to process pay and make submissions for the 2020 tax year.

• Updated pay calendars for 2020 tax year so you can process pay runs for the new tax year.
• Updated employer PRSI rates for the 2020 tax year
• Export the Review Employee Pay screen to send to your employees. Your employees can use this to check their pay against the Employee Details Summary (EDS), now issued by the Revenue to replace the P60.
• Override PRSI insurable weeks. Allows you to adjust PRSI calculations when an employee leaves part way through a month, for example.
• Payslips and reports to include benefits in kind (BIK) in the gross pay total.

This release includes changes to allow you to complete your year end processing for 2018, as well as PAYE Modernisation changes. This allows you to process pay and make submissions for the 2019 tax year.

• Updated P35 submission.
• Updated P60 template.

• Updated PAYE, USC and PRSI calculations for the new tax year.
• Support for PRSI exemption.
• Support for Agent TAIN (Tax Advisor Identification Number).
• Updated Emergency Tax calculations.
• Ability to retrieve RPN values for existing employees / create RPNs for new employees.
• Ability to make Payroll Submissions at the end of each completed Pay Run.
• Disable P30, P35, P45, P45 Part 3, P46 and P60 for 2019 tax year.

Everything you need to complete your payroll year end and start your new 2018/19 tax year including :

• Updated P60 template for 2017/18 year end.
• Updated Statutory Payments rates and thresholds.
• Updated PAYE & National Insurance rates and thresholds.
• Updated Auto Enrolment thresholds and phased contribution values.
• Updated Scottish Rate of Income Tax calculations.
• Updated Student Loan thresholds for Plan 1 and Plan 2.
• Updated FPS (Full Payment Submission), EPS (Employer Payment Summary) and EYU (Earlier Year Update) submission.