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Pay on time, every time with Sage Payroll Advanced

Simplify complex payroll and HR in one powerful cloud platform. Ensure seamless compliance all year with advanced payroll software that scales as your South African business grows.

Why choose Sage Payroll Advanced?

Get core HR capabilities with one of the most advanced payroll systems available. Manage and pay your people faster, from one place on a secure platform.

Compliance

Never worry about changing legislation again. Our sage payroll and HR software keeps you compliant with South African regulations in one secure platform.

Consistency

Automate the tricky tasks that make people admin a challenge. Make sure your team is paid accurately and on time, every time.

Collaboration

Put employee experience at the centre of your HR operations. View and manage HR data from anywhere, let employees self-serve payslips via mobile, and encourage feedback to boost engagement and reduce HR workload.

Connection

Make your workflows run smoothly with a secure integrated system. Access real-time dashboards and actionable insights to make informed decisions faster.

Elevate your pay run with Sage Payroll Advanced

Advanced Payroll features

Take your people admin to the next level with advanced payroll systems that scale with your business. Paying and managing your people has never been easier with the added power of integrated HR.

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Sage Payroll Advanced FAQs

Sage Payroll Advanced with HR is a cloud-based software solution that includes payroll features plus essential HR capabilities for growing medium-sized businesses with 100-700 employees.

You can access this online anywhere, anytime and it is perfect for businesses that are scaling up and need to automate and streamline payroll and people admin tasks from one place. This creates a smoother, more rewarding work experience for your team and allows you to make smarter, more informed decisions while saving time on admin.

You can create and manage employee records, pay your people on-time and benefit from essential HR workflows to manage your growing workforce.

With Sage Payroll Advanced you can:

  • Simplify your payroll and complete within 3 easy steps
  • Stay compliant with a recognised solution that’s up to date with the latest legislation
  • Empower your people to self-serve payslips and leave requests
  • Ensure that your people records are always up-to-date, accurate, and secure
  • Get powerful add-ons that support you across the entire employee lifecycle

Sage Payroll Advanced includes core HR capabilities in the Essential plan. This enables you to manage, create, and edit employee records, track holidays and leave, and get access to basic HR reports. You can also send documents electronically and allow your employees to self-serve payslips and documents from the HR app.

For more advanced HR features you can upgrade to a Standard or Premium plan. This will give you advanced HR functionality including onboarding and offboarding workflows, timesheets, leave management, employee expenses and performance management features you can attract, manage, and grow your talent.

Yes, Sage Payroll Advanced makes it easy to add new employees in a way that works for you:

  • Bulk upload: Use the batch functionality to add multiple employees at once. The process runs in the background and notifies you when it's complete.
  • Sage HR integration: Sync employee data directly from Sage HR to Payroll, keeping everything consistent and saving you time.
  • Quick Add Wizard: Add employees quickly with a simple, step-by-step wizard that captures only the essential info you need to get them paid.

Sage Payroll Advanced is ideal for growing businesses that need more from their payroll software. It goes beyond Sage Payroll Professional with integrated HR capabilities to lighten the load on essential admin. It delivers an intuitive user-experience, supported by a powerful payroll engine that handles added complexity & real-time reporting.

Here’s what Sage Payroll Advanced offers:

  • Powerful calculation engine: Automate complex payroll calculations using Excel-style formulas.
  • Integrated HR and employee self-service: Includes onboarding, recruitment, performance and more—plus a mobile app for employees.
  • Modern mobile experience: Employees can submit leave, claims, and complete performance reviews from their phones.
  • Run tasks in the background: Keep working while long processes complete behind the scenes.
  • User-friendly batch imports: Save time with streamlined bulk uploads of payroll data.
  • Multiple pay cycles in one company: Manage different pay groups and frequencies within a single setup.
  • Flexible recurrences: Set up definition recurrences that match your business’s unique needs.

Sage keeps your personal data secure by applying appropriate technical and organisation measures against its unauthorised or unlawful access or use, as well as protecting against any accidental loss, destruction, or damage. We are dedicated to safeguarding your data and maintaining the highest standards of information security management.

Migrating to Sage Payroll Advanced is designed to be as straightforward as possible. Sage and its implementation partners support you through data migration, payroll configuration, testing, and user training to help ensure a smooth transition. The implementation approach is tailored to your organisation, helping minimise disruption while preserving payroll accuracy and historical employee data where applicable.

Yes. Sage Payroll Advanced integrates with Sage accounting and ERP solutions, helping you connect payroll with your wider finance operations. It also supports integration with a range of third-party business applications through APIs and connectors, reducing manual data entry, improving reporting accuracy, and creating more efficient business workflows.

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Ready to learn more about what Sage can do for your business? Our product experts are here to guide you every step of the way. Speak to an expert, request a callback, or watch a demo to see if Sage Payroll Advanced is right for you.