Welcome to the June edition of Sage Payroll Support
Payroll Support News is a monthly communication that is specifically designed for our Sage Micropay Professional and Quickpay Sagecover members. This newswire is just one of the many benefits provided to you as part of your SageCover membership. It provides vital information on payroll topics as they arise and we hope you find it informative and relevant.
To access the articles in the newswire, please have your Sage account number ready. You can find your account number on any invoice you have received from Sage.
In This Issue
- Quickpay Feature Pack
- Pension/PRSA Set-Up
- Micropay Professional Salary Rate Update Feature
- Tax Credit Import
- Quickpay Validation Report
- Useful Tips
- Training Dates
- Vista Compatibility
- Contact Us
This fantastic additional feature added to Quickpay, includes the following:
- New Interface with user-friendly navigation
- Period Archiving which enables users to archive previous periods, revert to archived periods to generate reports and payslips from that period and then return to the current pay period to continue with the payroll.
If your screen does not look like the image below, reply to this email with your name and account number and we will email your new registration keys to licence the feature pack.
2. Pension/PRSA Setup
Both Quickpay & Micropay Professional have the facility to set up Pension / PRSA deductions.
For further information on setting up Pensions / PRSA please click on the relevant link below:
3. Micropay Professional Salary/Rate Update
Micropay Professional provides a facility to update salary or hourly rates of pay by department, cost centre, job code or location by following a simple procedure.
Important Note: The salary/rate update cannot be reversed so it is strongly recommended that you take a backup beforehand.
To find out more about this great feature, please revert to the help file in the program by accessing the following menu options:
- Help
- Help Topics
- Utilities
- Salary/Rate update
Tax Credit details for your employees can either be imported from the TFA file from Revenue or can be entered manually. Importing tax credits via the tax credit import is a quick and simple process which saves you time.
For more details on how to use the Tax Credit option, click on the relevant link below:
Quickpay has an excellent feature, which acts as a data checker to help ensure your data is correct and complete in each period.
The data checker (Validation Report) scans your payroll data and displays a detailed report about any detected errors and provides guidance on how to fix the errors. Follow the suggested resolutions to correct any outstanding errors and run the data checker again.When the data checker detects no errors, you are ready to move on.
Note: The data checker will highlight missing PPS numbers however it is possible to ignore this alert until the employee’s PPS number is available.
To use this validation option simply access the following menu options from within the Quickpay program:
- On the top menu bar, click on reports.
- Choose the validate payroll data option.
Both Micropay Professional and Quickpay have a Help Facility within the program. The help facility contains useful guidelines from setting up to using the program.
The help file is located on the top right-hand side of the main screen in both programs.
Become an expert user of Micropay Professional or Quickpay by attending one of our specially designed training courses for users of all levels of experience.
The table below highlights the Micropay Professional and Quickpay training courses that have been scheduled for June 2007.
Up-coming Training Dates |
Course Title |
Monday 25th June 2007 |
Introduction to Payroll |
Wednesday 27h June 2007 |
Micropay Professional Stage 1 |
Thursday 28th June 2007 |
Micropay Professional Stage 2 |
Friday 06th July 2007 |
Quickpay Training |
For more information on course content or to secure your place on one of these courses, please contact our sales team by free phoning 1890 88 20 60
8. Vista Compatibility
Important note for Microsoft Vista Users:
Quickpay version 7.1/7.2 and Micropay Professional version 5.1/5.2 have been tested and are compatible with Microsoft’s new operating system Windows Vista and Office 2007.
However, when installing please be aware of the following additional steps:
Quickpay
- When installing, please ensure that you are logged into the pc as administrator. If you are not sure of this please ask your IT department.
- Give all your users full permissions to the Quickpay Folder.
Micropay Professional
When installing, please ensure that you are logged into the pc as administrator. If you are not sure of this please ask your IT department.
- Give all your users full permissions to the Micropay Professional Folder.
- If installing on a network, the users need to have full share permissions to the shared folder.
Contact us
Should you require further assistance with any other technical queries, please contact Sage Technical Support:
- Low-call – 1980 946 771
- By fax - 01-6420895
- By email – pye@sage.ie
- On our website – sage.ie
- Submit an enhancement request online
We strive to provide an efficient and cost effective support service, now offering you a new lo-call phone number 1890-946-771
We listen, because we care.
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