Payroll Support News
March 2008

Welcome to the March edition of Sage Payroll Support Newswire.

Payroll Support News is a monthly communication that is specifically designed for our Sage Micropay Professional and Sage 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

• Ensuring 2008 Payroll PRSI & PAYE rates are updated
• Important Service Pack Release
• CSO Reporting Sage Quickpay/Sage Micropay Professional
• N.I & UK Customers
• Introducing HR Software from Sage
• My Sage
• Contact us

Ensuring 2008 Payroll PRSI & PAYE rates are updated

It’s essential to ensure that your programme is up-to-date for the 2008 Budget.

To verify that your programme has the correct legislation, simply check the ‘Pay Run’ panel on the toolbar. If it has changed to ‘Pay Run (2008 Budget)’ then your programme is up-to-date.

It is not advisable to manually update the PRSI tables within the program. To update the budget the file needs to be run to apply changes correctly.

The 2008 Budget changes are available from: http://sage.ie/supportnew/payroll_downloads.asp

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Important Service Pack Releases

Sage Quickpay v8.1 & Sage Micropay Professional v7.2 are now available to download. Changes include:

• P46 to ROS submissions
• P45 to ROS now returns Taxable Redundancy values & New Deceased Setting
• Implementation of 2008 ceiling for tax free pension contributions
• Improvements to the CSO reporting

Please note: You must be on Sage Quickpay Version 8.0 or higher and Sage Micropay Professional v7.0 or higher before installing the update.

 

These critical service packs are available from: http://sage.ie/supportnew/payroll_downloads.asp

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CSO Reporting Sage Quickpay/Sage Micropay Professional

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has introduced a new annual National Employment Survey (NES) report, which is designed to compile statistical employment information from businesses of more than three employees. If your business has been selected to participate in the survey, you must return the NES report to the CSO.
Sage Quickpay & Sage Micropay Professional record the information necessary for this report. A future release of Sage Quickpay/Sage Micropay Professional will enable you to generate the report automatically.

 

To avail of the CSO reporting in Sage Micropay Professional, ensure you download the new Service Pack Release Version 7.2.
 
http://sage.ie/supportnew/payroll_login_d.asp

To find out more about setting up the CSO feature, please refer to the updated Helpfiles in the Sage Quickpay & Sage Micropay Professional.

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N.I & UK Customers
      

At this time of year many businesses with employees based in the North of Ireland or in the UK consider taking in-house control of managing payroll processing. Did you know that Sage provide a Payroll programme configured to work with UK payroll legislation, along with onsite training and consultancy?  Please contact our sales team on 00353 1 6420800 for more information.

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Introducing HR Software from Sage

This summer, Irish businesses will be able to record, store, and track HR information in one place with Sage’s powerful new HR software solution.  By centralising your HR data, it becomes easier to comply with legal requirements, keep certain records and, if required, to produce evidence.

People are the most important part of any business, so they’re worth looking after.  And that means keeping the right records and having the right procedures in place.  Sage HR can help. Sage HR helps you manage your people by recording, storing and tracking key information on performance, training and working patterns all in one place and provides different access rights to ensure that information remains confidential.

Sage HR Software will integrate with Micropay Professional.

Manage your people

• Record the employee information you need to comply with current employment law
• Manage performance and appraisals
• Manage training and qualifications
• Record and report details and evidence of disciplinary action

 

Manage your business

• Identify skill levels and shortages
• Monitor costs and attendance rates for training courses
• Monitor employee working patterns
• Manage holidays and absence
• Schedules follow up reminders on HR tasks

For further information call 1890 88 20 60.

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My Account 
Register now for ‘MySage’
     MySage provides instant online access for Sage account activity and enables the reprinting of invoices and statements for clients. Register for access to MySage using the following link:
sage.ie/mysage

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Technical Support – Contact Details

Below is a list of contact numbers and email addresses should you require further assistance with any other technical queries.
By telephone on our Lo-call number 1890 946 771, and select Option 3. If you are calling from outside Ireland, please call +353 1 6420877.

• Lo-call: 1890 946 771
• Outside (ROI): 00353 16420877
• Fax: 01-6420895
• E-mail: pye@sage.ie 
• Web: sage.ie/support

Other helpful contact details:

• Ros technical support: 1890 20 11 06
• Welfare: www.welfare.ie
• Revenue; www.revenue.ie
• Microsoft: 1850 940 940

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