Welcome to the May 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
- New Micropay Professional Maintenance Release v5.2
- Quickpay Mid Year Release
- Reinstalling your Sage Payroll Software
- Reinstating a leaver
- Check the version of your Sage Payroll Software
- Video Training Manuals
- Useful Tips
- Training Courses
- Contact Us
New Micropay Professional Maintenance Release v5.2
Sage is pleased to offer an optional maintenance release. It is not essential to download this release; however you may find some of the new features beneficial:
- Running Micropay Professional 2006 and 2007 systems simultaneously
This release has provided the ability to run Micropay 2006 and 2007 systems at the same time. This is useful if you need to work between the two systems for any reason, for example – you may want to compare historical payslips from 2006 with the same period in 2007. - Searching for an employee
Improved usability of the employee 'lookups' in employee details. - Creating a new employee
Improved usability when choosing an employee number for a new employee
- Control Summary Improvements
The Control Summary report has been improved to show the Gross Pay and Tax Paid for this employment separately in the 'Cumulative Control Totals' section. - P35 Improvements
The P35 Plain listing report has been improved to show the non-rounded Total Gross Pay. This will be required for any companies that cease trading prior to Payroll Year End 2007.
Customised Payslip improvement
Holidays Accrued to date can now be printed on the payslip using a payslip ini file. Download the Micropay Professional v5.2 maintenance release
Quickpay Midyear Release
The new features in the Quickpay Maintenance Release v7.2 are:
- You can now run Quickpay 2006 and Quickpay 2007 simultaneously - This is useful if you have to work between the two years, e.g.: check historical information in 2006 while processing payroll for 2007.
- P35 improvements - The P35 plain listing has been improved to show the non-rounded gross pay.
You must be on V7.1 in order to run the maintenance release. It will not update any previous versions.
This is downloadable from:
Reinstalling your Sage Payroll Software
If you have a new PC or need to move the software to a different machine simply follow the instructions below:
- First take a full system backup
For details on how to perform a backup, simply access the relevant link below:
Quickpay
Micropay Professional
Software can be accessed in the following ways
1.Download the latest version from the sage website
Or
2. Use the 2006 PYE CD. The CD contains v4.1 (Micropay Professional 2006) and v6.1 (Quickpay 2006).
The PYE update must then be run after installing either of these to update to the 2007 version, then the budget changes must be applied. To download the Budget Update from the sage website, select the relevant product link below:
Once the software is installed, upon logon you will be prompted for an activation key, this can be obtained by calling 1890 946 771.
Once you have installed the software, simply restore a full system backup to obtain your data. Please refer to the help files in your program for guidance on restoring.
Micropay Proffesional:
- Choose Help, then help topics
- Company Backup and restore.
Quickpay:
- Choose Help files, then help topics
- Miscellaneous
- Restore
On occasion an employee may return having ceased employment within the current tax year. If this is the case, theymust be reinstated by using the original employee number.
To do so, the finish date and finish period must be removed from their original employee details and the standard new employee procedures must be followed.
For more details on reinstating a leaver, simply click on the relevant link below.
Check the version of your Sage Payroll Software
It is very important that to ensure that your version of the software is up-to-date with legislation. To check your version, open your payroll software and login. Viewing the top left hand corner will display the version you are using.
The up-to-date versions are:
- Micropay Professional v 5.1 or v5.2
- Quickpay V7.1
Please Note: This year’s budget update will not be implemented correctly if done manually, so it is important that you ensure you have the correct version.
The budget update is available to download from our website
Sage are committed to giving our customers more choice. As part of this commitment we have developed a new facility for helping customers with the most frequently processed payroll tasks. Sage has developed these tutorials in order to deliver a comprehensive tutorial to suit the needs of all our customers.
The new Video Training Manuals provide an extended choice for customers who may enjoy visual and audio tutorials. Video Training Manuals provide on-screen, simple step-by-step guides to payroll processing.
The Video Training Manuals (VTMs) for Micropay Professional are now available online
Most problems experienced while printing or previewing reports, can be resolved in the following ways:
- From the Miscellaneous menu, choose the option ‘delete registry entries’.
- Access the Miscellaneous menu, choose the ‘Preferences’ options and ensure that the GDI option is selected.
Training Courses
Become an expert Micropay Professional or Quickpay user by attending one of our specially designed training courses:
Up-coming Training Dates |
Course Title |
Tuesday 12th June 2007 |
Micropay Professional Stage 1 |
Wednesday 13th June 2007 |
Micropay Professional Stage 2 |
Wednesday 27h June 2007 |
Micropay Professional Stage 1 |
Thursday 28th June 2007 |
Micropay Professional Stage 2 |
Monday 25th June 2007 |
Introduction to Payroll |
Friday 06th July 2007 |
Quickpay Training |
For more information on course content or to secure your place on one of these course, please contact our services team on 1890 88 20 60
Contact us
Should you require further assistance with any other technical queries, please contact TAS 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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