Training course

Sage Payroll

We offer Sage training on a private course basis. Private Sage training is tailored to meet your own needs and can be delivered using a backup of your own Sage system, this ensures that the training is relevant to your own organisation.

Training can be delivered using our tutor-led virtual classroom option or we can come to your site. Please contact us for a quote.

This course is aimed at those who need to process Payroll on a Sage 50 system. It will give you all of the information necessary to set up Sage 50 Payroll to suit your business, and to process day to day transactions including:

making payments, deducting PAYE and NI, processing attachments, student loans and statutory payments. It will also cover calculating how much you need to pay to HMRC each month, and submitting information to HMRC as and when required. This 2 Day course also covers calculating and recording holidays and pensions in detail, as well as further options including timesheet entry, nominal link to Sage Accounts, loans, statement of employment & personnel information.

  • 1 Day
  • Online or in person
  • Private courses available
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Course Objectives

  • Set up Sage Payroll for your company – payment types and rates, holiday schemes, pension schemes.
  • Set up employees and assign the correct payments, deductions, holidays, and pensions to them.
  • Process day to day Payroll, print payslips and other relevant payroll reports.
  • Process statutory payments including SSP, SMP & SPP

Prerequisites

  • As Sage Payroll calculates all statutory deductions such as PAYE, NI, and student loan repayments, it is not necessary to have a full knowledge of Payroll legislation, however some understanding of the basic principles of PAYE and NI would be an advantage.
  • This course assumes basic knowledge of computer use – using a keyboard and mouse, left and right clicks, basic knowledge of Windows etc.

Included

  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues
  • Comprehensive course materials and exercises

Course content Back to top

  1. General Navigation
    Finding your way around the Sage Payroll Interface
  2. Company Settings
    Setting up General information at a company level
  3. Pay Elements
    Setting up standard payment types
    Pre and Post tax payments
    Pre and Post Tax deductions
  4. Setting up an employee
    New Employee / Employee Wizard
    The Employee Record
    Assigning payments and deductions to employees
  5. General Processing
    Process Date
    Reset Payments
    Timesheet entry
    Enter Payments
    Pre-Update Reports
    Update Records
    Nominal Link (sending information to Sage Accounts or to a CSV file)
  6. RTI & E-Submissions
    E-submission settings (to enable RTI submissions direct from Sage Payroll)
    Submitting RTI information to HMRC
  7. Common Statutory Payments
    Statutory Sick Pay
    Maternity and Paternity Pay
    Make up Basic
  8. Pensions
    Setting up a pension scheme
    Assigning pensions schemes to employees
    ‘Manual’ pension schemes
  9. ADDITIONAL MODULES AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE TRAINING
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  10. Holiday Schemes
    Company Holiday Schemes
    Assigning schemes to employees
    Advance holiday pay
  11. Additional Payments and Deductions
    Net Payments
    Factored Payments
    Attachment of Earnings Orders
    Student Loans
    Employee Loans
  12. Further Employee Information
    Statements of Employment
    Personnel Information
    Employment History
  13. Advanced General Information
    Security and access rights
    Historical Data & Reports
  14. Data Integrity and Error corrections
    Health Check
    Backup
    Restore & Recover
    Rollback

Training a team?

Run this course privately, on your dates

  • Private Flexible course content, flexible training date(s), flexible location(s), variable course length, private to your organisation - Courses can be held at one of our training venues or at another location convenient to you. Training can be set over a number of days or weeks to allow for practice time between training sessions.
  • Bespoke Bespoke private training can be based on an existing course or a number of lessons taken from several courses, we can also write bespoke courses for you based on your in-house systems or development program.
  • Virtual These courses can be attended from anywhere.

What delegates say Back to top

Any other comments or recommendations

“The course has been very valuable and informative the trainer was great”
B.E., Nordem Ltd

Which part of the course did you find particularly valuable

“Everything about the course, as a beginner I have learnt valuable information through out”
B.E., Nordem Ltd

Following this training what are you going to do differently

“A lot! Wish I could get back all the time I spent struggling with formats and sorting much clearer now and I feel confident it will be so much easier and quicker going forward. Thankyou!”
B.B., Riverford, Excel Essentials
“The trainer made me feel very settled and explained everything in detail. Fantastic Course”
P.C., Hodgson Sayers Ltd, Excel Level 2
“Excellent training, excellent facilities”
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“The trainer unveiled a lot of well hid little sneak cheats on making life a lot easier whilst working in Word. Really enjoyed the training, I work mainly in Excel, so it was great to learn about Word, and I’m no longer afraid to work in it.”
D.I., Houghton International, Word Essentials

Which part of the course did you find particularly valuable

“The whole course was great, really helpful.”
H.S., Department For International Trade, Adobe In Design Level 1
“Trainer was excellent, very enthusiastic and knowledgeable.”
A.M., Nissan, Excel Level 2

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Please contact us to discuss your Sage Payroll course, we have many solutions available to ensure you receive the best training possible.

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