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Sage Instant Payroll

Processing employees' payments is something every employer has to do. Designed specifically for small businesses in the UK, Sage Instant Payroll is a simple, easy to use package that enables you to process your employees' wages without the need to understand the complexities of payroll legislation. Even without prior experience, you can set up and run Sage Instant Payroll easily and quickly. With all gross and net pay, tax, National Insurance and all statutory payments and deductions calculated automatically, you will have more time to concentrate on growing your business.

Save time and ensure accuracy

The program is designed specifically for new small UK businesses that have up to 10 employees and 10 leavers in a given tax year, and is especially suited to those moving from manual processes. With an easy five-step procedure, Sage Instant Payroll can save you time, simplify the payroll process and ensure accuracy. You can choose when and how to pay your employees, and can store their personnel records electronically.

Manage information and complex payments

Sage Instant Payroll also enables you to manage employee information, with absence and holiday diaries and complete individual employee records. Plus, complicated areas such as sick pay, maternity pay, adoption pay, holiday pay, pensions, tax credits and student loans are all made easy with Sage Instant Payroll. And with Internet submissions, you can submit your Year End returns to HM Revenue and Customs via the Internet, which saves you time printing and posting returns.

A complete office solution

Whether you're starting up your business, moving from a bureau, or computerising your manual payroll, Sage Instant Payroll could be the perfect solution for your business. And with Sage, you can build a complete business management solution by integrating Instant Payroll with our accounting software.

The faster way to submit information and payments

The Inland Revenue is introducing changes to improve the way you submit information and payments. They are continually developing their online services to save you time completing, printing and submitting statutory forms. This provides you with the benefits of an easier, more efficient service.

The future of Payroll Year End submissions

Internet submission of Payroll Year End P35 and P14 information will become mandatory for all companies by 2010. Penalties will be incurred for any employer who does not meet their mandatory date for submission.

Save time with more efficient services

To benefit from the great time saving, more efficient services from the Inland Revenue, you will need an Internet connection, to register with the Government gateway at www.gateway.gov.uk and accredited or quality tested software to deliver your information.

Benefits

Easier, quicker Payroll Year End procedures

Prepare now and save time with the latest Sage payroll version 10 range. Internet Submissions can speed up time consuming processes at Payroll Year End, providing an efficient method of securely delivering accurate information to the Inland Revenue. The Sage payroll range now entitles you to an Internet Submission module, so whether it is mandatory for you to submit or not, you can benefit from the most efficient, time saving services.

Small companies can enjoy rewards of up to £575

If you are a small company then you could earn up to £575 from the Inland Revenue if you begin submitting electronically from 2005/2006. Visit www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk to see whether you can claim up to £575 reward over a period of five years.

Manage your employees

• Employee Personal details enables you to keep all employee information in one place for easy access and allows you to print out complete employee records.
• Absence and Holiday Diary records all your employee absences from work and provides detailed reports for management purposes.

Manage your processing

• All Payments and Deductions can be made subject to tax, National Insurance, pensions, attachments etc.
• Maintain Employees Payments allows you to calculate and record all the information you wish to appear on a payslip by automatically deducting the tax and national insurance.
• Statutory reports allows you to automatically produce reports including P11s, P32s and P45s.
• Enhanced Nominal Link enables departmental payments to be posted to separate nominal codes in the profit and loss and balance sheet.
• Tax Year End processing streamlines a necessary but often time consuming task, saving you time and money. Easy to follow checklists guide you through tax year-end reports and allows Internet submission of year-end reports.
• Statutory Sick, Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay records information for any employee who is absent. It provides automatic calculation of how much should be paid each period, saving you time and reducing errors.
• Holiday pay automatically calculates tax and national insurance when paying holiday pay in advance. The employee will not receive any further payments until they return.
• Pensions enables you to apply any pension scheme including stakeholders, to an employees record.
• Attachments allows you to record attachment of earnings orders for any employee. It allows you to automatically calculate how much should be paid to the employee each pay period.
• Tax Credits allows you to record tax credits which are a benefit for families on low incomes within the program.
• Student Loans calculates and deducts from your employees salary the amount needed to pay off their loans.
• Net to Gross Payments allows you to enter the take home pay for an employee and the system will calculate the tax, national insurance and gross pay.
• Year End Internet Submissions allows you to submit your Year End returns to the Inland Revenue via the Internet. This saves time printing and sending the Year End returns.
• Help files and Wizards aid you in certain routines, making the program even easier to use.
• Back-up information will enable you to follow a rigorous back-up policy.
• Legislation settings enables you to manually update National Insurance parameters.
• Automatic Pay Date Prediction will allow you to automatically predict the next pay date based on your employees pay frequency and the last date you finished the payroll.
• e-Banking allows you to make BACS payments for employee wages and Inland Revenue payments. Please note that this feature may carry an additional cost.
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Manage your reporting

• Historical Payslips and Reports allows you to reprint or view payslips from data stored within the tax year.
• Software updates allows you to check for the latest version of the In Year Submissions.

Manage your Administration

• In Year Submissions allows you to submit and receive day-to-day payroll administration to and from the Inland Revenue. Any amendments received can be applied directly to the employee records without having to key the information.

As a recognized Sage business partner and developer, Qnet can integrate Sage products into your existing systems or if your needs require we can develop a bespoke solution to maximize efficiency and effectiveness in day-to-day situations within an actual working environment.