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Is Sage 50 HR right for me?

Sage 50 HR 2010 allows you to store and track all the information you need about your people: their personal details, holiday records, absences, working patterns, skills, performance and training. It lets you:

• Store important information about your people in one place: check any detail about your people in an instant.
• Comply with legal requirements: keep records you can produce as evidence if required.
• Customise to suit your business: record and report on information that’s unique to your business.
• Monitor your peoples’ progress: track their skills, qualifications, training and development.
• Never miss an important date or deadline with calendar and events management tools
• Monitor holiday, sickness, absence, employee turnover levels and maternity leave.
• Prove employees' eligibility:  keep records of background checks including CRB and ISA.
• Communicate with your people: set up email address templates you can automatically apply.
• Support you can count on: one year’s free SageCover to help make sure everything is running smoothly.

Is this right for me?

• Find things faster:
  By using a single source of information, it will take you half the time to find what you’re looking for.
• Monitor your peoples’ progress:
  Sage 50 HR allows you to track the skills, qualifications, training and development of your people.
• Record evidence:
  Maintain records of disciplinary issues along with evidence in case of disputes.
• Never miss an important date or deadline:
  Calendar and events management tools to automatically remind you when things are due.
• Communicate with your people:
  Set up new email templates that you can automatically apply to communicate with all your people.
• Keep a closer eye on things:
  Monitor holiday, paternity and maternity leave. You can even keep tabs on sickness and patterns of absence, as well as employee turnover levels.
• Prove employees eligibility:
  Keep records of any kind of background checks including CRB and ISA.
• Make sure sensitive information stays secure:
  Only those with the right level of access can only retrieve sensitive information.
• Save time through Sage software integration:
  Create employee records Sage 50 Payroll (2007 or above) and import their details to Sage 50 HR. What’s more, integration with Microsoft ® Office means it’s easy to email your employees or set up professional-looking mail merges.
• Get the support you need:
  Our technical team are on hand to support you and answer any queries you may have. And for extra peace of mind, you’ll get one year's SageCover included.
• New screen designer:
  Record any information that’s relevant to your business e.g. industry specific registrations, training, licences, company assets, clothing sizes etc.
• Improved reports:
  Record information specific to your business and report on it. For example, add specialist qualification records to your employee details, and then run reports to see who has them.

New for 2010:

• Record holiday in hours:
  Sage 50 HR allows you to record holidays in hours as well as days, which means you can keep more accurate records about your employees’ absence.
• Automatically calculate holiday:
  You can now use people’s start date and work pattern to automatically calculate how much leave they’re entitled to in any given year – particularly useful for new starters.
• Automatically generate statements of employment:
  Statements of employment must be kept for every one of your employees, and Sage 50 HR 2010 generates them automatically. You’ll also be notified when they need to change, so you always know who needs a new contract
• Calendar Print:
  Not only can you view absences on your overview calendar in a daily, weekly or monthly format, you can also print it out for greater convenience.
• Filtering:
  Filter any list of information, for example, to see who has been absent for more than three days, simply choose the criteria and view the information instantly.
• Cost of sickness:
  This can now be viewed in a graph, to see how much it’s costing your business
• User groups:
  These can be created to give access to the software to selective people
• Employment history:
  You can record your employment history to keep track of changes for your employees
• Analyse charts and spot common trends:
  Charts can be created and analysed to spot common trends amongst your people, such as which day people are likely to call in sick, for example

Recommended hardware

• An IBM®-compatible computer with a 2GHz (or equivalent) processor
• At least 1GB RAM
• At least 600MB of free disk space after Microsoft® Windows has been installed
• Network users only: 1Gbps network with Microsoft Windows networking

Minimum hardware

• An IBM-compatible computer with a 1GHz (or equivalent) processor
• 512MB RAM
• 400MB of free disk space after Microsoft Windows has been installed
• Network users only: 100Mbps network with Microsoft Windows networking

Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks, and it only possible to install one copy on a single computer.

Works with Microsoft Office 2000 and all later editions, and please ensure you have the latest Microsoft updates installed.

This product will not install or run on the Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows NT4 operating systems.

One of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows XP (Recommended)
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7

Apple Mac compatibility

Sage software is not compatible with Apple Macs, unless you are running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 via Apple’s Boot Camp utility.