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This powerful payroll software allows you to process large volumes of payroll data quickly and accurately. Sage 50 Payroll Professional helps you to calculate different rates for overtime, enables your business to take advantage of tax benefits, and even monitors your costs to ensure productivity and profitability.

Sage 50 Payroll Professional 2010 will help you make light work of:

• Tax and National Insurance
• Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP), Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP)
• Student Loans, Attachments of Earnings Orders (AEO), Pensions

Plus all the essentials of processing your payroll:

• Pre and post-tax multiple payments and deductions: caters for all business types by dealing with payments such as overtime, shift allowances and commissions. 
• Net to gross payments: enter payment information as a net or gross amount and all calculations will be done automatically.
• Net payment types: add one-off or regular additional payments based at net value and all calculations are taken care of.
• Batch timesheet entry: makes large volume payment entries quicker than ever.
• Multi-company: if you're running a bureau or processing over more than one company, you can update the payroll for all or a selected range of companies.
• Multi-user: the network functionality allows more than one user to process the payroll.
• Data Import wizard: to import and export employee & timesheet data from sources including Excel, CSV and other payroll software.

See the features & benefits tab for more.

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Is this right for me?

• HMRC accredited:
  Sage 50 Payroll Professional 2010 calculations meet the latest legislation requirements for accurate calculations of tax and National Insurance.
• Produce Written Statements of Employment Particulars:
  Provide the information you need to comply with the law. Automatically create statements for new starters and get reminders when contracts are due for renewal.
• Online Submissions:
  As of 2010 all submissions must be made to HMRC online. All submissions to HMRC can be sent electronically through Sage 50 Payroll 2010, and can be tracked by status and sender.
• Manage your pay budget:
  Predict the impact of minimum wage increases, bonuses or overtime with the salary forecast tool.
• Fast and secure payslip processing:
  Produce electronic payslips with password protection for added security, and access previous payslips on screen in seconds.
• E-Banking:
  Lets you instruct payments for both employees and HMRC to your Internet banking services from your software, with no extra charge from us.
• Manage all your peoples' different payroll needs:
  Calculate extra pay; take care of different payment frequencies; manage employees' holidays and flexible working; record foreign bank details for your employees.
• Quick Links:
  Make it easy to find and execute less common tasks such as recording sickness or maternity, with useful tools within each section to make it more efficient.
• Run a smooth Payroll Year End:
  Continue processing while running your Payroll Year End; produce the right reports (P11, P14, P35, P60) for HMRC; and submit online. More info..
• Integrate with your other software:
  Link with Sage 50 Accounts to keep your accounts up to date and analyse your data using Microsoft® Excel.
• Be prepared for audits:
  Store and print copies of statutory reports for up to seven years and track any changes to your payroll.
• Manage your time:
  Keep track of your day-to-day tasks with a clear calendar and reminders to prompt you when you need to take actions.
• Online integration:
  With SageCover you can access online support in seconds directly through Sage 50 Payroll without having switching screens.

If you would like to find out more you can see the full features of Sage 50 Payroll Professional here.

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.