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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 2009 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 of processing your payroll:

• Pre and post-tax multiple payments and deductions: Sage 50 Payroll Professional 2009 caters for all business types by dealing with payments such as overtime rates, shift allowances and commissions 
• Net to gross payments: You can enter payment information as a net or gross amount and all calculations will be taken care of
• Net payment types: You can add one-off or regular additional payments based at net value and all calculations are taken care of
• Batch timesheet entry: Makes payment entry even quicker
• 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

See the features & benefits tab for more.

SageCover

By adding SageCover (from just £30 per month) you'll get access to complete support service that includes telephone & email support, exclusive discounts, Sage HR Advice, data repair & recovery, legislative updates, expert payroll year end support, and lets you pay for your software by Direct Debit interest-free over 12 months. Find out more

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• HMRC accreditation:
  Sage 50 Payroll 2009 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.
  
• Manage your payroll costs:
  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.
  
• 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.
  
• Run a smooth Payroll Year End:
  Continue processing while running your Payroll Year End; produce the right reports for HMRC; and even submit your year-end reports online.
  
• 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.

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.

Works with Microsoft Office 2000 and all later editions.

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

Please make sure that you have the latest Microsoft updates installed.

Please note: It is not possible to install multiple copies of this product on a single computer.