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Thu Nov 06 15:56:42 UTC 2025
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The Company Details window
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Access your company details

To access your company details, go to Company/Payroll, then select Company Details. 

General tab

Company Name

Your licensed company name appears here. To add a new company name:

  1. Select New Company, then enter the company name.
  2. Select Create Company.
Address
 Enter your company's address.
Eircode
 Enter the unique eircode for your company's address. For more information about eircodes, visit www.eircode.ie
Narrative
 Enter a default narrative to print on all reports. 
Payroll Frequency
 Each pay frequency requires a separate payroll. If you haven't set the first period of the year, you can change the frequency.
GCD Code

Enter your company's general case district code from your local tax office, if applicable.
Employer Reg. No.
 Enter your company's employer registration number from Revenue.
PAYE Unit No.

The PAYE Unit No. of the office that deals with your tax queries.
Contact Details
 Enter the name, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address of your company contact.

Bank

Bank Details

You can enable the e-Banking feature to make payments directly to your employees' bank accounts.

Credit Union

Use this to enable bank transfer transactions in which the employee uses a credit union account.

Interim Bank Transfer

The deduction you've set up for the interim bank transfer amounts.

Misc


Pay Methods

Select the relevant payment methods for your payroll. These include:

  • Bank Transfer
  • Giro
  • Cheque
  • Cash
  • Split Pay
Use 50 Notes
 To include 50 Euro notes in cash payments, select this check box. If left unchecked, the largest denomination note is 20 Euros.
Special PRSI for Tax Exempt employees
 Select this to indicate that special PRSI applies for tax-exempt employees. Only select this with the approval of the Department of Social Protection.
Avg. Hourly Rate
 Enter the rate number that signifies the average hourly rate in an employee record.
Avg. No. of Weeks
 Enter the number of periods that you want the average rate to calculate over. This can be from 0 to 13 periods.
Round Nett Pay To

Enter the nearest value to which an employee's net pay rounds up or down to. The value you enter specifies the rounding difference in cents. 
Maximum / Minimum Nett Pay
 Enter the maximum and minimum nett pay per period for all employees. You can override this value at the employee level in Employee Details. There's no limit to the maximum; if you pay more than this, you receive a warning in the Control Summary.
Standard Hours

Enter the default standard number of hours per period.

This is the default that appears for hourly employees when you process them. To use the Standard Hours setting, set it up as the first entry in your list of payment types. To do this, go to Company/Payroll, then open the Payments tab.
Nett to Gross Type
 Sage 50 Payroll Ireland includes two types of nett to gross:

  • Total: Use this option if your employees receive no additional payments other than their net pay amount
  • Extra: Use this option if your employees receive payments in addition to their net pay amount
Nett to Gross Elm.

Select the payment that holds the gross value of the nett to gross calculation.
Audit Retention

Enter the number of periods you want to retain information for audit purposes.
Control Summary by
 Choose whether the Control Summary produces its totals by cost centre, by department, or neither.
Pension Remittance Notification
 Selecting this check box enables the text specified in the associated field to appear on employee payslips under certain circumstances. 
Hide Pension Contribution Pop-up
 If you disable this, you can enter a monetary amount or a percentage of pensionable pay. 

Split/User-Defined

You usually pay employees by a single method. However, at times you need to split an employee's pay between multiple pay methods. 

BIK/SSP 

Specify:

Email

Activate e-mail functionality in the current payroll.

Once you've done this, you can:

Employee

Specify:

  • Whether your employee codes automatically generate for the payroll
  • The minimum employee code length

Holidays tab

CSO

If the CSO has selected your company for surveying, you can complete the following tasks within this tab:

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