Set the period You can confirm the period number and dates, clear timesheet data, and prepare your payroll for processing. When you set a new period, Sage 50 Payroll Ireland automatically archives the previous one. You can access that data anytime to print reports or review past payrolls.
Edit employees If you have new starters or need to make changes to employees:
Retrieve Revenue payroll notifications (RPNs) You need to retrieve the most recent RPNs for all employees before processing pay each period. This ensures you use the latest revenue information.
Auto-enrolment payroll notifications (AEPNs) - From 1 January 2026 NAERSA calculates the employee, employer, and State contributions. Sage 50 Payroll Ireland retrieves the employee and employer values from the AEPN.
Enter Time and Pay An employee's time and pay details contain information about payments, deductions, income tax and holidays relating to the current period. By completing an employee's time and pay details, you can produce their payslip.
View your Control Summary and Gross to Nett reports Before you continue to the End of Period, view your Control Summary and Gross to Nett reports to make sure the figures are correct.
End of period Once you've entered your employees' pay, and run your reports to verify the figures, you're ready to finalise the payroll. - Click End of Period.
- When asked to post calculation results, click OK.
Send the payroll submission You need to send your payroll information to Revenue every time you pay employees. Select Send Payroll Submission to submit your details directly from Sage Payroll.
Send the auto-enrolment submission - From 1 January 2026 Send your auto-enrolment submission to NAERSA.
View the submission log The payroll and auto-enrolment submission logs shows a summary of all successful and pending submissions, which you can filter by period date. You can also export a detailed report with extra information for each submission.
View/Print payslips After you end the period, you can print payslips for this pay run or send them by email.
Create a bank transfer file Each time you process payroll, you can create a bank transfer file with your employees’ bank details and payment amounts. Upload the file to your bank through your online banking or banking software.
Back up your payroll data Back up your payroll data at the end of every pay period. If anything happens, you can restore an earlier backup to recover your data.
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