Set up your payments and deductions for nominal integration
Description

After entering your basic nominal codes in Sage Payroll for your nominal exports, you can then set up any codes required for your individual payments and deductions. 

This allows you to break down any codes as needed for specific payments and deductions, as well as reporting the gross amounts of any payments paid to your employees. 

NOTE: Any nominal settings should be entered when you are at Start of Period or Time and Pay Calculated for them to be applied and take effect. If you are already at End of Period, you should rewind your payroll, make the relevant changes and then End the Period again. Otherwise the nominal code changes won't take effect until the next pay period. 

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NOTE: Any nominal settings should be entered when you are at Start of Period or Time and Pay Calculated for them to be applied and take effect. If you are already at End of Period, you should rewind your payroll, make the relevant changes and then End the Period again. Otherwise the nominal code changes won't take effect until the next pay period. 


Payments

You can set up nominal codes for your payments to be sent on when you create your nominal export files.

This allows you to report on the gross value of the wages paid to your employees, as well as breaking this down further to report on the specific payments. 

Once these are set up, when you create the nominal file the values of these payments will be automatically posted to that specific nominal code. 

Setup

TIP: You should make sure that any nominal codes are defined in the same nominal code format defined in your setup window. For example, if you specified a four-digit nominal code of aaaa in your settings window, nominal codes entered here should also be four digits long. You can use a maximum of 16 characters for each code. 

  1. On the menu bar, click Nominal then click Payments...
  2. Next to each payment in your list, enter the relevant nominal code.
  3. To save your changes, press OK

Deductions

You can set up nominal codes for your deductions to be sent on your nominal export files.

This allows you to report the values of any deductions from your employees pay. You can enter the relevant employee and employer debits and credits, or both, depending on the type of deduction.  

Once these are set up, when you create the nominal file the values for these deductions will be automatically posted to that specific nominal code.

TIP: If you’re unsure whether a deduction nominal code needs to be entered as a debit or credit, you should check with your accountant.

Setup

TIP: You should make sure that any nominal codes are defined in the same nominal code format defined in your setup window. For example, if you specified a four-digit nominal code of aaaa in your settings window, nominal codes entered here should also be four digits long. You can use a maximum of 16 characters for each code. 

  1. On the menu bar, click Nominal then click Deductions...
  2. Next to each deductionin your list, enter the relevant nominal code for:
    1. Employee Credit
    2. Employer Debit
    3. Employer Credit
  3. To save your changes, press OK.

NOTE: Nominal deduction costs are not normally split over departments, as deductions are not a cost to the employer. However you may want to see the cost of the pension reflected by department. If so, enter this in the Employer Debit section of the nominal deductions.


Next Steps

After setting up your payments and deductions nominal codes, if required you can then also set up codes for your departments or cost centres. Read more > 

You can also return to the nominal setup guide for other steps on setting up and creating your nominal exports. Read more > 

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