Get help when you need it without leaving Payroll.
Whether it's your first payroll year end, or you just need a reminder, get help using the Access year end guide button. This guide is available throughout year end, in both the Summary and Year End tabs.
February
NEW:The People's Pension
We've extended our automated Pensions integration to include The People's Pension.
You can now submit your pension data for The People's Pension directly from Sage Payroll.
This makes it easier to send your contribution details, saving you time each pay run.
If you already manually upload data to The People's Pension, do not worry. You can continue to do this, or set up the automated submission.
Analysis types help you analyse your payroll in more detail. For example, you can use them to monitor your employer costs by department or cost centre.
From 6 November 2022, HMRC reversed the 1.25% increase in National Insurance contributions (NICs) (first introduced in April 2022).
The introduction of the new Health and Social Care Levy in April 2023 didn't happen.
For more information about the changes, see our article National Insurance increase reversed article
Scottish Earnings Arrest
If you process attachment of earnings orders in Scotland, there is now one option for Scottish Earnings Arrest. You would use this if you're instructed to add this attachment type to an employee.
This makes it easier to select the right attachment.
You can now check you pay your employees National Minimum Wage. This makes it easier to ensure you meet the minimum wage requirements. You can also view the minimum wage bands and rates for your employees on a new report.
You can now override the statutory payment calculations for your employees. This makes it easier to change the amounts. For example, if you pay your employees before or after they've worked for you. You can also view the total paid to date values for all statutory payments on the absences report.
You can now process salary sacrifice pensions for your employees. This makes it easier to set up salary sacrifice payments and pension schemes. It's also easier to view the pension contributions on your payslips and reports.
We have published new articles to help Instant Payroll customers move to Sage Business Cloud. This includes everything from setting up your company to adding your pensions and completing your first pay run.
New National Insurance rate (UK only)
From 6 July 2022, the Primary Threshold for National Insurance is increasing. We have updated Sage Business Cloud Payroll to account for this. Adjustments are automatic once you reach the 6 July 2022 processing date.
Earnings Limit
Weekly
Monthly
Yearly
Primary Threshold (PT) (6 April 2022 - 5 July 2022)
190.00
823.00
9,880.00
Primary Threshold (PT) (6 July 2022 - 5 April 2023)
242.00
1,048.00
12,570.00
New brand
We've recently updated our Sage brand and you'll start to see changes in the look and feel of Sage Business Cloud Payroll. These changes do not affect how you use the product.
April 2022
Bulk payslip messages
You can now edit payslip messages for multiple employees at the same time. This makes it easier to manage messages that apply to lots of people.
We made changes to allow you to complete year end processing for the 2021/2022 tax year. Also processing pay and making submissions for the 2022/2023 tax year which starts on 6 April 2022.
You can now have messages on your employee's payslips. This feature will be available when you start processing pay runs dated in the 2022/2023 tax year.
The Absences report shows you any employee time off that you've recorded as an absence. The report can show data for any time period since you started using Sage Business Cloud Payroll.
Absences for the current and previous tax years, appear as part of your pay run. This report is useful if you want to see absences before the previous tax year. Or for employees that are no longer part of your active pay runs. Or if you want to save a record of absences by themselves.
Also in January we released a Salary Journal report.
You can use salary information from a pay run to create a Salary Journal report. If you use an accounting product, you can import the report as a journal transaction. This can save you time and reduce processing errors.
If you need cover for when you're on holiday, you can now set up more payroll users to help share the work.
As the user that's registered as the business owner, you can add new users from Settings. Then go to User Management. If you have multiple users for Accounting, you can also grant them Payroll access in the same place.
For more information about creating and managing users, see Add and manage users
August 2021
Process payroll for up to 100 employees
Need to add more employees to your subscription?
We now support up to 100 employees with the addition two new options: 51 - 75 employees and 76 - 100 employees.
You may have reached the maximum number of employees in your subscription. Choose Upgrade from the Employees screen. Then go to the Subscription and Invoices section or, find this under Manage My Account.
April 2021
Online payslips
There is a new Online Payslips feature. This gives employees access to view and download their payslips. You can also view P60s online instead of printing and emailing them. Set up by the employer, employees can now self serve at a time that suits them.
These releases include changes to allow you to complete the year end processing for the 2020/21 tax year. It also allows you to process pay and make submissions for the 2021/22 tax year which starts on 6 April 2021.
To access the new Average Earnings report, go to the Reporting menu.
Look out for more reports coming soon.
August 2020
Process payroll for up to 50 employees
Need to add more employees to your subscription?
We now support up to 50 employees with the addition two new options; 26 - 35 employees and 36 - 50 employees.
You may reach the maximum number of employees on your subscription. Choose Upgrade from the Employees screen. Then go to the Subscription and Invoices section. Alternatively, find this under Manage My Account.
Generate pension contributions reports as CSV files
Download and send details of pension contributions to your pension provider. Do this after each pay run.
Save time and generate details of pension contributions as PAPDIS CSV file. Some pension providers support uploading PAPDIS CSV files to their online portal. Confirm this with your pension provider.
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