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Validate your payroll data

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Summary

How to check your payroll data for any issues that cause submissions to Revenue to fail in Sage Payroll.

Description

You can set the Validate Payroll Data option to run automatically when you set your payroll period. This is a way to help you identify and prevent processing errors in your payroll data.

Resolution

How to run Validate Payroll Data

This option runs automatically when you set the period for your current payroll run.

TIP: You can also run the Validate Payroll Data option at any time from the Tasks bar.

Sage Payroll screen showing Validate Payroll Data screenshot. Showing 2 company issues.

NOTE: By default, if there are no issues to report, this option doesn't appear. 

Company Issues relating to the Company Details window.
Employee Issues relating to individual employee records.
GDPR Issues relating to GDPR regulations.

View and correct the issues

To view details on any issues found, click the relevant tabs.

Validate Payroll Data window showing details of two company issues

TIP: To print or view the details outside the software, you can use the PDF button. 

You can then make the necessary adjustments, based on the information provided in the Validate Payroll Data report.

Validate Payroll Data Settings

If you want to stop this option from running automatically, you can turn it off. 

  1. In the Validate Payroll Data window, click Edit Validate Payroll Data Settings.
  2. Select and clear the check boxes to suit your preferences.
  3. Click Save.

Settings window for payroll validation with options to automatically validate at the start of the period and to only show results when issues are found.