Summary
Set up holiday accruals and holiday pay in Sage 50 Payroll Ireland.
Description
Use the holiday features to:
- Set up holiday pay payments
- Configure holiday accrual settings
- Track employee holiday entitlement
- Calculate holiday pay
Before you can manage employee holidays, you need to create the holiday pay payments used by your payroll.
Resolution
Before you start
Set up the required holiday payments:
- Hourly paid employees require an hourly holiday pay payment
- Salary-paid employees require a variable holiday pay payment
Configure company holiday settings
If you don't have any hourly paid employees, skip to step 6.
- Go to Company/Payroll, then select Payments.
- Select an hourly payment, then select Edit.
- Select Holiday Accrual calculation.
- Select Save, then repeat these steps for each hourly payment.
- Select Close.
- Go to Company/Payroll, then select Company Details.
- Open the Holidays tab, then enter the holiday year start and end dates.
Configure holiday payments
- Under Company Settings, select the payments for holiday pay:
Holiday Payment (Days) Payment to use when calculating holiday pay in days. Select a fixed or variable payment. Holiday Payment (Hours) Payment to use when calculating holiday pay in hours. Select an hourly payment.
Configure default accrual settings
- Complete the following information if required:
- Default accrual method
- Standard entitlement
- Total hours in a working day
- Total working days per week
- Select Apply accrual settings to all employees.
- Select Yes, then OK.
- Select OK. to save the company settings.
Next steps
Complete the holiday setup for each employee:
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