Process your payroll

Follow these steps to process your payroll in Sage 50 Payroll Ireland.

Watch the video

Watch our video where we talk you through processing your payroll with auto‑enrolment. The video runs for about 14 minutes.

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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.

• Set a new pay period

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Edit employees

If you have new starters or need to change employees:

• Create a new employee record
• Edit an employee's record
• Mark an employee as a leaver

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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.

• Retrieve Revenue Payroll Notifications (RPNs) 

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Auto-enrolment payroll notifications (AEPNs)

NAERSA calculates the employee, employer, and State contributions. Sage 50 Payroll Ireland retrieves the employee and employer values from the AEPN.

• Retrieve auto-enrolment payroll notifications (AEPNs)

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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.

• Pay your employees using the Time and Pay window

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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.

• Reconcile values on the Control Summary report
• Generate the Gross to Nett report

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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.

1. Click End of Period.
2. When asked to post calculation results, click OK.

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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 a payroll submission (PSR) to Revenue

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Send the auto-enrolment submission

Send your auto-enrolment submission to NAERSA.

• The auto-enrolment pension contributions submission

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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.

• The payroll submission log
• Auto-enrolment submission log

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View/Print payslips

After you end the period, you can print payslips for this pay run or send them by email.

• Print your employees' payslips
• Send payslips by email

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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.

• Generate a SEPA bank transfer file

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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.

• Back up your data 

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Optional tasks

• Generate the nominal export file for accounts
• Reports and payslips
• Set up your pension