Period Rewind warnings

Understand the period rewind warnings in Sage 50 Payroll Ireland and what to do when they appear. This includes steps for Enhanced Reporting Submissions and Online Services.

When you rewind payroll, Sage 50 Payroll Ireland shows a warning message to confirm the impact on submissions and employee data. The exact message depends on your setup, whether you use Enhanced Reporting, Online Services, or neither, but the actions required are similar in all cases.

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General Period Rewind warning

When you rewind payroll to make corrections to your payroll, this message can appear:

'Rewinding the last posting may affect the following areas:

Payroll Submissions:
If you've already sent your payroll submission to Revenue for this period and you make any changes to your payroll, you'll need to send another submission to Revenue.

RPNs:
If you've retrieved RPNs at status 'End of Period', period rewind will result in a loss of this data from the relevant employee records, you'll need to retrieve the RPNs again.

Employee Details:
If you've made changes to Employee Details (created new employees, updated existing employees' information) at status 'End of Period'. period rewind will result in a loss of this data from the relevant employee records. You'll need to apply these changes again.

Do you want to rewind the last posting?'

What to do

• Payroll submissions: Resend your payroll submission to Revenue if you made changes
• RPNs: Retrieve Revenue Payroll Notifications (RPNs) again if they were at the status End of Period
• Employee details: Reapply any changes to employee records after rewind

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Enhanced Reporting Submissions

If you use Enhanced Reporting, the warning also mentions expense categorisation:

'Rewinding the last posting may affect the following areas:

Enhanced Reporting Submissions:
Period rewind will result in the clearing of any values that were changed in the Categorise Expenses screen. You'll need to apply these changes again. If you've already sent your Enhanced Reporting Submission to Revenue for this period and you make any changes to the processing of expenses, you'll need to send another Enhanced Reporting Submission to Revenue.

Payroll Submissions, RPNs, and Employee Details are also affected.”'

What to do

• Enhanced Reporting: Reapply expense categorisation after rewind
• Resend Enhanced Reporting Submissions if you changed expense data
• Follow the general steps for Payroll Submissions, RPNs, and Employee Details

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Online Services

If you use Sage HR Online Services, the warning also includes payslips:

'Rewinding the last posting may affect the following areas:

Enhanced Reporting Submissions: Reapply expense categorisation and resend submissions if changed.
Payroll Submissions: Resend if changes were made.
RPNs: Retrieve again if previously at End of Period.
Employee Details: Reapply any new or updated records.
Upload Online Payslips: If you change Time and Pay after rewind, upload amended payslips again to Sage HR.

Do you want to rewind the last posting?'

What to do

• Payroll submissions: If you made changes, resend to Revenue
• RPNs: Retrieve again if they were at End of Period
• Enhanced Reporting: Reapply and resend expense changes
• Employee details: Reapply updates
• Online payslips: Re-upload to Sage HR if you edit Time and Pay

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Quick reference

After running Period Rewind, always:

• Resend your payroll submission to Revenue if you made changes
• Retrieve Revenue Payroll Notifications (RPNs) again if they were at End of Period
• Reapply Employee details changes
• Reapply and resend Enhanced Reporting submissions
• Retrieve and resubmit auto-enrolment (AEPNs)
• Upload online payslips again if you made changes to Sage HR

To continue past the warning message and rewind the last posting, click Yes.