Create and manage payments

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Create and manage payments in Sage Payroll.

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To ensure you pay your employees the correct pay, you need to set up payments. There are many payment types available for you to choose from. You can set up the payments you need to use. You can also edit or delete them in Payroll.

TIP: You can’t delete payments in Payroll. If you don’t want to use a payment in the current pay run, you can remove it when you’re processing an employee’s pay details. To do this, select the delete button next to the relevant payment.

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Payroll supports many different payment types. These split into categories. When you create a new payment, you base it on one of these payment types. This determines whether it's subject to Tax, PRSI, and USC.

NOTE: ERR and Share payments are only available for tax year 2024 onwards.

Payment Category	Payment Type	Subject to Tax?	Subject to PRSI	Subject to USC
Hourly Payments	Basic Hours	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Overtime Hours	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Other Hourly Pay	Yes	Yes	Yes
Salary	Salary	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Bonus	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Commission	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Other Salary Payment	Yes	Yes	Yes
Holiday Pay	Advance Holiday Pay	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Hourly holiday pay	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Salary holiday pay	Yes	Yes	Yes
Expenses	Business Expenses	No	No	No
	Other Expenses	No	No	No
Benefit in Kind	Company Car	Yes	Yes	Yes
	medical Insurance	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Staff Housing	Yes	Yes	Yes
Benefit Payments	Illness Benefit Cheque	Yes	No	No
	Notional Illness Benefit	Yes	No	No
Redundancy	Redundancy (Tax)	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Redundancy (Non Tax)	No	No	No
COVID19	COVID19	No	No	No
Statutory Pay	Statutory Sick Pay	Yes	Yes	Yes
Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR)	Travel vouched	No	No	No
Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR)	Travel unouched	No	No	No
Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR)	Subsistence vouched	No	No	No
Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR)	Subsistence unvouched	No	No	No
Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR)	Site Based Employees	No	No	No
Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR)	Emergency travel	No	No	No
Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR)	Eating on site	No	No	No
Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR)	Remote working daily allowance	No	No	No
Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR)	Small benefit exemption	No	No	No
Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR)	Advance Payment	No	No	No
Shares	Taxable Shares	Yes	Employee only	Yes
Shares	Non-Taxable Shares	No	Employee only	Yes

Create a new payment >

Select the settings tab Settings.
Select Payments & Deductions.
Select Payments.
Select Create New Payment.
Enter the details of the new payment, then select Save.

Item	Description
Payment Category	The employee may receive several different types of payment in a pay run. These payments have different categories. Hourly Payments Salary Holiday Pay Expenses Benefit in Kind Benefit Payments Redundancy COVID19 Statutory Pay Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR)
Payment Type	When you create a new payment, you must specify the category it belongs to. Also specify the payment type to base the new payment on.
Name	The name of the payment. This appears on payslips. You can accept the default name or enter your own.
Description	Text to explain the purpose of the payment. You can accept the default description or enter your own.

The payment now appears in the payments list in the Payments tab. Add it to your employees during the next pay run.

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