If your employees take a holiday and want their pay in advance, you can use the Advance Pay option. 

Pay the wages for more than one pay period at once. Sage then calculates the deductions, such as tax based on the current period, and any periods advanced.

You can advance pay for multiple employees, or a single employee.

 TIP: Use our guide to see how tax and National Insurance calculate when you advance pay over payroll year end.

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Advance your employees' pay

 CAUTION: There are some instances when not to advance pay. 

1. Select Payroll then Change Process Date.
2. Set the process date to the date your employee is receiving their pay.
3. Select the relevant employee then click Enter Payments.
4. Enter the payments for the current pay period as normal.
5. Select Advance Pay and enter the number of periods to advance.
6. Enter the required payments on the Payments tab.
    NOTE: Enter the total for the full advanced period. 
7. If required, enter deductions, attachments and loans in the relevant tabs.
8. Select OK.
9. Select Save/Next then Close.

Process the period for all employees, and submit the Full Payment Submission (FPS) as normal. The Last FPS Date column on your employee list shows the last pay date in the advanced period.