In Sage 50 Payroll you can pay an employee in advance, for example when they take holiday and want to receive their holiday pay before the holiday period. Using the Advance Pay option from the Global Changes menu you can advance pay quickly and easily for a group of employees.

TIP: You can advance pay to an employee regardless of whether a holiday scheme has been assigned to their record. Only pay elements set up with a status of Global, or have the Auto Advance checkbox selected, work with Global Changes.

1. From the employee list, select the required employees.
2. Open the Tasks menu, choose Global Changes and then choose Advance Pay for (n) Periods.
3. Complete the Advance Pay window as follows:
   
   

   Number of Pay Periods to be advanced?	This is the number of pay periods you want to advance, on top of the current pay period. For example in a weekly payroll, if you'd like to pay the current week and advance two weeks, you'd enter the payments due in the current week then set the advance to 2. This would pay a total of three pay periods.
   Advance pay based upon?	From the drop-down list, choose one of the following options: Current Hrs/Rates - The advanced pay calculates based on the values currently entered within Enter Payments Default Hrs/Rates - The advanced pay calculates based on the values recorded within the employee's record

4. To apply your changes to the selected employee records, click OK.
5. When the message appears, advising how many employee records will be affected by the change, to proceed, click Yes.
6. If required, to print the Global Changes - Advance Pay Report, click Print and then from the preview window click Print. Ensure your printer details are correct then click OK.
7. To close the preview window, click Close and then to close the Advance Pay window and return to the Sage 50 Payroll desktop, click Close.

You have now advanced pay for the selected employees for the required pay periods.

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