You may sometimes need to process statutory adoption pay (SAP) for your employees. You can do this using Sage 50 Payroll, including recording paternity dates, automatically calculating payment and keeping track of employees' paternity leave.

You can use Sage 50 Payroll to automatically calculate SAP. However, if you prefer to do so, you can calculate it manually.

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The following steps contain everything you need to help you process manual SAP.

Check your small employers' relief status

A normal employer can reclaim 92% of SAP that they pay to employees. However a small employer can reclaim 100% plus 3% in small employers' relief.

Before you process SAP you should check if you're a normal or small employer, and if applicable, set up your software to calculate the small employers' relief for you.

Prepare the employee record for manual SAP

1. Double-click the required employee, then click Employee Record.
2. Click Absence, then click S.A.P.
3. Select the Manual Statutory Adoption Pay Calculations check box then click OK.
4. To save your changes, click Save, then Close.

You've now successfully prepared your employee's record for manual SAP and are ready to process your payments.

Process manual SAP

1. Select the required employee, then click Payroll, then Enter Payments.

   Tip: A message may appear prompting you to check if there are any updates to the current legislation. To check this, ensure you're connected to the Internet > Yes, or to continue without checking > No.

2. Click Summary, then Statutory Adoption Pay.
3. To manually enter the SAP value, click the finder button to the right of the highlighted amount box.
4. Enter the value of SAP you want to pay your employee, then click OK.

You've now manually entered the SAP payment for your employee. You should now decide if your employee is entitled to receive any other payments and adjust their normal payments accordingly.