When you update records for a pay period, your software saves the payments for each employee. To change the payments in a prior period, you need to get back to before you updated records for the relevant period.

In Sage 50 Payroll, you can choose from three ways to go back to a prior pay period.

If you haven't updated the records for the pay period you need to change, you can change it now in Enter Payments.

To correct payments after you've updated records, choose the most suitable option below.

Rollback

With rollback, you can select one or more employees and take them back to before you updated records for a prior pay period.

This is useful as you can only edit the employees you rollback. Other employees' payments remain as they were when you first processed them.

Find out more in our article to how to use the rollback option.

Restore a backup

If you take a backup of a company, where required you can restore it later to take your payroll data back to that point.

This is useful if you need to amend all or most employees, or to print new pre-update reports including all employees. 

You can also use this option if you move to a new computer. For help with restoring a backup, visit our Restore a backup article.

Recover your data

When you update records, your software creates a backup automatically, called the Recover backup.

You can use this to get back to the moment before you updated records in a prior pay run.

This is useful if you need to amend all or most employees, or to print new pre-update reports including all employees. 

Use when there's no backup to restore, and you need to correct a mistake that affects all or most of your employees. Follow our restore an automatic recover backup article to do this.