If you take some time off work there may be some pay periods that'd be missed if you don't do them in advance.

With Sage 50 Payroll, you can use the advance pay option or process each pay run individually.

Advance pay

Advance pay let's you select how many periods you're processing, and pay them all at once. This option calculates tax using the Pay Adjustment from all periods you process, to ensure employees' tax is correct.

However, there are some cases where you can't use Advance pay:

• You're processing statutory payments
• Your pension provider requires a contribution file for each period
• You process a salary sacrifice pension scheme
• The employee receives government benefits

To find out more about these scenarios, visit our guide covering the advance pay option. If one of the reasons above means you can't use advance pay, follow the process payments in advance manually steps below.

If you've checked and you're able to process advance pay, visit our process advance pay guide for the steps.

Process payments in advance manually

If you're not able to use the advance pay function but need to process some payrolls early, follow the steps below.

The steps below take you through processing each payment individually.

1. Set the process date for the first pay run.
2. Process the payments for this period, update records and submit the Full Payment Submission (FPS).
3. Set the process date to the next pay day and process this period, including the FPS.
4. Repeat this until you've processed all required periods and submitted the FPS for each.

Issue a payslip for each week you processed and arrange the payments. Alternatively, you can manually total the payments due for each employee and pay this on the date of the first pay period you processed.