Skip or miss a pay run

Summary

An explanation of when to skip or miss a pay run, and how to do this in Sage Payroll.

When you complete a pay run, Payroll moves on to the next pay period.

You can also skip pay runs by making a different pay run the current one.

For example, you completed week 1. You could then make week 4 the current pay run.

You can also reuse an old pay calendar.

For example, you run a weekly pay calendar but haven’t used it in some time. You'll need to skip the missed pay runs to come up to date.

Select Settings from the menu bar.
Under Pay Runs, select Pay day settings.
Select View Pay Calendar.
In the Status column, you can see your Current period.
Select the period you want to make your new Current period.

NOTE:

You can't skip over the last period of the tax year. Run your year end first if you wish to do this.
Select the Make this the current Pay Run checkbox.
Select Save.

For more information about the Pay Day Calendar, read Pay day calendar settings.

This section doesn't apply to companies in Ireland. This is due to Revenue's different reporting methods.

Skipping one or more pay runs can open a new P32 reporting period.

In this case, P32 values in the closed period are finalised.

You can still make corrections to the closed P32 reporting periods. These corrections don’t affect the finalised P32 values.