How to add and remove comments on your employee's payslips in Sage 50 Payroll.
If you'd like to add a personal touch to your employees' payslips, you can add a comment. For example, to wish your employees a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Add a comment
- On the Employee List, double-click the required employee.
- Go to the Analysis tab.
- Enter your comment in the Payslip Comment box.
- Select Save then Close.
Payslip comments that you add here appear on printed payslip layouts, and in the payslip PDF in online payslips portals.
TIP: Payslip comments don't appear on the payslip preview in online payslip portals. They only appear on the downloaded payslip PDF file.
Remove a comment
- On the Employee List, double-click the required employee.
- Go to the Analysis tab.
- Remove the comment in the Payslip Comment box.
- Select Save then Close.
Add a comment to more than one employees' payslip
- On the Employee List, click the required employees.
- On the menu bar, click Tasks and then Global Changes.
- Click Electronic Documents then Set Payslip Comment.
- Enter your comment then press OK.
- A message confirms the number of employees included. Check this is correct and click Yes.
- Click OK.
Remove a comment from more than one employees' payslip
- Follow steps 1 to 2 in the previous section.
- Click Electronic Documents then click Clear Payslip Comments.
- Click Yes then OK.
Available payslip layouts
Some of the default reports in your software already include comments. ▼ Click here to view a list of these reports.
| Name | Description | Filename |
| DotMatrix (1 per 6in. page) with Comments | Standard payslip plus format payslip including payslip comment field | STDLYT03 |
| DotMatrix (1 per 6in. page) with Holiday Funds and Loans | Standard payslip plus format payslip including Holiday Fund and Loans | STDLYT06 |
| DotMatrix (2 per 12in. page) with Comments | Standard payslip plus format payslip including payslip comment field | STDLYT05 |
| Email Layout A4 | Email Layout A4 | Email 1 |
| Email Layout with Holiday | Email Layout with Holiday | Email 2 |
| Email Layout without Holiday | Email Layout without Holiday | Email 3 |
| Laser (2 per A4 sheet) with Comments | Standard laser payslip plus format, two per A4 sheet. Includes payslip comment | STDLYT21 |
| Laser (2 per A4 sheet) with Holiday Funds and Loans | Standard laser payslip plus format, two per A4 sheet. Includes holiday fund and loan information | STDLYT22 |
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