What's new?

Payroll year end

You can now complete your payroll year end for the 2022/2023 tax year.

You can also process pay runs in the new tax year, which starts on 6 April 2023.

Payroll year end in Sage Payroll has never been easier.

For more information, read our Payroll year end 2023 guide

Edit pay run

You can now edit pay and absences separately when you make corrections.

This makes it easier to correct a completed pay run and confirm your changes.

For more information, read our article Correct a completed pay run

Delete an employee record

You can now delete the records of employees you've not processed in a pay run.

This makes removing an employee record you've set up in error is easier.

For more information, read our article Create and edit employee records

Add employee finish dates as a bulk action

You can now add finish dates as a bulk action for any employees who have left your company.

This makes it easier to enter finish dates for multiple employees.

For more information, read our article Dealing with leavers

Holiday Pay

You can now add a holiday payment for both hourly and salaried employees when you process a pay run.

This makes it easier to record holiday pay for your employees.

For more information, read our article Holiday Pay

National Insurance changes

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the 1.25% increase in National Insurance contributions (NICs), first introduced in April 2022, will be reversed from 6 November 2022.

The new Health and Social Care Levy will no longer be introduced in April 2023.

For more information about the changes, see our article National Insurance increase reversed article

Scottish Earnings Arrest

If you process attachment of earnings orders in Scotland, there is now one option for Scottish Earnings Arrest. You would use this if you're instructed to add this attachment type to an employee.

This makes it easier to select the right attachment.

For more information, read our article Attachment of earnings orders

National Minimum Wage check

You can now check you pay your employees National Minimum Wage. This makes it easier to ensure you meet the minimum wage requirements. You can also view the minimum wage bands and rates for your employees on a new report.

For more information, see our article National Minimum Wage check

Statutory payments override

You can now override the statutory payment calculations for your employees. This makes it easier to change the amounts, for example, if you pay your employees before or after they've worked for you. You can also view the total paid to date values for all statutory payments on the absences report.

For more information, see our article Statutory payments override

June 2022

Salary sacrifice pensions

You can now process salary sacrifice pensions for your employees. This makes it easier to set up salary sacrifice payments and pension schemes and view the pension contributions on your payslips and reports.

For more information, see our article Salary sacrifice pensions

New brand

We've recently updated our Sage brand and you'll start to see changes in the look and feel of Sage Business Cloud Payroll. These changes do not affect how you use the product.

Bulk payslip messages

You can now edit payslip messages for multiple employees at the same time. This makes it easier to manage messages that apply to lots of people.

For more information, see our article Payslip messages

Payroll Year End

We've also made changes to allow you to complete year end processing for the 2021/2022 tax year, process pay and make submissions for the 2022/2023 tax year which starts on 6 April 2022.

Your SBC Payroll program will be updated automatically on 10 March 2022.

Legislation changes for the new tax year includes:

• Updated tax bands for the UK

• Updated Auto Enrolment thresholds

• Updated NI Calculation thresholds

• New Freeport and Veteran NI Categories

• Updated statutory payment values

Payslip messages

You can now have messages on your employee's payslips. This feature will be available when you start processing pay runs dated in the 2022/2023 tax year.

For more information, see our article Payslip messages

The Absences report

The Absences report shows you any employee time off that you've recorded as an absence. The report can be run for any of your employees and can show data for any time period since you started using Sage Business Cloud Payroll.

Absences for the current and previous tax years, appear as part of your pay run. Therefore, this report is particularly useful if you want to see absences before the previous tax year or for employees that are no longer part of your active pay runs. Or if you want to save a record of absences by themselves.

For more information, please see our article The Absences report

This release includes changes to allow your employees to access their online payslips via the Sage HR mobile app.

For more information about online payslips for employees and employers, see the appropriate help article.

Online Payslips: an employer's guide

Online Payslips: an employee’s guide

The Salary Journal report

Also in January we released a Salary Journal report.

You can use salary information from a pay run to create a Salary Journal report. If you use an accounting product, you can import the report as a journal transaction. This can save you time and reduce processing errors.

For more information about the report Salary journals

2021