Sage Payroll (Micropay)
Where the payment type is set up as expenses category, if there was a further dropdown box for subcategories called Unvouched Subsistence, Vouched Subsistence, Vouched Travel, Unvouched Travel, etc., this could then feed to the submission report and do away with the need for filling all the different boxes for each employee for each payroll run.
Could the new expenses category be set up to include factors? Eg. A payment type called Mileage A (above 1.5cc) set at .7208c per mile. Traditionally it would pick up miles as units and convert to value. ie enter qty 40 and it would convert to value of €28.83 This factor option has been removed which causes more work. ie you have to now work out the value of the payment eg Multiply the number of miles by the applicable rate to give a value and enter the value. Same would go for standard subsistence allowance. Values have to be worked out before entering. Very time consuming now. Also for tracking max miles before rate changes is very hard to do now as you have to keep a seperate record as number of miles no longer exists on Micropay.
Also, could there be a seperate line on page one of the control summary showing the ERR only figure for the period. This week I had ERR and other expenses and they both show up as one figure - non tax payments. Would be good if they were split for cross checking with the submission total.
On the ERR submission, I don't think there is a facility to export the totals sheet at the time of processing (there is for the normal submission).
Apologies for the typo. I meant to write version 27.1
Hi, Sage Payroll v27.2 will be available in the next few days. This version includes the ability to:
Set an 'Enhanced Reporting Category' in the expense payment settings. This means values processed for the expense payment in Enter Time and Pay are carried automatically onto the Categorise Expenses grid when the Send Enhanced Reporting Submission is opened and you can edit these values if needed before submitting them.
Create an expense payment based on an hourly rate.
Export Details on the Enhanced Reporting Submission similar to the Payroll Submission.
Make Enhanced Reporting Correction Submissions for previous periods in this version. And much more.
Regards, Declan
I agree with all points above, but I really feel that the first suggestion is a vital change which needs to be carried out by Sage. We as payroll operators are trying to reduce double jobbing and this is time consuming.