Create and Edit an Employees in Sage Business Cloud Payroll

With Sage Software caters to all small-medium-sized business windows. It becomes an essential need to hold records of their employees just like any other operational firm. To learn more about how to create and edit an Employee in Sage Business Cloud Payroll, let’s take a closer look at this article.

Just as the name suggests, Employees in Sage Business Cloud Payroll is mainly a section of your employee’s personal information. This personal information is reasonably needed in keeping a record of all necessary details which help segregate and demand correct wages. Usually, it consists of employment and pay information. Furthermore, The Employee tab allows you to create and amend these entries.

Why and Tips to Create an Employees in Sage 50 Cloud Payroll?

Generally, everyone you hire should have a track record of employment. This record demands to stand mandatory. For, you can’t enroll someone on a pay run unless they have an employee record, so it becomes necessary to make sure that you set up all of your employees first.

Now, if you are not certain how to do the same, follow the guide provided below to exclude any possible errors.

Creating an Employee 

For adding a new Employee.

• First and foremost step, proceed to hit on the option Add New Employee, from the Employee tab.
• Next, you then need to enter the employee’s details in each and every tab present and then click on Save.

The employment record includes a plethora of basic information that you may request from the employee. We’ve detailed the less popular possibilities below.

Here are some detailed record columns

A. Employment

• Employee Number: Every firm provides a unique combination of codes to each and every hired employee which helps them identify. This Number works wonders in cases where there are one or more identical names, hence their employee number helps in locating them.

• Employment Code: This Code is usually used to file your T4s. You may need to edit this code from the default value if your employee has a specific position.

• Province of Employment: This is a record gird which can specifically tell which employee is employed in which branch. This is a subjective thing and it may vary from where your company is based.

B. Personal Information

• It consists of basic information like the employee’s name, gender, date of birth etc.
• It helps to fill in and select if You can work full-time, part-time, or as a contractor.

C. TAX Details

Usually, the Tax details required for your employee are divided into two specific sections:

• Section 1 is for all employees who are based in Canada. 
• Section 2 is based on the Province of Employment you enter on their Employment tab.

D. Payment

• Pay Group: The pay frequency you’ve chosen filters the available pay groups.

E. Vacation Rate(%) & Vacation Entitlement

• 4 %
• 2 Weeks
• 6 %
• 3 Weeks
• 8 %
• 4 Weeks

Now, that you are aware of how to create an employee in Sage Business Cloud Payroll, let us also ponder some light over the editing part.

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Why and Tips to Edit an Employees Record in Sage Business Cloud Payroll?

There may sometimes occur a need where you need to eliminate or update a specific section of a record of an employee. When this situation is on the table, it becomes important that we edit an employee record. To know how one can edit an employee record, let us dig deeper and follow the article.

Tips to Edit an Employee Record in Sage Business Cloud Payroll

To change an existing employee’s details.

• First, go to the Employees tab, in order to open their record, proceed to click the relevant employee. 
• You may then modify either the Employee Details or the Payslip Template Values.

Employee Details

• Make any necessary changes to the employment details, then click Save.
• Employee information changes have no effect on completed pay runs.

Tips to Choosing a Payslip Template in Sage

When you are going to printing, emailing or exporting your employee Payslips, you can choose from three different templates.

• Click Payslip Template in Settings.
• Save the template you want to use.

Tips to Set up Employees for Emailed Payslips in Sage Software

In this section you will get how to set up employees for emailed Payslips?

• Click on the relevant employee in Employees, and then click Edit.
• To access emailed Payslips, enter the employee’s email address and password, then click Save option.
• For each employee to whom you want to send email Payslips, repeat the previous steps.

How to Email Payslips

• As usual, process the pay run until the Completed Pay Run window appears.
• Click Pay Runs, and then select the required pay run to email payslips from a completed pay run.
• Choose one of the following options in the Employee Pay Breakdown section:
• Click the email option beside the employee’s name and edit the email message if necessary. Then click Send Email.
• You can email payslips to all employees by clicking Export All Payslips, then clicking Email Payslips. Edit the email message and click Send Email.

Tips to Reprinting Payslips in Sage Software

Payslips can be printed from completed pay runs, so you don’t need to print when you complete your pay run, and the task can be completed later.

• Go to Pay Runs and select the required pay run.
• You can do one of the following in the Employee Pay Breakdown section:
  • Click the PDF option beside the name of an employee to print their payslip.
  • You can print all employees payslips by clicking Export All Payslips then PDF Payslips.
• Print or save the payslips using your Internet.

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