Training and Certifications

Sage 50 Payroll

We have designed learning paths to provide you with the knowledge and experience to master Sage 50 Payroll.

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  Set up Online Services in 7 easy steps

Sign in with your Sage account

Register your company

Manage access to your Online Services

Manage your employees

Upload historical payslips

Display holiday entitlement

Visit your Online Services portal

Upload online payslips

FREE LIVE WEBINAR

Get started with Sage HR Online Services

Join this webinar to learn more about online payslips and P60s with Sage HR Online Services, included free with your Sage 50 Payroll subscription.

We'll run through set up, uploading payslips and P60s, navigating your online portal, and more. You can even ask questions in our live Q&A.

Unlock the power of Sage 50 Payroll and Sage HR

Transform how you manage and engage your people with Sage 50 Payroll and Sage HR. Find out how you and your business can benefit from user-friendly HR software that is integrated with Sage 50 Payroll, that empowers your employees to self-serve their payslips and more, streamlines admin and provides better experiences for all.

  Get Started

Payroll Basics

This course introduces you to Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and helps you choose how to run your payroll. You learn how to set up your payroll, including registering as an employer with HMRC, and which records you need to keep.



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  Payroll Fundamentals

Stage 1: Setting Up Your Payroll

This course is ideal if you are new to the software, this stage covers the basic principles of Sage 50cloud Payroll, from navigation through to setting up pay elements and creating employee records.

Stage 2: Process Your Payroll

This course covers the fundamental steps to complete a basic pay run for your employees, and how to produce/view their payslips. You also cover starters, leavers and submit your payroll information to HMRC.

Stage 3: Payments and Editing Payslips

This course covers advanced payroll topics that you come across on an irregular basis. This includes how to process statutory payments and various types of parental pay. We also look at historical reporting and amending a payslip layout to suit your company needs.

Automatic Enrolment with Payroll Pensions

This is a flexible course designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to process Automatic Enrolment in your Sage 50 Payroll Pension module software.



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  Get Ready for Payroll Year End

Week 53

Key dates and deadlines

Install your update

Prepare for year end

Common questions

Process year end

Get ready for the new tax year

What's new for 2026/27

     


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  Bitesized Learning

Sage Employee Verification

In this short video we cover Sage's new Employment Verification service. Experian, in partnership with Salary Finance, are offering a new Employment Verification service and Sage is integrating this with its Sage 50 Payroll product, so that you and your employees can benefit from this digital, real-time service.

Legislation and Company Settings

This course explains how to navigate the working environment and the information you need to get started. You also learn how to check the legislation, setup your company and e-submission settings. Finally, the training course explains how to create new users and password protect your payroll software.

Set up pay elements and employee records

This course you cover the different types of payments and deductions, and the different ways you can set up employee records.

Processing Payroll

We have designed this courses to help you process your payroll as efficiently as possible. It explains how to process your weekly or monthly payroll runs, how to produce payslips and carry out a Full Payment submissions.

Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)

In this training course, you learn about the statutory sick pay legislation and how to enter and process statutory sick pay. You also cover how to produce pre-update reports, carry out post update checks and produce post update reports.

Parental Pay

In this training course, you learn how to enter and process statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay, in addition to shared parental leave.

Period End

This training course explains how to prepare for, produce and analyse the P32 report. You also learn how to set up e-banking to enable you to export you BACS payment information and upload it to your online banking portal or banking software.

Error Corrections

This course takes you through the processors and tools available in Sage 50 Payroll to correct input errors.

Reporting

This course shows you how to produce historical reports and payslips, and how to edit a payslip in the Sage Report Designer.

Holidays and Absence

This course takes you through setting up your holidays schemes and recording your employees holidays.

Automatic Enrolment with Payroll Pensions

The course gives you a comprehensive understanding of using Sage 50 Payroll to comply with Automatic Enrolment and how the Pensions Module can assist when undertaking your Automatic Enrolment tasks and processes.



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  Get Certified



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  Product Tour

New to Sage 50 Payroll or want to see it in action before signing up?

Watch these new bite-sized videos where we showcase some of the key features available in Sage 50 Payroll.

Simple employee set up

Easy management of payroll data

Process maps

Flexible payment items

Simple payment entry

Manage absence and payments

Employee Online payslips mobile app

Employer Online Payslips with PDF

Easy process for leavers

Legislation made simple

Personal data management tool

Minimum wage check

Parental pay

Complex pension legislation made simple

HMRC inbox

Variance reporting

Payroll assistant

Custom analysis fields

Salary journals made simple

Easily post salary journals

Department and Cost Centre Reporting

Understand your payroll costs

Easily filter and view employees

Easy and flexible reporting

Select favourite reports

Create report selections

Customise your reports

Expert help and support



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