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Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1 training course

Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1 is a one-day course. Our price is £149.00 (Sage's RRP is £270.00).Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1

» Overview: All you need to get started with Sage 50 Payroll

» What do I learn?

Get to grips with the basic principles of Sage 50 Payroll. From navigation through to creating and amending the company and employee records, to getting started with pay elements and YTD figures and controlling user access.

» By the end of this course you will:

  • Understand how to configure the program to suit company requirements
  • Know how to set up your company details, absence reasons, departments and cost centres
  • Be able to create pay elements for payments, deductions and net payments and understand the pay element reports
  • Know how to set up pension schemes to deduct pension contributions from the employee and calculate any employer contributions
  • Understand the methods of creating, editing and customising employee records
  • Learn how to use password protection and how to restrict user access
  • Be able to enter year to date figures for employees using the P11 form

Who should attend? Anyone who wants to know how to set up and configure Payroll, ensuring that you go on to produce problem-free payroll runs in the future.

» Detailed course content

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Sage payroll training course session 1 - System navigation

  • The working environment
  • Calendar
  • Sage Services
  • What do I need to get started?
  • Getting help

Sage payroll training course session 2 - Company settings

  • Checking the legislation
  • Company settings
  • Reporting on company settings

Sage payroll training course session 3 - Setting up pay elements

  • Pay elements
  • Payments
  • Factored pay elements
  • Deductions
  • Net payments
  • Salary pay elements
  • Reporting on pay elements

Sage payroll training course session 4 - Setting up pension schemes

  • Pension scheme types
  • Creating a new pension scheme
  • Reporting on pension schemes

Sage payroll training course session 5 - Setting up your employees

  • Creating new employee records
  • The employee wizard
  • The employee record
  • Creating employee records using the quick employee method
  • Adding new employees using the copy employee function

Sage payroll training course session 6 - Editing employee records

  • Locating employee records
  • Editing employee pay elements
  • Selecting a group of employees
  • Global changes
  • Backup

Sage payroll training course session 7 - Access rights

  • The default user name
  • Securing the manager user name
  • Creating new users
  • Program passwords

Sage payroll training course session 8 - Year-to-date figures

  • Entering YTDs on Sage 50 Payroll
  • Batch entry via YTD values
  • Entering YTDs via the employee record

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Course Centre Start date Duration Total places Available places Book
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1Bristol13/02/20121 day104
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1Manchester20/02/20121 day126
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1N.London22/02/20121 day125
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1Croydon22/02/20121 day127
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1Reading28/02/20121 day122
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1Glasgow05/03/20121 day126
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1Manchester05/03/20121 day1210
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1Newcastle13/03/20121 day124
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1Reading19/03/20121 day107
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1Birmingham20/03/20121 day1210
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1Bristol21/03/20121 day109
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1Croydon26/03/20121 day1211
Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1N.London28/03/20121 day1210

Sage 50 Payroll Stage 1 is a one-day course. Our price is £149.00 (Sage's RRP is £270.00).

You can book your course in several ways:

  • Online: Just click the "Book now" button (your payment will only be processed after we have booked your course with Sage).
  • Phone: Just call 0845 009 3990 to pay by card or arrange BACS or cheque payments.
  • Use the contact form: Click here and fill out the contact form.

Important notes about booking your Sage classroom training course



  • When booking a course online, if the course is not for the paying cardholder, please enter the name it should be booked for in the notes section when paying.
  • If a vegetarian meal is required instead of the standard meal provided, please enter this in the notes section as well.
  • If a course is showing no availability it is still worth contacting us as there maybe cancellations or the possibility of switching the course to a bigger room.
  • Also note that the number of available places given is updated regularly, but it is not live, so it's always best to ask us for the latest availability if the number of available places is running low.
  • *for all courses except Instant Accounts, which is £215 and Payroll Year End, which is £190.


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