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Sage Payroll Advanced

Modern Cloud Payroll: Secure, Scalable, and Built for Growth

Sage Payroll Advanced

Overview of Sage Payroll Advanced

Sage Payroll Advanced with HR: Streamlined Payroll & HR for Growing Businesses

With Sage Payroll Advanced, you get more than just payroll. You get a secure, high-performance solution designed to enhance efficiency, reduce complexity, and support business growth. Simplify complex payroll for your growing business in a single powerful cloud-platform. Ensure seamless tax compliance all year round with added HR capabilities to lighten the load on essential admin.

Sage Payroll Advanced with HR is a cloud-based software solution that includes payroll features plus essential HR capabilities for growing medium-sized businesses with 100-700 employees.

Anywhere, Anytime Payroll & HR for Growing Teams

You can access this online anywhere, anytime and it is perfect for businesses that are scaling up and need to automate and streamline payroll and people admin tasks from one place. This creates a smoother, more rewarding work experience for your team and allows you to make smarter, more informed decisions while saving time on admin.

You can create and manage employee records, pay your people on-time and benefit from essential HR workflows to manage your growing workforce.

With Sage Payroll Advanced you can:

  • Easy Payroll

    Simplify your payroll and complete within 3 easy steps.

  • Stay Compliant

    Stay compliant with a recognised solution that’s up to date with the latest legislation.

  • Employee Self Service

    Empower your people to self-serve payslips and leave requests.

  • Accurate Records

    Ensure that your people records are always up-to-date, accurate, and secure.

  • Powerful Add‑Ons

    Get powerful add-ons that support you across the entire employee lifecycle.

Why choose Sage Payroll Advanced?

Get core HR capabilities with payroll. Manage and pay your people faster, from one place on a secure platform.

Compliance

Never worry about changing legislation again. Stay compliant at all times with a secure platform.

Consistency

Automate the tricky tasks that make people admin a challenge. Make sure your team is paid accurately and on time, every time.

Collaboration

View and manage HR data from anywhere. Let employees self-serve payslips and encourage feedback and engagement.

Connection

Make your workflows run smoothly and hassle-free with a secure integrated system.

Elevate your pay run with Sage Payroll Advanced

Take your people admin to the next level. Paying and managing your people has never been easier with the added power of HR.

Payroll Confidence Starts Here

  • Process your payroll in 3 simple steps. We do the hard part of working out the calculations automatically to ensure your people are paid accurately and on time.
  • Check and view historical pay runs and individual employee payslips with ease online.
Payroll Confidence Starts Here

Compliance Made Easy

  • Have peace of mind that there are no mistakes with software that enables compliance, accuracy, and automation when it comes to managing both payroll and HR tasks.
  • Get easy to understand guidance on tough legislation and set-up workflows that help you pay accurately and on-time.
  • Generate UIF Declaration for the Department of Labour, or IRP5s and other statutory forms easily.
Compliance Made Easy

Simplified People Management

  • Streamline your processes with basic HR tools to manage employee records, leave, and documents.
  • Digitise your employee records so that they're always accurate, up-to-date, and easy to search through.
  • Track and manage up to 3 time-off policies that also feed into your pay run.
  • Add on additional HR modules including shift planning, performance management, expenses, recruitment, and more.
  • Get basic HR reporting and org charts to stay on top of team changes.
Simplified People Management

Give Employees Access via our Mobile App

  • Access Payslips & IRP5s – View and download all your payroll documents anytime.
  • Manage Leave, Claims & Timesheets – Submit requests and track them on-the-go.
  • Manager Approvals Made Simple – Approve leave, claims, and timesheets directly in the app.
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Keep Employee Data Organised and Secure

  • Get access to features that simplify managing onboarding, offboarding, and everything in-between.
  • Securely store and share documents such as employee Right to Work forms.
  • Maintain high standards of information security management for peace of mind and trust across your organisation.
Keep employee data organised and secure

FAQs

What HR Capabilities does Sage Payroll Advanced Offer?

Sage Payroll Advanced includes core HR capabilities in the Essential plan. This enables you to manage, create, and edit employee records, track holidays and leave, and get access to basic HR reports. You can also send documents electronically and allow your employees to self-serve payslips and documents from the HR app.

For more advanced HR features you can upgrade to a Standard or Premium plan. This will give you advanced HR functionality including onboarding and offboarding workflows, timesheets, leave management, employee expenses and performance management features you can attract, manage, and grow your talent.

Can you add more employees to Payroll Advanced?

Yes, Sage Payroll Advanced makes it easy to add new employees in a way that works for you:

  • Bulk upload: Use the batch functionality to add multiple employees at once. The process runs in the background and notifies you when it’s complete.
  • Sage HR integration: Sync employee data directly from Sage HR to Payroll, keeping everything consistent and saving you time.
  • Quick Add Wizard: Add employees quickly with a simple, step-by-step wizard that captures only the essential info you need to get them paid.

What is the difference between Sage Payroll Advanced and Sage Payroll Professional?

Sage Payroll Advanced is ideal for growing businesses that need more from their payroll software. It goes beyond Sage Payroll Professional with integrated HR capabilities to lighten the load on essential admin. It delivers an intuitive user-experience, supported by a powerful payroll engine that handles added complexity & real-time reporting.

Here’s what Sage Payroll Advanced offers:

  • Powerful calculation engine: Automate complex payroll calculations using Excel-style formulas.
  • Integrated HR and employee self-service: Includes onboarding, recruitment, performance and more—plus a mobile app for employees.
  • Modern mobile experience: Employees can submit leave, claims, and complete performance reviews from their phones.
  • Run tasks in the background: Keep working while long processes complete behind the scenes.
  • User-friendly batch imports: Save time with streamlined bulk uploads of payroll data.
  • Multiple pay cycles in one company: Manage different pay groups and frequencies within a single setup.
  • Flexible recurrences: Set up definition recurrences that match your business’s unique needs.

Will my data be secure?

Sage keeps your personal data secure by applying appropriate technical and organisation measures against its unauthorised or unlawful access or use, as well as protecting against any accidental loss, destruction, or damage. We are dedicated to safeguarding your data and maintaining the highest standards of information security management.

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