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Sage Business Care Plans, Payroll Module Access & Workaround Options

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Since acquiring Simply Accounting, Sage has been transitioning the renamed Sage 50 software to a subscription based format.

Many of you may have now noticed the change implemented fully on April 19th, 2016 affecting access to the Payroll Module.

What versions does this affect?

This change is retroactive affecting versions 2014, 2015 and 2016. A big change, however it places Sage 50 in line with how other Sage products and competitors handle Payroll service access. Hopefully, we'll be providing more plan options for those handling 1 to 3 payrolls in the future.

More on SBC plan options and Payroll Module Access

Regardless, yes, a Sage Business Care plan is now needed in order to access the payroll module. It's not necessary to get a payroll service plan in order to access the payroll module though. A basic support plan such as Silver or Sage 50C will do the trick. Payroll services nonetheless, will enable features such as automatic tax calculations and e-filing of T4s, ROEs and R1s.

For pricing information you can contact our Sales team at 1-888-261-9610 or visit http://www.sage.com/ca/sage-50-accounting/buy

Handling few Payroll transactions?

For those handling few payroll transactions and able to track tax deductions themselves for the yearly T4s or R1s (using something like an Excel spreadsheet). We have a work around which basically consists of a manual GL (General Ledger) entry.  This will not create paycheques and pay stubs however. For more information on these steps see the KB entitled "How to manually process payroll using General Journal?"

  • in reply to NBBookkeeper

    Hi , 
     
    Thanks for checking in about this. Looks like KB 78052 titled "The font text is small inside the menus" was created in June 2019 and has steps on how to manually modify the Windows Registry to increase font size in Sage 50 CA. Before trying this, make a backup of your Windows registry. If you do not know how to do this, contact an IT professional or consultant. 

    Warm Regards,
    Erzsi

  • in reply to Erzsi_I

    it's been 3 years since you posted this and there is still no solution regarding font size adjustment?

  • Hello Randy,

    I'm looking into details on whether in the near future we can expect updates/enhancements regarding:

    - Linking Invoices to POs

    - Project Management

    - Font Size

    R&D typically releases this information a few days prior to the release of an update or new version. The next one would be the Sage 50 version 2017 expected mid to late October 2016.

    There has been a focus on cloud connectivity. A lot of features have been implemented with the new release 2016.3 detailed in this post: sagecity.na.sage.com/.../ten-sage-50-accounting-feature-enhancements-that-came-from-you-our-valued-customer

    Wish I could provide you with more details regarding the build of our software and how they can all integrate or share features (like PO features available in higher product lines).

    For now, all that can be stated for sure is that there are new integrations and partnerships in the works to help small businesses succeed with more user friendly and cost effective solutions. We are moving.

    "Trust, compliance and security is what Sage is committed to" - CEO Steven Kelly, stated this at Summit last week.

    The Sage Integration Cloud, (apps, customers, data) was also announced. It will integrate everything in one place. For easy integrations, no development required.

    It will be an app, a platform  that allows Sage and non-Sage cloud and non-premise solutions to work together, it'll also work for on premise and all partner applications.

  • "Since acquiring Simply Accounting, Sage has been transitioning the renamed Sage 50 software to a subscription based format."

    Yes, that's been apparent all along.  The previous model where each version had to be better than the last one, or I wouldn't pay for it, was better for *me*.  A subscription-based format without that connection between improvement and revenue is obviously better for the software *vendor*.  

    The flexibility that allowed a small owner to manually enter, manually calculate, and yet print professional-looking pay stubs was THE main reason I used to recommend Simply Accounting over QuickBooks.

    It was an easy push with safe steps to keep the momentum going from computer printed cheques through automatic calculations, Direct Deposit, and filing their own T4 slips.  

    Now that they can't *start* there, they often drift to one of the non-integrated payroll services.  The transition OUT has gone from being a hurdle to a blind leap.  

    (rant continues)

    Simply Accounting made a substantial push towards the 'Enterprise' back about 2011, but that push now looks more like a failed putsch.  

    As an example, there's a little checkbox on the invoice screen for 'invoice received'.  In Simply Accounting, that's about all it does - turn the checkbox on and off.   In QuickBooks all the reports and payment screens have functionality based on it.

    Getting information about whether a Purchase Order was filled and invoiced at, near, or in any relation to the quoted price is just impossible - there is no report anywhere in the software that will show the invoice number together with the Purchase Order number.  

    (That can't be an accident, or because no-one at Sage can figure out a left outer join.)  

    If the marketing wizards think that these sorts of deficiencies will eventually push us along the path to Sage 100, 300, or whatever, think again!

    For another operational example, in Simply Accounting, I can set up a 'Job' as a project, and record purchases and timesheets against the 'Project'.   Then, perhaps with some third party add-ons and the skills of a data Houdini, I can get the purchase information back *out* into Excel or on paper.  Then, when it's time for billing, I have to summarize it manually, pick through the timesheets and (again, manually) figure out which 'Job' they relate to, and pretty much (manually) key the whole works back *in*.  

    In QuickBooks, the process is paperless - open the billing screen and select a 'Job' to bill out.

    But the daily grind of entering data, and getting it back for billing, is painful.

    The NUMBER ONE COMPLAINT on the 'feedback' site, is about data entry FONT SIZE because we spend perhaps a thousand hours entering and correcting data, for each hour spent running pro forma reports for the bank.

    The external accountant who opens CaseWare to annually vacuum out the data has no experience of the daily grind of squinting at grainy, low contrast 8 point fonts -  that 'closed' or 'dosed'...

    As the internal accountant, I'm painfully aware that time = money.  

    If you want our future business, in whatever model,  and through the software more efficiently, we would be happier about paying more.  

    I'll grant you that the software is more solid than it's ever been - a crash is now a rare thing, and lost data incidents are nearly non-existent.  (and I'm not saying that just because my Mother always said "if you can't say something nice...").

    (I've referred to Sage 50 as 'Simply Accounting' because I don't want anyone to think that I mean 'Peachtree' or 'Line 50')

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