Hi Jenn Gurel ,

Thanks for your post — great catch on that vacation pay discrepancy!

Yes, you can absolutely add vacation pay after the fact in Sage 50 once you’ve calculated the amount. You have a few options depending on whether you need to update just the current pay or adjust year-to-date (YTD) values as well.

Here are some steps and articles that can help:

 To manually add vacation pay:

If vacation pay isn’t calculating for an employee, you may need to check their setup:
  Payroll not calculating vacation for employees

 To adjust the YTD amount:

You can update the employee’s vacation year-to-date total so their records stay accurate:
  How to adjust the vacation YTD amount

 Also worth checking:

Sometimes vacation isn’t calculating correctly due to setup issues or specific pay types:
  Vacation not calculating correctly for some employees

Let us know how it goes or if you need help figuring out which option is best — and if anyone else has tips for handling this kind of adjustment, feel free to jump in!

If this helps, please mark it as verified :)

Thank you so much Erzsi_I   This is very helpful!  Sorry it took so long to reply!