Payroll Company File

Question

Hi, 
 Where can I find the Sage Payroll Company file? It exists somewhere on our PC's that use Sage Payroll, but I need to setup another PC with Payroll and need to add the Payroll company file to that one. 
 I can easily find the Sage Accounts Company file, but not the Payroll one. Where in C ProgramData or ProgramFiles etc. would it be? 
 Thank you. 
 Bruce

John Howells · Accepted Answer

Hi Bruce, 
 Ah I see, thank you for clarifying that. In payroll you'll need to copy two files over to the new computer for this. 
 
 Install 50 payroll on the new computer and ensure it's closed and not running before the next steps. 
 On a computer with the company list setup as you'd like to copy over, browse to C:\ProgramData\Sage\Payroll. 
 Copy pay.usr and payroll.usr from this folder into C:\ProgramData\Sage\Payroll on the new computer. If you're asked whether to replace the existing versions of these two files in this location, click Yes. 
 
 You can now open 50 payroll on the new computer and the company list will be as it is on the computer you copied from.

John Howells · Answer

Hi Bruce, 
 Thanks for using Sage City 
 I notice this query hasn't had a community response. 
 If that's the data for a company you're looking for, you can check your exact payroll data location right in Sage 50 Payroll. Log into the company you'd like to check, then click Help then About . 
 Check under the Program Details heading. The Data Directory link is where the data for this company is stored. 
 If you're not able to log into a company at the moment, the default location for 50 payroll company data is within a numbered folder named COMPANY_XXX in C:\ProgramData\Sage\Payroll . 
 I'd add though, if you set up more than one computer with the same company where each computer holds a set of data for that company, any processing done on one computer won't show up on the other automatically. If you'd like any processing on one computer to update the other you'd need to have a shared data location, such as a server which holds the data for this company, that payroll on each computer connects to. 
 If this has answered your question please click More > Verify Answer . 
 Regards, John Howells Sage UKI

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