I am pleased to announced that 2021 Update 2 is now available for Download on our Download Manager. 

The update includes:

• SDL Removal Utility for the SDL Payment Holiday - view our guide here
• Passport numbers will now be available on the UI19 Report
• MIBFA - The Pension and Provident fund percentages have been updated
• Road Freight - Extensive changes where made to the Road Freight codes - please view our guide here

Please see below history of changes for 2021 Update 2:

Sage Pastel Payroll & HR 2021 Update 2 - History of Changes.pdf

If you need assistance with downloading and installing please view our  Full Install Guide here, if you wish to rather update using the patch file, refer to this guide.

It is imperative that you run a legislative release to incorporate your changes.

Microsoft has already ended it's mainstream support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 and will be discontinuing security updates from January 2020.  This does not  affect the current version, however, we want to urge our clients to start investigating the options to upgrade their Operating Systems to more relevant versions of Windows.

Note: Microsoft has stopped their support for windows XP and Server 2003 in 2014 and 2015 respectively.  Due to this, these Operating systems can’t install the .Netframework required for running Payroll and doesn’t  have access to the new fonts used on our update. The Payroll program will no longer work on these operating systems.  For more details on what products we can support please click here.