Integrated Accounts / HR / Payroll systems

i see no cost benefirt in changing horses tho of course it is possible and there are many solutions - it would appear however that you would be best sticking to what you have unless you want a radical overhaul

yes, www.centralaccounting.co.uk has integrated payroll and some nice features that support ACEVO full cost recovery, but like the previous comment I cannot see the benefit of looking for an integrated solution if the intention is to stay with Sage accounts. Regards.

I am chair of quite a large charity & an accountant in practice. The charity uses Sage for bookkeeping and used to use sage for payroll. We moved to Thesaurus payroll manager several years ago due to the cost of Sage. Thesaurus, soon to be rebranded Bright Pay is £80 + VAT per year for unlimited employees and the help line is included in this price! You get through after half a dozen rings and speak to a real person who is able to help straight away.

I also use Thesaurus in my own practice and have done for many years. It is not pretty to look at but it does the job very well.

The charity issues sales invoices and uses the department facility in Sage. If we didnt need to do this we would switch to VT Transaction plus without hesitation.

I have been developing software using both Sage 50 and Sage Payroll for 26 years (also Sage 200). I most certainly could integrate/write a solution using Sage Payroll and their existing Sage 50 Accounts software.

Please do not heitate to contact me if this is of interst.

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Another option is software hosting for example: Online50 offer Sage 50 Accounts and Payroll integration as standard to users.

Incidentally other standard integrations include with Office, hosted exchange, CRM (although this can need some customisation), document management software and a range of Sage 50 add ons likes Tradebox, Excel 2 Sage etc. On our virtual server platform we have people running fundraising software (amongst a long list of others) which again can integrate with Sage 50 or any of the other software (provided this is supported by the software)

It does cost a bit more than buying the software but then you are not paying for consultants to do the integration. Also, when Sage 50 Accounts or Payroll are upgraded some of the integration can need to be redone because of changes to the underlying code or database etc. In a hosted situation this is covered within the fee for hosting.

Finally you can make a significant saving by either doing away with internal servers or significantly reducing the number required, computers dont need to be replaced because the processing power of the software is done on the server and IT support costs reduce because much of the work of IT support (new users, backup, security, updates etc) is included within the fee for the hosting.

Hope that helps.

We are setting up Simply Accounting Pro (2012) from scratch, a company that has always done everything manually (yikes!)…they are wondering if there is a way to have a comments field in the printed payslip? I haven’t found anywhere to add this on the User Defined Payroll Cheque form…short of using Crystal Reports is there a way to add something like this? I was hoping to keep it simple for the user. Thanks very much!

however payroll software  is a large part of my current accounting software (MYOB). Great work on introducing the basic payroll but you need to take the whole step and do it properly for me to come over. i am not interested in paying a monthly subscription fee to you guys and a payroll company when my current software can do it all for 1 price….worth thinking about