I have been using the help and check for upgrades on Sage 50 payroll and it has told me that my version is up to date. However I have just checked the NI and tax parameters and have noticed that they are still stuck on 2013/14.
Bearing in mind that the support line has a wait of an hour and a half and that the download of 2014/15 version is over 2 hours has any body else come across this problem that can provide me with a quick fix?
Thanks in advance
Ray
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Quick fix
Replace Sage 50 payroll with Moneysoft Payroll Manager. It is better and cheaper.
Moneysoft Payroll
Just to make you feel better, I created my 2014-15 file in Moneysoft and it took....about 3 seconds!
Don't know how to link..
but I raised a question on SAGE year end. Check your version in Help - if it's not 20.01, 19.04,18.05,17.08 or 16.11 then you haven't got the tax year update. You will need to download from your MySAGE account and apply. This should work!
You should be on version 20.01.186.
We have Sage 50, have just checked and all our parameters look ok, are you on that version?
Compatibility Error
.....according to the totally nonchalant and disinterested Sage support guy I have just spoken to, the "help & check for updates" sometimes doesn't "update" even though the program assures you that your "software is up to date" and I am therefore stuck on version 19.02.157. I am now waiting for the full version to download.
If this situation occurs to employers that wouldn't think twice about checking parameters (ie virtually all clients that process their own payroll) then their NI deductions will be incorrect for the whole year. I am off to advise my clients right now before the first 2014/15 payroll this Friday.
I have the same problem. How did you download the update?
Check the date
If the process date is in the previous year it will only show the settings for that year.
Are you sure you've entered a date after 5th April 2014?
Version number and Date for Sage
To be sure the current version is loaded the version number must be up to date.
To use Sage payroll in the current payroll year you must have an upto date version and you must use a date 6th April 2014 onwards.
Sage helpline
Had the same issue and telephiend the Sage Accountants Club line.
Was infomed that it was a 'known error' but the operator hadn't had this happen for a number of years - we have had two so far.
Advice given was to set up a new company and restore last backup fopr 2013/14, do a repair and compact and see if this worked.
If it didn't you have to go through each back up in turn to see where the data corruption happend and work forward from there - not helpful if it happened in week 4 or 5, but fortunately for us it was only in week 51.
Hope this helps.
I had the same issue on tuesday. It is taken as read that tax codes with suffix L increase by 56. so I manually updated them.
Sage New Year RTI submissions
Just tried to file the firs payrolls for this year to get a compatibility error message saying the info can't be submitted electronically because HMRC do not accept submission of this type for 2014/2015 tax year!! Is this a Sage problem or an HMRC one?
I really can't face trying to phone either of them!
sage 50 payroll problem(s)
I have had problems this year with all of the above comments and reported errors but eventually downloaded the update from the Sage website yesterday. When I now try and catch up with two weeks FPS returns some ( not all) of my payrolls have decided to add the existing employees from 2013 2014 as new employees in 2014 2015 and the FPS fails.due to a pension related problem?
Again telephone waiting times are standing at 1 - 1:30 hrs so no joy there!
Any advice please?
As Euan said
I have had problems this year with all of the above comments and reported errors but eventually downloaded the update from the Sage website yesterday. When I now try and catch up with two weeks FPS returns some ( not all) of my payrolls have decided to add the existing employees from 2013 2014 as new employees in 2014 2015 and the FPS fails.due to a pension related problem?
Again telephone waiting times are standing at 1 - 1:30 hrs so no joy there!
Any advice please?
As Euan said in the first reply, switch from Sage.
I have the same problem. We had a sales call from sage in march to say if we Do not upgrade an error will come up. Did you find a solution??
Compatability error
I originally upgraded in early March - when you do this you don't get the new tax parameters OR the final version. I got another disk with the updates and it does exclude this error, but I didn't load it to start with because normally it only has the parameter changes and I'd done those.
It wouldn't load. I thought my new computer might have a dodgy-disk drive, but I loaded it on my colleagues 'old' computer and it loaded VERY slowly and took a load of encouragement. I took my disk to a 'techie' client and they eventually got it loaded on my computer by a lot of technical wizardry which s beyond most accountants (it involved creating a 'virtual' hard drive and copying the disk). It took a while to do it, but quicker than waiting for Sage. I had emailed them the same day. I don't have a support contract with them, because it is over-priced and it wasn't a support issue, it's a software issue. It took them over a week to reply and the response was that I needed the latest software update disk - so if you haven't got it, then demand it. The early disks were 20.00 and the version that works if you can load it 20.01.
I had the same problem when they brought in the different NI levels - I got an early update and they didn't send me the updated version for the LEL's etc. it was only when I phoned the sales person and complained threatening trading standards that they helped me (because I didn't have a support contract....)
Ken, pension error is probably because you haven't been able to download the correct version - it works on 20.01. I have now been submitting quite happily, although late to start with. Did notice that if you submit late you have to give a reason and 'c**p software isn't one of the options....