What's new
October 2022
Holiday Pay
You can now add a holiday payment for both hourly and salaried employees, when you process a pay run.
This makes it easier to record holiday pay for your employees. .
For more information, see the Holiday Pay article
September 2022
National Insurance changes
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the 1.25% increase in National Insurance contributions (NICs), first introduced in April 2022, will be reversed from 6 November 2022.
Additionally, the new Health and Social Care Levy will no longer be introduced in April 2023.
For more information about the changes, see the National Insurance increase reversed article
Scottish Earnings Arrest
If you process attachment of earnings orders in Scotland, there is now one option for Scottish Earnings Arrest. You would use this if you're instructed to add this attachment type to an employee.
This makes it easier to select the right attachment.
For more information, see the Attachment of earnings orders article
August 2022
National Minimum Wage check
You can now check you pay your employees National Minimum Wage. This makes it easier to ensure you meet the minimum wage requirements. You can also view the minimum wage bands and rates for your employees on a new report.
For more information, see the National Minimum Wage check article
Statutory payments override
You can now override the statutory payment calculations for your employees. This makes it easier to change the amounts, for example, if you pay your employees before or after they've worked for you. You can also view the total paid to date values for all statutory payments on the absences report.
For more information, see the Statutory payments override article
June 2022
Salary sacrifice pensions
You can now process salary sacrifice pensions for your employees. This makes it easier to set up salary sacrifice payments and pension schemes and view the pension contributions on your payslips and reports.
For more information, see the salary sacrifice pensions article
May 2022
New Instant Payroll Migration Content
We've just published a new batch of articles specifically to help our Instant Payroll customers move over to Sage Business Cloud. We have covered everything from setting up your company, to adding your pensions and completing your first pay run.
New National Insurance rate
From 6 July 2022, the Primary Threshold for National Insurance is increasing. We have updated Sage Business Cloud Payroll to account for this. Your calculations are adjusted automatically once you reach the 6 July 2022 processing date.
| Earnings Limit | Weekly | Monthly | yearly |
| Primary Threshold (PT) (6 April 2022 - 5 July 2022) | 190.00 | 823.00 | 9,880.00 |
| Primary Threshold (PT) (6 July 2022 - 5 April 2023) | 242.00 | 1,048.00 | 12,570.00 |
New brand
We've recently updated our Sage brand and you'll start to see changes in the look and feel of Sage Business Cloud Payroll. These changes do not affect how you use the product.
April 2022
Bulk payslip messages
You can now edit payslip messages for multiple employees at the same time. This makes it easier to manage messages that apply to lots of people.
For more information, see the Payslip messages article
March 2022
Payroll Year End
We've also made changes to allow you to complete year end processing for the 2021/2022 tax year, process pay and make submissions for the 2022/2023 tax year which starts on 6 April 2022.
Your SBC Payroll program will be updated automatically on 10 March 2022.
Legislation changes for the new tax year which includes:
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Updated tax bands for the UK
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Updated Auto Enrolment thresholds
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Updated NI Calculation thresholds
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New Freeport and Veteran NI Categories
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Updated statutory payment values
Payslip messages
You can now have messages on your employee's payslips.
For more information, see the Payslip messages article
February 2022
The Absences report
The Absences report shows you any employee time off that you've recorded as an absence. The report can be run for any of your employees and can show data for any time period since you started using Sage Business Cloud Payroll.
Absences for the current and previous tax years, appear as part of your pay run. Therefore, this report is particularly useful if you want to see absences before the previous tax year or for employees that are no longer part of your active pay runs. Or if you want to save a record of absences by themselves.
For more information, The Absences report
January 2022
This release includes changes to allow your employees to access their online payslips via the Sage HR mobile app.
For more information about online payslips for employees and employers, see the appropriate help article.
Online Payslips: an employer's guide
Online Payslips: an employee’s guide
The Salary Journal report
Also in January we released a Salary Journal report.
You can use salary information from a pay run to create a Salary Journal report. If you use an accounting product, you can import the report as a journal transaction. This can save you time and reduce processing errors.
For more information about the report Salary journals
