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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme...
With the right approach, one of those ingredients can make a real difference to your payroll business, the other three....well, they just tend to sit at the back of your cupboard until you work up the stamina to do another Sunday roast.
What does making a roast dinner have to do with running a successful payroll business? More than you might think.
You see, achieving a perfect roast dinner is a complex ballet of timing, patience and multitasking. If one element is out of sync with the others; you'll either end up serving a plate of coal or giving your guests food poisoning.
The trick is to get everything to work together seamlessly.
In a similar way, achieving success in the payroll industry involves more than simply using professional sofware, it involves bringing the right pieces of software together seamlessly. But how does your payroll software fit into that? Let's find out.
But first, let's talk about Sage.
What is Sage?
Outside of being a delicious herb, Sage is a well-established provider of payroll software solutions. According to their website:
"Sage is the market leader for integrated accounting, payroll, and payment systems, supporting the ambition of the world’s entrepreneurs. " - Source: https://www.sage.com/en-gb/about-us/
Sage has far too many solutions in its collection to mention here but for the purpose of this article we'll focus on Sage Payroll products.
Quick Feature Overview
Among other things, Sage Payroll products can offer the following:
- A simple payroll process
- HMRC recognised software
- Real-time data submissions to HMRC
- Over 40 years of industry experience
What are the benefits of integrating Sage with my Umbrella Payroll Software?
Save time and money
Having payroll data synchronised between Sage and your Umbrella Payroll Software can save you countless hours of manually entering information. This gives you more time to focus on other aspects of your business or maybe even take that holiday you've been hoping for!
Reduce errors
"To err is human" as the saying goes. When it comes to running payroll, even a small error can cause a big headache. Having a reliable integration with Sage can minimize human error by automatically processing and syncronising payroll data across your systems. If an error does occur the software can quickly identify and help you to correct it before significant damage is caused.
Future-proofing
With over 40 years of industry experience and HMRC recognition for it's software, Sage is well versed to tackle the everchanging playing field of payroll. By integrating your Umbrella Payroll Software with Sage you are working with technologies that are likely to be around for a long time.
Benefit from Sage's reputation
Sage's reputation as a professional organisation with outstanding software is widely known in the marketplace. By integrating your Umbrella Payroll Software with Sage you benefit from their strong reputation giving peace of mind to your and your contractors.
How can I integrate Sage with my Umbrella Payroll Software?
Do it yourself
You can carry out the software integration process yourself. It's important to ensure that the software connection is secure and reliable to prevent data loss or security breaches.
Testing the integration in a sandbox or staging environment is also recommended. This allows you to ensure everything is working properly before processing live data.
Hire a professional Software Developer
To ensure that everything is set up correctly we recommend getting payroll software integration support from a professional software developer. We offer professional software integration services for Umbrella companies and others. Please feel free to contact us for more information.
Summing Up...
Integrating your Umbrella Payroll Software with Sage can bring lots of benefits to your business. We recommend choosing a professional software developer, such as ourselves, to ensure that the software integration is secure and reliable.
With over 30 years' experience we believe that we can offer a superior software integration and development service.
In addition to integration with Sage we also carry out Payroll Software integrations with the following products:
If you need integration services for a different piece of software please feel free to contact us.