Sage 50 HR (previously Sage Personnel) is a powerful tool for effectively managing all aspects of HR, making your life easier and ensuring you comply with increasingly complicated employment legislation.

 Having made the decision to computerise your business processes it is vital you choose the right software to implement this change as smoothly as possible. Sage has conducted thorough research with many different sizes of business to identify your key requirements for HR software. Benefits of Sage 50 HR include:

• Manage your people – employers are legally required to keep certain information about their employees such as conditions of employment, evidence of a right to work and permit details. Sage 50 HR allows you to store all this information in one place, ensuring it’s easy to access and update. You can also set different access levels to ensure confidential information stays secure.
• Plan ahead – see at a glance when your employees will not be in work to allow you to foresee any problems before they occur and ensure you have sufficient staff at all times.
• Protect your business – Sage 50 HR provides all the necessary tools to record detailed evidence to support your case should any disputes arise.
• Manage performance – the ability to monitor performance and development of your employees puts you in the position to see areas of weakness where more training may be required. At the same time, this feature lets you spot candidates with potential for promotion.

Stay compliant with legislation
Employment legislation is a major concern for many companies, especially those that do not have a dedicated HR department filled with experts. Sage knows this which is why they have included their trusted HR Advice Standard for no extra cost – this service informs you of forthcoming changes to the law in a simple understandable way enabling you to stay compliant with HR legislation as it develops.

Sage 50 HR 2010 Features:

Managing your people

• Employee information - keep data such as personal details, working patterns, performance and training in one place. Allowing for easy access and updating.
• Comply with the law – Sage 50 HR allows the storage of vital documents such as work permits, CRB checks etc.
• HR Advice Standard included free of charge.
• Access advice on managing your people directly from the program with Sagecover Services Stack.
• Automatically generate statements of employment based on the data in Sage 50 HR.
• Ability to select volunteer and temporary staff as employment types.
• Create a complete history of an employee’s history within the company as they progress.

Manage Holidays

• Create a holiday profile for each employee, allowing you to monitor holidays taken and booked. Record authorised and unauthorised holidays.
• Easily plan ahead to check you will have sufficient staff available at all times.
• Monitor sickness and absences to identify trends.
• Record and manage holidays in hours and days.
• Holidays and absences are treated separately and you will be alerted if multiple absences overlap.
• Pro rata holiday calculations for starters and leavers based on their start and leave dates.
• Simplified absence reports criteria.

Record Evidence

• Protect your business – record all necessary supporting evidence for dealing with disciplinary disputes.
• Managing development and performance – see an employee’s development at a glance and identify areas of weakness where more training may be required.
• Set targets for achievements to improve quality of work.

Manage Training

• Store qualification expiry dates. Ensure your employees have the necessary skills to undertake their work.
• Monitor costs and attendance rates for training courses.
• Manage personal development plans.
• Support professional qualifications through management of training courses.

Manage your Company

• Keep your organisation structure up to date with details of locations, departments and working patterns.
• Easily identify resources and people working in each area of your business.
• Create new list entries e.g. job titles within the relevant record rather than having to do it within the company section.
• View and print the company calendar by day, week or month. Filter this information by department to show forthcoming absences.
• Absence Dashboard feature which summarises absence within your business as well as how much it is costing you.

Security

• Ability to set different access levels of a record to restrict which information employees can access.
• Password protect .pdf reports to ensure personal information is kept secure.

Favourites

• Save time by adding reports you frequently run to the main menu.
• Favourites can include the specific reports you have created to better suit your needs.

Software compatibility

• Import and export basic employee details from other Sage programs (Sage 50 Payroll 2007 and above and Sage Personnel v6).
• Easily integrate with Microsoft Office software to perform mail merges and email.
• Advanced Data Import facility to match facilities in Payroll and Accounts allows you to get the information you need into the program easily.

Screen Designer

• Create new screens to capture information relevant to you and your business.
• Tailor the program to suit your area of industry by recording information such as registrations, training or licences.

Report Selections and Batch Reporting

• Save time by printing a whole selection of reports under a group name rather than having to run each report individually.
• Send reports straight to print without being forced to preview it.

Default Events

• Create your own events to ensure essential tasks are carried out and you never miss a date or deadline. E.g. check an employee has returned to work or supplied a doctor’s note.
• Event reminders can be set up for crucial CRB expiry dates.

Eligibility Record Improvements

• Add multiple checks per person such as CRB and ISA, also record level of check i.e. full or partial.
• HGV licence and work permit expiry dates can be used to set up events.
• Run a report on all employees to see who has a valid CRB check and monitor when they are due for renewal.

Usability

• Intuitive ability to use click and drag to select date range for records.
• Customise the display of information to suit your needs through new screen filters.
• View either a companywide or department calendar to show who is absent with the ability to see this information in daily, weekly or monthly format whereas before only monthly was available.

Automatic Email address formats

• Save time by setting up email address templates for new employees E.g first name.last name@company name.com. Or when applying a new email address to all employees.

Features new in Sage 50 HR 2010:

Manage your people

• Access advice on managing your people directly from the program with Sagecover Services Stack.
• Automatically generate statements of employment based on the data in Sage 50 HR.
• Ability to select volunteer and temporary staff as employment types.
• Create a complete history of an employee’s history within the company as they progress.

Manage holidays

• Record and manage holidays in hours and days.
• Holidays and absences are treated separately and you will be alerted if multiple absences overlap.
• Pro rata holiday calculations for starters and leavers based on their start and leave dates.
• Simplified absence reports criteria.

Manage your company

• Create new list entries e.g. job titles within the relevant record rather than having to do it within the company section.
• View and print the company calendar by day, week or month. Filter this information by department to show forthcoming absences.
• Absence Dashboard feature which summarises absence within your business as well as how much it is costing you.

Software compatibility

• Advanced Data Import facility to match facilities in Payroll and Accounts allows you to get the information you need into the program easily.

Report selections and batch processing

• Send reports straight to print without being forced to preview it.

Default events

• Event reminders can be set up for crucial CRB expiry dates.

Eligibility Record Improvements

• Run a report on all employees to see who has a valid CRB check and monitor when they are due for renewal.

Usability

• Customise the display of information to suit your needs through new screen filters.
• View either a companywide or department calendar to show who is absent with the ability to see this information in daily, weekly or monthly format whereas before only monthly was available.

Recommended hardware

• An IBM®-compatible computer with a 2GHz (or equivalent) processor
• At least 512MB RAM
• At least 600MB of free disk space after Microsoft® Windows has been installed
• Display Settings: 1024 x 768 resolution.

Minimum hardware

• An IBM®-compatible computer with a 1GHz (or equivalent) processor
• 512MB RAM
• 500MB of free disk space after Microsoft Windows has been installed
• Display Settings: 1024 x 768 resolution

Compatible operating systems

• Windows 2000
• Windows XP Service Pack 3
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2003

Technical notes:

1. Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks, and it only possible to install one copy on a single computer.
2.  Works with Microsoft Office 2000 and all later editions, and please ensure you have the latest Microsoft updates installed.
3. This product will not install or run on the Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows NT4 operating systems.
4. The latest service packs should be installed for your operating system before installing or upgrading Sage products. 32-bit Operating Systems recommended.
5. Whilst there are no browser requirements for Sage 50 HR, we recommend Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or above for internet access to Sage Support and important Sage updates for your products.

Apple Mac compatibility
Sage software is not compatible with Apple Macs, unless you are running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 via Apple’s Boot Camp utility.