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• # 82519
• Wed 02 May 2012 06:20 PM

Hello all

Any advice/opinions greatly received here.

I have a client who has just taken their payroll back in house from a bureau and I am taking over the role.

He has today called me to inform the that he now has Sage Payroll up and running, but they are trying to sell him the paper to use to print out the wage slips etc.

Is this worth buying or is it just a "nice to have" that makes the wage slips look pretty?

He feels that it is unnecessary, but his wife feels that it would make it look more professional.

Any thoughts??

Thanks

Sandra 

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• # 82521
• Wed 02 May 2012 07:01 PM

Hi Sandra,

The sage stationery has to be purchased in quite large quantities - last time I looked I think about 1000 a time - so unless it is a large company, or you do a lot of payroll, I expect it would not be worth it. No doubt it does look more professional, but  adequate to print off and put in envelopes. I don't use Sage payroll myself, I prefer 12pay, but did recently look at the stationery. 12pay has a facility to email payslips to staff, can Sage do this? I think stationery is getting less relevant, many large corporates are now using online payslips.

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• # 82526
• Wed 02 May 2012 08:15 PM

Thank you for those replies.

The company has about 50 employees - does that change things any?

I am pretty sure you can email payslips, but they like to do the old fashioned paper versions.

Thanks

Sandra 

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• # 82528
• Wed 02 May 2012 10:31 PM

Hi 

The last time I brought them it was £40 for a £1,000.    So it was not too bad.

You can set sage to email them directly, but staff do not have to give you their email and many do not want to give the company they work for their email for privacy reasons .

The feed back I got from a client the other day was  that he was very unhappy about his payroll bureau which I am was not providing  just printing on plain paper which ends up expensive on cartridges anyway.   He reckoned they looked unprofessional and portray him as a mickey mouse employee

When I was giving him his quote he insisted that professional payslips were included in the qoute.  As he felt it makes the staff feel better.

 

• Sarah Douglas C.FICB

  HouseTree Business Ltd 

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• # 82547
• Thu 03 May 2012 06:27 PM

No doubt they would look more professional, especially for a 50 employee company, it is down to what the client wants in the end. I would price them and include the cost in your quote.

try formfactory.co.uk for Sage payslips/prices. 

 

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