Payroll processing, supplier invoices, social and tax declarations, … SMEs often find themselves overwhelmed by administrative tasks. Frequently, new regulations do not aim to simplify these formalities but rather to make them more complex.
So, how can you stay compliant with obligations without dedicating excessive time to them? By using management software such as SAGE Business Cloud. Specifically designed for small and medium-sized businesses, this solution simplifies accounting, financial, and administrative management. Discover its features and advantages below.
What is SAGE Business Cloud?
Previously known as SAGE One Payroll or Ciel e-service Payroll, SAGE Business Cloud is an online business management solution crafted for small and medium-sized enterprises. Fully accessible via the cloud, this tool consolidates accounting, invoicing, and payroll management.
The goal: to help traders, artisans, and freelancers meet their legal obligations without spending undue time on them. By automating numerous administrative tasks, this software enables SMEs to concentrate on their core business (and not on support functions).
Companies gain time while remaining entirely autonomous.
What are the features of SAGE Business Cloud Payroll?
Payroll features
As a payroll software, SAGE Business Cloud offers a comprehensive set of advanced features. These include:
- Flexible payroll management: such as monthly, reverse, or staggered payroll according to your company and employees’ specific needs.
- Payroll slip templates: providing access to various templates suitable for different types of contracts (executives, employees, apprentices, …).
- Absence tracking: SAGE Business Cloud includes a calendar for managing leave, RTT, and illness. Beyond enhanced visibility on presence times, the software automatically calculates allowances.
- Batch processing of payroll slips: allowing you to generate multiple payroll slips with a single action, ensuring significant time savings.
- Multi-establishment management: particularly useful for medium-sized businesses with multiple sites or branches.
- Automatic year-end closing: simplifying the preparation of financial statements and profit and loss accounts. Finalizing end-of-year accounts becomes effortless.
- Simplified social declarations: including DSN declarations, electronic tax filings, and other necessary forms.
With all these features, you guarantee your legal compliance while minimizing human errors. And all this, with minimal time spent on administrative processing.
Additional features
Although SAGE Business Cloud is primarily a payroll software, it is possible to add HR options for more comprehensive human resources management:
- Distribution of payroll slips: instantly delivered to employees’ secure inboxes with one click.
- Analytical reports: thanks to data collected through SAGE solutions, the platform can provide easily understandable visual reports. This enables better decision-making for your employees and the company’s financial well-being.
- Real-time scheduling: for managing leave requests, employee absences, working hours, etc. This data is also invaluable for generating payroll slips.
- Automation: SAGE automates tasks related to HR processes, notably for goal tracking and assessments.
For all these options, prices are customized. This ensures you get payroll software perfectly suited to your needs and budget.
What are the advantages of SAGE Business Cloud?
For small and medium-sized enterprises, SAGE Business Cloud Payroll offers numerous advantages:
- Simplified collaboration: The software features a multi-user mode, allowing multiple people to work simultaneously while maintaining data security.
- Improved decision-making: With various data visualization tools (charts, curves, diagrams, etc.), dashboards are easy for everyone to understand. Accounting teams and decision-makers benefit from a comprehensive view of business management, enabling them to make better decisions faster.
- Remote access: As SAGE is a cloud-based SaaS solution, it is accessible online at any time. Decision-makers can manage their business from anywhere, and employees can easily access the Employee Portal to view their payslips.
- Automations: Whether for accounting entries or payslips, automatic data entry reduces the risk of errors and optimizes working time.
- Legal compliance: Sage Business Cloud automatically updates to reflect the latest French legal developments.
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