Sage VIP Classic & Premier Payroll
Sage Premier Payroll & HR gives you a set of essential payroll features, with HR modules you can add to build a process-driven application for an unlimited number of employees across multiple companies. LAR and Associates supports the Classic and Premier editions, and moves payrolls to Sage Business Cloud Payroll Professional.
The product
Sage VIP Classic covers core payroll for smaller South African businesses. Sage VIP Premier adds a range of HR modules and handles an unlimited number of employees across multiple companies. Sage Business Cloud Payroll Professional is the cloud-based option in the same family, with its own page below.
All three are built around South African payroll: PAYE, UIF and SDL calculations, payslips, and the SARS submissions at interim and annual reconciliation.
Choosing between the editions depends on headcount, the number of companies, how much HR functionality is needed, and whether the payroll should run on-premise or in the cloud. We help make that decision and move data across when a business outgrows its current edition.
We have migrated payrolls from Sage VIP to Sage Business Cloud Payroll Professional with no downtime affecting the monthly payment of salaries, implemented Sage VIP Cloud with staff training, and helped clients correct errors on Employment Tax Validations.
Who it serves
South African businesses of different sizes, from a single company on Classic to multi-company groups on Premier.
Our consulting approach
We confirm the right edition, set up companies and pay structures, take over balances mid-year where needed, run a parallel payroll, train the payroll team, and support each month-end and tax year-end.
Consulting services
Every engagement is scoped to the organisation, but the work usually covers the same disciplines.
- Implementation
- New payroll setups and moves between Classic, Premier, and Sage Business Cloud Payroll Professional, with a parallel run before go-live.
- Configuration
- Companies, earnings, deductions, leave, and the Premier HR modules configured to your policies.
- Upgrades
- Tax-year and version updates applied and checked before they affect a pay run.
- Training
- Training for payroll administrators on pay runs, corrections, reports, and year-end.
- Support
- Help with monthly processing, SARS reconciliations, and tax year-end.
- Integration
- Payroll journals into the general ledger and bank payment files out of the payroll.