A warning message will now be received when re-opening/clearing tax periods and tax manager settings.
A toolbar and menu option has been added which directs to a Migration landing page with more information on how to migrate to Sage Business Cloud Accounting. This can be found under the Help menu.
On the ‘Amount Overdue’ custom field the DR/CR prefix has been replaced with a +/- symbol.
All inventory labels will now print when sorting by Category/Bin number.
Documents with negative totals will no longer be imported.
The totals on the Sales by Items/by Sales Analysis Code report are now aligned with their corresponding heading when printing to Microsoft Excel.
The category totals on the Customer Age Analysis report are aligned to their corresponding headings when printing to Microsoft Excel.
Latest Features & Fixes - Pastel Payroll (2025 update 1b)
Amendments have been made to mitigate the writing or uploading of Test, Demo or Dummy data for Employment Verification Services.
When terminating an employee, the information will immediately be written for Employment Verification Services purposes.
The operating system of the Online Tax Calculator mobile application for Android and iOS has successfully been migrated to MAUI.
The encryption for Sage Self Service username and password has been updated.
The .Net components have been updated for Sage Self Service.
An updated iFrame has been implemented for the Netcash use in verifications of Id, Bank Account and Credit Checks.
Users will now be able to send payslips using the new Outlook as well.
Users will no longer experience Sage Pastel Payroll failing to open past 50% on the launch screen as a result of the new Outlook.
The OID Report will now correctly utilise negative income values.
"Memory Access Violation" errors experienced by users on Leave screens - Resolved
System screens hanging issue - Resolved
Company data upload for migrations to Sage Business Cloud Payroll Professional - Resolved
Updates to Sage ID and Employment Verification (EVS)
Trade union descripitions have been updated
Error when creating a new company - Resolved
Error when saving new password - Resolved
Printing of blank loan statement pages - Resolved
NBCRFI "Not Affiliated" option not available - Resolved
Validation option set for "no tax"
Exclusion reason code 04 incorrect for foreign nationals - Resolved
UI19 totals on tax certificate will now print agian.
OID report printing to PDF -Resolved
OID report totals were incorrectly sorted - Resolved
OID annual limit updated
Latest Features & Fixes - Pervasive Version 13
Actian (the company that provides and develops Pervasive) no longer supports earlier Pervasive versions. Sage are therefore encouraging all of their clients to upgrade to Pervasive version 13.
Pastel tables update faster and more reliably
File structure less prone to corruption than previous versions
Your annual licence fee includes upgrades to the latest versions. Although the software is free, we will charge for time to upgrade your version. There may be a minimal charge to upgrade the Pervasive version.
Let us know if you would like to book a time for us to upgrade your software to the latest version or if you would like a quote. We can do the upgrade for you remotely using TeamViewer, AnyDesk or Remote Desktop.
