Our Overall Score:
8.9/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SAGE 50 Payroll review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SAGE 50 Payroll is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Accounting, business and finance software category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £239.99
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SAGE 50 Payroll. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sage or alternative products in the Accounting, business and finance software category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SAGE 50 Payroll
SAGE 50 Payroll scores 9.9/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Accounting, business and finance software. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SAGE 50 Payroll, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SAGE 50 Payroll and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Accounting, business and finance software, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Accounting, business and finance software? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SAGE 50 Payroll scores 8.6/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Accounting, business and finance software category was £1199.99, whilst the cheapest we found was £49.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SAGE 50 Payroll down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Accounting, business and finance software category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Accounting, business and finance software category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SAGE 50 Payroll.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Accounting, business and finance software category. This was £482.99 from the 7 products we found in that category. So SAGE 50 Payroll actually comes in below average at £239.99.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £1199.99 and the least expensive, which was £49.99. In total we found that of the 7, 3 were more expensive and 3 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SAGE 50 Payroll.
Prices of products from Sage
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sage. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sage, which was £382.86 of the 30 products we found. So SAGE 50 Payroll price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sage was £51.99 with the most expensive coming in at £1799.00.
Prices of products from Sage and in the Accounting, business and finance software category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sage that sit specifically within the Accounting, business and finance software category.
For this we found that the average price was £555.16, making SAGE 50 Payroll at £239.99 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £1199.99 with the lowest priced item being £191.99. In total there were 3 items that were more expensive and 2 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SAGE 50 Payroll
SAGE 50 Payroll scores 8.3/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SAGE 50 Payroll is.
Overall score
SAGE 50 Payroll scores 8.9/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sage so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SAGE 50 Payroll by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SAGE 50 Payroll
- Brand: Sage
- Model Number: 21650961
- 1 user & 1 yearCompatible with: WindowsDesktop applicationUp to 50 employees45 days free telephone support
- EAN:
- Description: Take control of your payroll in 2014 when you use Sage 50 Payroll, perfectly designed to help make tackling payroll less hassle.Up to dateYou can keep up to date with the latest HMRC changes to legislation such as Real Time Information and Pension Auto-Enrolment when you use 50 Payroll, helping to keep your processes in line with legislation. This software is designed for companies with up to 50 employees. It is simple to install thanks to the set-up wizard which guides you through installation, and you can import your existing employee data using a CSV file. For added peace of mind, you can also rely on 45 days free telephone support to aid you.Automatic calculationsSage 50 Payroll allows to you automate your payroll process, accurately calculating wages and payments, including PAYE and NI. It can be easily used to run payroll weekly, two-weekly, 4-weekly or monthly, whatever suits your business. Holiday is also covered, as this software allows you to record and calculate holiday pay.You can choose from a range of payslip layouts, and choose to print or email the payslips to your employees. You can even pay them electronically using e-banking. Packed with detailKeep detailed employee records of important details such as absence, holidays, disciplinary records, statements of employment and much more. You can also attach documents to employee records, so you can keep a comprehensive record within your company.You can record holidays and absence in days or in hours for detailed record keeping, and record custom absence types. Sage 50 Payroll helps to make payroll easier by automatically calculating payments and deductions for different absence types, so it is easy to stay on top of holidays.Rapid reportingYou’ll be able to understand the way your business runs thanks to the simple reporting using 50 Payroll. Save your favourite or most-used reports for quick and easy access, and create your own reports using the reports designer. The report browser makes it simple to find the report you need.With secure data storage and a host of features that make running payroll pain-free, you’ll be able to make more of your business when you use 50 Payroll from Sage.
- Product ID: 3111290845
