BrightPay Desktop provides a quick and seamless import utility to bring across your company and employee details from Sage/MicroPay payroll software. In order to import from Sage/MicroPay you will need to have the 32-bit version of BrightPay that you can download from here.

 

• To begin the import, simply click on the ‘Import Employer’ button at the bottom of the ‘Open Employer’ screen and select 'Import from Sage/MicroPay'.
  
   
• Choose from the options 'Start at beginning of tax year' or 'Continue Mid Year' as required:

• Browse to the location of your Sage/MicroPay data file(s). 
  
  The default location for the data files is C:/ Program Data / MicroPay Professional /, and select the folder for the year you wish to import, e.g., if you wish to import from 2025, select the '2025' folder.
  
  BrightPay will read the contents within this folder and then display your list of companies. Simply select which companies you wish to import.

   

• Once the import process is completed, simply open your new BrightPay company file(s) to review your information and commence payroll.

Please note: if you selected the option 'Continue Mid Year', BrightPay will automatically import your employees' mid year totals to date from the Sage/MicroPay file selected at the time of import.

These can be viewed in each employee's 'Mid Year Totals' within each employee's record. 

Following the import, further employee information can be manually entered within 'Employees', if required. Alternatively, you may wish to update missing employee information using CSV file.

It is also strongly recommended that all employer and employee details are reviewed before processing any payroll to ensure information imported in is correct and applicable for the tax year in question.

Important Notes - please read

In order for this import process to work, you must ensure that Sage is installed on the same PC that you operating BrightPay from.

Please note: where an employee had had previous employment in the same tax year, the employee's 'taxable pay to date', 'tax to date', 'usc-able pay to date', 'usc to date', 'employee PRSI-able pay to date', 'employer PRSI-able pay to date' and 'pensionable pay to date' amounts that are imported in from SAGE will include 'previous employment' figures.
 

As these previous employment amounts will already be catered for in within the Starter Details section of the employee's record in BrightPay, users must ensure that the employee's 'taxable pay to date', 'tax to date', 'usc-able pay to date', 'usc to date', 'employee PRSI-able pay to date', 'employer PRSI-able pay to date' and 'pensionable pay to date' amount within their 'Mid Year Totals' utility are reduced by these amounts prior to processing any payroll.

We recommend retrieving the RPN for employees before performing the above task to ensure that the correct Starter Details are imported into the Employees records.

After reviewing your employer and employee information, simply click the 'Payroll' tab to commence processing payroll.

For any queries regarding the import process, please contact our migration team at:

brightpayirelandmigration@brightsg.com