Admin users have the highest level of access in Sage HR. They can view and manage all areas of your company.
The first user who creates the Sage HR company becomes an admin by default. Other admins can add more.
⚠️CAUTION: Give admin access only to someone you trust with full company data.
📌TIP: You can create a separate user profile with a different email address to keep admin access separate from the employee profile.
Give admin access to an existing employee
Open the employee’s profile.
Select the Employee tab.
Scroll to Access level.
Change Employee to Administrator.
Scroll down and select Save.
Sage HR now gives the employee admin access.
📎NOTE: Sage HR automatically assigns the Employee administrator permission role when you give someone administrator access.
Remove admin access
Follow the same steps and change Administrator back to Employee.
UK payroll integration considerations
Admin access behaves differently when you integrate Sage HR with payroll.
Sage 50 Payroll UK integration
Sage 50 Payroll UK integration
Admins can see other employees’ payslips by default
You can remove payslip access in admin permissions
You can create admin‑only profiles not linked to payroll
Only the original admin controls which admins can see payslips
Admin access in Sage HR doesn’t give access to publish payslips in Sage 50 Payroll
📌TIP: Create a separate admin‑only profile if you don’t want admin access linked to an employee record.
Sage Payroll UK integration
Sage Payroll UK integration
Admins can see other employees’ payslips by default
You can remove payslip access in admin permissions
You can create admin‑only profiles not linked to payroll
Only the original admin controls admin payslip visibility
Admin access in Sage HR doesn’t allow payroll processing in Sage Payroll
📌TIP: Create a separate admin‑only profile if you don’t want admin access linked to an employee record.
Queries this guide answers
Queries this guide answers
'Make someone an admin'
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'Add admin access'
'How to add an admin'
'Set someone up as an admin'
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