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Change an employee's email address - Sage accounts not enabled

How to change an employee's email address when a company isn't integrated with payroll software and Sage accounts aren't enabled.

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Written by Oliver Cook
Updated over 10 months ago

These steps are for Sage HR companies not integrated with payroll software, that don't have Sage accounts enabled within your Sage accounts and two-factor authentication settings.

The image is a screenshot of a webpage related to Sage accounts. It features a green header with the text “Learn more about Sage accounts (opens in a new window).” Below, there’s a title “Enable Sage accounts for my company” with a green checkmark icon. The content explains updates to the Sage HR users’ login process and access to Sage products, highlighting the switch to Single Sign On (SSO) and the option for two-factor authentication (2FA) for added security. It also mentions that existing employees will receive an email with instructions to create their own Sage account once Sage accounts are enabled, which is confirmed by another green checkmark icon at the bottom with the statement “Sage accounts are enabled.”

If you need to change an employee's email address, you can do this, but your steps may vary depending on whether the original email address used was incorrect, or if the employee just wants to use a different email address to log in to Sage HR.

Why do you need to change the employee's email address?

The user has a new email address

If you need to change an email address to a new address, this can be done in their Sage HR employee profile.

  1. Go to their employee profile.

  2. On the profile menu, click Employee.

  3. Under Work email, remove the existing email address, then re-enter the new one.


    If the email address option is greyed out with a lock symbol, this means either you don't have permission, or you use Sage HR Online Services which requires you to amend it via Sage 50 Payroll (UK only).

  4. Scroll down to the bottom, then click Save.

  5. As a security measure, a confirmation request is sent to the user's old email address to approve the change. Once this confirmation email is approved, the email change is applied to the profile.

📎NOTE: If the employee no longer has access to their original email address, so can't verify the change, you must follow the same steps for changing an incorrect email address.

Email address is incorrect/doesn't exist

If the profile was created with an incorrect or non-existing email, an Admin user must terminate and delete the wrong profile. Then create a new employee record with the correct email address.

  1. Terminate the employee.

  2. Delete the terminated employee.

  3. Create a new employee profile with the correct email address.

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