Payroll Requirements for Year-End 2023

Sage has issued the following support article – Payroll and 1099 compatibility for Sage 100 – which outlines the minimum versions required for FYE 2023 payroll and 1099 form processing.

Due to compatibility issues with the latest software provided by Sage’s tax reporting partner, the Sage 100 Payroll 2.24 release and 1099 update scheduled for December 2023 will not be compatible with versions of Sage 100 before 2020 (6.20.0).

Specifically, payroll customers and those utilizing 1099 functionality running Sage 100 versions 2018 and 2019 must upgrade to a supported version of Sage 100 to install the Payroll 2.24 release and the latest tax form updates.

Important Note: Customers running unsupported legacy payroll versions do not have the option of a separate payroll installation and are not impacted by this change.

Effective with the release of Payroll 2.24 (scheduled for December 2023), payroll and 1099 customers on versions 2018 and 2019 will need to be running one of the following versions of Sage 100 to install the latest release of Payroll and 1099 forms:

• 2023.x
• 2022.x
• 2021.x
• 2020.x

Customers not running a compatible version of Sage 100 will experience a failure of the Payroll update installation and the inability to generate 1099’s, W-2’s or associated tax reporting documents.

Starting with our 2024 Payroll release, Sage will have an n-3 support policy for payroll updates, meaning the update will be compatible with the latest and three prior versions of the Sage 100 software.