Is Sage 50 Accounts right for me?

Sage 50 Accounts 2010 lets you to manage your customers and suppliers more professionally, and flexible management reports will give you greater insight into your business. It includes:
 

• Nominal Ledger, VAT Ledger, Profit, Loss and Balance Sheets make sure you can perform crucial business tasks easily.
   
• In-built diary and dashboard lets you see an instant view of your credit position and manage your suppliers.
   
• Managing your quotations, invoices and orders electronically – send and receive them via email.
   
• Advanced budget management, refunds, discounts & easy bank reconciliation.
   
• Create product records, review product activities and analyse monthly sales values and quantities sold.
   
• Build your customer communications with up-to-the-minute records and full saved customer history.
   
• Forge strong customers and supplier relationships with flexible payment methods: cheque, BACS or e-payment.
   
• Analyse your business’ performance, integrate with Microsoft Excel and run batch reports. Customise your reports with our Report Designer.
   

What's new for 2010?

• Easy than ever to use - raise a credit note directly from an invoice, saving user preferences; sort and filter customer and suppliers, edit recurring entry dates without creating a new entry and much more.
• Latest legislation updates - stay on the right side of the law come January 2010.
• Sage Pay ‘pay now’ option - Sage Pay users can add ‘Pay now’ buttons to your invoices for instant online payment.
• Create barcodes - track and trace products and documents or speed up stock management.
• New cash register - account for and bank takings, track discrepancies and manage your float.
• Data Import Wizard - get information into Sage 50 Accounts 2010 in 5 simple steps.

Features and benefits:

• Easy than ever to use
  Based on your feedback we continue to develop the little things that make a big difference, including raising a credit note directly from an invoice, saving user preference settings; sort and filter customer and supplier information, and edit recurring entry dates without creating a new entry
• Latest 2010 legislation updates
  If you trade in the EC, you’ll find Sage 50 Accounts 2010 keeps you on the right side of the law come January 2010, such as changes to the way VAT returns are made for trade in the EC.
   
• In-built Diary:
  Prioritises the daily workload, sets reminders for recurring tasks, automates diary events (such as following up promised payments) and integrates with Microsoft® Outlook.
• Dashboard:
  See an instant view of the credit position of your business. You can see where your money is, how old your customer or supplier debt is, what's due, what's overdue, what's disputed, what's promised to pay and what's still to be allocated - all in one place.
• VAT management:
  Store all of your VAT information and actions in one place, to make preparing, generating, reconciling, adjusting and submitting your VAT returns easy. And because Sage 50 Accounts 2010 has been fully tested and achieved recognition for filing VAT returns online (VAT 100 and VAT 101) from HMRC, you can be sure everything's done by the book.
• Sage Pay ‘pay now’ option
  Add ‘pay now’ buttons to your PDF documents if you are a Sage Pay user and improve your cash flow.
• Create barcodes
  You can now create barcodes within the products area – a great way to track and trace products and documents or speed up stock takes and pick lists.
   
• New cash register
  The cash register in Sage 50 Accounts 2010 will help you account for and bank takings, track discrepancies and manage your float.
• Management reporting:
  Create at a glance summaries or in-depth reports of your key business information. And with flexible Profit and Loss and Balance Sheets see more than just your monthly figures.
• Drillable reports:
  See more than just your top-level figures, drillable reports mean that you can see the details behind these figures - right down to the individual transactions.
• Bank reconciliation:
  Record multiple bank accounts and their details. Enter payments and receipts and save bank reconciliations part-way through. Use ‘Smart Totals' to see the value of any highlighted transaction, and see the reconciled balance of your account at any given time with our new retrospective bank reconciliation report.
• Generate invoices, quotes, orders or proformas for your customers:
  You can choose whether you want to turn a quotation into an order, invoice, keep the quotation for your records, or to use again in the future.
• Discounts and deposits:
  Automatically calculate the effect of percentage discounts or one-off reductions and display the information clearly on your invoices.
• Microsoft Excel® integrated reporting:
  Microsoft Excel ® can now link directly to your Sage 50 Accounts data so that directors and managers can access and analyse accounts information without needing to use Sage 50 Accounts themselves or have it installed on the same PC.
• Support for UK charities:
  Fund management, charity-specific financial reports and an improved chart of accounts designed just for charities.