Is Sage 50 Accounts Plus right for me?

Sage 50 Accounts Plus 2010 has even more features, specifically designed for growing businesses. It's got all the tools to let you manage everything from cash flow and VAT returns (including online) to year-end accounts and management of customers and suppliers.

So whether you need to manage project costs against budgets, control costs of your products or improve your stock management, Sage 50 Accounts Plus 2010 helps you stay in complete control. With all the feature of Sage 50 Accounts plus more, it lets you:

• Create specific projects & manage costs against your budget
• Use individual customer price schemes and custom price lists
• Set up a bill of materials and manage your stock
• Prioritise your daily workload
• See an instant credit position of your business
• Chase money from your customers & pay your suppliers
• Store detailed information about your contacts
• Run batch reports, and design your own
• New for 2010: improved usability, latest 2010 legislation, Sage Pay 'pay now' option, barcode creator & new cash register.

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 Plus 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 Plus 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 Plus 2010 will help you account for and bank takings, track discrepancies and manage your float.
• Management reporting:
  See more than just your monthly figures on your management reports, and drill down to see the detail behind your top-level figures.
• 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:
  Choose whether you want to turn a quotation into an order, invoice or keep the quotation for your records to use again in the future.
• Discounts and deposit:
  Automatically calculate the effect of percentage discounts or one-off reductions and display the information clearly on your invoices.
• Bill of Materials:
  Set up records of the basic 'kit of parts' for your manufactured or assembled items.
• Microsoft Excel® integrated reporting:
  Microsoft Excel ® can 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.