Is Sage 50 Accounts Professsional right for me?

Sage 50 Accounts Professional 2010 has intuitive tools to help manage everything from cash flow and VAT returns (including online) to year-end accounts and management of customers and suppliers.

Advanced reporting and budget management, plus integration with all Sage 50 products and Sage Pay provides you with complete business management software.

Sage 50 Accounts Professional 2010 combines all the features of Sage 50 Accounts Plus 2010 with the addition of:

• Foreign trader
• Bank account revaluation
• Intrastat support
• Sales order processing and fulfilment
• Purchase order processing
• Up to 10 users (additional cost applies)
• 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 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 Professional 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.
• 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.
• 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 Professional 2010 will help you account for and bank takings, track discrepancies and manage your float.
• 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.
• Sales order processing and purchase:
  Create orders, allocate and despatch stock, produce delivery notes, be informed of stock shortfalls and automatically generate a purchase order.
• 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.
• Foreign trader:
  Process foreign currency transactions and keep track of your assets. See at a glance foreign currency bank balances and correct any transaction errors.
• Microsoft Excel® integrated reporting:
  Microsoft Excel ® can link directly to your Sage 50 Accounts Professional data so that directors and managers can access and analyse accounts information without needing to use Sage 50 Accounts Professional 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.