Sage 50 Accounts Professional

Easy to get up and running

• Download, install and get going today when you buy online

• No-hassle online registration and activation

• Simple company setup and easy customisation

• Clear, simple language with no accounting jargon

• Online help centre with guides and video demos to help with key tasks

• Demo & practice data to help you get to grips with Sage 50 Accounts Professional

• Simple walk-throughs of key processes like Year End and VAT returns

• 45 days free telephone support if you need help setting up or moving data

• Easily import Microsoft Excel (.xls & .xlsx) and .csv files

Manage your VAT

• VAT wizard automates all your VAT calculations

• Follow four simple steps to complete your VAT return

• Easily calculate & reconcile VAT with just a few clicks - it's as easy as that

• Submit your VAT returns to directly to HMRC online (now a legal requirement for most businesses)

• Work with a range of tax codes and rates

• Handle standard VAT, VAT Cash Accounting, Flat Rate VAT & Irish VAT Cash Accounting

• Record and calculate EC Sales List returns

Tailor to suit your business

• Easily customise reports to suit your business

• 1 user and 1 company licence included

• Work faster with up to 10 concurrent users (£265+VAT per additional user)

• Manage an unlimited number of companies (£275 per additional company)

• Install over a network (minimum 2 user licence required)

• Have different user preferences and access levels

• Manage your time with the integrated diary

• Keep your data safe with easy backup

• Pick from our range of add-ons to suit you

• Sage Pay - send and receive online payments

• Sage 50 CIS - keep up with CIS legislation

• Tradebox - integrate with your online shop

Total control of your finances

• Balance money going in and out of your business

• Accept payment by cash, cheque, card, and Direct Debit - whichever you prefer

• Trade in foreign currency - Euro, Dollar & more

• Create up Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet Reports

• Set up a Chart of Accounts for your business

• Control your costs in detail at a project, customer, supplier or product level

• Set budgets for different departments & forecast cash flow in detail

• Share data with your accountant by email

• See your credit position & reconcile with your bank account

• Reconcile with foreign currency bank accounts

• Easily correct mistakes and set 'lock dates' to close-off financial periods

• Complete Year End and Month End in simple steps

Keep your customers happy

• Store and search your customer details

• Handy dashboard shows outstanding debts and tasks to complete

• Issue quotes and invoices in a few clicks

• Easily customise your quotes, invoices and statements

• Send quotes, invoices and statements by email

• Set up flexible prices for different customers

• Accept payments from overseas customers in foreign currencies

• Generate and process sales orders

• Add 'Pay now' buttons to invoices for speedy payment

• Know how profitable your quotes & invoices are with the click of a button

• Highlight disputed invoices

• Access a full history of all customer activity

• Apply flexible discounts & quickly process refunds

• Analyse and highlight customer activity, debts and best customers

Manage products, stock and materials

• See best and worst performing products at a glance

• View the quantity and value of products and materials in stock

• Set up product stock codes, descriptions, categories and prices

• Record services and easily create service quotes & invoices

• Create a Bill of Materials to monitor different components and parts

• Know when you need to order more materials, and how much to buy

• Automatically update stock and material levels when invoices and returns are posted

• Perform stock takes and keep your records up to date

• See the profitability of your different materials and products

• Apply flexible discounts and prices for different customers and quantities bought

• Speed up processing by adding barcodes & QR codes to products and documents

Manage your suppliers

• Store supplier addresses, contacts and credit information

• Highlight outstanding invoices & see what you owe

• Set tasks to complete in the built-in diary

• Process invoices and quotes in batches

• Pay overseas suppliers in foreign currencies

• Generate and process purchase orders

• Access a complete history of all supplier activity

• Pay invoices promptly from Sage 50 Accounts

• Analyse supplier debt, activity and performance through a range of reports

• Search supplier records instantly with the 'Quick search' feature

• Quickly & easily email documents to suppliers

Work on the move from your mobile & tablet

• Access instant snapshots of your finances

• Connect to your live data for accurate figures

• Secure encryption keeps your data 100% safe

Sage 50 Mobile:

• Ideal for managing your finances on the move

• Free for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android

• See financial summaries at a glance so you're always up to speed

• Set up customers & generate quotes and invoices

• Instantly check sales histories and product performance

Sage 50 Accounts Pulse:

• Instant insight on your Windows 8 device

• Ideal for people outside your Finance Dept who need to see financial summaries at a glance

• Just £4.99 per month.

Technical information

• Take a look at technical requirements and licence information for Sage 50 Accounts Professional.

Apple Mac compatibility

• Sage software is not compatible with Apple Macs, unless you are running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 via Apple's Boot Camp utility.

Airstream Europe Ltd
Tebay, Cumbria

David Rowell, Financial Director at Airtsream Europe, talks to us about how Sage 50 Accounts Professional makes his business life easier every day.

Because Airstream produce such complex products, they needed a solution that could help them control their costs, manage their stock and quickly produce monthly financial reports.

Sage 50 Accounts helps them stay on top of exactly what's in their stock supply. They can now tightly control their costs, flag up any stock shortages and pay their suppliers quickly.

Tamworth Heat Treatment
Tamworth, Staffordshire

Amanda Crilly, Director at Tamworth Heat Treatment, talks to us about how Sage 50 Accounts helps them manage their finances.

Tamworth Heat Treatment used to employ a third party to manage their accounts. Tired of wasting time and money, they decided to cut out the middle man and turned to Sage 50 Accounts to help manage their finances in-house.

Since choosing Sage 50 Accounts they haven't looked back. It saves them valuable time and money and helps them run their accounts every day from their office - from paying their suppliers on time to automatically calculating their VAT.