Brief of some Product Features

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 reconciliation's part-way through.

Generate invoices, quotes, or pro-forma's 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.

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 themselves or have it installed on the same PC.

Sage 50 Acounts Standard Modules

Accounts Receivable Features and Benefits:

• Invoice Transaction Drilldown
• Invoices & Credits by batch, product / service invoice.
• Customer refund function
• Customer Record Search Function
• Email PDF Invoices and Statements
• On screen Transaction Activity and Aged Analysis
• Export to Customer records / transactions to excel
• Many Customer Accounts Receivable Reports

Accounts Payable Features and Benefits:

• Invoices & Credits by batch or Purchase Order
• Handles payment on account / deposits
• Supplier refund function
• On screen Transaction Activity and Aged Analysis
• Supplier Record Search Function
• Export to Supplier records / transactions to excel
• Many Supplier Accounts Payable Reports

 Product / Inventory Features and Benefits:

• Alpha Numeric Product Codes
• Product Categories and Departments
• Stock / Non Stock and Service Product Types
• Negative Stock Option
• Import and Export Product Records to Excel
• Global Price Update Function
• Stock Take Function
• Stock Control and Activity Reports

Customer Quotations

Many businesses submit quotations in the hope of attracting new business. When the customer
accepts the quotation, you will convert it to a Sales Order or an Invoice.

When you create a quotation in Sage 50 Accounts it is given a status of Open. From this point it may become:

• Won - A quotation automatically becomes Won when you convert it to an order or invoice.
  
  
• Lost - A quotation becomes Lost when you amend it and mark it as such.
  The status of a Lost quotation can be amended to make it Open again.
  
  
• Expired - A quotation automatically becomes Expired after it has been Open for a time-out period
  longer than you specify on the record. An expired quotation can become Open again, if you amend the expiry date.

Sage 50 Accounts provides you with all of the functions you need to create invoices, credit notes, pro-forma's and quotes.

The Invoicing option is linked to your customer, product and nominal accounts so these records are automatically updated when you update your invoices.
If Invoice Printing for Services is not required you can use the Customer Batch Invoice Function.

Invoicing Features and Benefits:

• Create Product or Service Invoices
• Create Pro-forma Invoices
• Create Memorised and Recurring Invoices
• Cash Payment of Invoice at time of posting
• Take Deposit Payment on Invoice
• Auto of Manual Invoice Numbering
• Invoice Search and Reporting
• Unlimited Invoice Templates
• Add Company Logo and Customise Invoice
• Add Text or Memos to Invoices

General Ledger Features and Benefits:

• Numeric Ledger Codes with Sub-Account Option.
• Create Multiple Chart of Accounts Layouts.
• Budgeting
  • Standard budgeting, a basic budgeting feature you can use to view your budget, actual's and previous years figures.
  • Advanced budgeting that includes up to five years historical figures and is designed to improve budget set up.
• Use Departments to monitor the performance of different areas in your business. Each transaction you record can be linked to a department which represents one of your business areas. Generate reports or check the activity associated with each business area.

Finanacials Features and Benefits:

• Full numbered Audit Trail is a complete record of your transaction activities and is often requested by auditors during their investigations.
• Financial's Search function can search your entire transaction history for Values, Tax Codes, Transaction Reference Etc.
• Reports
  • Profit and Loss
  • Balance Sheet
  • Trial Balance
  • Audit Trail
  • Plus more
• Archive previous year company data.
• Departmental transaction and Budgeting

Banking Features and Benefits:

• GL Payments and Receipting.
• Customer Receipts and Supplier Payments.
• Supplier Remittance Printing.
• Electronic Banking.
• Bank Reconciliation.
• Cash Flow option allows you to plan payments to your suppliers, expected incomes, expected expenditure and variable payments such as wages and utility bills.
• Bank Transfer Tool - Funds between Bank Accounts.
• Recurring transactions Eg Loan Payments Etc.
• Bank, Credit Card, and Cash type accounts.
• Reporting.

File Maintenance Features and Benefits:

• Check Data Files Tool
  • The Check Data facility lets you check the validity of your data files and, in certain circumstances, correct any data corruption.
• Transaction Entry Correction
  • Often mistakes are made when entering transactions. You can correct them provided the associated transaction entries have not been cleared from the audit trail. Sage 50 Accounts generates the necessary adjustments for you.
• Re-index Data Tool.
• Compress Data Files Tool
  • Returns unused file space as free disk space.
• Rebuild Data Files
  • Create new data files for all, or selected, parts of an existing company data set.

Reports & Searching Features and Benefits:

• The Report Designer generates and prints all of the reports and stationery that your business needs.
• Create new or modify existing reports.
• Statements, Labels and Letters.
• Add Logos, Lines and Boxes Etc.
• Range of standard reports for each module.
• Print, Preview, Email or Save as Files CSV, PDF, HTM, XLS (Excel).
• Send Transactions direct to Excel.
• Module and Global Transaction Search Tools.
• Wildcard Search Function.
• Memorise custom searches for future use.
• Modify Module Grid Layouts.
• Change Module columns sort order.

User Access / Security Features and Benefits:

• Access Rights feature lets you set individual passwords for each person who has access to Sage 50.
• You can restrict which ledgers, menus and windows each user can use, and you can hide your bank
  and nominal balances from certain users if necessary.
• Create new user accounts based on other users with the copy function.

GST and BAS Features and Benefits:

• Tax Codes can be adjusted for various %
• Tax Codes are entered with every transaction
• Adept Bas Add-on is an optional for Sage 50 in Australia. See Adept Add on Page  http://www.mpsonline.com.au/Products/BusinessManagement/Sage50Addons.aspx 
  • Comes with Australian BAS and New Zealand GST Forms as standard.
  • Can handle multiple Tax Forms.
  • Automatic updates keep the program up to date.
  • Library of pre-designed Tax Forms and Reports that can be downloaded and installed automatically.
  • Drill down to the individual transactions that have been used for a return.
  • Automatic drillable archives are created when a form is submitted.
  • Forms and Reports are generated in HTML format for maximum flexibility.

Multi user / Network Features and Benefits:

• 2 User Client Access.
• Access Permissions per user.
• Quick access to logged in user list.
  
  
• Network Environment
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
  • Windows Server
  • Windows Small Business Server
  • Terminal Services Client

Third Party Expansion Features and Benefits:

• Through the use of Sage Data Objects SDO third party Software Developers and customise add-on solutions to suit most niche business.

Sage 50 Accounting 

Reasons to choose Sage 50 Accounts

• You need software that is easy to use and covers all your accounting needs.
• You want advanced features to help you manage your growing business.
• You need an accounts system that helps your company to grow, allowing different people to use the system at the same time.
• You require accurate management information and reports.
• You need software that integrates with your other software to develop a more efficient business system.