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Working with Sage 50 Accounts |
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Sage 50 Accounts Mobile App for iPhone and Blackberry |
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Quick Print -set your default reports & layouts
& print at the touch of a button |
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Quick search functionality making it easier to find
your customers, suppliers or products |
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Lock Date to close down month & year end |
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Improved infrastructure & faster data transfer |
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Easier to set up & use |
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Integration with ACT! - improved in 2012 |
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ACT! integration now available using
Sdata |
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Improved Citrix support with flexible
location of company file, reports & data storage using a configuration
utility |
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Improved usability for emailing documents - layout
and method |
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Sdata services added, providing integration
between Sage applications |
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Flash tutorial simulations upgraded
to interactive click and type to improve experience |
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Data import wizard to improve csv &
xls.xlsx importing |
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Practise company with option to access
demo or practise company on startup |
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Flash based simulations added to Welcome
Page |
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Error correction interface improvements
to simplify process |
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New active set up wizard, improved activity,
smart links to stock & project |
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Multicompany -resizable list can be
printed |
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Process maps & dashboards |
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Improved data import |
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Document management |
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Excel integrated reporting |
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Copy & batch change facility |
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Smart totals & Smart links |
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Drill down to source transaction |
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Online registration & activation |
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VAT Management |
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Support for flat rate VAT accounting scheme |
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Reconcile prompt safeguard on VAT Return, ECSL,
VIES & RCSL |
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Improved - Prepare VAT returns |
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ECSL / VIES Submissions for Products
&/or services |
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VIES Return for Republic of Ireland |
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EC Sales narrative, amendable HMRC banking details |
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Online submissions & payments including
agent submission via Sage 50 Client Manager |
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| Electronic VAT 3 Form for Ireland |
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| New VAT ledger, manual
adjustments to VAT return, unique identifier, auto archiving |
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| Improved EC sales list
& carousel fraud |
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| VAT audit reports |
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Financials & Management Reporting |
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Refreshed Nominal code list allowing your to adapt
to your business type
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Archive Company data to be checked by
default at Year End |
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Improved Month End & Year End Guides
to assist in Period End process |
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Improvements to departmental budget
control & reporting |
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New management reports - month by month,
quarterly, drill to transactions |
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More information available - current
year, prior year & budget on one report |
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Copy chart of accounts |
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Improved Chart of Accounts |
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Departmental budgets, per nominal code
per departments |
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New department ledger, store up to 5
years of data & budget for 1 year in the future |
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Improved journal reversals - can specify
the date when reversing journals |
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Cash flow planner |
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Archive management |
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Recurring entries - customer & supplier
accounts |
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Reversing journals |
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Annual Return of Trading Details (Ireland) |
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Working with Customers & Suppliers |
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Departments viewable on customer & supplier
account Activity view |
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Disputes usability - Selected account details pre-populated
when Disputed Items window opens |
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Payment processing improved - create & allocate
credits directly from an invoice |
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Emailed invoices, chase letters & statements
can now display a Sage Pay button for direct payment |
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Record Till Takings in a pre-defined
bank account, then record banking of takings using cash transfer |
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Cash Flow enhancements provide improved
control |
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Dedicated Diary module along with chase
screens & dashboards to improve credit control & cash flow |
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Extra discount on invoices & orders,
easier deposits |
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Payment by card (MOTO) integration with
Sage Pay |
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No additional charge for Transaction
email & auto activation |
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Refunds - customer payments & supplier
receipts |
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Recurring invoices - ability to edit
recurring invoices & generate recurring transaction reports |
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Store customer bank details |
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Intrastat defaults available for suppliers
& customers |
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Improved quotations |
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Improved discounting - one-off discounts
to individual items |
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Cash sales (Accounts Professional only) |
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Intrastat support |
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Reprint delivery notes |
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Repeat invoices & orders |
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Batch conversion of quotes & proformas |
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Supplier price list |
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Transaction e-mail |
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Create purchase order from Bill of Materials |
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Individual customer pricing & custom
price lists (Accounts Plus & Professional only) |
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Goods received notes |
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Multiple delivery addresses (Accounts
Plus & Professional only) |
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Staying up to Date |
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Sage services added to stack bar |
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Customer feedback survey introduced |
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Sage auto updates |
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Updates & product news RRS feed introduced |
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CIS Module (extra purchase applies) |
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Reporting |
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Report Browser improves report access
& favourites handling |
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Pre-defined & user-defined batch
reports, from any area of the software |
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Generate report output to Excel or Word |
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New report designer |
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Unlimited variables / data can be included
on any report |
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Criteria can be defined per report,
apply formulas |
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Run wizard to amend existing reports |
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Change reports whilst in preview |
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Show profit before & after tax on your profit
and loss |
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Working with your Accountant |
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Accountant Link VAT & bank reconciliation
changes can be automatically applied |
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Accountant Link - Work with accountant
to exchange information and process adjustments |
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Audit assistant |
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Project Costing (Accounts Plus &
Accounts Professional only) |
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Correct transactions & allocate
project to payments or receipts |
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Project Hierarchy, committed costs,
improved reporting |
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Project costing - new module available
in Accounts Plus or Accounts Professional to manage project costs |
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Charities |
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Separate Profit and Loss / Balance Sheet for Funds |
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All membership entries within a customer record
exposed using Report Designer |
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Funds displayed in own ledger list, similar to departments |
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Usability - launch pad to make it easier
to navigate and set up |
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Improved soFa report - all fund type
in one single report |
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HMRC approved Gift Aid report (R68) |
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Support for charities - management of
funds, soFa reporting |
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Bank |
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New improved bank reconciliation report |
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Usability - can print and / or export bank rec.
dats, as it appears on-screen |
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Usability - reconcile visual indicator
introduced |
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Customer receipts & supplier payments
can be added within the Bank Rec window |
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Improvements to bank reconciliation
interface - configurable columns |
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Works with more banks & no additional
charge for e-banking |
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Improved bank reconciliation |
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Foreign Trader (Accounts Professional
only) |
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Foreign trader transactions corrections
& display foreign bank balance |
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Foreign bank revaluation |
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Foreign currency price lists |
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Foreign trader introduced (for standard
VAT Accounting only) |
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Stock |
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Product records can now include a bar code reference
- can be used on product labels |
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Improved Bill of Materials to 50 levels
(Accounts Plus & Accounts Professional only) |
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Stock allocation (Accounts Plus &
Accounts Professional only) |
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Stock shortfall & stock take |
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