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Sage Line 50 / Sage 50 Accounts Features Version Comparison

Sage Line 50 / Sage 50 Feature

v10

v11

v12

v2007

v2008

v2009

v2010

Working with Sage 50 Accounts

 

 

 

 

 

   

New Diary with views by day, week or month

         

Recurring tasks/events

         

Delegate tasks (network versions only)

         

Ability to assign tasks to customers / suppliers & their contacts

         

Automatic update of software

         

More assistance including tutorials, getting started & upgrades

         

Improved corrections easily access & correct data

         

Practise company with option to access demo or practise company on startup

         

RSS feed informing of updates & product news

         

Information centre

         

New active set up wizard, improved activity, smart links to stock & project

 

 

Process maps & dashboards

 

 

Improved data import

 

 

New data import templates & improved data import wizard

           

Document management

 

Excel integrated reporting

 

Copy & batch change facility

 

Smart totals & Smart links

 

Drill down to source transaction

Improvements to backup routine & backing up online

           

VAT Management

             

Improved - Prepare VAT returns

           

Ability to change HMRC bank account

         

Online submissions & payments including agent submission via Sage 50 Client Manager

       

Electronic VAT 3 Form for Ireland

 

 

 

 

 

New VAT ledger, manual adjustments to VAT return, unique identifier, auto archiving

 

 

 

 

Improved EC sales list & carousel fraud

 

 

 

 

VAT audit reports

Improved EC sales list to meet new EU legislation for January 2010

           

Financials & Management Reporting

       

 

   

Ability to open Financial & Nominal screens at same time

           

Cash flow separates incomings & outgoings, includes credits

         

Rebuild departmental actuals based on transactions

         

Updated Dept Number table to be numeric only

         

Depts - Improved Year End actuals all transferred to prior year

         

Improved Year End messaging

           

Improved prior year, budget & actual reports for departmental reporting

         

New management reports - month by month, quarterly, drill to transactions

       

More information available - current year, prior year & budget on one report

       

Copy chart of accounts

       

Departmental budgets, per nominal code per departments

 

 

 

New department ledger, store up to 5 years of data & budget for 1 year in the future

 

 

 

Improved journal reversals - can specify the date when reversing journals

 

 

 

Cash flow planner

Archive management

Recurring entries - customer & supplier accounts

Reversing journals

Working with Customers & Suppliers

       

 

   

Record Till Takings

           

Pay Now Button (extra cost applies) - Taking payment by credit card & making refunds

           

Improved Dashboards - Easily see where money is, what's outstanding, who is due aged, days to pay & tasks for the day

 

 

 

 

 

Improved - See which suppliers you owe money to & when it's due

           

Improved Chase debts by overdue, promised, dispute & custom views with smart columns to personalise views to suit your needs

 

 

 

 

 

Prioritise Payments - who needs to be paid, disputes to be resolved, who you have promised to pay. Customise the view with info required using new smart columns & develop own view of money owing

 

 

 

 

 

Easily access account record, view supplier & customer activities & communications in one place

         

Account balance when communication took place automatically added

         

Communications auto updated when letters & statements sent

         

Easily record new communications & follow up

         

Store account contacts details

         

Record notes against contact & delivery addresses

         

Set preferences for issuing documents - invoices, statements, letters, orders etc.

         

Contact & delivery addresses in Accounts variant

         

Easily view disputed items

         

Disputes introduced in to Accounts variant

         

Record method of payment

         

Improved receipt & payment processing

           

New drillable reports - aged debt, credit management summary

         

Communications history by customer

         

Easier to send statements to correct contact & by email

         

Refunds - customer payments & supplier receipts

 

 

 

Improved refund management

           

Recurring invoices - ability to edit recurring invoices & generate recurring transaction reports

 

 

 

Improved recurring entries

           

Store customer bank details

 

 

 

Intrastat defaults available for suppliers & customers

 

 

 

Improved quotations

 

 

Improved discounting - one-off discounts to individual items

 

 

Cash sales (Accounts Professional only)

 

Intrastat support

 

Reprint delivery notes

 

Repeat invoices & orders

Batch conversion of quotes & proformas

Supplier price list

Transaction e-mail

Create purchase order from Bill of Materials

Individual customer pricing & custom price lists (Accounts Plus & Professional only)

Goods received notes

Multiple delivery addresses (Accounts Plus & Professional only)

CIS

 

 

 

 

 

   

CIS Module (extra purchase applies)

 

 

 

Reporting

       

 

   

Batch reporting

         

Password protection

         

Easier to use - assign name, spell check, joining tables

         

Generate report output to Excel or Word

 

 

 

New report designer

 

 

 

Unlimited variables / data can be included on any report

         

Criteria can be defined per report, apply formulas

 

 

 

Run wizard to amend existing reports

 

 

 

Change reports whilst in preview

 

 

 

New report navigation & working with favourites

           

Create Bar Codes within product area (also works alongside stock & purchase order management tools in Accounts Plus & Professional)

           

Working with your Accountant

       

 

   

Accountant Link VAT & bank reconciliation changes can be automatically applied

 

 

 

Accountant Link - Work with accountant to exchange information and process adjustments

 

Audit assistant

Project Costing (Accounts Plus & Accounts Professional only)

 

 

 

 

 

   

Correct transactions & allocate project to payments or receipts

 

 

 

Project Hierarchy, committed costs, improved reporting

 

 

Project costing - new module available in Accounts Plus or Accounts Professional to manage project costs

 

Charities

 

 

 

 

 

   

Usability - launch pad to make it easier to navigate and set up

 

 

 

Improved soFa report - all fund type in one single report

 

 

 

HMRC approved Gift Aid report (R68)

 

 

 

Support for charities - management of funds, soFa reporting

 

 

Bank

 

 

 

 

 

   

Retrospective bank reconciliation report

         

Easier to use - Smart Totals, additional columns, resizeable screen

         

Works with more banks & no additional charge for e-banking

 

 

 

 

Reverse bank reconciliation

 

 

 

Improved bank reconciliation

 

 

Foreign Trader (Accounts Professional only)

 

 

 

 

 

   

Foreign trader transactions corrections & display foreign bank balance

 

 

 

Foreign bank revaluation

 

Foreign currency price lists

Foreign trader introduced (for standard VAT Accounting only)

Stock

 

 

 

 

 

   

Improved Bill of Materials to 50 levels (Accounts Plus & Accounts Professional only)

 

 

Stock allocation (Accounts Plus & Accounts Professional only)

 

 

Stock shortfall & stock take

 

Note: As part of the new Sage 50 Suite of software Sage Line 50 is now known as Sage 50 accounts software and has the simple Sage 50 prefix before each different version. See below for a simple list of the old and new names.

Old Line 50 Name

New Sage 50 Name

Sage Line 50 Accountant

Sage 50 Accounts

Sage Line 50 Accountant Plus

Sage 50 Accounts Plus

Sage Line 50 Financial Controller

Sage 50 Accounts Professional

Minimum & Recommended System Requirements for Sage 50 Accounts, Sage 50 Accounts Plus and Sage 50 Accounts Professional 2010

  • Pentium PC with a minimum 1GHz processor, recommended 2GHz processor

  • Operating system Microsoft Windows 2000, XP (recommended), Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7- It will NOT run on Windows 95,98, Me or Windows NT4 operating systems.

  • Minimum 512MB RAM, recommended 1GB RAM

  • Minimum 400MB, recommended 600MB free disc space after Windows

  • Please ensure that the latest Microsoft updates are installed

  • Network users only: Minimum 100Mbps network cards and switches with Microsoft Windows Networking, recommended 1Gbps

  • Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks.

  • Works with Microsoft Office 2000 and all later editions.

 

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