Sage Line 50 / Sage 50 Feature |
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Working with Sage 50 Accounts |
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New Diary with views by day, week or month |
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Recurring tasks/events |
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Delegate tasks (network versions only) |
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Ability to assign tasks to customers / suppliers & their
contacts |
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Automatic update of software |
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More assistance including tutorials, getting started
& upgrades |
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Improved corrections easily access & correct
data |
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Practise company with option to access demo or practise
company on startup |
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RSS feed informing of updates & product news |
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Information centre |
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New active set up wizard, improved activity, smart
links to stock & project |
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Process maps & dashboards |
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Improved data import |
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New data import templates & improved data import
wizard |
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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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Improvements to backup routine & backing up
online |
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VAT Management |
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Improved - Prepare VAT returns |
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Ability to change HMRC bank account |
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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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Improved EC sales list to meet new EU legislation
for January 2010 |
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Financials & Management Reporting |
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Ability to open Financial & Nominal screens
at same time |
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Cash flow separates incomings & outgoings, includes
credits |
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Rebuild departmental actuals based on transactions |
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Updated Dept Number table to be numeric only |
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Depts - Improved Year End actuals all transferred
to prior year |
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Improved Year End messaging |
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Improved prior year, budget & actual reports
for departmental 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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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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Working with Customers & Suppliers |
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Record Till Takings |
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Pay Now Button (extra cost applies)
- Taking payment by credit card & making refunds |
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Improved Dashboards - Easily see where
money is, what's outstanding, who is due aged, days to pay &
tasks for the day |
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Improved - See which suppliers you owe money to
& when it's due |
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Improved Chase debts by overdue, promised,
dispute & custom views with smart columns to personalise views
to suit your needs |
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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 |
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Easily access account record, view supplier &
customer activities & communications in one place |
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Account balance when communication took place automatically
added |
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Communications auto updated when letters & statements
sent |
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Easily record new communications & follow up |
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Store account contacts details |
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Record notes against contact & delivery addresses |
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Set preferences for issuing documents - invoices,
statements, letters, orders etc. |
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Contact & delivery addresses in Accounts variant |
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Easily view disputed items |
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Disputes introduced in to Accounts variant |
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Record method of payment |
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Improved receipt & payment processing |
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New drillable reports - aged debt, credit management
summary |
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Communications history by customer |
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Easier to send statements to correct contact &
by email |
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Refunds - customer payments & supplier
receipts |
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Improved refund management |
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Recurring invoices - ability to edit
recurring invoices & generate recurring transaction reports |
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Improved recurring entries |
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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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CIS |
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CIS Module (extra purchase applies) |
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Reporting |
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Batch reporting |
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Password protection |
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Easier to use - assign name, spell check, joining
tables |
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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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New report navigation & working with favourites |
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Create Bar Codes within product area (also works
alongside stock & purchase order management tools in Accounts
Plus & Professional) |
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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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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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Retrospective bank reconciliation report |
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Easier to use - Smart Totals, additional columns,
resizeable screen |
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Works with more banks & no additional charge
for e-banking |
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Reverse bank reconciliation |
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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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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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