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Sage Line 50 / Sage 50 Accounts Features Version Comparison

Sage Line 50 / Sage 50 Feature

v8

v9

v10

v11

v12

v2007

v2008

VAT Management

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

y

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

y

Improved EC sales list & carousel fraud

y

VAT audit reports

y

y

y

y

y

y

y

Financials & Management Reporting

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

y

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

y

Copy chart of accounts

y

Departmental budgets, per nominal code per departments

y

y

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

y

y

Improved journal reversals - can specify the date when reversing journals

y

y

Cash flow planner

y

y

y

y

y

y

Archive management

y

y

y

y

y

y

Recurring entries - customer & supplier accounts

y

y

y

y

y

y

y

Reversing journals

y

y

y

y

y

y

y

Customers & Suppliers

Extra discounts on invoices & orders, easier deposits

y

Payment by card (MOTO) integration with Sage Payment Solutions

y

No additional charge for Tmail & auto activation

y

Refunds - customer payments & supplier receipts

y

y

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

y

y

Store customer bank details

y

y

Intrastat defaults available for suppliers & customers

y

y

Improved quotations

y

y

y

Improved discounting - one-off discounts to individual items

y

y

y

Cash sales (Accounts Professional only)

y

y

y

y

Intrastat support

y

y

y

y

Reprint delivery notes

y

y

y

y

Repeat invoices & orders

y

y

y

y

y

Batch conversion of quotes & proformas

y

y

y

y

y

Supplier price list

y

y

y

y

y

Transaction e-mail

y

y

Create purchase order from Bill of Materials

y

y

y

y

y

y

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

y

y

y

y

y

y

y

Goods received notes

y

y

y

y

y

y

y

Multiple delivery addresses (Accounts Plus & Professional only)

y

y

y

y

y

y

y

Staying up to date

RSS feed informing of updates & product news

y

Information centre

y

CIS

CIS Module (extra cost)

y

y

Reporting

Generate report output to Excel or Word

y

y

New report designer

y

y

Criteria can be defined per report, apply formulas

y

y

Run wizard to amend existing reports

y

y

Change reprots whilst in preview

y

y

Working with your Accountant

Accoutant Link VAT & bank reconciliation changes can be automatically applied

y

y

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

y

y

y

y

Audit assistant

y

y

y

y

y

Project Costing (Accounts Plus & Accounts Professional only)

Correct transactions & allocate project to payments or receipts

y

y

Improved project costing - Hierarchy, committed costs, reporting

y

y

y

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

y

y

y

y

Charities

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

y

y

Improved soFa report - all fund type in one single report

y

y

HMRC approved Gift Aid report (R68)

y

y

Support for charities - management of funds, soFa reporting

y

y

y

Bank

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

y

Reverse bank reconciliation

y

y

Improved bank reconciliation

y

y

Foreign Trader (Accounts Plus & Accounts Professional only)

Foreign trader transactions corrections & display foreign bank balance

y

y

Foreign bank revaluation

y

y

y

y

Foreign currency price lists

y

y

y

y

y

Foreign trader introduced

y

y

y

y

y

y

Stock

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

y

y

y

Stock allocation (Accounts Plus & Accounts Professional only)

y

y

y

Stock shortfall & stock take

y

y

y

y

y

y

y

Working with Sage 50 Accounts

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

y

y

y

Process maps & dashboards

y

y

y

Improved data import

y

y

y

Document management

y

y

y

y

Excel integrated reporting

y

y

y

y

Copy & batch change facility

y

y

y

y

Smart totals & smart links

y

y

y

y

Drill down to source transaction

y

y

y

y

y

Minimum System Requirements for Sage 50 Accounts, Accounts Plus and Accounts Professional 2008

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

• Operating system Microsoft Windows 2000, XP (recommended), Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista - 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

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