Sage 50 Accounts Professional Single User 1 Company

Sage 50 Accounts Professional 2008 takes all the features and benefits of Sage 50 Accounts Plus, and adds sales and purchase order processing, stock control, project management and foreign trading tools. It also has the flexibility to handle up to 10 users and manage multiple companies, giving you the information you need to drive your business forward.

Sage 50 Accounts Professional 2008 does more than help you manage your day-to-day finances, VAT returns and year-end accounts. It gives you complete sales and purchase order processing, alongside stock control, project management and foreign trading tools, so you can keep track of the different areas of your business. It also has the flexibility to handle up to 10 users and manage multiple companies (additional charge applies), giving you the information you need to drive your business forward.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

• Manage your VAT: Find all your VAT information in one place using the VAT Ledger, and file your VAT returns securely online.
• 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 reconciliations part-way through.
• Generate invoices, quotes, orders or proformas 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.
• Sales order processing and purchase: Create orders, allocate and despatch stock, produce delivery notes, be informed of stock shortfalls and automatically generate a purchase order.
• Discounts and deposit: Automatically calculate the effect of percentage discounts or one-off reductions and display the information clearly on your invoices.
• Bill of Materials: Set up records of the basic 'kit of parts' for your manufactured or assembled items.
• Foreign trader: Process foreign currency transactions and keep track of your assets. See at a glance foreign currency bank balances and correct any transaction errors.
• 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.
• Support for UK charities: Fund management, charity-specific financial reports and an improved chart of accounts designed just for charities.

WHAT'S NEW

Sage 50 Accounts 2008 - new name, new features
As always, you'll still be able to make light work of all those business essentials like your cash flow and day-to-day accounts, but now you'll be able to:

• Manage all your VAT tasks in one place: With our new VAT Ledger you'll save time dealing with your VAT tasks, as you'll find them all in one place. Use the VAT Ledger to help you prepare, generate, reconcile, adjust and submit online, to keep on top of your VAT.
• Submit your VAT return online: From 2010, all businesses will have to start to file and pay their VAT returns online -- but our HMRC-recognised software lets you get ahead of the game with maximum confidence and minimum effort. And because our software has been fully tested and achieved HMRC recognition for filing VAT returns, you know you are submitting the right information, totally securely.
• Easily track your VAT returns: Each transaction is now flagged with a unique VAT return number for easy tracking when it comes to audits or inspections.
• Make simple manual adjustments: Adjusting your figures, for whatever reason, is simple and straightforward, and you can also record and trace the reason for each adjustment.
• Make the most of online banking: Make payments online to save time, reduce costs and improve relations with your suppliers. We make no additional charge for this, and we now offer a greater choice of major banks whose online services work with our software.
• Deal with "carousel" fraud legislation: Companies that trade computer chips or mobile phones with a total net value of more than £5,000 with other VAT registered companies are now subject to different recording and reporting methods. Our software lets you produce on-screen reports and submit online directly to HMRC.
• See your EC Sales List: If your business trades with other EC countries, you can see the relevant sales list as an onscreen report which automatically calculates the value of sales from individual customers.
• Stay up to date: Whenever we update our software, we'll let you know, with RSS feeds. You will be sent notification of all new developments and you can choose how often you receive updates. You can then view and download the latest information about your software at a time to suit you.
• View the figures that matter: We let you choose the way reports are presented based on what's most important to your business. With our Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and budget reports you can view your figures monthly, quarterly or by year, whichever way suits you the best. And when you need to see the detail and understand the actions that lie behind the top level figures, you can do that too - right down to individual transactions.
• Take card payments over the phone: We know that more and more businesses want to offer card payment facilities to their customers and Sage 50 Accounts 2008 gives you the tools to do it quickly and securely. With an additional charge, Sage Payment Solutions, powered by Protx, updates your accounts automatically when you take card payments.
• Make the most of deposits and discounts: The effects of percentage discounts, one-off reductions and deposits are calculated automatically. You and your customers can see all the adjustments displayed clearly on your invoices.
• Speed up your invoices and orders: Reduce costs, improve the efficiency of your business and increase your service levels by managing your invoices and orders electronically -- send and receive them via email directly from your Sage 50 Accounts software.
• Get the most out of your software: You'll find it easy to get the most out of your software with our user guides, help topics and thousands of questions and answers based on real-life situations.

Working with Sage 50 Accounts 2008

• Stay up to date: We keep you up to date with all the latest developments for ensuring your business is one step ahead. Whenever we update our software, we'll let you know. You will be sent notification of all new developments that could help you with your business, such as new business software tools, and you can choose how often you receive updates. You can then view and download the latest information about your software at a time to suit you.
• Make light work of business processes: Sage 50 Accounts 2008 couldn't be easier to use. Each of the main areas has a map, showing you clearly how to complete business tasks such as sales order fulfilment. Each Process Map consists of a set of steps connected together to show a workflow -- so you know exactly what to do next.
• Get the most out of your software: You'll find it easy to get the most out of your software with our user guides, help topics and thousands of questions and answers based on real-life situations.
• Check your company's performance at the touch of a button: The Dashboard view helps you check your performance rapidly and accurately by displaying a summary of your company's key information. You can drill-down for more information or print the entire dashboard to keep a graphical record of day-by-day performance.
• Essential business information when you need it: You can choose exactly the information you want to see with our intelligent navigation, giving you immediate access to your business information.
• Import your data: Choose how you want to import information into Sage 50 Accounts 2008. The Information Import Wizard makes it simple to import customer and supplier records, transactions, stock, and project records.
• More than one company, more than one user?: Sage 50 Accounts 2008 gives you the ability to store and process more than one set of company accounts. It also allows more than one person to access and process transactions at any one time (additional charge applies), improving efficiency for you.

Minimum hardware

• An IBM compatible PC with 1Ghz (or equivalent) processor
• 512MB RAM
• 400MB of free disk space after Microsoft Windows has been installed
• Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP (recommended); Windows Vista
• Network users only: 100Mbps network with Microsoft Windows networking

Recommended hardware

• An IBM compatible computer with a 2 GHz (or equivalent) processor
• At least 1GB RAM
• At least 600MB of free disk space after Windows has been installed
• Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP (recommended); Windows Vista
• Network users only: 1Gbps network cards and switches with Microsoft Windows networking

Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks.

Works with Microsoft Office 2000 and all later editions.

Please make sure that you have the latest Microsoft updates installed.

Product information is advisory only. Specifications and compatibility should be checked with the manufacturer before order. Images are for illustrative purposes only.