Sage Line 50:

Sage Line 50 provides small to medium sized businesses with a choice of progressively more comprehensive solutions and single user or network versions.

The Financial Controller level links with other business software around your organisations

Efficiency:

By eliminating repetitive routines, simplifying difficult tasks and speeding up procedures, Sage Line 50 makes complex accounting tasks straightforward. You can complete in hours what used to take days! Its integrated approach means you do not have to keep entering the same data to perform different functions. For example, Sage Line 50 uses the information on an order to create an invoice automatically. Choose from three increasingly comprehensive products in the Sage Line 50 range – Accountant, Accountant Plus and Financial Controller – to suit the size and complexity of your business.

Greater Control

Sage Line 50 makes it much easier to retrieve important facts and figures, and different parts of the business benefit from sharing vital information. Managers can assess quickly the current trading situation as the basis for decisions. Trends can be analysed and new targets set. Sales can instantly grade customers as a guide for adjusting service levels.

Latest Developments

For over a decade Sage Line 50 has developed continuously in order to meet changing business needs and as a result of listening to customers. Sage Line 50 version 5, a new Windows version, incorporates 70 new or improved features which will enable small to medium - sized companies to run their business more freely. Customers using Sage Line 50 version 5 can be confident that the accounting software is year 2000 compliant and Euro capable. Political changes have also been considered by the inclusion of a late payment facility, which aims to make the recovery of commercial debts easier for small businesses. Sage is one of the first accountancy software companies to offer this facility. Sage is also working closely with leading government and agency bodies to provide small and medium businesses with a collective voice on issues that affect the day to day running of their companies.

Sage Line 50 is accredited by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and Produced to ISO 9001 quality standards. From the start you feel at ease with Sage Line 50, and quickly find yourself working intuitively. That’s because it is based on features of manual accounting. Items such as invoices, cheques, bank statements and VAT returns appear realistically on the screen.

VAT Return Screen

Producing your VAT return has never been easier with Sage Line 50. What used to take you hours will now take minutes. The figures are calculated automatically.

Customer Record Screen

Sage Line 50 screens are easy to read. The customer record screen allows you to see customer turnover and sales history, complete with drill - down facility and even graphical analysis.

Easy to Install

The program installs itself with the minimum help from you, guided by simple on - screen prompts. Once it is up and running you can call up Help for any operation you are carrying out. There are wizards to take you through the more complicated routines. As part of SageCover there is a helpline which gives you access to Sage technical staff to help with any problems you may have.

Quick and Easy to Use

Where it differs from manual methods is, of course, in speed and efficiency. A data error correction system makes it easy to validate data. Sage Line 50’s one - step accounting means you only have to enter data once and it updates all of the related ledgers. Enter an order and Sage Line 50 will raise an invoice and update stock and customer records – automatically.

Links

Not only does Sage Line 50 play the central role in integrating with other Sage business solutions, it also links seamlessly with other industry standard software such as Microsoft Office.

For example, you can transfer data from Sage Line 50 into spreadsheets, making it easier to analyse the facts and figures to support decision - making. You can also import data into your word processor to run a mail merge, send debt chasing letters and produce customer mail shots and reports for presentation.