Sage are the UK's largest software company and produce a
range of software aimed primarily at the small business market. This guide can
help you to find the right Sage product for your business - but don't worry, we
are only a free telephone call away if you need help deciding which package is
right for you.
Details of the features of each package are provided below, but to help you
select the package that is right for you we have provided some quick questions.
If you need to track Sales or Purchase Orders, or if you need more than 2
users, then you need Line 50 Financial Controller
If you need to produce Invoice Documents from the accounting system, to
maintain individualised customer price lists, to print cheques from the system
or to maintain a Bill of Materials then you need Line 50
Accountant Plus (most businesses would opt for at least this level)
If you do not need any of the above features then you can use
Line 50 Accountant
| Line 50 Accountant |
(single user) £ 500
(two user) £ 750
Optional annual SageCover 1 user £ 250
Optional annual SageCover 2 users £ 435 |
This package offers a broad range of features:
- Customer & supplier ledgers &
records
- Comprehensive records of customers/suppliers available at the click of a
button
- Full address & contact information for invoices, statements and mail
shots
- Account history, identifying which invoices were paid and when, and any
outstanding amounts
- Turnover and transaction history, complete with drill down facility and
graphical analysis, to help identify the best or most loyal customers
- Print statements
- Record invoices and credit notes sent or received
- Nominal ledger
- Lets you see where your money is, where it's come from, and where it's
going.
- Complete VAT Management
- Instant VAT computations saving hours of calculations
- Everything needed to help produce the VAT return provided in the Help
system, including trouble-shooting information
- VAT Transfer wizard automatically transfers VAT from your control accounts
to your liability account, so you can make a simple bank payment to the VAT
office.
- Bank
- Bank, credit card and cash accounts
- Record deposits, payments & transfers between accounts
- Make adjustments for charges paid and interest received.
- Easy reconciliation of your statement against transactions
- Reporting
- Create and output reports in HTML format for easy Web publishing and
sending via any e-mail system
- E-mail merge facility allows you to set up a single report and then
automatically e-mail it to all your suppliers or customers
- Trial balance, P&L Accounts, Balance Sheet, Budget and prior year
reports all provided.
- Reports can be produced at any time
- Report Designer lets you create your own reports, layouts, letters and
labels
- Does all calculations to provide instant business profit and growth figures
- Password/security access
- Set passwords and restrict which areas of the program individual users have
access to
- Task manager
- Helps you to run your business efficiently by reminding you of actions you
need to take and bills you need to pay, how much you are owed, and the status
of your accounts
- Demo data company
- Use the demonstration company to practice entering information into Line 50
- Credit control
- For each customer record, create credit control details tailored to that
customer
- Make various restrictions on the account and be warned of these when using
various options
- Management accounts
- Late payment charges
- Charge interest to large businesses who have not settled invoices within
the agreed period using the credit charges for Late Payments Wizard
- Multi-company capability
- Licences can be purchased for additional companies
- Each set of company data can be run independently or merged into a parent
company report to represent the whole group
- Euro Calculator
- Activesearch
- Makes it quicker and easier to find customers and suppliers
- E-mail and Web access
- Hold customer and supplier e-mail addresses and website details. A single
click can then establish contact through the default web browser or e-mail
client.
- Wizards to save time and reduce errors
- Microsoft Office Integration
- Offers two straightforward options on the 'File' menu: 'Send contents to
Microsoft Word' & 'Send contents to Microsoft Excel'. Can also link
customer and supplier details from Sage Line 50 v7 with Microsoft Outlook.
- eBanking ready (chargeable extra)
- Including making electronic payments, requesting statements for
reconciliation, and requesting balances at any time of the day or night. The
precise nature of e-banking will vary according to the different software used
by banks.
- FREE Sage Forecasting
- Easy-to-use program that requires no previous knowledge of the forecasting
process. Makes financial planning much simpler and up to 10 times quicker than
using traditional spreadsheets. By using the program, you will be able to
control your future more effectively and demonstrate managerial professionalism
to banks and other advisers.
- Links to Sage Payroll, Sage Job
Costing, Sage Informer, Sage WebTrader, Sage Additions
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| Line 50 Accountant Plus |
(single user) £ 750
(two user) £ 1,125
Optional annual SageCover 1 user £ 375
Optional annual SageCover 2 users £ 490 |
This version gives you all of the features of the
Accountant version and adds the following features:
- Invoicing
- Facility to produce both product and service invoices
- No need to re-enter information - one-stop accounting ensures that all
accounts are updated
- Real life business forms make it easy to use
- Full stock management
- Euro invoicing
- Individual customer price lists
- Create an infinite number of price lists for different individuals or
groups. On each price list, a discount matrix can still be applied - for
example, additional discounts for prompt payment or bulk purchasing. Saves
time, makes it easy to check exactly how much you should charge in every
situation.
- Multiple delivery addresses
- Store multiple addresses for the same organisation so that particular
addresses can be selected from a list. Save time, make it easier to deal with
large organisations with multiple sites.
- Cheque printing
- Save time & prevent mistakes by producing your cheques and printing
associated remittance advices automatically
- Bill of materials
- Automatically informs you how many products you could make with your stock
levels, and at what price
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| Line 50 Financial Controller |
(single user) £ 1,200
(two user) £ 1,400
(three user) £ 1,600
(four user) £ 1,800
(five user) £ 2,000
(six user) £ 2,200
Optional annual SageCover for 1 user £ 450
Compulsory* annual SageCover for 2-6
users £ 565 |
This version gives you all of the features of the
Accountant Plus and Accountant versions and adds the following features:
- Sales & purchase order processing
- Create and print orders
- Allocate and despatch stock
- Quotations & pro-forma invoices
- Sales order fulfilment
- Identifies any out-of-stocks that prevent the fulfilment of current orders
and, at the touch of a button, can generate a Purchase Order to make up the
shortfall.
- ODBC Connectivity
- Provides seamless links to other business software e.g. Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Basic, Crystal Reports for
Visual Basic.
- Contact management
- You can record details of the conversations you with your customers within
the customer record. If you charge for tour time, you can even create an
invoice to charge for telephone calls.
- Record batch purchase payments
- Pay all transactions in full; individual transactions in full, or part pay
transactions.
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| Line 50 Financial Controller Sage Cover |
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| For all multi-user purchases of Line 50 Sage cover is
compulsory in the first year, and thereafter it is optional. |
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