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Sage Line 50 software has
been refined over many years to take advantage
of developments in technology, and to reflect
the changing needs of businesses. As a result,
Sage Line 50 2007 offers control over all
areas of your business and is the UK's most
successful accounting program. Sage Line
50 2007 is available in three versions -
Accountant, Accountant Plus and Financial
Controller (displayed on the right).
Features
and Benefits:
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| Budgets and reports
for departments, nominal ledger and projects |
| For extra control,
you can now set budgets and produce reports
for each department, nominal code or project.
To help you plan ahead, you can also set budgets
for now and your next Financial Year. |
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| Flexibility to
monitor key areas of your business |
| Manage the performance
of key areas or activities more effectively.
Track your business activity, by area, with
the flexibility to drilldown to more detail.
Information is instantly available, so you
no longer have to run reports to get the breakdown
that you need. |
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| Create your own
reports to get the information you need |
| The improvements we've
made to the Report Designer make it easy for
you to get the information that you need in
one report. You can tailor the overall design
of your reports, adding all the fields and
calculations you want. |
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| Store a complete
history of your VAT return |
| We’ve made it
easy for you to access the transactional detail
behind your VAT returns - saving you, and
the auditors, valuable time searching for
information. |
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| Refunds in one
single transaction |
| We’ve introduced
new transaction types to record payments made
to customers, as well as refunds received
from suppliers. Now, no matter which VAT scheme
you’re operating, postings have been
simplified and reconciliation is that much
easier! |
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| Foreign trading
made easy |
| It’s never been
easier to manage your foreign trade, with
improved features including easier error correction,
at-a-glance Foreign Bank Balance and separate
control of Intrastat arrivals and dispatches. |
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| Improve your project
costing |
| Additional budgeting
and reporting tools enable you to track performance
and you can now correct project transaction
errors easily, ensuring that you're recording
the right information for the right projects. |
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| Get the most out
of your accountant |
| The Accountant Link
automatically updates your Bank and VAT reconciliations
so your accountant has up-to-date records
and you can continue with your day-to-day
tasks and spend less time duplicating work. |
| Process Maps |
| Each of the main areas
of Sage Line 50 2007 now has a map, showing
you how to make light work of business processes
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. |
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| Dashboards |
| The optional Dashboard
view helps you to 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. |
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| Smart Columns,
Smart Links, Smart Totals |
| Intelligent navigation
lets you choose what information you want
to be able to see, giving you immediate access
to your business information. |
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| Data Import |
| Choose how you want
to import information into Sage Line 50 2007.
The Information Import Wizard makes it even
easier to import customer and supplier records,
transactions, stock, and project records. |
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| Multi-Company,
Multi-User Options |
| Sage Line 50 2007
gives you the ability to store and process
more than one set of company accounts. It
also can allow more than one person to access
and process transactions at any one time (additional
charge applies). |
| Customer &
Supplier Records - All Variants |
| Keep detailed records
of your customers and suppliers - including
a history of transactions. |
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| Customer &
Supplier Ledgers - All Variants |
| A comprehensive list
of all your customers and suppliers, with
the facility to process batch invoices, view
outstanding invoices, and print labels, letters,
statements and reports. |
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| Credit Control
- All Variants |
| Record detailed credit
information about your customers and suppliers,
with all credit control functions in one central
area. Keep and control a full credit history
for both customers and suppliers. |
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| Quotation Handling
Process - All Variants |
| Create quotations
and proformas and choose whether you want
to turn a quotation into an order or invoice,
or whether you want to keep the quotation
for your records. Analysis and reporting tools
help you to monitor the top performers and
how many orders you win and lose, as well
as allowing you to track the conversion of
quotations to orders. |
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| Invoicing - All
Variants |
| Generate invoices
for your customers by using the product records
you created or details of the services you
provide. |
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| Discounting - All
Variants |
| You can now see and
change discounts as you enter invoices and
orders. A range of discount options is available,
from basic percentage discounts to invoice-value
discounts and stock-quantity discounts. Whether
you want to apply one-off discounts or discounts
across the board, Sage Line 50 2007 helps
you provide your customers with a clear indication
of the total discount allowed. |
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| Document Manager
- All Variants |
| This feature allows
you to maintain control over all documentation
relating to a number of areas within Sage
Line 50 2007. You can store, view, modify
and print attachments such as letters, price
lists, delivery and assembly instructions. |
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| Project Costing
- Accountant Plus & Financial Controller
only |
| This feature lets
you create records for specific projects &
specific customers, assigning project references
to them. Organise your projects in logical
groups, record committed costs against projects,
analyse rolled-up costs and budgets, and compare
costs incurred against budgeted amounts. In
addition, there is a flexible reporting system
that allows you to produce information that
will help you to monitor costs. |
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| Individual Customer
Pricing & Custom Price Lists - Accountant
Plus & Financial Controller only |
| As well as the overall
sales price, a product code can now contain
a sales price for each individual customer.
You can also set up a number of Price Lists
for your product records. |
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| Multiple Delivery
Addresses - Accountant Plus & Financial
Controller only |
| This feature lets
you store and manage multiple customer, supplier
and company delivery addresses. |
| Nominal Ledger
- All Variants |
| This is the heart
of your accounting system, where all your
business information is held, and forms the
basis of your Profit & Loss and Balance
Sheet reports. |
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| Accounts Analyser
- All Variants |
| This feature displays
the nominal ledger as a comprehensive on-screen
set of charts that can be investigated in
more depth by drill-down from the same screen
with just one click. |
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| Bank Records &
Bank Reconciliation - All Variants |
| Record multiple bank
accounts and their details, enter payments
and receipts and save bank reconciliations
part-way through. |
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| Cash Flow Planner
- All Variants |
| Displays outstanding
payments due in and out, and allows forward
cash flow planning, including the effect making
or receiving payments will have on your finances
over the next few weeks. |
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| VAT Returns &
Audit Assistant - All Variants |
| A VAT return can be
generated and completed at the touch of a
button, in hours rather than days. This feature
checks customers’ data for accuracy and
helps prepare for an audit. It also identifies
suspect/duplicate transactions and runs checks
for possible VAT queries and errors. |
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| Profit & Loss
and Balance Sheets - All Variants |
| By using the accounting
information stored within Sage Line 50, both
of these financial reports can be generated
at the touch of a button. |
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| Report Designer
- All Variants |
| We’ve improved
this feature, making it easier for you to
produce reports and information in a way that
meets your needs. |
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| Excel® Integrated
Reporting - All Variants |
| Microsoft® Excel
can now link directly to your Sage Line 50
data so that directors and managers can access
and analyse accounts information without needing
to use Sage Line 50 themselves or have it
installed on the same PC. You can modify and
refresh data ranges, change the chart of accounts
used and take any Sage Line 50 report (even
a report you’ve designed yourself) and
use it in Excel as a Sage Data Range. |
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| Advanced Budget
Management - All Variants |
| Many businesses use
departments for many different reasons but
now, no matter what you are using the department
analysis for, you can monitor performance
even more closely and efficiently than before. |
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| Support for charities
- All Variants |
| We’ve developed
Sage Line 50 2007 so that it’s now even
more effective in meeting the needs of charities,
with specific functionality including Fund
Management, charity-specific financial reports
and Gift Aid Reporting. |
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| Historical Data
Analysis - All Variants |
| Archive a complete
set of company data before running the year-end.
You can then analyse and report on the archived
data, which is immediately available without
having to restore a back-up. |
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| Accountant Link
- All Variants |
| This invaluable feature
lets you send information to your accountant
electronically. Your accountant can then load,
view and record transactions. Corrections
can be easily merged back into your data whilst
you continue to process your daily transactions. |
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| E-banking - All
Variants |
| Make direct payments
through BACS by making the supplier payment
in the usual way and then transferring to
the bank software using the E-payments button. |
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| E-bank Reconciliation
- All Variants |
| Download a bank statement
into Sage Line 50 2007 and automatically reconcile
payments and receipts against both statements. |
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| Transaction e-Mail
- All Variants |
| Send and receive orders
and invoices by e-mail instead of printing
them out and sending by post. Any invoices
or orders you receive are imported directly
into the Sage Line 50 2007, so there’s
no need to re-key any information. |
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| Cheque Printing
- Accountant Plus & Financial Controller
only |
| The function gives
you the ability to print cheques directly
from your Sage Line 50 software. |
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| Foreign Trader
& Foreign Bank Account Revaluation - Financial
Controller only |
| We’ve improved
this feature so that foreign trading is easier
than ever. Process foreign currency transactions
in all major currencies and produce documentation
in foreign currency. You can make and receive
payments in foreign currencies as well as
maintain foreign currency price lists and
handle exchange rate fluctuations. Additionally,
this feature ensures that you comply with
legislative requires for declaring foreign
trade on your VAT returns and in Intrastat
declarations in both standard and cash-based
VAT accounting. |
| Product Records
- All Variants |
| Create product records,
review product activities and analyse monthly
sales values and quantities sold. This feature
also allows you to apply discounts and generate
valuation and profit reports. |
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| Bill Of Materials
- Accountant Plus & Financial Controller
only |
| An easy-to-use Bill
of Materials editor allows you to set up records
of the basic 'kit of parts' for your manufactured
or assembled items, allowing up to 50 hierarchical
levels. Various features like Stock Transfer,
Makeup Reports and Stock Explosion help you
control all the steps involved in making up
manufactured or assembled items. |
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| Stock Allocation
- Accountant Plus & Financial Controller
only |
| As well as allocating
stock to sales orders, you can now allocate
to projects, or set aside stock for specific
purposes. You can also review and modify these
reservations. |
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| Cash Sales - Financial
Controller only |
| Sage Line 50 2007
helps you to execute trade counter sales quickly
and easily. The Cash Sale button is configurable,
so you can chose which documents should be
printed. |
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| Sales Order Processing
& Fulfilment - Financial Controller only |
| Create orders, allocate
stock, despatch stock and produce delivery
notes. In addition, when you don’t have
enough stock to satisfy orders, the Sales
Order Fulfilment feature will inform you of
shortfalls and automatically generate a purchase
order. |
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| Purchase Order
Processing - Financial Controller only |
| Create an order, put
on-order and then record delivery of the stock.
This tool will also automatically generate
an invoice and increase your stock levels. |
