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Sage Accounting

Author : Anna Adamczyk

Sage is an accounting software, designed for medium-sized businesses

Overview

Is Sage the app for you?

Sage can help your business to automate:

Billing
Purchasing
Accounts Payable
General Ledger
Cash Management
Order Management

One of the biggest advantages of Sage is its’ customization. There are multiple versions of the software to choose from – both for the web and for desktop, where each one contains particular features adjusted for business size and needs. It can offer budgeting, auditing, and job costing functionalities as well as industry-specific reports.

Sage also has great payroll functionality that not only allows you to simplify payroll processes or monitor employee records but also lets you perform advanced payroll tasks. For example, tracking employees’ tips and managing holidays or sick hours.

It is constantly trying to improve its service by releasing updates to the software. In the past year, Sage has added new options such as: showing transactions with attachments, deletion of reconciled bank transactions, AutoEntry invoice number mapping, automation of journal entry creation and more.

To find out more about sage, please read the below table, and if you’d like to learn about more apps that integrate with sage, please click here!

Cost	Starter: Free for 3 months, then £12 per month \| Standard: Free for 3 months, then £26 per month \| Plus: Free for 3 months, then £33 per month
Competitors	Xero, QuickBooks, Twinfield
Function	Producing accounting information and reports
USP	Unique apps owned by Sage such as AutoEntry and Futlri, can all be linked all in one package
Use Case	Accounting
Features	Starter: Create and Send Invoices, Track Payments, Automated Reconciliation \| Standard: Everything in Starter + Unlimited users, Manage and submit CIS, Advanced reports, Forecasts, Manage purchase invoices \| Plus: Everything in Standard + Multi-currency banking and invoicing and inventory management functionality
Strengths	Provide in depth reporting function, strong inventory function, capabilities for forecasting, job costing, easy integration to apps
Considerations	It can be very difficult and time consuming to learn and set up. Costly and geared towards mid-size businesses. Can be made ‘over-complicated’
Target Customers	Business and accountants

Cost

Starter: Free for 3 months, then £12 per month | Standard: Free for 3 months, then £26 per month | Plus: Free for 3 months, then £33 per month

Competitors

Xero, QuickBooks, Twinfield

Function

Producing accounting information and reports

USP

Unique apps owned by Sage such as AutoEntry and Futlri, can all be linked all in one package

Use Case

Accounting

Features

Starter: Create and Send Invoices, Track Payments, Automated Reconciliation | Standard: Everything in Starter + Unlimited users, Manage and submit CIS, Advanced reports, Forecasts, Manage purchase invoices | Plus: Everything in Standard + Multi-currency banking and invoicing and inventory management functionality

Strengths

Provide in depth reporting function, strong inventory function, capabilities for forecasting, job costing, easy integration to apps

Considerations

It can be very difficult and time consuming to learn and set up. Costly and geared towards mid-size businesses. Can be made ‘over-complicated’

Target Customers

Business and accountants

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