Sage 50 Reviews & Insights

Sage 50 is used for financial management, budget controls and accounting functions for a non profit that tackles homelessness. Sage products in general are well known for non-profits needing to manage their organizations financial posture. Sage 50 allows the non-profit to manage cashflow, handle accounts payables & receivables, handle account reconciliations and provide financial reports to stakeholders.

Sage 50 is well suited for most small to medium sized Non-profits looking to organize and centralize accounting functions. The reporting functionality is serviceable for most user groups. Advanced resources may be needed for larger and more complex environments. The initial implementation is the key to architecting out the right use cases for the organization. Much of the out of the box functionality is well positioned for beginner to middle users.

We use Sage for our day-to-day accounting of receivables and payables. We also use it to order parts from our vendors by issuing purchase orders. We are able to look at open orders of hardware and determine what needs to be ordered in the future based on what is already pending. We monitor our past due accounts as well.

It is well suited for day-to-day accounting. It handles payment of accounts payables easily. Likewise, it handles accounts receivables easily with the ability to track past due invoices.

Reporting can be difficult. It should offer more flexibility regarding filters and columns.

It does offer a payroll solution that we don't utilize.

We use Sage 50 for all of our accounting requirements in our organisation. This bespoke software solution is used within our organisation to support the team in recording all our day-to-day transactions, including sales invoices, purchase invoices, employee expenses, and other required financial transactions. The software also allows us to attach all our receipts to transactions, allowing us to go paperless and reduce our need for printing items.

Sage 50 Accounts is well-suited for small to medium-sized enterprises, where there is a moderate number of expenses and invoices that need processing, typically by a company with a smaller finance team. Sage 50 is probably less suitable for a large organisation that needs to handle a higher volume of transactions and manage significant stock levels.

We use Sage 50 for accounting purposes in our business, as well as support other companies that implement and utilize Sage 50 for their accounting and payroll processing needs. We set up a network, a multi-user setup, server connections, and a firewall config to implement and support Sage 50 software. Keeping up with updates throughout the year and updating company files.

Sage 50 excels in its core functions, and it does not cause us as many technical issues as our competitors. Accounting, Payroll, supply tracking, and other systems are all utilized and implemented throughout our organization.

We are a small Electrical and Refrigeration Company and we are using Sage for over 20 years.

Currently using the SageOne Cloud based. Very simple and easy to use.

We use our product mainly for Expenses and Income analysis. Reports are easy to use and very adjustble to what you need.

The system works well for what we need.

Will definately recommend Sage 50cloud Accounting to any business.

Sage 50cloud Accounting is perfect for our needs and we would recommend it to anyone.

The only negative I can add is that it is very expensive compared to its competitors.

I am the bookeeper for a wholesale business, the ease of using Sage for invoicing, keeping track of payments, receipts and reporting is so easy. I have used other packages in the past but always love Sage it makes it so easy and very user friendly. The online Sage webinars is a great way of learning about new products and features. Suggest payments saves trawling through invoices due.

So Easy to reconcile bank against Sage. Multi user facility for all staff
The reporting module is so easy to use for customer debtors and dashboard for payments due is so easy to see at a glance.
VAT reporting process is very easy to understand at each step of the process.

I am the bookkeeper and sole user of Sage 50cloud Accounting for a small agricultural buying group. Sage 50cloud Accounting is perfect for our business as we have a large number of clients, who wish to pay by Direct Debit and the integration with GoCardless is seamless.
We also import a large number of transactions from a csv file and Sage 50cloud Accounting makes this incredibly easy to do.

Too expensive for a very small business and probably too sophisticated. There is lots of good functionality that you pay for, but don't use.
For a small business like us, it is a robust accounting package and worth the expense.

Used on a daily basis for all aspects of financial tasks from processing purchase invoices to recording sales invoices and cashflow.
Has greatly reduced the time spent in processing purchase invoices and reporting is accurate for project spend.
CIS element is a god-send and so user-friendly.
Sage Payroll has saved at least 4 hours per week.

Inputting of large quantity of supplier invoices - F6 function is great!
Bank reconciliation - easy to follow and match entries. Reporting is good for showing any missed payments/unreconciled entries

CIS Element - could be geared more to Subcontractor in terms of reporting Tax deducted on Remittances

We have used Sage for many years, it has been a trustworthy tool for our business enhanced by industry specific add ons. It is easy to use and provides clear information. We also use the ODBC drives to enable us to extract information exactly as we wish for reporting purposes.

Very easy to carry out bank reconciliations with bank feeds.
Preparing a VAT return is easy, there are some good reconciliation, and error checks which Sage 50cloud Accounting prompts you to consider before submission.
Construction Industry Scheme is very easy to administer and make monthly returns in a timely manner.

We use Sage 50cloud Accounting for processing clients' data or information and producing reports to file with relevant authorities and also give the information of the financial performance to clients.
Without the software processing would take time. By using the software we save time, get flexibility of working anywhere as it is cloud based. These are just a few benefits. Example the using the bank feeds to import bank statements normally posting one transaction at a time would be time consuming. You also minimise errors.

A great software and suitable for processing data, however some clients have a different preference just based on costs or the type of reports they want to produce and mainly what they will want to achieve with their data. I cannot say Sage 50cloud Accounting is less appropriate on a particular matter as it is achieving what we need to as a business.