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Sage 50cloud Accounting

Sage 50cloud Accounting
Formerly Sage 50 Accounting

Overview

What is Sage 50cloud Accounting?

Sage 50cloud Accounting (formerly Sage 50 Accounting) is accounting software designed for small businesses. Sage 50cloud Accounting (formerly Sage 50, and formerly Peachtree) lets businesses invoice customers, pay bills, manage inventory, control costs, and pay employees. The solution includes high-level…

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Recent Reviews

Sage 50 is nifty!

10 out of 10
March 03, 2020
Incentivized
My office uses Sage 50cloud Accounting (formerly Sage 50 Accounting) every day for our business and invoicing needs. We do our A/P, A/R, …
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Stay Away From Sage

1 out of 10
February 22, 2020
Incentivized
We initially picked Sage (back in 2011) to help us track inventory-level COGs. As a manufacturer, it's necessary to match revenues and …
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Great software!

9 out of 10
January 28, 2020
Incentivized
We use Sage 50 throughout our company in the U.S. We use it for general accounting purposes as well as reporting. We do not utilize the …
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Popular Features

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  • Bank reconciliation (22)
    9.0
    90%
  • Accounts payable (23)
    9.0
    90%
  • Accounts receivable (22)
    9.0
    90%
  • Cash management (22)
    9.0
    90%

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Pricing

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Sage 50 Pro Accounting

$299

On Premise
per year

Sage 50 Premium Accounting

$449

On Premise
per year

Sage 50 Quantum Accounting 3 User

Starting at $1,499

On Premise
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

9
Avg 7.5

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

9
Avg 7.1

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

9
Avg 7.9

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

9
Avg 7.6

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

8.7
Avg 7.4

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

9
Avg 7.0

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

8.4
Avg 7.4
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Product Details

What is Sage 50cloud Accounting?

Sage 50cloud Accounting (formerly Sage 50 Accounting, and formerly Peachtree), is an accounting software designed for small businesses. Sage 50cloud Accounting includes expense management, payroll, reporting, invoicing, and sales optimization features. It also enables cloud backup and integration with Microsoft Office Premium. The product can also integrate with other Sage products, including Payroll and Payment Solutions. It is sold on an annual or monthly basis.

Sage 50cloud Accounting Features

  • Supported: Get paid fast. Create quotes and sales orders, invoice customers and make sure they pay on time. Process credit cards to get paid even faster.
  • Supported: Keep control of expenses. Record bills, write checks and keep track of credits and returns. Analyze vendors to negotiate the best prices and reduce costs.
  • Supported: Be smart about managing money. Forecast cash needs now and into the future. Run ñwhat ifî scenarios and adjust cash in and cash out to cover upcoming expenses.
  • Supported: Plan and track inventory. Keep track of on-hands, issue automatic POs when inventory drops, and track performance of products and services.
  • Supported: Manage jobs and projects. Break large jobs into phases, tracks costs by the phase and cost code, and bill as the job progresses.
  • Supported: Add more users and controls whenever your growing business is ready.

Sage 50cloud Accounting Integrations

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Sage 50cloud Accounting Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS
Supported CountriesUnited States of America
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Sage 50cloud Accounting (formerly Sage 50 Accounting) is accounting software designed for small businesses. Sage 50cloud Accounting (formerly Sage 50, and formerly Peachtree) lets businesses invoice customers, pay bills, manage inventory, control costs, and pay employees. The solution includes high-level dashboards and in-depth reports.

Priority AccountEdge are common alternatives for Sage 50cloud Accounting.

Reviewers rate Pay calculation and Benefit plan administration and Direct deposit files highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Sage 50cloud Accounting are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

Sage 50cloud Accounting Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)90%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)10%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)0%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Art Stumpp | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Sage 50 is a very sound accounting software package. One can create levels of security for individuals in an organization. One can retrieve prior year files in the software. Sage 50 actually closes out the income and expenses at the end of the year. One can not make changes to a prior accounting period in the current accounting period.
  • Sage 50 has a very strong reporting function. It can produce monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, such as the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement. It can produce comparison financial statements comparing two different time periods, for example two months, two quarters, and two years. One can create custom reports from Sage 50 information using Excel and Crystal Reports.
  • Sage 50 allows an organization to customize the information that it collects from their customers, vendors, and employees. One can create an Accounts Receivable invoice or an Accounts Payable invoice to use 90% of the time. One can also alter the A/R and/or A/P invoice for a specific customer or vendor when it is required. The employee information can be customized in a similar way. One can keep track of employee's birthdays.
  • Sage 50 has a strong inventory reporting system. Inventory is an important area for a business. Once the inventory is setup properly, one can get several useful inventory reports.
  • Sage 50 should emphasize that a business or organization should find a local Sage 50 expert that they like. Sage 50 is very powerful accounting software. It can be hard to set up when one looks at all the common areas for the business or organization. These areas are the chart of accounts, customers, vendors, employees, jobs and/or services, banking, and reports. One should engage an expert to get the most out of Sage 50 for their business or organization.
  • Users that are not accountants tend to have a hard time navigating in the Sage 50 software. Sage 50 training should improve.
  • The job costing feature is too complicated in Sage 50. Between raw materials, work in process, finished goods, job phases, and actual and estimated income and expenses, it is easy to get confused.
  • When one opens up Sage 50 the home page can easily become cluttered and imposing. Of course, one can customize it to see what they consider important. I think very few Sage 50 users are aware that the home page can be customized.
February 04, 2015

Sage 50 Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to navigate
  • Flexible
  • User-level security settings
  • Export / Import from Excel
  • Too many program updates without actual noticeable change.
  • Import of entries from Excel could be easier.
  • A/P Check writing is cumbersome and prints items that it shouldn't.
Nellie Jones (MBA) | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Sage 50 has added the business Intelligence reporting tool that allows us to pull mass data and manipulate it in the system. This helps alleviate the dependency that we originally had using excel. The old version did not really allow to pull mass data without it crashing and this is a great improvement.
  • Sage50 is designed for the Non-accountant who does not have an in depth experience in Accounting. It can be used by many small businesses and does not require extensive time and knowledge to set up. The wizards are phenomenal and the user does not really need a full knowledge of Accounting to operate. It is efficient and super easy to navigate. The initial operations of Sage requires little time to set up and the ongoing maintenance is minimal.
  • Sage 50's design helps eliminate the time it takes to correct Accounting errors. You can set it up to have either maximum or minimum controls which is helpful to manage your day to day business. It does not take several iterations and steps to correct a minor error that you make - as you do in other systems.
  • The out of the box reports are not appealing and take a bit to clean up during the end of the month. The set up of the reports can be quite tedious and not very intuitive. They need to do a better job of adding the drop and drag tool in a more visible way so that it is easy for the end user.
  • Sage needs to add the ability for the users (in a controlled environment) to manipulate the look and feel of the input screens. It gives you minimal options to add fields to certain areas.
  • The help feature does not have the "google" type of intelligence that allows you to search on phrases. If it is not exact, it does not do a very good job of filtering through items that you really don not need. I have used more of the internet searches to figure out my problem because it wasn't easy to pull up the help option in Sage.
Chris Steele | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Sage 50 has a pretty good inventory management capabilities, providing multi-level BOMs, revision tracking and multiple costing methods, including specific unit costing with serial number tracking.
  • Sage 50 has a robust financial statements report writer and now includes Sage "Business Intelligence", which is an excel-based custom dashboard/report writer as well. Sage 50 also includes very customizable forms and checks
  • Sage 50 is easy to use and intuitive for those who are familiar with "debits and credits", journals and sub-ledgers (i.e., "old-fashioned" accounting!). The day-to-day work flow is easy to follow and the month-end work (like bank reconciliations and "closing" a month) are simple. Security features are appropriate for the typical users.
  • Multi-segment accounts in chart of accounts allow great flexibility in departmental or profit center reporting, plus can consolidate multiple companies.
  • Sage 50's main weaknesses come when comparing features to QuickBooks (which I also consult on). Sage 50 does not have the concept of Undeposited Funds, which is a great feature in QuickBooks, and missed by many when they go from QB to Sage 50. Sage 50 added "Select for Deposit", but it does not go far enough.
  • Another missing feature is the ability for an accountant to take an "Accountants Copy" (like in QuickBooks), make changes, give that copy back to the client and have those changes integrate back into the client's Sage without overwriting work done by the client.
  • A very unfortunate "feature" is that Sage no longer supports any version other than the most current year. That is rather draconian and very negatively affects users who have added services such as credit card payments or payroll. Those added services will cease to work if the user does not renew each year.
  • Some consider the multi-segment accounts mentioned prior to be a detriment - again comparing it to the use of Classes in QuickBooks, which are easier, but not necessarily as robust.
Victor Sila | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • You may retrieve any previous posting and especially recurring transactions after you have stored once.
  • You can set up the recurring transactions based on frequency, weekly, monthly or annually.
  • Use of manager center is a precious tool
  • I have used Quickbooks and it has the Undeposited funds account, which does not exist at Sage 50, I created an account for this purpose and yes, i named it "Undeposited Funds" used for cheques received and undeposited.
  • The reason we need the account is because when it flows through the bank account, it shows as one entry, the exact opposite side of the bank statement entry.
  • In Quickbooks there exists the feature of creating a copy of previous transaction, which may be a one time transaction and you may not want to store it, probably Sage 50 can add such a feature.
Ben Cooper | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It was very user friendly. I only used it for nine months, and within six weeks I had mastered all of the functions that I was using daily.
  • I never found anything that I wished it could do that it couldn't.
  • I can't think of anything off hand - the functionality was precisely what I needed it to be.
Lisa Kuta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Handles our payroll of over 50 employees with ease
  • All of our users find it quite easy to use
  • Have never had any downtime with the software
  • Reporting for projects is too light with little to no flexibility
  • Payroll reporting is also too light
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