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Sage Accounting

Sage Accounting
Formerly Sage Business Cloud Accounting

Overview

What is Sage Accounting?

Sage Accounting is online accounting software made to simplify life for small business owners, entrepreneurs, and freelancers by providing the functions needed to take care of daily business to-dos. Users can create and send professional quotes and invoices, track income…

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Recent Reviews

Sage Accounting

9 out of 10
April 25, 2024
Incentivized
I've used Sage (prev Peachtree) for over 20 years. It's user friendly and can be customized to your needs. In fact, I pretty …
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User-friendly Sage Accounting

10 out of 10
March 13, 2024
I use Sage Accounting for accounts, bookkeeping, and VAT preparation. I also use the payroll software as well. I believe one of the best …
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Sage one stop

10 out of 10
February 21, 2024
As an EME, Sage ensures that legally I have everything, I am able to use both the Accounting and Payroll solutions know all my SARS …
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Sage Accounting is brilliant !

10 out of 10
February 19, 2024
I recommend Sage Accounting to my clients for so many reasons:- it's good value for money, easy to set and train people, simple to use, …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Accounts payable (37)
    9.4
    94%
  • Accounts receivable (39)
    9.4
    94%
  • Bank reconciliation (38)
    9.3
    93%
  • Standard reports (38)
    8.8
    88%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.sage.com/en-us/sage…

Offerings

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

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $10 per month
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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.

9.1
Avg 7.5

Customization

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

8.3
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 8.0

Reporting & Analytics

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

6.5
Avg 7.6

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

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

7.9
Avg 7.4

Inventory Management

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

8.2
Avg 7.0

Order Management

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

6.8
Avg 7.4
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Product Details

What is Sage Accounting?

Accounting software for small businesses used to create and send quotes and invoices, as well as to track income and expenses. Payroll, HR and Accounting are brought together in Sage for Small Business, in one integrated solution.

Sage Accounting Screenshots

Screenshot of The financial dashboard, with business insightsScreenshot of View of paid and unpaid invoicesScreenshot of Invoice designer, to add a logo, company info, and terms

Sage Accounting Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesUS, Canada, UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Africa, South Africa, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Malaysia, Australia
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Spanish and more

Frequently Asked Questions

Sage Accounting is online accounting software made to simplify life for small business owners, entrepreneurs, and freelancers by providing the functions needed to take care of daily business to-dos. Users can create and send professional quotes and invoices, track income and expenses and know where the business' financials stand. Every Sage Business Cloud Accounting subscription includes unlimited access to support as well as automatic backups and product updates.

Sage Accounting starts at $10.

QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise, Xero, and FreshBooks are common alternatives for Sage Accounting.

Reviewers rate API for custom integration and Expense management highest, with a score of 9.8.

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

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Reviews

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sage Accounting is used daily for the Charity/Business I work for. From day-to-day purchasing entries, Invoicing and financial reporting. All our purchase receipts are now stored electronically in Sage Accounting (no more searching through filing cabinets) or having the auditors send me a list of receipts they want to see. Sales receipts look professional and recurring invoices can be sent automatically, making life so much easier. Using Bank feeds is another great time saver too.
  • Storing purchase receipts with the purchase entries.
  • Recurring invoices.
  • Professional looking invoices.
  • Reporting.
  • Live Bank Feeds
  • Tieing off year end figures, to start a new financial year.
  • Sage and AutoEntry to transfer data to correctly - Invoice box!
  • Ability to use multiple letterheads and banking information on receipts.
  • Easier way of entering and recording of Assets for reporting
Sage accounting is well suited to day-to-day invoicing, recording of purchases and storing of receipts. Excellent at bank reconciliations and reporting. Great for recurring invoicing and the monitoring and reminding of debtors.
Not found anything Sage does not do well.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Sage Accounting for Quotations,Invoicing, Maintaining Customer and Supplier accounts, maintaining the cash in the organisation.
  • Automatic bank feeds
  • Invoicing
  • Payroll integration
  • Integration to Caseware and Draftworx
  • Requires an integrated Fixed Asset Register.
  • Automatic bank feeds should be in real time.
  • Scannig of invoices should be a standard feature which reduces the cost of this automation.
One scenario where Sage is well suited is the ability to integrate excel reports which produce consolidated reports for a group of stores.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sage Accounting cloud software managed the company's financial books and records. The software suited very well a small business whom needed to keep accurate records of its finances to maintain compliance with the Companies Act. It also served to maintain accurate records to support asset, liability, equity, income and expense record which supported the company's financial performance. The software had facility for multiple users with different levels of access, and also provided useful reports and dashboards which could be scrutinised by management.
  • Customer and supplier ledger data review is easily done in comparison in particular to Xero. Ledger types are separated rather than combined as 'contacts'.
  • The format of the data presented is clear, both on screen and reporting in multiple formats
  • MTD facility to operate VAT reporting in line with HMRC requirements
  • Bank reconciliation is easily performed, using the 'bank feed' function
  • Automated processes are brilliant, such as uploading purchase invoices or expenses
  • Menu structure is straightforward, and easy for users to navigate
  • Adding notes to customer and supplier ledgers with regards communications
  • Making it easier to change from one VAT scheme to another, when company's grow and need to move away from cash accounting
  • Users creating their own reports
Sage Accounting is well suited to small business who do not have high volumes of data, and chart of accounts are fairly simplistic in their structure. Different versions of Sage Accounting products should be considered when these criteria become relevant. Sage Accounting is also well suited for businesses who operate solely in the cloud.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sage Business Cloud Accounting is currently being used by our accounting department only. It is currently only being used as our general ledger and financial report creator. We run invoices, and bills through Intacct but use a third party in code bills and a third party to pay bills.
  • The new bank rec is highly efficient when hooked up directly to your bank account.
  • The bill pay features and the accompanying workflow are particularly easy to use
  • Sage also allows a create collaborative workflow while working in either a small or large team.
  • Fixed assets needs some serious work. I don't even think the fixed assets module is native to Sage, they're all 3rd party bolt ons
  • Reporting could also be improved. We don't currently subscribe to custom reporting which is an additional add on, but the standard report writer is very difficult to use
Sage is great for larger organizations who may have multiple locations or large accounting departments. The modules are well separated so that proper accounting controls can be maintained. On the other hand, if you have a small accounting department as we do, the amount of features and controls can be overwhelming. We have to navigate through all the modules, so learning all the ins and outs of everything takes a lot of time and maintenance as things change on a quarterly basis.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The whole organization uses it as our only accounting package. We also integrate it with Sage's payroll software, as well as NetCash, a debit order payment solution that was formerly part of the Sage group. We also integrate Sage via the API with our internal user administration system, to reconcile users of our SAAS with accounts that we bill.
  • Access anywhere, from any device.
  • User-friendly, even for non-accountants.
  • Good reporting.
  • API
  • Because they don't use accounting terminology like debit/credit, journals can get very complicated, especially with balance sheet accounts like suspense accounts that can be either an asset or a liability.
  • The API documentation and process to gain access to the API is not very user friendly.
  • They don't have an integrated asset register that calculates amortization/depreciation. The logic is simple, it just needs to be done.
  • VAT is still calculated incorrectly; a different rounding is used than SARS (South African Revue Service) uses.
  • Works well in South Africa: Longer history than Xero.
  • Small business with limited journals, suspense accounts, etc.
  • Simple, straight-forward accounting.
Where it may not be the best is if you're planning on interfacing with loads of other systems. Xero definitely has much more integration options. We had to do custom integration anyway via the API to get the system to talk to our app, but if you want to plug and play, go with Xero.
Willem Jordaan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
It is currently being used in our business by almost all of the workforce. We promote the product to our clients and provide training on the product as well. It has addressed many problems for many of our users, ranging from user friendliness to functionality by providing our clients with the ability to access their records from anywhere providing the client has internet connection.
  • Functionality - Can be accessed from anywhere using internet connection.
  • User Friendliness - We found that training our clients takes very little time and encourages use.
  • Bank Processing - The automatic bank feeds leaves little room for human error and assists in timely and accurate processing.
  • Inventory is becoming an issue when we draw reports for clients. Inventory reflects on the Statement of asset and liabilities report but not on the Trial Balance report.
Sage One Accounting is great - there are some improvements which could assist in making it an even better product, but it is a very brilliant product that gives you access wherever you are and is very easy to work with. We have had very few problems with the product and are very happy with the customer service we have received.
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