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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90% of my clients are small (SMME) companies and does …
User-friendly Sage Accounting
Sage Accounting works well for us
Why you should choose Sage to partner with.
Sage Accounting for One Person Company
Best Move We Ever Made - From TASBooks2 to Sage Cloud Accounting
Once you have used Sage Accounting, there's no point looking anywhere else
Bank Reconcilation, that are downloaded or imported directly from the bank.
VAT returns, and …
Godsend for my accounts.
Good accounting software for SMEs
Great Products, Great Support, Great Company
Enhanced Suitability: Tailored To My Needs
Sage one stop
Sage, an active assist for your business
Sage Accounting is brilliant !
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Popular Features
- Accounts payable (36)9.494%
- Accounts receivable (38)9.494%
- Bank reconciliation (37)9.292%
- Standard reports (37)8.888%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $10 per month
Features
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 9.2Pay calculation(12) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 9.1Benefit plan administration(8) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 9.1Direct deposit files(9) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 9.1Salary revision and increment management(8) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 9.1Reimbursement management(9) Ratings
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
Customization
This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.
- 9.8API for custom integration(14) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 6.8Plug-ins(13) Ratings
A number of third-party plug-ins are available to expand the core functionality of the software.
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.
- 8.6Single sign-on capability(24) Ratings
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
- 9.3Role-based user permissions(32) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
- 2Dashboards(34) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 8.8Standard reports(37) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 8.7Custom reports(28) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting
- 9.4Accounts payable(36) Ratings
This includes the automation and tracking of payment to vendors and suppliers, with features such as payment scheduling, check printing, open purchase order alerts, document management, direct ACH bill payment, and vendor records.
- 9.4Accounts receivable(38) Ratings
This includes the management and automation of invoices and collections, with features like statements, invoices, receipts, payment reminders, customer records, auto billing, and refund checks.
- 9.3Cash management(31) Ratings
The software provides a complete picture of a company’s cash flows, streamlines payment processing, and includes cash forecasting.
- 9.2Bank reconciliation(37) Ratings
The software connects to a company’s financial institutions in order to reconcile accounting records with checking, savings and credit card accounts. Often month and year closing capabilities are included.
- 9.8Expense management(29) Ratings
The software can log and track business expenses and reimbursements, including travel-related expenses, with the ability to tie them to particular projects.
- 6.8Time tracking(9) Ratings
The software can track billable and non-billable employee time by project.
- 2.5Fixed asset management(23) Ratings
This includes the ability to track fixed assets (e.g., laptops), including location, check-in and check-out, maintenance scheduling, audit history, specialized property tax period reports, cost and depreciation.
- 7.2Multi-currency support(14) Ratings
The software supports transactions across multiple currencies.
- 4Multi-division support(13) Ratings
The software is flexible and supports bookkeeping practices along multiple dimensions such as locations, branches or products.
- 8.4Regulations compliance(22) Ratings
The software helps users adhere to typical accounting standards and regulations such as IFRS, GASB, or GAAP.
- 8.8Electronic tax filing(19) Ratings
The software provides a full electronic interface for the filing of repeatable taxes, such as payroll or sales tax.
- 8.6Self-service portal(22) Ratings
The software provides online portals for certain stakeholders to find information relevant to them, such as employees, vendors and customers.
- 8.2Global Financial Support(7) Ratings
Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities
- 8.1Primary and Secondary Ledgers(10) Ratings
Record and report across multiple currencies and accounting standards with primary and secondary ledgers
- 6.9Intercompany Accounting(8) Ratings
Automatically balance and reconcile GL for intercompany transactions
- 7.8Localizations(7) Ratings
Meet reporting requirements with country-specific localizations
- 8.4Journals and Reconciliations(26) Ratings
Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes
- 8.3Enterprise Accounting(9) Ratings
Create accounting for disconnected ERP and non-accounting source systems
- 8Configurable Accounting(13) Ratings
Configure accounting rules and segments for each chart of accounts
- 7.6Centralized Rules Framework(6) Ratings
Integrate disparate ERP and transactional systems into single ERP instance
- 8.1Standardized Processes(13) Ratings
Centralize financial management to facilitate standardized financial processes
Inventory Management
The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.
- 6.6Inventory tracking(15) Ratings
The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.
- 9.1Automatic reordering(5) Ratings
The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.
- 8.2Location management(6) Ratings
The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.
- 9Manufacturing module(4) Ratings
The software helps track and manage raw materials, work-in-progress items, and finished goods.
Order Management
The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.
- 8.8Pricing(14) Ratings
Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.
- 8.2Order entry(11) Ratings
Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.
- 7.8Credit card processing(14) Ratings
The software facilitates credit card processing.
- 6.8Cost of goods sold(17) Ratings
The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.
- 4.1Order Orchestration(4) Ratings
Define and execute order fulfillment processes for products as well as services on the same order.
- 7End-to-end order visibility(5) Ratings
Get updates on orders, inventory, shipments, planned supply, and invoices, and improve the quality of decisions through in-context analytics
- 5Order exception Resolution(4) Ratings
Monitor fulfillment tasks and resolve issues, view and evaluate varios options via what-if analysis and define and enforce change order rules
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Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Supported Countries | US, Canada, UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Africa, South Africa, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Malaysia, Australia |
Supported Languages | English, French, German, Spanish and more |
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(101)Attribute Ratings
- 9.4Likelihood to Renew4 ratings
- 8.4Availability2 ratings
- 10Performance2 ratings
- 9.4Usability16 ratings
- 9.4Support Rating17 ratings
- 10Online Training2 ratings
- 10In-Person Training1 rating
- 9.4Implementation Rating3 ratings
- 9.2Configurability2 ratings
- 7.2Product Scalability2 ratings
- 10Ease of integration1 rating
- 9.6Vendor pre-sale2 ratings
- 9.6Vendor post-sale2 ratings
- 10Professional Services1 rating
- 10Contract Terms and Pricing Model1 rating
Reviews
(1-25 of 40)Sage Accounting
- Eliminates redundancies saving time and thus money
- Customized reporting for specialized needs
- AP automation has not been as successful as we would have liked
100% Sage Accounting Fan
- Banking is much faster than manual entry, saves up time and more income
- I can work remotely in the bushveld so I can make money while I relax
- Setting up new companies is pretty easy and if it wasn't I probably would have had a client or 2 less than what I do
User-friendly Sage Accounting
- It’s made it easier to track profitability and expenditure.
Sage Accounting works well for us
- Positive - much easier and less time consuming that doing accounts by hand
- Negative - Location based stock control is too expensive
- Positive - having products & services set up, means less time working them out
Why you should choose Sage to partner with.
- It saves so much time with the automation.
- Quick reporting.
Sage Accounting for One Person Company
- It has enabled me to keep track of my sales turnover and profit
- I like being able to generate interim VAT returns to ensure that my cash flow can cover my liabilities
- Being able to record my business expenses and mileage is easy
- Ability to do tasks daily instead of waiting until in office - time saved
- More time to work on customized reports due to time saved
- Bank integration is a game changer - another big-time saver
- For £28 a month, run our entire accounting system, the childcare system, which is just a billing / sales ledger system charges £900.00 a month. Sage Accounting is great value for money.
Godsend for my accounts.
- I have saved considerable time. Instead of spending several hours a month, I need to log in a couple of times and complete what I need to do in half an hour.
- Managing invoices saves time, having to track who has not paid yet. I can follow up quickly with the customers.
- My employee is able to take care of accounts. She doesn't need to understand my spreadsheets anymore. Half-hour tuition on how to perform key tasks was all I needed to provide for her.
Good accounting software for SMEs
- Sage Accounting enables us to make quick and easy cash flow management decisions - having the dashboard on the screen gives us an immediate picture to how cash flow has been over the last few days, and the forecast dashboard allows us to better predict it to make better decisions
Great Products, Great Support, Great Company
- Reduced the overall amount of stored paper files and receipts.
- Accurate reports on debtors and creditors
- Faster invoicing
- Up to date reporting
Enhanced Suitability: Tailored To My Needs
- Price was never a consideration as I wanted something fit for purpose - Sage Accounting is the solution of choice for me
- I enjoy the simplicity when invoicing and love the 'copy invoice' function - saves so much time
Don't look any further than Sage Accounting
- Positive impact on understanding of company financial position
- Positive impact on record keeping and compliance
- Positive impact on communications with external finance provider
- Positive impact on development of user experience
- Positive impact of tracking trade debtor balances
Sage Accounting Review
- We haven't had any negative impacts
If you like Sage Desktop you will love Sage Accounting
- The positive impact is i can help my clients using a product i know well and in turn they recommend me to other clients - sorry i may not have answered this question correctly
Sage Accounting
- Faster transaction completion and hence more efficient
- More up to date information with help of bank feeds.
- Cash management and reporting at touch of a button
Learning Sage Accounting as you go along
- Producing year end accounts
- Easy reconciliation with Bank accounts
- Easy to use Payroll
Sage Accounting is perfect for SMEs
- Helped manage my accounting much better than Excel and other similar products
- Small cost to keep both my own and client accounts in order
How Sage Helped Build Our Business
- It has allowed us to take on numerous additional clients
- Its price point is on a per client basis and is exceptional value for money
- It has allowed our business to grow much larger than it otherwise would have done.
Excellent value for money accounting platform
- Positive impact on the ease of invoicing customers and checking they have received and read my email
- I save so much time on VAT returns so for me this is a huge impact on my time saves
DON'T DO IT!
- more work
- not easy to use
- DO NOT SWITCH
Terrible choice, regret migrating from Sage 50 accounts
- negative impact includes customers not understanding their statements
- negative impact includes nothing Worthing the same and over an hour wait time everytime you call
- It hasn't really been positive or negative. Simply it has served it's function
- All real finance decisions and calculations are made by using excel and Sage is used more as a database
Sage Business Cloud Accounting Review
- Saved lots of time on data updating going from manual works to Uploading tool.
Sage Cloud Accounting for Small South African Businesses
- Doing accounting in-house has enabled us to understand our finances better, leading to general strategic planning benefit.