Sage Line 50 enables you to:

Manage your money

You would expect an accounts package to help you manage your finances and keep track of your cash flow, but Sage Line 50 can do much more than that. First of all, we’ve kept things simple, so doing your accounts isn’t such a time-consuming job. And then we show you how you can use the financial information you enter to drive your business forward.

Manage your stock

Having too much stock can be expensive, but running out of essential items can cost you valuable orders. Sage Line 50 can help you strike the right balance.

What’s New in Sage Line 50 2007

Budgets and reports for departments, nominal ledger and projects

Setting budgets for different areas of your business helps you to control your finances. Being able, to review spend against your budgets throughout the year is essential. For extra control, you can now set budgets and produce reports for each department, nominal code or project. And, to help you plan ahead, you can also set budgets for now and your next Financial Year.

Manage your customers and suppliers

Do you know who your most profitable customers are? Or which suppliers offer the best deal and most reliable deliveries? Sage Line 50 provides the tools you need to manage customers and suppliers professionally.

Manage your business

Your accounts contain all the information you need to run and improve your business. Sage Line 50 presents that information in a format you can understand easily, so you can see the bottom line, or delve deeper to see the factors that influence your business growth.

Improved department support - flexibility to monitor key areas of your business

Manage the performance of key areas or activities, such as sales, projects or functions, more effectively. Track your business activity, by area, with the flexibility to drill down to the level of information or detail that you require. Information is instantly available, so you no longer have, to run reports to get the breakdown that you need.

For example, you can monitor the performance of your Sales Representatives by associating revenue and costs to geographical sales areas or shop outlets.

* ICAEW Report – “IT in Business – A Review of the market for Financial and Business Software." April 2006

Create your own reports to get the information you need

Your business is unique, as is the information that you need from your accounts data. Everyone requires different levels of detail, fields and content. It can be frustrating when you are unable to tailor reports to your exact needs, or if you have to spend time collating reports. So, we’ve made it easy for you to get the information that you need, in one report. For example, you can now show sales and purchase orders in one report, making it easier to manage the delivery and despatch of goods, or include more details on your invoices. There’s unrestricted access to enable you to add all the fields and calculations you need, as well as to tailor the overall design of your reports.

NEW Report Designer has been completely transformed, based on customer feedback, and includes:

• Unlimited access to any variables on reports
• Add your own calculations, without any restrictions
• Direct output to Microsoft^® Excel and Word
• The ability to edit reports from the preview screen
• Drill down to the detail behind key values

Store a complete history of your VAT return

Historical records are extremely important, not only for reviewing past performance, but also when auditors or HMRC inspectors decide to visit your business. We’ve made it easy for you to access the transactional detail behind your VAT returns, saving you and the auditors’ valuable time ,searching for information.

Refunds in one single transaction

Customer and supplier refunds are now easier to handle, one simple transaction will automatically update all your records.

Foreign trading made easy

Internet trading makes overseas customers and cheaper supplies much more accessible to UK businesses. And now, with improved features such as, at a glance foreign bank balance, separate control of Intrastat arrivals and dispatches and the ability to correct any errors, it’s never been easier to manage your foreign trade.

Improve your project costing

By linking costs and managing payments to individual projects, you can monitor your activities - but do you have all the detail that you need? Additional budgeting and reporting tools enable you to track performance and you can now correct project transaction errors easily, ensuring you are recording the right information for the right projects.

Getting the best out of your accountant

If you are working with an accountant then you want their time to be spent reviewing your finances and offering advice and expertise, not red-entering data. Additional improvements to the Accountant Link, means you can continue with your day-to-day tasks and less time is spent duplicating work.

The Accountant Link will now automatically update your Bank and VAT reconciliations, so your accountant has your up-to-date records and you can continue processing as usual.

To find out more, or if you are interested in purchasing Line50 2007 or upgrading from a previous version, call us now on 0870-0801660 or 0116-2882174 or email info@sonal.co.uk