New features and improvements:

• Budgets and reports for departments, nominal ledger and projects:
  For extra control, you can now set budgets and produce reports for each department, nominal code or project. To help you plan ahead, you can also set budgets for now and your next Financial Year.
• Flexibility to monitor key areas of your business:
  Manage the performance of key areas or activities more effectively. Track your business activity, by area, with the flexibility to drilldown to more detail. Information is instantly available, so you no longer have to run reports to get the breakdown that you need.
• Create your own reports to get the information you need:
  The improvements we've made to the Report Designer make it easy for you to get the information that you need in one report. You can tailor the overall design of your reports, adding all the fields and calculations you want.
• Store a complete history of your VAT return:
  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:
  We’ve introduced new transaction types to record payments made to customers, as well as refunds received from suppliers. Now, no matter which VAT scheme you’re operating, postings have been simplified and reconciliation is that much easier!
• Foreign trading made easy:
  It’s never been easier to manage your foreign trade, with improved features including easier error correction, at-a-glance Foreign Bank Balance and separate control of Intrastat arrivals and dispatches.
• Improve your project costing:
  Additional budgeting and reporting tools enable you to track performance and you can now correct project transaction errors easily, ensuring that you're recording the right information for the right projects.
• Get the most out of your accountant:
  The Accountant Link automatically updates your Bank and VAT reconciliations so your accountant has up-to-date records and you can continue with your day-to-day tasks and spend less time duplicating work.

• Process Maps
  Each of the main areas of Sage Line 50 2007 now has a map, showing you how to make light work of business processes such as sales order fulfilment. Each Process Map consists of a set of steps connected together to show a workflow – so you know exactly what to do next.
• Dashboards
  The optional Dashboard view helps you to check your performance rapidly and accurately by displaying a summary of your company’s key information. You can drill-down for more information or print the entire dashboard to keep a graphical record of day-by-day performance.
• Smart Columns, Smart Links, Smart Totals
  Intelligent navigation lets you choose what information you want to be able to see, giving you immediate access to your business information.
• Data Import
  Choose how you want to import information into Sage Line 50 2007. The Information Import Wizard makes it even easier to import customer and supplier records, transactions, stock, and project records.
• Multi-Company, Multi-User Options
  Sage Line 50 2007 gives you the ability to store and process more than one set of company accounts. It also can allow more than one person to access and process transactions at any one time (additional charge applies).

• Customer & Supplier Records
  Keep detailed records of your customers and suppliers - including a history of transactions.
• Customer & Supplier Ledgers
  A comprehensive list of all your customers and suppliers, with the facility to process batch invoices, view outstanding invoices, and print labels, letters, statements and reports.
• Credit Control
  Record detailed credit information about your customers and suppliers, with all credit control functions in one central area. Keep and control a full credit history for both customers and suppliers.
• Quotation Handling Process
  Create quotations and proformas and choose whether you want to turn a quotation into an order or invoice, or whether you want to keep the quotation for your records. Analysis and reporting tools help you to monitor the top performers and how many orders you win and lose, as well as allowing you to track the conversion of quotations to orders.
• Invoicing
  Generate invoices for your customers by using the product records you created or details of the services you provide.
• Discounting
  You can now see and change discounts as you enter invoices and orders. A range of discount options is available, from basic percentage discounts to invoice-value discounts and stock-quantity discounts. Whether you want to apply one-off discounts or discounts across the board, Sage Line 50 2007 helps you provide your customers with a clear indication of the total discount allowed.
• Document Manager 
  This feature allows you to maintain control over all documentation relating to a number of areas within Sage Line 50 2007. You can store, view, modify and print attachments such as letters, price lists, delivery and assembly instructions.
• Project Costing (Accountant Plus & Financial Controller only)
  This feature lets you create records for specific projects & specific customers, assigning project references to them. Organise your projects in logical groups, record committed costs against projects, analyse rolled-up costs and budgets, and compare costs incurred against budgeted amounts. In addition, there is a flexible reporting system that allows you to produce information that will help you to monitor costs.
• Individual Customer Pricing & Custom Price Lists (Accountant Plus & Financial Controller only)
  As well as the overall sales price, a product code can now contain a sales price for each individual customer. You can also set up a number of Price Lists for your product records.
• Multiple Delivery Addresses (Accountant Plus & Financial Controller only)
  This feature lets you store and manage multiple customer, supplier and company delivery addresses.

• Nominal Ledger
  This is the heart of your accounting system, where all your business information is held, and forms the basis of your Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet reports.
• Accounts Analyser
  This feature displays the nominal ledger as a comprehensive on-screen set of charts that can be investigated in more depth by drill-down from the same screen with just one click.
• Bank Records & Bank Reconciliation
  Record multiple bank accounts and their details, enter payments and receipts and save bank reconciliations part-way through.
• Cash Flow Planner
  Displays outstanding payments due in and out, and allows forward cash flow planning, including the effect making or receiving payments will have on your finances over the next few weeks.
• VAT Returns & Audit Assistant
  A VAT return can be generated and completed at the touch of a button, in hours rather than days. This feature checks customers’ data for accuracy and helps prepare for an audit. It also identifies suspect/duplicate transactions and runs checks for possible VAT queries and errors.
• Profit & Loss and Balance Sheets
  By using the accounting information stored within Sage Line 50, both of these financial reports can be generated at the touch of a button.
• Report Designer
  We’ve improved this feature, making it easier for you to produce reports and information in a way that meets your needs.
• Excel® Integrated Reporting
  Microsoft® Excel can now link directly to your Sage Line 50 data so that directors and managers can access and analyse accounts information without needing to use Sage Line 50 themselves or have it installed on the same PC. You can modify and refresh data ranges, change the chart of accounts used and take any Sage Line 50 report (even a report you’ve designed yourself) and use it in Excel as a Sage Data Range.
• Advanced Budget Management
  Many businesses use departments for many different reasons but now, no matter what you are using the department analysis for, you can monitor performance even more closely and efficiently than before.
• Support for charities
  We’ve developed Sage Line 50 2007 so that it’s now even more effective in meeting the needs of charities, with specific functionality including Fund Management, charity-specific financial reports and Gift Aid Reporting.
• Historical Data Analysis
  Archive a complete set of company data before running the year-end. You can then analyse and report on the archived data, which is immediately available without having to restore a back-up.
• Accountant Link
  This invaluable feature lets you send information to your accountant electronically. Your accountant can then load, view and record transactions. Corrections can be easily merged back into your data whilst you continue to process your daily transactions.
• E-banking
  Make direct payments through BACS by making the supplier payment in the usual way and then transferring to the bank software using the E-payments button.
• E-bank Reconciliation
  Download a bank statement into Sage Line 50 2007 and automatically reconcile payments and receipts against both statements.
• Transaction e-Mail
  Send and receive orders and invoices by e-mail instead of printing them out and sending by post. Any invoices or orders you receive are imported directly into the Sage Line 50 2007, so there’s no need to re-key any information.
• Cheque Printing (Accountant Plus & Financial Controller only)
  The function gives you the ability to print cheques directly from your Sage Line 50 software.
• Foreign Trader & Foreign Bank Account Revaluation (Financial Controller only)
  We’ve improved this feature so that foreign trading is easier than ever. Process foreign currency transactions in all major currencies and produce documentation in foreign currency. You can make and receive payments in foreign currencies as well as maintain foreign currency price lists and handle exchange rate fluctuations. Additionally, this feature ensures that you comply with legislative requires for declaring foreign trade on your VAT returns and in Intrastat declarations in both standard and cash-based VAT accounting.

 
Working with your products and services

• Product Records
  Create product records, review product activities and analyse monthly sales values and quantities sold. This feature also allows you to apply discounts and generate valuation and profit reports.
• Bill Of Materials (Accountant Plus & Financial Controller only)
  An easy-to-use Bill of Materials editor allows you to set up records of the basic 'kit of parts' for your manufactured or assembled items, allowing up to 50 hierarchical levels. Various features like Stock Transfer, Makeup Reports and Stock Explosion help you control all the steps involved in making up manufactured or assembled items.
• Stock Allocation (Accountant Plus & Financial Controller only)
  As well as allocating stock to sales orders, you can now allocate to projects, or set aside stock for specific purposes. You can also review and modify these reservations.
• Cash Sales (Financial Controller only)
  Sage Line 50 2007 helps you to execute trade counter sales quickly and easily. The Cash Sale button is configurable, so you can chose which documents should be printed.
• Sales Order Processing & Fulfilment (Financial Controller only)
  Create orders, allocate stock, despatch stock and produce delivery notes. In addition, when you don’t have enough stock to satisfy orders, the Sales Order Fulfilment feature will inform you of shortfalls and automatically generate a purchase order.
• Purchase Order Processing (Financial Controller only)
  Create an order, put on-order and then record delivery of the stock. This tool will also automatically generate an invoice and increase your stock levels.

Which Sage Line 50 2007 product is right for you?

Product overview	Accountant	Accountant Plus	Financial Controller
Working with Line 50
Process Maps
Dashboards
Multi-company & Multi-user Options (Additional charge applies)	up to 2 users	up to 2 users	up to 10 users
Working with your customers and suppliers
Sales and Purchase Ledgers
Credit Control
Invoicing
Discounting
Quotation Handling Process
Document Manager
Project Costing
Individual Customer Pricing and Custom Price Lists
Multiple Delivery Addresses
Working with your accounts
Nominal ledger
Departmental Analysis
Budgeting
Bank Records & Bank Reconciliation
Cash Flow Planner
VAT Management & Audit Assistant
Profit & Loss and Balance Sheets
Report Designer
Excel® Integrated Reporting
Support for Charities
Historical Data Analysis
Accountant Link
e-Banking Functionality
Cheque Printing
Foreign Trader, Bank Account Revaluation & Intrastat Support
Working with your products and services
Stock Control
Bill of Materials
Stock Allocation
Cash sales
Sales Order Processing and Fulfilment
Purchase Order Processing