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Ian

Sage UKI

I think you are as confused as I was about the name change!  Sage Line 50 is now called Sage 50Cloud but it is not actually in the cloud. It is still desktop-based, with the data still on your PC or server. There are new features which need internet access, but for day to day activity you won't notice any difference.  Assuming you do mean Sage 50 Cloud, not Sage Business Cloud Accounting (which would definitely be a downgrade), I would answer your questions as follows:

1. There isn't a "process" as such, it's just a normal software upgrade.

2. You can schedule backups to run as often as you like but they are normal full backups, not incremental. You can save the backups locally or, if you have connected Office 365, you can save them to OneDrive - it's not compulsory.  Also, you will still be prompted to backup every time you exit the program and can still backup manually at any time.

3. I work on four different Sage sites and haven't seen any data corruptions.

4. The biggest advantage came after setting up SageDrive (which you don't have to do). I can now access live Sage data from home. I was very reluctant to do this as all of my client sites have dodgy internet connections, but I haven't seen a problem and wished I'd done it before. There are several other advantages: eg. correcting transactions and running backups without having to log everyone out. But (sorry Sage) Business Intelligence and the other stuff available when you link up to Office 365 I found were a complete waste of time, so have disconnected it.