Sage 50 Accounts

A healthy cash flow is vital for a successful business and Sage 50cloud Accounts has some great features to help with that. But every little helps as they say, so we've pulled together some quick tips you can try straight away. It all adds up... Quickly…

Before important tasks such as your VAT Return or Year end, you can use the Accounts audit options to quickly check for possible errors. Options include: Check for duplicate transactions > Check for invoices not sent or updated > Check tax codes…

Hi, I have set up one PO for a job on Sage, and this is for a range of items over the life of the job. I get partial deliveries of goods from the PO on a daily. As a result, I might have numerous goods marked as delivered but these will be invoiced…

With the new changes to the Sage ID, does this mean that Sage Drive will stop working completely for older versions, regardless of their licence? More specifically, will you have to be on Sage 50cloud Accounts v27.1 to get the data synching features in…

Problem We have several users who look after sales and purchasing who are in different offices. Often, one user will input e.g. a sale; however, other users cannot see this sale immediately which can result in the sale being input again by another user…

Hi all Has anyone seen this issue before? There was a powercut and our server got fried. IT have reinstalled Sage 50 but it is now showing the financial year of 2019 instead of 2021. I ran both the year ends for 2019 and 2020 back in January 2021 but…

I have been asked to print out reports for meetings. This report specifically is for SOPS - printing out an itemised quote list. I usually enter an "M" Message line on the first line of every quote which I input the customer's enquiry reference. I sometimes…

If you need to make the same amendment to more than one record at the same time, rather than edit each record one by one you can use batch changes. This is a great time saving tool if for example you need to change the default tax code for multiple…

Hi Everyone, My company has received a refund from the bank for the incorrect exchange rate for international payments. Could you please advise where is the best place to allocate it for? Also, my company receives cashbacks for the credit card transactions…

Hi I want to raise a credit note for goods sent out that ended up being faulty. The goods will never return to stock. I want to raise the credit note against the stock code in order to show my profit correctly. How do I raise a credit against a stock…

To help make sure your accounts are accurate, you can use the Accounts audit option in Sage 50 Accounts to quickly check for sales and purchases posted with a non-standard tax code which may be incorrect. Useful to run before calculating your VAT Return…

Hi, my Sage 50 accounts has just started freezing intermittently over the past 2 weeks. Despite many many hours on the phone and after lots of investigations by Sage support...I'm still having problems. It appears to be more on free text fields rather…

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Has your financial year recently ended? Once you've ran your year end it's a good time to do some accounts housekeeping. You can delete or hide old customer and supplier records that you no longer use, so they don't build up and slow you down. Find…

Hi All I have identified an issue with allocation of Purchase Payment on Account (PP) to a Purchase invoice (PI) in a Cash Accounting environment. Scenario; Payment is posted (before the Invoice) as Payment on Account with Tax Code T1 Sage calculates…

In Sage 50cloud Accounts you can use Report Designer to customise your invoice and credit note layouts. You can make basic changes such as adding your company logo and bank details, or create a completely bespoke design. Read more >

Getting into a regular rhythm of recording and checking your organisation's transactions in your Sage 50cloud Accounts software will help you to keep on top of finances and stay informed about how you're performing. Read more >

Did you know, you can send your Sage 50cloud Accounts nominal values to Microsoft Excel in just a couple of clicks? Read more >

The company has bought a new PC for a user and 46 of the companies on Sage Drive need to be added to this PC. They're currently taking ~10 mins to add each including entering encryption key and waiting to connect so to do all 46 will take around 7/8…

When you reach the end of your financial year, it's important to review the financial performance of your organisation, but what actually happens in your accounts software when you click the Year End option? In this article we explain what happens behind…

When you look at your audit trail or activity windows in Sage 50cloud Accounts, every transaction has an associated type, a two letter code defining the transaction. This handy guide lists: All of the available transaction types What the codes…

If you're VAT registered, it's important to apply the correct tax rates, in Sage Accounts, the rates are applied based on the tax codes you choose for any transaction. The following overview article outlines some common goods and services an the tax rates…

In Sage 50 Accounts, many of the modules feature a 'quick search' option to help you find the record you need swiftly. The following article explains how to use the search and features some tips to help you get the best results. Read more >