Sage 50 Accounts

There's a lot going on in the build up to Christmas. With that in mind, we've put together a list of topics to make life easier for you during the festive period. Read more >

I have had the following error message when trying to run the @Sales by product (detailed)@ report in invoices on sage 50....... "The report could not be generated. Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow." Has anyone had this before and…

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 >

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…

I have some business expenses with no VAT receipt as they have been lost. I don't want to claim the VAT back but I want to record the expense. Should I be recording them using T0 VAT code, which is what my predecessor did? (They would have been standard…

Hello , My newly joined company has a list of fixed assets to be deleted off sage for year ending 2018, we are now in 2019 though but 2018 is yet to be closed .. I have deleted the items from the fixed assets, but they are still showing on the nominal…

Hi, I'm aware that the Domestic Reverse Charge for VAT is being introduced for construction businesses from 1 October 2019 and am just wondering if there will be any updates to Sage's desktop and cloud accounting packages to assist with this and ensure…

i get the error "error retrieving update information An error has occurec whilst checking for updates. the underlying connection was closed. could not establish trust relationship for the ssl/tls secure channel." i believe its possibly…

Any idea how I'd be able to run multiple p&l reports at once or even just speed up the process, because at the moment if you were to run a p&l for 2 departments, sage would automatically just combine them together into one report. What I need is for…

Hi very basic knowledge of Sage 50 but its backing up as WinRAR archiver (Type of File WinRAR(.001) and when I try to open (as a test) it is saying ' The archive is either in unknown format or damaged' Quite concerned about this - any reassurance is welcome…

My programme crashes whenever I try and create a new nominal code, has any one else experienced this? and found a fix I would call SAGE but but they said the waiting time is over an hour! what a joke

Can anyone help me? Every time Sage is updated (today my machine updated to v24.3) it breaks my Data Service connection and I cannot reconnect. This leads to me having to phone Sage and ask them to sort it which they don't like as I am supposed to be…

Hi, After we updated Sage 50 Accounts from 24 to 25 we’re facing many issues with program stuck and we need to restart user session to be able to do something. Sage 50 is going slower after the update too. Is there a way to solve this problems? …

I have a notification when i try to print my documents as follows: "Printing or Emailing documents from a Sage Drive remote site will not result in a PDF copy being stored in OneDrive." Can i force a save to One Drive in any way?Sage 50c Accounts

On Sage line 50, our base currency is Euro. We set up Supplier account in Sterling and entered an invoice to that account. We need to make a change to the invoice through Translations, but almost all the options on greyed out. We have no problem…

Hi, I wonder whether anyone can help. Our Sage Instant is working as usual but we're trying to run the year end process to roll the year end over. We are getting the above error message. Is there a way to resolve this? Thanks Lisa

I have several historic Supplier accounts with Nil balances. They have not been deleted when I have archived records because there are still entries on them. These entries are marked Cash and do not off set each other - often it is just one item. For…

we produce sales invoices by using product codes. Does any one know how to include a product code for gift vouchers redeemed which reduces the cost of the invoice. Can a negative product code be set up?

Hi All, Sage Accounts V23 Sage Manufacturing 2013 Windows 7 Pro operating system Our Sage data became corrupt, so we sent it off to Sage to fix. Sage fixed our data, so I did a restore and ran a data check and it was all fine. However, when I…

Hi All, We are recently looking at upgrading our infrastructure to use newer technologies with improved benefits over terminal services. I would look to enquire of whether Sage Products are compatible with Remote Apps and App Virtualisation. I…

We have Sage accounts with two concurrent users. When opening Sage Accounts on Monday it prompted me to apply the latest Sage update, which updated my Sage Accounts to version 23.1.0.143 When opening Sage accounts on the second computer (which my accountant…

Want to try something without affecting your live data? Your Sage 50 Accounts software comes with dummy companies to help you do just that. You can test features, practice routines or even use it when training colleagues. Find out how to use Demo…