Sage 50 Accounts - Managing your products and services:

• Sales order processing and fulfilment (Sage 50 Accounts Professional 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, so you never have to let down your customers.

• Purchase order processing (Sage 50 Accounts Professional  only):
  You can create an order, put on-order and then record delivery of the stock with this function, which will also automatically generate an invoice and increase your stock levels.

• Manage your products:
  You can easily create product records, review product activities and analyse monthly sales values and quantities sold. You can also apply discounts and generate valuation and profit reports.

• Bill of Materials (Sage 50 Accounts Plus and Sage 50 Accounts Professional 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.

• Allocate your stock (Sage 50 Accounts Plus and Sage 50 Accounts Professional only):
  As well as allocating stock to sales orders, you can allocate to projects, or set aside stock for specific purposes. You can also review and modify these reservations.

• Handle cash sales (Sage 50 Accounts Professional only):
  Sage 50 Accounts Professional  helps you to execute trade counter sales quickly and easily. You can customise the Cash Sales button, letting you select the documents you need printing with ease.

• Easier foreign trading (Sage 50 Accounts Plus and Sage 50 Accounts Professional only):
  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 requirements for declaring foreign trade on your VAT returns and in Intrastat declarations, in both standard and cash-based VAT accounting.

• Your EC Sales List:
  If your business trades with other EC countries, you can see the EC Sales List as an onscreen report which automatically calculates the value of sales from individual customers.

• Improve your project costing (Sage 50 Accounts Plus and Sage 50 Accounts Professional only):
  This feature lets you create records for specific projects and specific customers, assigning project references to them.  You can organise your projects in logical groups, record committed costs against projects, analyse rolled-up costs and budgets, and compare costs incurred against budgeted amounts. There is also a flexible reporting system that allows you to produce information that will help you to monitor costs.

• 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 you need.