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V8

V9

V10

V11

V12

2007

2008

2009

2010

Get Up & Running:

New: Month End, Year End & VAT Guide

Improved: Video/simulations Guides

New Diary with views by day, week, month

Recurring tasks/events

Delegate tasks (network versions only)

Diary synchronisation of tasks with Outlook

Ability to assign tasks to customers/suppliers and their contacts

Automatic update of software

More assistance including tutorials, getting started and upgrades

Improved corrections easily access and correct data

Practice company

Option to access demo or practice company on startup

RSS feed informing of updates & product news

Information centre

New active set up wizard, improved activity, smart links to stock & project

Multi-company - resizable list & can be printed

Process Maps & Dashboards

Improved Data Import - easier to import, import project records

Document Manager

Excel Integrated Reporting

Copy & Batch Change Facility

Smart Totals & Smart Links

Drill down to source transaction

Description:

V8

V9

V10

V11

V12

2007

2008

2009

2010

Manage Your Customers and Suppliers

New: Pay Now Button on Invoices, chase letters and statements

Improved: Customer transactions – filter/ sort and ability to credit and refund at point of processing (needs subscription to Sage Pay)

New: Cash Register

Improved: Payment processing including sort / filter and recurring transaction management

Improved Dashboards - Easily see where money is, what is outstanding, who is due aged, days to pay and tasks for the day

Improved Chase debt by overdue, promised, dispute and custom views with smart columns to personalise view to suite needs

Prioritise Payments - who needs to be paid, what disputes need to be resolved, who you have promised to pay. Customise the view with information required using new smart columns and develop own view of money owing.

Easily access account record and view activities and communications with customer and supplier

Easily view all communications with customers and suppliers in one single place

Account balance when communication took place automatically added

Communications automatically updated when statements and letters sent

Easily record new communications and follow up

Store details of account contacts including address, telephone numbers and email

Record notes against contact and delivery addresses

Set preferences for issuing of documents such as invoices, statements, letters, orders etc including both contact to issue and email.

Contact and delivery addresses available in Accounts variant

Easily view disputed items

Disputes introduced into Accounts variant

Record method of payment – cash, cheque, card, SO/DD, factoring, invoice discounting

Drillable reports – aged debt, credit management summary

Communications history by customer

Easier to send statements to correct contact and by email

Automatically update communications history

Easier to send letters to correct contact and by email

Automatically update communications history

Improved reporting - drillable aged debt and credit management summary report

Contact and delivery addresses available in reporting and on documents

Refunds- Customer payments and supplier receipts

Recurring Invoices - Ability to edit recurring invoices & generate recurring transaction reports

Store customer bank details

Intrastat defaults available for suppliers and customers

Improved quotations

Improved Discounting – one-off discounts to individual items

Cash Sales (Accounts Pro only)

Intrastat support

Reprint delivery notes

Repeat Invoices & Orders

Batch conversion of Quotes & proforma's

Supplier Price list

Transaction e-mail

Create Purchase Order from BOM

Individual Customer Pricing & Custom Price Lists – Accounts Plus & Pro

Goods Received Notes

Multiple Delivery Addresses – Accounts Plus & Professional

Description:

V8

V9

V10

V11

V12

2007

2008

2009

2010

Manage your Finances

Improved: VAT management and preparation for revised ECSL (Jan 2010)

Improved:  management of recurring entries

VAT - Message & Tax code analysis for EC service sales

VAT – Ability to change HMRC bank account

VAT - Online submissions & payments incl agent submission via client manager

VAT - Electronic VAT 3 Form (Ireland)

VAT - Ledger, Manual adjustments to VAT Return, Unique identifier, automatic archiving

VAT - Improved EC sales list & Carousel Fraud

VAT - Audit Reports

Management Reporting - Cashflow separates incomings and outgoings, includes credits

Management Reporting - Rebuild department actuals based on transactions

Management Reporting - Updated Dept Number table to be numeric only

Management Reporting - Depts. - Improved year end actuals all transferred to prior year

Management Reporting -  Improved prior year, budget and actual  reports for Departmental reporting

Management Reporting - New management reports - month by month, quarterly, drill to transactions

Management Reporting - More information available - current year, prior year and budget on one report

Management Reporting -  Copy chart of accounts

Management Reporting - Departmental budgets, per nominal code per department

Management Reporting - New department ledger, store up to 5 years of data & budget for 1 year in the future

Management Reporting - Improved Journal Reversals - can specify the date when reversing journals

Management Reporting - Cashflow Planner

Archive management

Management Reporting - Recurring Entries - Customer & Supplier Accounts

Management Reporting - Reversing Journals

Description:

V8

V9

V10

V11

V12

2007

2008

2009

2010

Manage your Business

New: Import and Import templates

New: Sage Pay integration

Improved: Reporting Functionality – Support for Barcodes, Pan Sage 50 Report Explorer and working with favourites

Improved: process management - Yearend management, activity detail screens, improvements to backup routine, ability to open Financial and Nominal screens at the same time

Reporting Functionality - Batch reporting

Reporting Functionality - Password protection

Reporting Functionality - Easier to use - assign name, spell check, joining tables

CIS Module

Reporting Functionality - Generate report output to Excel or Word

Reporting Functionality - New Report Designer

Reporting Functionality - No limit to variables/data that can be included on any report

Reporting Functionality - Criteria can be defined per report, apply formulas

Reporting Functionality - Run wizard to amend existing reports

Reporting Functionality - Change reports whilst in preview

Accountant Link VAT & Bank Reconciliation changes can be automatically applied

Accountant Link - easily work with accountant to exchange information and process adjustments

Audit Assistant

Project Costing - Correct transactions & allocate project to payments or receipts

Project Costing - Project Hierarchy, committed costs, improved reporting

Project Costing - module available in Accounts Plus & Professional to manage project costs

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V8

V9

V10

V11

V12

2007

2008

2009

2010

Charities - launch pad to make it easier to navigate and set up

Charities - Improved SOFA Report - all fund types on one single report

Charities - HMRC Approved Gift Aid report (R68)

Charities - management of funds, SOFA reporting

Banking - Retrospective bank reconciliation report

Banking - smart totals, additional columns, resizable screen

Banking - Works with more banks &  no additional charge for ebanking

Banking – Reverse Bank Reconciliation

Banking - Improved Bank Reconciliation

Foreign Trader (Accounts Pro Only) - transactions corrections & display foreign bank balance

Foreign Trader (Accounts Pro Only) - bank revaluation

Foreign Trader (Accounts Pro Only) -currency price lists

Foreign Trader (Accounts Pro Only) – introduced

Stock - Improved BOM (Accounts Pus & Professional )

Stock - allocation (Accounts Plus & Professional)

Stock - shortfall & stock take

Description:

V8

V9

V10

V11

V12

2007

2008

2009

2010