Overview
What is Sage Accounting?
Sage Accounting is online accounting software made to simplify life for small business owners, entrepreneurs, and freelancers by providing the functions needed to take care of daily business to-dos. Users can create and send professional quotes and invoices, track income…
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Popular Features
- Accounts receivable (44)9.898%
- Accounts payable (41)9.898%
- Standard reports (43)9.696%
- Bank reconciliation (43)9.292%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $10 per month
Features
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 10Pay calculation(14) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 9.4Benefit plan administration(11) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 8.9Direct deposit files(12) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 9.2Salary revision and increment management(10) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 9.2Reimbursement management(11) Ratings
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
Customization
This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.
- 9.2API for custom integration(19) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 7.4Plug-ins(16) Ratings
A number of third-party plug-ins are available to expand the core functionality of the software.
Security
This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.
- 9.9Single sign-on capability(30) Ratings
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
- 9.5Role-based user permissions(38) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
- 6.7Dashboards(39) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 9.6Standard reports(43) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 9.5Custom reports(34) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting
- 9.8Accounts payable(41) Ratings
This includes the automation and tracking of payment to vendors and suppliers, with features such as payment scheduling, check printing, open purchase order alerts, document management, direct ACH bill payment, and vendor records.
- 9.8Accounts receivable(44) Ratings
This includes the management and automation of invoices and collections, with features like statements, invoices, receipts, payment reminders, customer records, auto billing, and refund checks.
- 9.8Cash management(36) Ratings
The software provides a complete picture of a company’s cash flows, streamlines payment processing, and includes cash forecasting.
- 9.2Bank reconciliation(43) Ratings
The software connects to a company’s financial institutions in order to reconcile accounting records with checking, savings and credit card accounts. Often month and year closing capabilities are included.
- 9.9Expense management(33) Ratings
The software can log and track business expenses and reimbursements, including travel-related expenses, with the ability to tie them to particular projects.
- 6.4Time tracking(10) Ratings
The software can track billable and non-billable employee time by project.
- 7Fixed asset management(27) Ratings
This includes the ability to track fixed assets (e.g., laptops), including location, check-in and check-out, maintenance scheduling, audit history, specialized property tax period reports, cost and depreciation.
- 9.9Multi-currency support(17) Ratings
The software supports transactions across multiple currencies.
- 9.5Multi-division support(17) Ratings
The software is flexible and supports bookkeeping practices along multiple dimensions such as locations, branches or products.
- 9.4Regulations compliance(28) Ratings
The software helps users adhere to typical accounting standards and regulations such as IFRS, GASB, or GAAP.
- 9.4Electronic tax filing(22) Ratings
The software provides a full electronic interface for the filing of repeatable taxes, such as payroll or sales tax.
- 9.9Self-service portal(25) Ratings
The software provides online portals for certain stakeholders to find information relevant to them, such as employees, vendors and customers.
- 8.6Global Financial Support(8) Ratings
Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities
- 9.4Primary and Secondary Ledgers(15) Ratings
Record and report across multiple currencies and accounting standards with primary and secondary ledgers
- 7.6Intercompany Accounting(11) Ratings
Automatically balance and reconcile GL for intercompany transactions
- 8Localizations(9) Ratings
Meet reporting requirements with country-specific localizations
- 8.9Journals and Reconciliations(32) Ratings
Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes
- 7.9Enterprise Accounting(10) Ratings
Create accounting for disconnected ERP and non-accounting source systems
- 9Configurable Accounting(18) Ratings
Configure accounting rules and segments for each chart of accounts
- 8.3Centralized Rules Framework(8) Ratings
Integrate disparate ERP and transactional systems into single ERP instance
- 9.4Standardized Processes(19) Ratings
Centralize financial management to facilitate standardized financial processes
Inventory Management
The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.
- 6.5Inventory tracking(17) Ratings
The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.
- 8.5Automatic reordering(6) Ratings
The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.
- 6.4Location management(7) Ratings
The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.
- 7Manufacturing module(5) Ratings
The software helps track and manage raw materials, work-in-progress items, and finished goods.
Order Management
The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.
- 9.9Pricing(16) Ratings
Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.
- 7.8Order entry(14) Ratings
Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.
- 8.1Credit card processing(17) Ratings
The software facilitates credit card processing.
- 7.1Cost of goods sold(20) Ratings
The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.
- 6.2Order Orchestration(6) Ratings
Define and execute order fulfillment processes for products as well as services on the same order.
- 7.1End-to-end order visibility(7) Ratings
Get updates on orders, inventory, shipments, planned supply, and invoices, and improve the quality of decisions through in-context analytics
- 7Order exception Resolution(5) Ratings
Monitor fulfillment tasks and resolve issues, view and evaluate varios options via what-if analysis and define and enforce change order rules
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Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Supported Countries | US, Canada, UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Africa, South Africa, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Malaysia, Australia |
Supported Languages | English, French, German, Spanish and more |
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(109)Attribute Ratings
- 9.3Likelihood to Renew5 ratings
- 8.3Availability3 ratings
- 9.6Performance3 ratings
- 9.6Usability17 ratings
- 9.6Support Rating17 ratings
- 9.6Online Training3 ratings
- 10In-Person Training1 rating
- 9.4Implementation Rating3 ratings
- 9.2Configurability2 ratings
- 7.8Product Scalability3 ratings
- 10Ease of integration1 rating
- 9.6Vendor pre-sale2 ratings
- 9.6Vendor post-sale2 ratings
- 10Professional Services1 rating
- 10Contract Terms and Pricing Model1 rating
Reviews
(1-7 of 7)100% Sage Accounting Fan
90% of my clients are small (SMME) companies and does not require extremely complex software to run their businesses. Sage Accounting offers them everything they need in order to operate their business efficiently. It is user friendly and not difficult even for my clients to understand if I am unavailable for the day and they need to get the job done ASAP.
- Customer Documents and Emails sent to customers look professional
- Sage Accounting customer service is very good and someone always gets back to you
- The software is easy to navigate and understand
- Sage Accounting banking is straight forward, easy and it works well
- Processing VAT is a breeze and convenient
- Bank Recons are easy and I love it however, you can't find any record on Sage Accounting that you actually did the recon and can download a report afterwards as proof unless you download immediately.
- The amount of email addresses that you can add to your customers/suppliers are only 100 characters, you can add additional contacts but then they don't receive statements and when you send an invoice, you have to go and specifically select them to be included which sometimes you may forget. There could maybe be 2 places to add emails, one for statements and one for invoices as a lot of companies don't want their statements sent to the same people that get the invoices, if this makes any sense.
- You can only get a view of your top 10 clients, it would be nice to be able to get a report that has all your clients on but in order of high to low of how much they spend (every month or yearly etc.)
Great Products, Great Support, Great Company
- Storing purchase receipts with the purchase entries.
- Recurring invoices.
- Professional looking invoices.
- Reporting.
- Live Bank Feeds
- Tieing off year end figures, to start a new financial year.
- Sage and AutoEntry to transfer data to correctly - Invoice box!
- Ability to use multiple letterheads and banking information on receipts.
- Easier way of entering and recording of Assets for reporting
Not found anything Sage does not do well.
Amazing Accounting Software
- Automatic bank feeds
- Invoicing
- Payroll integration
- Integration to Caseware and Draftworx
- Requires an integrated Fixed Asset Register.
- Automatic bank feeds should be in real time.
- Scannig of invoices should be a standard feature which reduces the cost of this automation.
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- Customer and supplier ledger data review is easily done in comparison in particular to Xero. Ledger types are separated rather than combined as 'contacts'.
- The format of the data presented is clear, both on screen and reporting in multiple formats
- MTD facility to operate VAT reporting in line with HMRC requirements
- Bank reconciliation is easily performed, using the 'bank feed' function
- Automated processes are brilliant, such as uploading purchase invoices or expenses
- Menu structure is straightforward, and easy for users to navigate
- Adding notes to customer and supplier ledgers with regards communications
- Making it easier to change from one VAT scheme to another, when company's grow and need to move away from cash accounting
- Users creating their own reports
- The new bank rec is highly efficient when hooked up directly to your bank account.
- The bill pay features and the accompanying workflow are particularly easy to use
- Sage also allows a create collaborative workflow while working in either a small or large team.
- Fixed assets needs some serious work. I don't even think the fixed assets module is native to Sage, they're all 3rd party bolt ons
- Reporting could also be improved. We don't currently subscribe to custom reporting which is an additional add on, but the standard report writer is very difficult to use
Sage Cloud Accounting for Small South African Businesses
- Access anywhere, from any device.
- User-friendly, even for non-accountants.
- Good reporting.
- API
- Because they don't use accounting terminology like debit/credit, journals can get very complicated, especially with balance sheet accounts like suspense accounts that can be either an asset or a liability.
- The API documentation and process to gain access to the API is not very user friendly.
- They don't have an integrated asset register that calculates amortization/depreciation. The logic is simple, it just needs to be done.
- VAT is still calculated incorrectly; a different rounding is used than SARS (South African Revue Service) uses.
- Works well in South Africa: Longer history than Xero.
- Small business with limited journals, suspense accounts, etc.
- Simple, straight-forward accounting.
Sage One - The Future of Accounting
- Functionality - Can be accessed from anywhere using internet connection.
- User Friendliness - We found that training our clients takes very little time and encourages use.
- Bank Processing - The automatic bank feeds leaves little room for human error and assists in timely and accurate processing.
- Inventory is becoming an issue when we draw reports for clients. Inventory reflects on the Statement of asset and liabilities report but not on the Trial Balance report.