The classic UK desktop accounting software, now cloud connected with Sage Copilot
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Finance Director, Tarnbrook
LinkedIn verifiedA good honest tool. You buy it for the depth, you tolerate the looks, you negotiate the price.
Multi company and departmental reporting without an ERP project.
Error messages assume long Sage experience.
Accounts Assistant, Harwood Trading
LinkedIn verifiedIt handles our multi company setup properly, which is why we stay. The per company cost needs watching as the group grows.
Ledger integrity, the numbers are always right and always traceable.
You pay for depth whether you use it all or not.
Financial Controller, Foxton & Sons
LinkedIn verifiedIt just works, every single day, and after some of the software this office has suffered that is the highest compliment available.
Our accountant knows it inside out, handovers and year ends are painless.
The price rises every year and you feel each one.
Company Secretary
LinkedIn verifiedOur bookkeeper posts a week of invoices in an hour using nothing but the keyboard. Watch someone quick on Sage 50 and you understand why offices refuse to give it up.
Multi company native, switching between sets of accounts is instant.
Data checks and rebuilds are an occasional ritual you learn to schedule.
Accounts Assistant, Ambleforth Supplies
Moved from a cloud product back to Sage 50 because stock and order processing on the cloud side were toys by comparison. The difference in capability is not subtle.
Decades of data stays accessible and fast to report across.
None beyond what everyone already says about the price.
Office Manager
It just works, every single day, and after some of the software this office has suffered that is the highest compliment available.
Sales and purchase order processing that flows through to stock and invoices.
None that would make us move, and we have looked.
Finance Director
Support have been decent whenever we called, the product is stable, and MTD has been faultless. The renewal negotiation is now an annual fixture though.
Support resolved our data query competently when it mattered.
Error messages assume long Sage experience.
Practice Manager, Ambleforth Services
Support was hit and miss this year, one excellent data rescue and two calls that went nowhere. The lottery element wears you down.
Dependable ledgers and clean VAT quarters as ever.
Modern niceties like decent search never seem to arrive.
Finance Director, Wetherall Engineering
It does everything on the tin. The tin, however, is priced like a premium product while feeling like a legacy one.
Dependable ledgers and clean VAT quarters as ever.
Comparing the invoice to cloud alternatives is an annual discomfort.
Practice Manager
It handles our multi company setup properly, which is why we stay. The per company cost needs watching as the group grows.
Remote data access is a real improvement on the old ways.
Support waits stretch badly around VAT deadlines.