The classic UK desktop accounting software, now cloud connected with Sage Copilot
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Finance Director, Wetherall Supplies
A good honest tool. You buy it for the depth, you tolerate the looks, you negotiate the price.
Remote data access is a real improvement on the old ways.
Support waits stretch badly around VAT deadlines.
Finance Director, Elmswell Supplies
It just works, every single day, and after some of the software this office has suffered that is the highest compliment available.
It has simply never lost data in all our years on it.
Nothing new to add.
Office Manager
LinkedIn verifiedMoved 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.
Departments and budgets give each manager their own numbers.
Data checks and rebuilds are an occasional ritual you learn to schedule.
Accounts Manager, Farndale Engineering
LinkedIn verifiedWe run stock, orders and three companies through it and it has never once let us down at month end. The depth is the whole point, everything joins up to the ledgers underneath.
Departments and budgets give each manager their own numbers.
Screens are dense and dated, new staff take longer to train than on cloud products.
Accounts Assistant, Tarnbrook
The AI additions are better than expected, document capture especially. The core screens underneath have not changed in a decade, for better and worse.
Document capture has cut the typing dramatically.
Support waits stretch badly around VAT deadlines.
Senior Bookkeeper, Ridgeway Engineering
LinkedIn verifiedIf you have deep stock or group needs it still earns its place. Our needs simplified and we are probably a cloud customer now who has not admitted it.
It fails safely, nothing is ever lost even when screens freeze.
Data checks and the occasional rebuild interrupt busy weeks.
Finance Director, Ambleforth
It does everything on the tin. The tin, however, is priced like a premium product while feeling like a legacy one.
Document capture is a real improvement to daily posting.
Comparing the invoice to cloud alternatives is an annual discomfort.
Finance Director, Farndale Engineering
LinkedIn verifiedThe onboarding call they include was worth having even after years of experience, the adviser tidied settings we had lived with wrongly for ages.
Decades of data stays accessible and fast to report across.
None that would make us move, and we have looked.
Owner, Elmswell Trading
Foreign currency sales on the Professional plan handle our export side including the revaluations, which our old package made a monthly ordeal.
Recurring invoices and standing entries run themselves reliably.
Data checks and rebuilds are an occasional ritual you learn to schedule.
Senior Bookkeeper, Cattermole & Firth Accountants
LinkedIn verifiedI started on Line 50 in 1999 and I can still post a batch of sixty purchase invoices before my tea goes cold. The cloud products are fine for simple clients but for anything with stock, jobs or multiple companies, nothing at this price touches the depth. The new document capture reading supplier invoices straight in has genuinely changed my mornings.
Keyboard speed on batch entry that browser software will never match. Proper double entry with journals that behave like journals. The report designer will build literally anything once you learn it. Our accountant clients all know it inside out.
The price climbs every single year and the subscription argument still rankles those of us who once owned our licences. Multi user over our office network needs the data checked more often than it should.