Sage Accounting

Avantages

Once set up, easy to use and can customise invoices etc. Link to accountant is a good addition and use on different pc's has been handy for our usage.

Inconvénients

Need to have book keeping experience or higher to understand fully, online help doesn't always understand your query.

Avantages

EASY TO USE, YOU DONT HAVE TO BE AN ACCOUNTS WIZ TO USE IT, IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE CAN BE EASIELY FIXED. YOU BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE SET UP QUITE QUICKLY. IF YOUR NOT SURE THERE IS ALWAYS HELP AVAILABLE

Inconvénients

SOMETIMES CAN BE SLOW USING ONLINE IF LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE USING IT. THE OTHER DAY IT WOULDNT LET ME ON FOR OVER HALF AN HOUR

Avantages

I love it's ability to automate the functions like reconcilliations.

Inconvénients

The fact that it is effective only when linked to the internet was a bit of a downer.

Avantages

Easy to use even for staff who don't have much experience with accounting or other accounting software. Portability of the data is great too, whether you want to take your data to Excel and manipulate or move it to another software....at least you're not locked in. Mobile app is necessary, but the capability is lacking.

Inconvénients

As a cloud-based system, if you're without internet you're out of luck. The mobile app also needs a lot of work with only a few functions available compared to the desktop version. Mobile app also crashes more than it should. Reporting could also be much more detailed.

Avantages

It is easier to navigate for a new user than its desktop-based counterpart (Sage 50).

Data is easy to input.

Inconvénients

Reporting functions are poor, and nowhere near as good as Xero or Sage 50.

The bank feed can disconnect itself for no reason, and transactions within the feed can get duplicated.

There is also a lot of downtime which can be highly inconvenient.

Avantages

Banking automation, easy, quick to upload and automation of the ledger

Inconvénients

Billing… it's basic and doubtful debt, therefore unpaid invoices, are impossible to account according to the accounting laws

Avantages

The customer service is always good and they help you build reports if you're having trouble so that's really helpful.

Inconvénients

The actual reports available aren't the best for financials. It would be better to have a 3rd party financial reporting software.

Avantages

Customer support is excellent with knowledgeable and helpful staff. Attractive screens and easy to understand

Avantages

It has Accounting features. It fuctions, but unfortunately the company has terrible customer service and will steal your money.

Inconvénients

This company charged the personal credit card of a small not for profit company that had declared bankruptcy months before, because they had it on file from the previous year. Months after insolvency was declared and the employee had been laid off, she found the charge on her card. Despite many phone calls explainibg the mistake that had been made nothing has been done. Terrible company that would put a laid off, soon to be mother in this position. Shame on them.

Avantages

The accounting package works reasonably well. It is fairly logical and intuitive. It is fairly easy to set up.

Inconvénients

Customer service is poor. They do not respond. They do not provide a straight answer. They auto debit without explanation and then are non responsive to questions. They made a mistake and rather than work with me for the company to correct it, they turned it over to a collection agency. They are the absolute worst company to deal with

Avantages

Ease of use, used to use Sage 50 Professional which i felt was far too complex

Inconvénients

If calling the helpdesk to seek, they put you on hold. Sometimes you can be on hold for 1/2 hour

Avantages

This software is very good and easy to use

Inconvénients

This software data can be backed up in cloud drive.

Avantages

The application is easy to navigate and information can be shared remotely

Inconvénients

Difficulties linking the bank account to the software

Avantages

Quick and easy to set-up and get going on. Quick to send out invoices and add new customers. Can quickly see who owes what and who we owe money to. Facility to send out statements is great - and can get statements sent out in seconds.

Inconvénients

Recently, when we go online the site seems to be done due to server overload - starting to happen more often.

Avantages

Allows me to see, within a few clicks, everyone that owes me money, and everyone I owe money to. Simple reporting for profit and loss and year end tax reports

Inconvénients

Can't think of any right now. I'm a one-man-band, and this does exactly what I need it to do... Possibly, bring the self-assessment form more into line with there HMRC website requirements, this would make life a bit easier and quicker for end of year reporting

Avantages

I like how easy it is to use, I also like how proactive the support team is, they provide great guidance.

Inconvénients

I don't like that I cant create recurring purchase invoices.

Avantages

I like it to monitor companies perfomances etc, or to help a client over the phone with an issue

Inconvénients

Once something is reconciled, it is not an easy fix to correct the issue. Change of VAT schemes are not user friendly at all

Avantages

Sage One is a cloud-based systems that helps the customer manage their finances accurately and efficient.

Inconvénients

This app is very helpful and the customer service is very accomodating so i don’t have any problem with this product

Avantages

-work with PC and Mac
-integrate with Sage 50
-no installation
-easy to use

Inconvénients

-can't do the payroll
-not a lot of choice of invoice templates

Avantages

Sage One offers accounting and payroll system online for small business company. Sage One if very easy to use and process are straight-forward. By the time we are evaluating and implementing the system, Sage One team are very helpful and supportive.

Inconvénients

Sage One if a good accounting software, make sure to collaborate with your partner and discuss your full requirement.

Avantages

This software made it easy for me to track invoices after being sent to customers so I could monitor budgets over time.

Inconvénients

The invoice numbering system is a little complex and difficult to understand which invoice goes with which client in emailed versions

Avantages

Makes accounting data "cloud" accessible. Can be useful for certain professions and industries depending on your use.

Inconvénients

Finicky at best. I had purchased this in order to use in Conjunction with Sage 50 to have my accounting data accessible via an app. The software was clearly an attempt to have just that, but without any real thought behind the usability. Feels more like a quickly slapped together piece of software for marketing rather than something that has any real world usefulness. The software had difficulty uploading and updating and the App had only a handful functions. Basically, you were only able to invoice with the App but were not able to access any information. what's the point in that?

Avantages

Very good for accounting reports and it let you know if you made an error or mistake.
I would recommend this Software to other Treasurers and accountants.

Avantages

Sage helps people with no or little accounting experience to finish their accounting jobs easily. It also helps accountant to have best connection with client because clients know what they should enter into the software and exchange information with their accountant effectively.

Inconvénients

People still find its difficult to do entries or do everything correct. In the future the accounting software might connect with the cloud to upload invoices and computer will able to scan and put things to the right account.

Avantages

Fairly easy to use and navigate.
Good reporting features.
Clean and simple dashboard.
Connecting to your bank option is very helpful.

Inconvénients

Limited in format, not a lot of freedom to customize.
Online help seemed not that informed - I found a way to do something they said wasn't possible.
Slow to refresh and change pages.
Going back a page erases the previous search.

Avantages

I'm no accountant but I had to learn how to do my own books because I run a small tutoring business and I needed something that could meet my needs and a friend recommended this software . I tried just about every freeware that I came across but this one just worked from the get go. I also like the fact that I can work from anywhere and plus it's affordable.

Inconvénients

There's nothing that I don't like about this software because it works, I love it.

Avantages

The number of reports and access to detail from within the reports just makes looking at the data very interesting.

Inconvénients

The videos at the home page are distracting, A simple static image would suffice, this is the only things that irritate me and I rush to get past that section... small thing but you did ask!

Avantages

The Creditors actually work
It is pretty

Inconvénients

The project and time tracking is very rudimentary,
Imports do not work .
Invoicing is cumbersome and quirky.
The payroll system has not managed to capture leave days properly after 6 months

Avantages

I like that this software is user friendly, affordable and offers a lot of useful applications.

Inconvénients

The customer service doesn't always respond as quickly as I would like.

Avantages

This accounting software is really good and provides detail information. Once you get familiarized with the system it gets easier to use.

Inconvénients

I think this software is not intended for beginners. I think the software is very specialized ideal for bookkeepers or accountants.

Avantages

Not much, I found it difficult to navigate.

Inconvénients

Reports were hard to understand, reconciling was a nightmare.

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Avantages

Accessible anywhere any time. Very easy to operate. The appearance of the screens is great and very easy to read.

Inconvénients

The only thing I can think of is the reports - our finance convenor has advised that they don't really suit our requirements

Avantages

Easy enough to learn how to use and makes payroll stress free and easy to deal with. It works out pension contribution and PAYE is done automatically as it's linked to HMRC databese. Better than doing it manually.

Inconvénients

It crashed on paydays which left me feel nervous. It worked after 5.20pm last month which meant staff didn't get paid until the first of next month which isn't good for my accounting system.
It takes a long time to figure out how to print payroll summary for your end of year accounts and HELP section is not good at all.
It could be made much easier to navigate.

Avantages

Sage is very easy to use and there is excellent support when you get stuck on anything. Provided you input the information correctly, you can rely on Sage to churn out the correct information as you need it, with just a few clicks. It has really taken a weight of my mind in terms of dealing with the financial aspects of the business. I would recommend it to anyone with a small business.

Inconvénients

The fact that it does not know when you have put the wrong information in! I honestly can't think of anything that I do not like apart from the inability to spot human error - and it even does that sometimes. This is a real quality product.

Avantages

It meets literally all of our needs. We need a software that can help us manage more, track more, and do more.

Inconvénients

It doesn't have to do with this software, but moving from Quickbooks to Sage was quite a process. Worth it though.

Avantages

I used Sage package for 20+ years in previous roles and found them hard to deal with in the past but for I do not know how they expect to deal with small businesses. It was better you had a dealer in between.

Inconvénients

It doesn't offer the flexibility for small businesses that do not fit the norm and their customer support is poor.

Avantages

I suggested this for a client looking to upgrade from QuickBooks as their business outgrew QB. It has versatility and can be accessed by multiple users easily. Good management and flow of information between production operations and accounting.

Inconvénients

Data reporting is not intuitive, and limits the number of windows opened. Exporting data to Excel is slow and the reports are not very user friendly.

Avantages

Bank reconciliations and import are easy to do. Looking up any information is quick and simple as well.

Inconvénients

Downloading information could be better. In some areas, the results of a search are displayed, but cannot be downloaded. This would be useful as a csv to import to Excel etc.

Avantages

Works well on my mobile devices - no software to install

Inconvénients

Payroll isn't available to do web based.

Avantages

Its a very strong tool for billing. You can manage customers and suppliers and you have all kind of facilities to make invoices. By using the API, you can connect your own software with the aplication.

Inconvénients

Although it is a very complete software there are quite things you can't do with it, like assign a payment to multiple suppliers.

Avantages

I like that my accountant can log in to my account and get what ever information she requires.
The ease of use, the way it is all set out is very intuitive.
The help that is available is excellent

Inconvénients

there's nothing really that I dislike about it apart from the cost as I am only a small business but I suppose you get what you pay for and this feels like a very well thought out bit of kit

Avantages

I was able to import automatically after dayend on POS up to Sage one and get sales and purchase figures.

Inconvénients

Would sometimes upload duplicate lines and then you would need to sift through all the data to remove duplicate lines. Also could only import certain aspects of a days trade due to being a very basic accounting package.

Avantages

This software is user friendly and doesn't take much training before you can get started. And also automatic bank feed is a very useful feature for us.

Inconvénients

The software doesn't give you warnings when there are duplicate bank transactions. Other than that, the software works pretty good.

Avantages

The link to the bank account and being able to download transactions. The support is very good and they are quick to respond to emails.

Inconvénients

Don't understand how to use the invoices and have yet posted a journal. Not being able to search by description or amount in the report. Online chat support is very busy

Avantages

The price of the system is great for the quality of services.
Can get the app on Android and iOS.
The versions are cloud based so one can gain access from anywhere.

Inconvénients

There is no Payroll so you will have to find payroll capabilities from somewhere else.
This software will not be great for use in larger companies due to lacking features.

Avantages

It is easy to learn to use it at the basic level.

Inconvénients

In terms of value, it competes unfavorably with Quickbooks and Xero and lacks functionality eg being able to amend entries and journals.
Overall it not at the cutting edge

Avantages

Everything is worked out for you. The wages is something I have to do but have no training so find this is easy for me to work with.

Avantages

In Sage you can pin the customer or vendors name, this is invaluable to me. I do a lot of data entering using the same vendor's name, sometimes hundreds of times, this makes entering so much faster when you don't have to keep tying in the name.

Inconvénients

At this time I can not think of any. I have made mention to Sage about improvements I would like to see and they have already made the improvements.