Sage Instant Accounts :

Sage Instant Accounts is designed to make managing your money, including VAT, end of year accounts and invoicing as quick and easy as possible, giving you the information you need to manage your business at your fingertips.

• For new and small businesses
• Quotations and invoicing
• VAT return, Profit & Loss reports
• Health and Safety Advice*

Plus, for the first time, you will also get an inclusive one-year 24/7 online support contract. New to Version 14.

*Standard service on one-year contract (fee applies after first year)

Features:

• Additional support: We're giving you 45 days of free telephone support and 1 year of 24/7 online support.
• Practice makes perfect: Use Practice Mode to can try out tasks before entering the data for real.
• Get up and running with ease: You will be guided through the set-up process; the Welcome Page offers a central area you can return to whenever you need help. You can also use the video demonstrations useful links in the Launch Pad. You can use these whenever you are unsure about a task.
• Made a mistake? Don't panic: It's easy to correct any errors you might make.
• VAT Management: You'll find everything you need to sort out your VAT in one place. You can submit VAT and year-end forms online and get an extra ten days to pay too.
• Never lose sight of money owed: Keep track of what customers are buying, when, and how much they owe you.
• Get an overview of your profit and loss: Run Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet Reports at the touch of a button.
• Receive card payments: With Sage Payment Solutions, available at an additional charge, you can validate card payments instantly whilst automatically updating your accounts.
• Create specific reports: With the Report Designer you can tailor reports, which in turn allows you to gather important information that's specific to your business.
• Keep you information secure: With the Accountant Link, you can share information securely with your accountant via an electronic link.

Read reviews of the Beta Testing of Version 14 - click here

New to Sage? - Instant Accounts Starter Solution
Sage Instant Accounts is designed for new and small business, making managing your money, including VAT, end of year accounts and invoicing as quick and easy as possible.

The Sage Instant Accounts Starter Package includes:

• Sage Instant Accounts
• 1 year of SageCover support
• 100 invoices for laser printers
• A Sage Training voucher

PLEASE CALL US FOR MORE INFORMATION AND PRICING ON 0161 456 3000.

Available in the Sage Instant Accounting Suite - Both Instant Accounts V 14 and Instant Payroll V11 for a special bundle price. See Online Shop For details.


Sage Instant Accounting is designed specifically for small businesses. With Sage Instant Accounting you can streamline the time-consuming task of bookkeeping and allow your business to become more efficient and productive. Creating new accounts, entering opening balances and monitoring the finances of your business couldn't be simpler. Even without any prior knowledge of accounts or technology you can keep your books balanced. All you need is a PC with Windows and a couple of hours each week or month to complete your accounts, your VAT returns and all your invoices.

Sage Instant Accounts Plus
Sage Instant Accounts Plus version 14 is a product aimed at small business customers who need an accounting product with a richer feature set. It has all the features of Sage Instant Accounts, plus a number of additional enhancements including:

• Advanced Credit Control
• Customer Discounts
• Basic Stock Management
• Full integration with Microsoft Office.
• Report Designer
• Departments
• Data Import
  
  Sage Instant Accounts Plus is also multi-user ready to a maximum of two users..
  
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Overview
Customer records - enter customer details, record sales and your customers' payments, print invoices, and identify outstanding and overdue balances.

Supplier records - enter supplier details, see how much you owe and when you need to pay, keep track of the invoices and credit notes you receive. Record the payments you make.

Nominal records - sends all your payments and receipts to income and expense categories so you can see where your money is, where it comes from and where it goes. Instant Accounting tells you what your total income and expenses are for the month and year-to-date and how much profit you are making.

Invoicing - create invoices and credit notes for your products and services instantly. Your records will update automatically as invoicing links to your customer, product and nominal accounts.

Bank accounts - record payments into and out of your bank accounts so you always have a true picture of your actual bank balance.

Product records - create and keep a record of all the products and services you sell.

Reports - produce your Trial Balance, Profit and Loss report, Balance Sheet, Budget report and Prior Year report. Instant Accounting sorts and analyses all your transactions automatically to produce these reports so you can see how your business is performing.

Data management - keep your data free from corruption with back ups, data restore and error correction.

New Accounts Analyser - Use the accounts analyser, to get an Instant snapshot of the financial position of your business

Guidance - use the Getting Started Guide to give you extra confidence when using Instant Accounting for the first time. Use Help for tips and advice on tasks and let the wizards take you through each task so you get it right, first time.

Search - use the Search button to find specific records and avoid searching through all your records. Save your search requests to use again.

Upgrades - System Requirments - as your business expands so can your software. All Sage products have compatible data files making it quick and efficient for you to upgrade to the next level of Sage accounting software.

Customer records

• Create, edit or delete customer records.
• Record your customer contact details, the money they owe you, their opening balance, credit limit, discounts, credit control details and their outstanding balance.
• View customer invoices, credit notes, receipts, payments and outstanding balances on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, either as a graph or in a table.
• View a customer's outstanding balance and see the transactions that make up their balance.
• Produce credit notes for your customers.
• Use the Letters option to send your customers overdue payment reminders and to write and save your own business letters.
• Print statements for your customers to help you chase payments.

Suppliers

• Create, edit or delete supplier records.
• Record your supplier contact details, the money you owe them, your opening balance, credit limit, discounts, credit control details, outstanding balance and the transactions that make up this balance
  View your supplier transactions, either as a graph or in a table.
• See how much you owe each supplier and when you need to pay.
• Record all the invoices and credit notes you receive from your suppliers.

Nominal Ledger

• Instant Accounting provides you with a standard set of nominal accounts to help you start your work straightaway.
• Create, edit and delete nominal accounts.
• Record the name and number for your account, the balance of the account, the opening balance, its VAT code and set a budget for each month.
• View your nominal ledger transactions as a graph or in a table. You can also examine in detail all the transactions you have posted to your nominal ledger accounts.
• Use journal entries to follow double-entry bookkeeping principles.
• Update your entries automatically from customer and supplier transactions.
• Store budget and prior year information to compare current values in your sales, purchases and direct expenses against your monthly budget or for the same period last year.
  

Bank Accounts

• Record deposits into your banks and all withdrawals and payments.
• Adjust your bank accounts to take account of bank charges and interest received.
• Use bank reconciliation to check that your bank account transactions match those on your bank statements.
• Print statements at any time to show your reconciled bank payments.

Credit Control

• Create credit control details tailored to each customer
• Apply credit restrictions to a customer's account.
• Apply credit charges for any late payments.
• Gives advice and tips on debt chasing.

Product Records

• Create a record of all the products you sell.
• Record a description, sale price and unit of sale for each product.
• Store an image with your product record.

Invoices

• Invoice your customers with customer and product details taken automatically from your product records.
• Invoice your customers for the services you provide.
• Apply settlement discounts and record carriage charges.
• Add extra details to your invoices such as a customer's order number, their contact details, notes about the order and any settlement terms.
• Generate and print product credit notes for your customers.
• Print invoices whenever you need.

VAT

• Let Instant Accounting calculate your VAT Return.
• Check your VAT return on the screen before printing.
• Reconcile your VAT transactions automatically and clear your VAT control accounts.

Reporting

• Produce regular reports for up-to-date financial information
• The Trial Balance report shows the current balances in your nominal ledger accounts.
• The Profit and Loss report shows if your business is trading profitably with subtotals of your sales, purchases, direct expenses, overheads and your gross and net profit balances.
• The Balance Sheet report gives a summary of your current financial position by showing what your business owns (assets) and what it owes (liabilities).
• The Prior Year report shows your trading activities for the current month and year-to-date and compares these figures against the same period for last year.
• The Budget report shows how you are trading against the monthly budget you set up in your nominal ledger accounts.
• Provide a complete record of all your transactions for the auditors.
• Edit the existing reports and layouts to your own specifications.
• Use Report Designer to create your own reports, layouts, letters and labels.
• Preview your report before printing.

Data Management

• Back up your data on a regular basis.
• Restore data from your back up disks.
• Correct any errors in your transactions.

Available in the Sage Instant Accounting Suite - Both Instant Accounts and Instant Payroll for a special bundle price. See Online Shop For details.

Minimum System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows® 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP or Microsoft Windows NT® Workstation v4 SP6
• Intel® Pentium® or higher class processor running at 90MHz or higher
• At least 16 MB of RAM
• CD-ROM drive
• 40 MB of hard disk space available (after Microsoft® Windows® has been installed)
• SVGA or higher resolution monitor
• A printer supported by Windows
• Windows compatible mouse or pointing device