Sage Tips

Sage 50 Add-On – Adept Back to Back Ordering

A link between Sales Orders and Purchase Orders seems like simple functionality, but is something which just isn’t possible with Sage 50 Professional. Many companies don’t keep stock of the items they sell in...

Spring Cleaning your Sage Accounts Software

Following on from my good housekeeping posts for Sage 50 and Sage Instant Accounts, when you have used Sage for a few years, running reports and doing the data check and backups can start to slow down, just due to the sh...

Sage 50 Accounts 2013 – Update 2

The second update for Sage 50 Accounts 2013 has been released. As for previous updates, if you run a multi-user system, once you have updated one machine you must then go ahead and update all machines which use the same ...

Sage 50 Accounts 2013 – Update 1

The first Update for Sage 50 Accounts 2013 has been released.  You need to install this update if your version number is 19.0.11.261 or 19.0.11.260.  To find out what version your software is then go to Help -> About ...

Understanding Sage Transaction Numbers

In Sage 50 and Sage Instant Accounts, every time you update an invoice, make or receive and payment, make a journal entry or do anything which impacts the nominal ledger, Sage creates new transaction records, and numbers...

Logging Back into Sage after a problem

Sage User name already in use I have had the same enquiry twice this week from customers.  Something has happened on their computer which has meant they had to exit Sage using Task Manager rather than closing the program...

Good Advice – You must give to receive

I am a regular contributor to UK Business Forums, and quite often respond to queries, mostly to people who are having problems with their Sage software or bookkeeping, and then move on and forget about it. I was really s...

Sage Data Check – Budget is Negative

If you are using Sage correctly,  you should be running regular Sage Data Checks each time you have been in the system doing any data entry – you are always prompted to do this check each time you close the softwar...

ACT 2012 and Sage 50 Accounting Integration

I have this week started to use a lovely new PC, and so have had to install all my software from scratch.  Having used ACT! 2011 previously with the Sage and Accounts linked in the ‘old’ way I thought I would...

Sage 50 Accounts 2012 – Service Pack 1

Another Sage 50 Accounts Update is currently being rolled out.  As for previous updates, if you run a multi-user system, once you have updated one machine you must then go ahead and update all machines which use the same...