Sage Instant Accounts

Sage Instant Accounting Products are ideal for start-ups, sole traders and small businesses, who have limited IT and accounting skills and who are therefore looking for an easy-to-use solution.

Sage Instant Accounts products have all of the usual accounting ledgers and they do your double-entry bookkeeping for you.

Manage Your Business

• New My Business Set-Up - Save time when setting up your new system and choose a configuration that suits your business type.
• Task based Navigation - Customize your accounting system by grouping tasks together according to the way the business works and create shortcuts to the functions you use most often.
• Drill down - Through the simple tree format down to underlying data such as ‘Sales in the North’ and ‘Sales in the South’ etc. This gives you an instantly expandable view of all the important areas of your business - in one easy-to-understand screen.
• Full integration with MS Office - Export information into Microsoft Word, Excel or Outlook for further manipulation.
• View your trading and financial highlights - Gain instant access to a range of reports on key business areas to help you quickly identify your management priorities.
• Store everything - You need to keep track of what you are buying, from whom and how much you are paying, in one place.
• The purchase ledger - Allows you to store extensive information for each supplier, including contact information, credit details, trading terms and account restrictions.

Manage your products

Keep all of the information on the products and services you sell in one place so it’s just a couple of clicks away, when you need it. Drill down into individual product records highlighting all the details associated with that stock item.

Manage Your Customers

Stay responsive to your customers’ needs and understand who and how much they owe you, with instant access to their individual details.
Drill down to individual customer records to view all of your customer’s details and their purchase history in both tabular and graphical forms.
Encourage prompt payment by giving your customers early settlement discounts.

Manage Your Accounts

Full access and control over your accounts will put you in a strong position to make confident and informed decisions.
The nominal ledger is at the heart of your accounts and forms the basis of your profit and loss and balance sheet reports.
Export information into Microsoft Word, Excel or Outlook for further manipulation.

Manage Your Finances

Run profit and loss and balance sheet reports at the touch of a button.
Prepare your VAT returns in minutes instead of hours using a screen designed to mirror your VAT return.
Make journal entries for irregular transactions to ensure your accounts remain accurate.

FEATURE TABLE

	Instant Accounts	Instant Accounts Plus
New Improved Look and Feel	New	New
Task-Based Navigation	New	New
Smart Link	New	New
Integrated 3 ledger system
Customer and supplier records
Accounts Analyser	New	New
Product Records
Nominal Ledger
Invoicing
Financial Reports
VAT Management
Task manager
Pre-Defined Reports
My Business Set-up	New	New
Credit control	Basic	Advanced
Late Payment Charges
Bank(cash book)
Recurring Entries
Bank Reconciliation
e-Banking Payments Reconciliation (Additional Purchase Required)
Wizards Help Files
Currency Calculator
Euro Invoices
e-Mail and web enabled
Access/Security
Full Upgrade Path
Full Integration with MS Office	New
Discounting		Basic
Stock Control		Basic
Report Designer
Historical Data Analysis
Departments for Analysis
e-Mail Reports, Invoices Credit Notes
Sage Management Information System		New
Data import