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Sage 50 to Kashflow Export Wizard

January 23rd, 2009

I got approached by Kashflow to write a tool to help prospects using Sage 50 easily transfer all their customer, supplier, nominal ledger details along with transactions ready for moving to Kashflow. Kashflow is one of the market leaders in the Software as a Service (Saas) market offering a web based accounting solution ideal for the SME. The tool is a simple wizard which works with all versions of Sage (Line) 50 and Sage Instant and guides users through the export process. Once done it automatically uploads this information to the Kashflow servers ready for use. The kashflow site is here.

You may think it strange that I would get involved in something like this but the answer is simple. I should really rename this blog domorewithsage for the benefit of your business. It is simply about helping businesses acheive the most productivity gains from whatever accounting solution they just, I choose Sage from a purely commercial point of view because it has the biggest user base.

If you want to move data in/out/across/up/down/to/from Sage then why not contact me! I spend alot of time doing work with Sage Line 500/1000 data migration and have recently developed a tool to aid with migrating data into 500/1000. More details are on my other blog here.

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Sage 50 for the Web Part 2

December 16th, 2008

OK, so a secret little project I had been working on was ready to present to Sage. The problem? Bad timing, having written off to Sage UK with a demo of my software within days I found out the news about Sage Live deeming the prototype (and pending development of the full product) irrelevant.

What am I talking about? A completely web based, identical look and feel, version of Sage 50. This is an alpha prototype which now will probably go no further, you can see it here

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Sage 50 for the Web?

December 1st, 2008

So news breaks that Sage have been quietly working away on hosted (via the web) version of Sage 50. Of course everyone is keen to be jumping on the Software as a Service (SaaS) model as a way to lock in future revenues and now Sage are looking to compete with the existing online players such as Kashflow, e-conomic and Xero. This product has a working title of ‘Sage Live’, not sure if that will how it will end up being the final name or not. The information comes hot off the press from Duane Jackson, founder of Kashflow and can be found here.

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Whats new in Sage 50 2009?

November 4th, 2008

Well in a nutshell you now get;

Built in diary facility
Improved credit management
Additional contact information can now be stored
Communication history to assist with credit management
Batch printing of reports

Is it worth the upgrade? Well I guess it depends how valuable those features are for your business.

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Try before you Buy

October 24th, 2008

If you’re a startup business and are not sure if Sage accounting is right for you well now it doesnt cost you anything to find out. You can simply do the Sage TestDrive and get a feel for the software before commiting to buy it. You can find the link here

Or you can now get a 90 day trial of the software which is available from this page here

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Integrated CRM and accounts

June 30th, 2008

The holy grail of systems. CRM is a hot topic but guess what? Integrated CRM and accounts in the Sage world is a myth. It simply doesn’t work 100%. Why because the Sage 200 suite and Sage 1000 comprise of nothing more than two products loosely coupled together. With the Sage 200 suite you get a windows based legacy application bundled with a web based application; two applications and two databases. With Sage 1000 you get a Sage Line 500 webclient (which uses Java) and the same web-based CRM (which doesnt use Java). So what happens when you want to raise a quotation for a prospect in Sage 200? There you are in the web-browser and as soon as you hit the quote button up pops the a windows application window from Sage 200! As this site is focused on business productivity and not specifically Sage productivity I am watching with interest a product called Interprise suite. It is the only completely integrated accounts, CRM and webshop on the market. The single user version is completely FREE and it is priced between Sage 50 and Sage 200. A demo can be downloaded from this site.

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Dashboard for Sage Instant or Line 50

June 30th, 2008

The completely FREE dashboard I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. Is now ready for download. If your a user of Sage accounts, either Line 50 or Instant you can check out the features and get the software from this page.

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Dashboard for Sage 50

June 4th, 2008

I have written a ‘dashboard’ for Sage 50 which shows basic sales performance figures for your customer base as well as basic credit control information. It is going to be released in the next few weeks and will be completely FREE of charge to Sage 50 and Instant users. The biggest positive about it is that it queries the data without taking up a user licence so you can provide additonal staff with access to key information without buying additional seats!