Sage Instant Accounts

Sage Instant Accounting is designed specifically for small businesses. to streamline the time-consuming task of bookkeeping and become more efficient and productive. Creating new accounts, entering opening balances and monitoring the finances of your business couldn’t be simpler.

• Support -We provide 45 days of free phone support and 1 year of 24/7 online support.
• Practice Mode allows you to try out tasks before entering the data for real.
• Get up and running with ease with set up guide and video demonstrations
• Simple to correct any errors you make
• All your VAT management requirements in one place
• Keep track of what customers are buying, when, and how much they owe you.
• Run Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet Reports at the touch of a button.
• Report Designer to help tailor reports and gather specific business information.
• Keep information secure with Accountant link
• Create, edit or delete customer records
• View customer invoices, credit notes, receipts, payments and outstanding balances
• Produce credit notes for your customers
• Use the Letters option to send your customers overdue payment reminders
• Create credit control details tailored to each customer
• Apply credit restrictions to a customer’s account.
• Apply credit charges for any late payments.
• Advice and tips on debt chasing.
• Enter supplier details, see how much you owe and when you need to pay.
• View your supplier transactions, either as a graph or in a table.
• Nominal records to measure profit and loss daily, weekly, monthly, yearly
• Create, edit and delete nominal accounts.
• Record the balance of the account, VAT code and set a budget for each month.
• View your nominal ledger transactions as a graph or in a table.
• 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.
• Invoicing – create invoices and credit notes for your products and services instantly.
• Invoice your customers for the services you provide.
• Apply settlement discounts and record carriage charges.
• Add extra customer details to your invoices
• Generate and print product credit notes for your customers.
• Print invoices whenever you need.
• Record payments in and out of bank accounts.
• Adjust your bank accounts to take account of bank charges and interest received.
• Use bank reconciliation to confirm bank account transactions match statements
• Print statements at any time to show your reconciled bank payments.

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.

Reports

• 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.
• The Balance Sheet report gives a summary of your current financial position
• The Prior Year report shows your trading activities for the current month and year
• The Budget report shows how you are trading against the monthly budget you set up.
• 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.

• 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.

• Keep your data free from corruption with back ups, data restore and error correction.
• Back up your data on a regular basis.
• Restore data from your back up disks.
• Correct any errors in your transactions.

• Get an Instant snapshot of the financial position of your business

• Getting Started Guide helps when using Instant Accounting for the first time.
• Help for tips and advice on tasks and let the wizards take you through each task. Search
• Search button to find specific records and avoid searching through all your records.
• Save your search requests to use again.

Sage Instant Accounts Plus version 17 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 up to a maximum of two users

The Sage Instant Accounts Starter Solution is ideal for new business start-ups as it contains software, 13 1/2 months SageCover and a training voucher that can be used against Sage workbooks or Sage instant classroom courses.

The Sage Instant Accounts Starter Package includes:

• Sage Instant Accounts 2011
• 1 year of SageCover support
• 100 invoices for laser printers
• A Sage Training voucher

The Sage Instant Financial Package is a cost-effective all-in-one solution that will get your finances and payroll running like clockwork. Neither program requires any previous experience, and will save you valuable time and effort by sharing data easily.
Sage Instant Accounts (RRP £120) is ideal for new and small businesses, and lets you manage your finances, customers and suppliers. It takes care of your cash flow, invoicing, VAT and lets you track money going in and out of your business easily, as well as submitting online HMRC at year end. It’s also packed with built-in help and advice, a practice mode that allows you to try things out, and video demos to guide you through important tasks.
Sage Instant Payroll Extra (RRP £150) lets you process your employees’ wages without the need to understand the complexities of payroll legislation. You can manage employee information and store employee records, and track holidays and absence. All gross and net pay, tax, National Insurance, statutory payments and deductions are calculated automatically, and you can choose how and when to pay your employees.
Full contents include:

• Sage Instant Accounts or Instant Plus
• Sage Instant Payroll Extra
• Sage HR advice
• Sage Health and safety advice

Sage Instant Business Package

The Sage Instant Business Package is a cost-effective way to get an all-in-one business solution to get your sales, accounts and payroll running like clockwork in no time. Building on the financial package you have here in addition to Sage Instant Accounts and Payroll Sage ACT! Pro which will help you organise your sales teams and improve your marketing.
Sage ACT! 2011 (RRP £190) is a simple but powerful contact management system, centralising your contact information, organising your diary, tracking sales leads and can managing marketing campaigns. It’s a vital member of your sales and marketing team, helping you build business relationships, find new prospects, convert more of them into customers and then keep them happy.
Full contents include:

• Sage Instant Accounts or Instant Plus
• Sage Instant Payroll Extra
• Sage ACT! Pro
• Sage HR advice
• Sage Health and safety advice

Licence Information
Our licence plans give you the freedom to choose the one that is right for you and your business. So not only do you receive the latest Sage Instant Payroll software and legislation updates, you also benefit from support – when you want it and the way you want it.
Your initial right to use the software and receive support is for 1 year and your right to use the software and to receive support will renew annually (fees will be payable each year) unless you tell us in writing in accordance with the provisions of the licence agreement, that you want to stop using the software and receiving support at the end of any year.

Recommended hardware

• An IBM®-compatible computer with a 2GHz (or equivalent) processor
• At least 1GB RAM
• At least 1GB of free disk space after Microsoft® Windows has been installed
• Display Settings: 1024 × 768 resolution

• Windows XP Service Pack 3
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2003

• Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks
• Please make sure you have the latest Microsoft updates installed
• This product will not install or run on the Microsoft Windows 95,98,2000,ME, or NT4
• The latest service packs should be installed for before installing or upgrading Sage
• We recommend Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or above for internet access to Sage
• Some features in Sage Software require an internet connection.

Sage software is not compatible with Apple Macs, unless you are running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 via Apple’s Boot Camp utility.