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So you may be wondering why I am writing about Sage 50 Accounts software on what is generally speaking, a blog about seo and web design.  Well I have recently bought a copy so thought I would add a little write up about why I bought it.

My first consideration was that my accounts product comes from a well established vendor, Sage are the largest in the UK, but there are a few others out there such as QuickBooks, Pegasus and Microsoft Dynamix, although the las two were very quickly taken out of my list of potential suppliers due to pricing, don’t get me wrong, I’m sure they are great if you are a mulkti million turnover company, dealing with worldwide suppliers and customers, but I’m not.

The next consideration was about the pricing, I always like to feel like I’m getting a bit of a bargain, so the Sage 50 Accounts Professional software was already a firm favourite, as it can be bought online with some pretty hefty discounts.

Of course, the most important aspect was to have the features I needed, it goes without saying that any accounting software will have it’s nominal ledger, bank reconciliation and VAT return functionality, however Accounts Professional also has a little project costing module built in, this has already proven to be a handy little gizmo, as my seo projects accumulate costs, I can add them straight in and see what costs have been incurred for each of my SEO customers each month.

It also has purchase orders and sales orders, to be fair I haven’t used either of these yet, although I do plan to and I’m hoping that PO’s will show up as a committed cost in my project costing module, although I can’t say for sure yet.

So all in all Sage has proven to be a pretty good choice as far as I’m concerned. Oh, it also came with 45 days free technical support, which I certainly got my moneys worth from, being new to doing accounts for myself.

These products used to be called Sage Line 50 in the past, so if you are reading this and know the old name structures this is what was previously called Sage Line 50 Financial Controller. The version numbering has also changed so the one I have is version 2011, which did strike me as a bit odd seeing as I bought it in November of 2010.  Never mind though, I don’t really care what it’s called, just that it does my accounts and I can send the backup to my accountant at the end of each financial year.