Sage 50 is the UK’s best selling accounting software package and is recommended by 90% of the UK’s practicing accountants. However, with businesses demanding more and more from their accounting software Sage 200 is becoming the most preferred migration option.
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Common changes undertaken by Sage 50 customers include expanding their product range, increasing their employee numbers, placing more emphasis on trading with overseas customers, and increasingly complex business processes. Changes like these are the trigger to reassess a business system and look at new ways of doing things.
Common triggers for Sage 50 customers to upgrade or migrate to Sage 200 are:
- Company growth
- More complex business processes
- A requirement for more depth of functionality such as
- Management reporting
- Advanced handling of foreign currency
- Control over financial periods
- Storing stock in multiple warehouses
- Batchserial number processing
- An increased need for customisation of systems
- A specialism in a vertical market
In our experience there are usually a number of reasons driving the need to move to a larger system i.e. not simply a need for a system that accommodates more users or larger volume of transactions.
Sage 200 exceeds Sage 50 in system wide functionality in the following areas:
- Currency - spot and period exchange rates
- Currency - exchange rate history
- Currency - support for Euro triangulation
- Choice of number of accounting periods per year
- Control of length of accounting period
- Ability to open/close/re-
- True transaction audit trail
- Choice of invoice or movement date for intrastat prep
- Separate create, amend and view forms
- Integrated CRM
- Reporting
- Ability to handle larger transactions
To help Sage 50 customers make an informed decision when considering an upgrade to a larger system like Sage 200 a migration guide can be found at:
http://www.pythagoras.co.uk/
