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Enhance productivity with simple but powerful Sage 50 features

Simple, easy-to-use features for handling some of the most important aspects of your business—your time and your money.

Payroll

Simplify payroll processes for your employees with direct deposit or pre-printed cheques. Monitor employee records like payroll cheques you process and the payroll taxes you collect from your employees.

  • Get started quickly with Payroll Setup Wizard and employee defaults.
  • Track Quebec tips and manage vacation and sick time hours.
  • Create paycheques based on recorded time tickets.

Cash flow and invoicing

Sage 50 helps manage and analyze your cash flow. Examine where your revenues and expenses are coming from and project future cash flow. Use the Statement of Cash Flows to determine which categories of cash flow you should be most concerned about: operating, investing, financing.

  • Track where your earnings and expenses are allocated over time.
  • Send invoices to many customers at once and create custom recurring invoices.
  • Get paid faster with online 'Pay now' feature.

Payments and banking

Automate purchase orders, invoicing, payments, and account reconciliation with the accounts payable and banking capabilities of Sage 50. Plus, it’s fully integrated with inventory management, so you can eliminate manual entry.

  • Integrate feeds from bank and credit card institutions seamlessly with the Sage Account Reconciliation module.
  • Matched transactions get auto-cleared in Account Reconciliation.

Advanced inventory management

Know what's in stock and what's on order. Sage 50 computes and tracks costs and quantities on a daily basis, based on the transaction date and item class. View quantities on hand and stay on top of purchase orders.

  • Customize units of measure and create inventory with item assembly.
  • Create and track serialized inventory items with multiple reports.
  • Multiple costing methods supported, including FIFO, Average, and Specific Unit.

Job and project costing

Get greater insight into all your jobs and projects and know what you are spending and where. View how long your jobs and projects are taking to complete, and estimate how much money you're making on each job.

  • Easily set up job records, phases, and cost codes.
  • Track job costs through purchasing, inventory adjustment, payroll, and more.
  • View job completion time and net revenues for each job.
  • Quickly identify if a job is over budget and control costs prior to job completion.

Reporting

Sage 50 gives you over 150 reports including specialized reports for construction, manufacturing, distribution, and more. Track performance of projects you're managing with views within Sage 50 or create departments for customized views.

  • Access one-click reports on payables, receivables, sales taxes, expenses, profits, inventory, payroll, and jobs.
  • Design new reports, search text, and drill down to transactions.
  • Apply filters for customized views.
  • Use report groups to group and generate reports in batches.

Customize your solution with Sage 50 add-ons

Get the most out of Sage 50 Accounting with integrated add-on business services.

Payroll

Pay your people with ease with Sage 50 Payroll. Our plans include timely and comprehensive in-house payroll processing within your Sage 50 solution to help you save time and reduce the risk of payroll tax penalties at year-end.

Microsoft 365

Seamlessly integrate Microsoft 365 with Sage 50 to give you everything you need to run your business. Access key Sage 50 information in Outlook and back-up your data with One Drive secure cloud back-up.

Explore all Sage 50 add-ons

Do even more with Sage 50 with our most popular add-ons.

Direct payments

Pay employees via direct deposit and simplify how you process vendor payments.

AutoEntry

Pull in data and documents including receipts automatically with live bank feeds and AutoEntry.

Cheques and forms

Order custom cheques and forms that are 100% compatible with your Sage 50 software.

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Browse our Marketplace for solutions suited to your industry to extend the power of Sage 50 and grow your business.

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Sage 50 features FAQ

Some key features of Sage 50 include invoicing and billing, expense tracking, inventory management,  and financial reporting.

Yes, Sage 50 offers inventory management features such as tracking stock levels, creating purchase orders, and generating reports on inventory valuation and sales.

Yes, Sage 50 allows you to track your expenses by category, project, or department. You can also import your bank statements and credit card transactions to make expense tracking even easier.

Sage 50 allows you to create and send professional-looking invoices to your customers, track payments, and automate recurring billing. You can also set up payment reminders and late fees to ensure that you get paid on time.

Sage 50 is available in a number of different plans available depending on your business needs.

  • Sage 50 Pro Accounting is designed for small businesses who need desktop accounting that covers essential needs like invoices, managing income, expenses, and payments.
  • Sage 50 Premium has everything in Pro, plus with advanced budgeting, advanced inventory, consolidate multiple companies, and more.
  • Sage 50 Quantum is the full Sage 50 experience for seamless collaboration between larger accounting teams.

Sage 50 integrates with a wide range of third-party software to streamline your operations and improve efficiency, including Microsoft 365, Worldline for direct deposits and vendor payments, and Payroll. 

We have a whole Marketplace of compatible partners, with solutions suited to your industry, that allow you to extend the power of Sage 50, grow your business and make life even easier. Check out the marketplace out here.

Sage 50 offers a payroll module that helps businesses to process payroll accurately and efficiently. It offers a wide range of features, including:

  • Payroll processing: Sage 50 Payroll can process payroll for businesses of all sizes. It supports a variety of pay types, including hourly, salaried, and commission-based pay.
  • Taxes: Sage 50 Payroll automatically calculates and withholds taxes from employee paycheques. It also supports a variety of tax withholding options, including federal and provincial taxes.
  • Reporting: Sage 50 Payroll provides a variety of reports that can help businesses to track payroll costs and compliance.

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