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Accountant Edition

Sage Accounting

Quick to set up. Easy to use. Sync Sage Accounting with your client’s bank, automate billing and invoicing, and offer a real-time overview of your clients' business finances. Easily manage all your clients from a single place—Get Sage Accounting - Accountant Edition free for your practice.

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Easy client management 100% in the cloud

Online access from anywhere on any computing or mobile device. No software installations or file backups needed. It's mobile-friendly and Mac compatible.

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Collaborate from anywhere, at any time

Collaborate remotely in real time. Benefit from unlimited users, and stay in control with fully customizable access permissions.

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Never worry about compliance

Our software offers the best in class performance, stability, and security encryption with redundancy in Canada that meets the CRAs data storage requirement standards.

Feature-rich for accounting professionals and clients alike

Sage Accounting is powerful and easy-to-use, and empowers you and your clients to collaborate efficiently. Clean, simplified workflows reduce the chances of mistakes, ensuring improved data accuracy.


  • Get your clients paid faster with remote invoice creation and tracking.
  • Connect to your clients' bank feeds to increase efficiencies—complete 3 months of reconciliations in just 3 minutes.
  • Import transactions by customizable criteria or use the default bank rules. Just click to approve.
  •  Automatically sync Sage Payroll data directly into your journal.
  • Generate tax outputs easily with our one-step TaxCycle3 integration or save time and reduce errors by automatically extracting GIFI codes. Get started in just one click.

Invite clients and manage subscriptions

Adding new clients to Sage Accounting couldn't be simpler. You're always in control with the ability to manage and customize user permissions.


  • Add your team and clients with a single click.
  • Manage access with full, customizable access permissions of your clients' accounts.
  • Get access to exclusive discounts for your clients' Accounting subscriptions.

Easy-to-understand reporting

Simple but detailed reporting gives you a holistic view of your clients' finances. Access real-time data to guide your clients to make informed decisions based on their up-to-date business performance.


  • Create custom, detailed but easy-to-understand reports.
  • Stay compliant and rest easy with audit trail reports.
  • Get real-time business performance snapshots.

Get Started with Accountant Edition

It's free for your practice.

How to get started

1 – Sign up and verify your email.

2 – Add and set up your clients in a few simple steps. Your account manager will also be in touch to assist you along the way.

3 – Jump right in and try out the different features or test out new workflows with the two sample companies included in your Accountant Edition.

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Sage Accounting

Accountant Edition

Free
For your practice1

Set up, access, and manage all your Sage Accounting clients in one place.

  • Client subscription management
  • 1 free subscription to Sage Accounting for your practice’s books1
  • Snap receipts with AutoEntry2, 75% off your first three months
  • One-step tax filing through integration with TaxCycle3
  • Access to exclusive discounts for your clients' Accounting subscriptions4
Compatible with:

Sage Accounting subscriptions for your clients

Access these exclusive accountant and bookkeeper pricing plans through your free Accountant Edition account.
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Accounting Start

Save 7% off
$15.00
$14.00 /month4
You save $1.00/month

Entry-level bookkeeping tool for simple service-based businesses who want to keep track of their cash flow and expenses. Ideal for sole traders and micro-businesses.

Includes:

  • Supports 1 user
  • Create and send unlimited invoices
  • Get your clients paid faster with integrated payments
  • Track what you're owed
  • Automatic bank reconciliation
  • Calculate your GST/HST to submit to CRA
  • Essential reports
  • Bilingual interface and support in English and French
  • Integration of payroll data with Sage Payroll
  • One-step tax filing through integration with TaxCycle3
Compatible with:
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Accounting Plus

Accounting Plus

Save 73% off
$55.00
$15.00 /month4
You save $40.00/month

Powerful accounting solution for small businesses who trade in multiple currencies or handle stock.

Includes Accounting Start features, plus:

  • Supports unlimited users
  • Send unlimited quotes and estimates
  • Recurring invoicing
  • Manage purchase invoices
  • Track income and expenses by projects and departments
  • Forecast cash flow
  • Invoice in multiple currencies
  • Multi-currency banking
  • Manage inventory
  • Run advanced reports
  • Snap receipts with AutoEntry 75% off2
Compatible with:
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Move to the cloud and do business your way

Discover how easily you can move your clients from desktop solutions to our cloud-native solution, Sage Accounting.

Learn how to easily migrate to the cloud

Sage Accounting has enabled us to take on more clients. We're at least 20% more efficient than we were previously.


Colleen Hoggarth

Freedom Accounting Inc.

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Resources

Gain valuable insights and grow your business faster with our webinars, guides, and articles.

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Live Webcast

Sage Accounting for Accountants and Bookkeepers
Join us for a live session to see Sage Accounting in action.

Date/Time: Thursdays at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET

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Report

Practice of Now
Read our report to understand the role of technology in accounting and learn how your practice can create growth in an industry undergoing unprecedented change.
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Articles

Business advice
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  1. For accounting professionals only. To receive and maintain access to Sage Accounting—Accountant Edition, you must be an accountant or bookkeeper providing professional accounting or bookkeeping services for multiple fee-paying clients. If at any time Sage determines that you are no longer eligible, your access will be terminated.
  2. Snap and upload data from unlimited receipts, invoices, and supplier statements with AutoEntry, 75% off your first three months.
  3. TaxCycle is a third-party app that would require additional usage fees.
  4. Discounted subscription rate valid only when client subscription account (including renewals) is linked with a Sage Accounting – Accountant Edition account. If the accountant or bookkeeper cancels their client’s Sage subscription, client will be required to set up their own account at the then-current rate in order to maintain access to client’s Sage Accounting program. This offer may not be combined with any other offers or discounts. Sage reserves the right to end this promotional offer at any time.