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Sage for professional services

Seamless professional services automation software

Win more clients and maximise profits with AI-powered accounting and professional services automation software. Simplify processes, boost team productivity and deliver exceptional services at scale.

AI-powered solutions for professional services

No matter your industry, unlock new opportunities and drive project productivity with accounting and project management tools for professional services organisations.
Engineering companies
IT services firms
Consulting firms
Marketing and advertising agencies
Staffing and recruiting firms
HR and PEO service providers
Biotech, pharmaceutical, and life sciences companies
Service-based businesses

Unleash the full potential of your professional services firm

Drive growth with ERP service industry software that covers all aspects of your business. Optimise for profitability, accelerate project delivery and improve resource utilisation.

Deliver projects on time

Take control by streamlining workflows, boosting productivity, and meeting deadlines consistently. 

Maximise project profitability

Get visibility into project health, optimise resource allocation, and ensure on-time billing.

Deeper insights, greater impact

Fuel quicker decision-making with AI-powered analytics and reporting.

Why professional services organisations choose Sage Intacct


Automated accounting for professional services

Drive project profitability with project accounting, automated revenue recognition, and data-driven insights.

  • Automate revenue recognition and client billing processes.
  • Make smarter, data-driven project bids using historical project insights.
  • Increase margins with real-time financial tracking.

Project management and project costing

Win more business and deliver outstanding results with smart resource management, project planning, and insights.

  • Monitor project health and budgets across your entire portfolio.
  • Easily track time and expenses across multiple projects.
  • Turn project data into actionable business insights.
  • Integrate with CRM tools like Salesforce, resource management software, Professional Services Automation (PSA).

Smart resource management, HR, and payroll

Scale your services business with unified workforce management, automated time tracking, and actionable performance insights.

  • Streamline payroll processing and human resources.
  • Track performance metrics to drive team productivity.
  • Develop strong, competitive talent that meets evolving client needs.

Solutions for professional services

Use professional services accounting software to automate processes, reduce admin and focus on more important areas of your business.

Sage Accounting<br> <span class="text-highlight-ai" style="line-height:1.6;">with Ai</span>

Simple accounting software for small business, with built in payroll. Save up to 5 hours weekly on admin with the added power of AI.

Flexible online accounting software. Unlock potential, gain clarity, and save time with cloud accounting software for freelancers, sole traders, and small businesses.

  • Get paid 7 days faster and save up to 5 hours of admin per week
  • Create and send sales invoices
  • Track what you're owed
  • Automatic bank reconciliation
  • Calculate and submit VAT
  • Easy to set up and use
  • Be Making Tax Digital ready for VAT
  • Payroll and essential HR features built in

Sage 50 Accounts<br> <span class="text-highlight-ai" style="line-height:1.6;">with Ai</span>

Desktop accounting software with cloud connectivity, giving you a complete view of your business finances and inventory.

Desktop accounting with cloud connectivity for small businesses with advanced needs:

  • Manage cash flow to stay in control and grow your business
  • Accept payments easily and get paid faster
  • Full visibility and control of your payments from anywhere
  • Automate admin with a cash flow AI tool that saves hours of work
  • Make complex accounting simple with advanced stock management
  • Get Sage Copilot, your AI-powered productivity assistant

Sage Intacct<br> <span class="text-highlight-ai" style="line-height:1.6;">with Ai</span>

The leader in cloud accounting and financial management software. Perfect for scale-ups to global enterprises. Bespoke pricing, tailored to your business.
  • Track multiple accounts in real-time
  • Consolidate multiple entities and more in minutes
  • Collaborate from a single source of truth
  • Make strategic decisions with dimensional reporting and analytics
  • Open APIs allow multiple, stable, secure integrations
  • Get Sage Copilot, your AI-powered productivity assistant
  • Digital audit trails for confidence and compliance
  • Access your financials anywhere, anytime
  • Customisable revenue recognition
  • Fully automate allocations for speed and accuracy
  • Global consolidations and tax legislation compliance
  • Project costing, time and expenses, and billing in one workflow

Features service-based firms love

Financials

Accurately track project costs, ensure timely client billing, and maintain profitability across every project.

Project accounting

Deliver profitable projects on time, on budget.

Project costing and billing

Automate complex billing and revenue recognition for professional services.

Accounts receivable

Automate collections and invoices to increase cash flow.

Dimensions

Gain deep profit insights on teams, service lines, customers, and more.

Reports and dashboards

Get a real-time, comprehensive view of your financial health.

AI-powered GL

Catch errors in thousands of transactions in minutes.

Multi-entity insights

Get a consolidated view of all entities with clarity.

Open API

Integrates seamlessly with your CRM, PSA, and resource management tools.

Operations

Revolutionise your team's productivity and time management.

Professional Services Automation (PSA)

Use AI to manage projects, resources, and capacity.

AI-powered time tracking

Empower your team with their own AI-powered time assistant.

Project Intelligence

Uncover project trends and optimise your team's realisation rates.

Project reporting

Increase project profitability and make data-driven decisions.

HR and payroll

Build, manage, and develop your all-star team and streamline payroll and HR processes.

Payroll

Human resources, payroll, and talent management

Cloud HR

Automate and streamline manual HR processes.

Data integration

Seamless integration with existing systems.

Self-service

Empower employees to manage HR data and tasks.

Workforce development

Upskill your workforce to meet evolving client needs and stay competitive.

Talent acquisition

Find and hire specialised talent.

“The visibility we have through Sage Intacct is great. It's helped us improve profitability and make faster, better decisions because at literally the click of a button, we can see what's going on in the business ”

Tania Zieja
CFO, Halloran Consulting Group

Professional services software FAQs

Professional services software helps manage daily business operations and customer relationships, including resource and project management, and time tracking, as well as accounting for professional services like expense tracking, billing and invoicing, reporting, analytics, and more. The ultimate goal is to optimise client experience rather than spending time filling out spreadsheet cells.

Professional services management and accounting software can be a powerful tool for any service organisation that delivers billable work. PSA accounting software is also ideal for growing enterprises that want to automate their processes. Companies in a range of industries use professional services management and accounting software, such as marketing and communications, information technology, medical and healthcare, legal services, customer service, educational services, and much more.

Professional Service Automation (PSA) software is a tool designed to serve service organisations, such as IT consulting, technology services, and many other service providers. PSA software is a specific subset of professional services software, and it includes features related to the front of the project life cycle, such as proposals, estimates, and forecasting, as well as resource management, time and expense tracking, vendor management, and project billing. Depending on the complexity of your firm's resource management needs, you can either use the built-in resource management features or Sage Intacct PSA.

PSA software can help maximise resource efficiency, improve communication between project delivery teams, accounting and clients, and provide real-time visibility into project performance. With an AI-powered PSA solution like Sage Intacct PSA, project managers can efficiently manage current and future resourcing needs across teams or their entire organisation. Its intelligent system can automatically help optimise resource utilisation and forecast future demands, and anticipate and help address project challenges early on, safeguarding project timelines and budgets.

Sage Intacct is a comprehensive financial management system with tailor made features for project-based businesses. Over 1.5 million projects have run on Sage Intacct. We work with companies that have financial management needs that range from simple cost tracking to detailed project task cost allocation and complex billing requirements. Our cloud-based system is centred on a high-powered general ledger that provides dimension level tracking for all of your transactions. What that means is you can significantly reduce the number of GL accounts you use, while also significantly expanding the way you report on your data. With automation of processes related to project costing, vendor management and accounts payable, project billing, time and expense tracking, and resource management, Sage Intacct can allow your finance team to focus on strategy instead of administrative process.

"Many service-based businesses constantly face revenue leakage, low utilisation and strained project profit. Accurate and complete time entry is a major contributing factor to these struggles. Sage Intelligent Time is the only AI-powered time entry system built into a full-featured ERP system. Sage Intelligent Time provides each member of your team with an AI-powered time assistant that provides suggested time entry cards based on that employee's calendar, email, and other activity. Using machine learning, the Time Assistant gets smarter and continuously improves the speed and accuracy of your teams' timesheets.

Sage Intelligent Time has the solution to an age-old problem for service-based businesses. Artificial intelligence and machine learning provide a tangible tool for your team to receive continuous and trusted insights regarding their time. With this insight, your project managers can make better decisions, your project pricing is more accurate, and your invoicing and closing processes are faster than ever.

For many growing professional service companies, the billing process is too labour intensive to scale. Billing for professional services can be complex depending on the various elements that you need to include on your invoice. Sage Intacct is built to handle even the most complex invoicing requirements, as well as the variety of revenue recognition methods that can be associated with them. Automation around time entry, expenses, purchase orders, vendors, and all the other components required for billing, are instantly available for your team to easily draft and issue invoices, helping you scale your business without being held back by cumbersome processes.

When it comes to financial reporting, automation, accuracy and customisation are critical requirements for an effective solution. Sage software's financial reporting excels at all three. By leveraging the general ledger's dimensions, reports can be grouped and sorted in a nearly unlimited way. Financial reporting done right can provide the insight your financial team needs to go from being burdened with administrative tasks to focusing on strategic planning. Whether you're creating multiple profit and loss reports, or automating project reports for your project managers, Sage can handle what you need.

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