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Make running your business easier with powerful small business software that simplifies your admin and gives you more time to focus on what you do best.

Sage Accounting with AI

Manage income and expenses with ease and master your cashflow - now with Sage Copilot, your AI-powered productivity assistant. Get 3 months free, then starting at £15 per month (excluding VAT).

Sage Payroll

Pay your people securely, onboard employees, and automate essential people admin with HR features. Get 3 months free, then starting at £10 per month (excluding VAT).

Why small business software from Sage?

Sage has more than 40 years experience perfecting accounting, payroll, and HR software. We make running a small business easier for over 1 million customers. Get paid faster, get organised, and get your taxes right first time with Sage Accounting. Calculate employee pay and deductions compliantly, quickly, and accurately, and streamline people management processes with Sage Payroll.

Sage Accounting now with AI

Perfect for freelancers, sole traders, and small businesses – now with the added power of AI-functionality to automate tasks and save time. Get 3 months free, then starting at £15 per month (excluding VAT).

  • Customise, send, and track invoices, quotes, and estimates
  • Manage purchase invoices and suppliers
  • Forecast and control cashflow
  • Track performance with advanced reports
  • Calculate and submit VAT
  • Get Sage Copilot, your AI-powered productivity assistant

Sage Payroll

Pay and manage your people securely, accurately, and compliantly with payroll. Get started with 3 months free, then from £10.00+VAT/month.

  • Manage payroll for up to 150 employees
  • Control essential HR and payroll tasks from one place
  • Stay compliant with an HMRC recognised solution
  • Complete pay runs in 4 simple steps
  • Review, approve, and manage leave from anywhere
  • Self-serve payslips and P60s in-app

Sage HR

Onboard your employees, automate your HR process, and get meaningful insights. From £4.60 per employee/month.

  • Manage core HR tasks in one place
  • Run performance and leave management
  • Schedule and manage shifts
  • Collate and manage timesheets
  • Review and approve expenses

FAQs

All 3 plans give you the fundamental features you need to manage your accounting, payroll and people. 

Accounting Start is ideal for businesses who are starting out. This is popular with sole traders and micro-businesses. 

Accounting Standard is ideal for small businesses. It offers everything Start offers, plus more advanced features. For example, the Standard package lets you upload information by simply snapping a photo of receipts, invoices, and supplier statements. 

Accounting Plus offers all of the Start and Standard features plus support for multiple currencies and inventory management. 

All of the payroll plans in Sage for Small Business are designed for businesses of up to 150 employees operating in any industry, including professional services, construction and retail. Sage for Small Business allows you to quickly and easily create employee records and pay your people in four simple steps. You can create payments and deductions, accurately calculate PAYE, National Insurance, pensions and more, before creating payslips for your employees and submitting your payroll information to HMRC and pension providers. All of the Payroll plans come with HR features, the most advanced HR features of managing timesheets and overtime are available with Payroll Premium. You can upgrade, change, or cancel plans at any time. 

If you buy Accounting and Payroll together you get the benefits of integration from the start; see your Payroll data in Accounting from your very first pay run and access everything from a single homepage. Give your accountant or bookkeeper access to both to ensure you are legally compliant for both accounting and payroll liabilities and watch your data flow from one to the other. See how timesheets, overtime and other data in the HR features impact your pay run and how payroll data impacts your business finances and cash flow.

Yes. For example, Accounting Standard and Payroll Essentials. As you grow your business you can change your plans and add extra employees up to a maximum of 150. The more employees you add to your Payroll plan, the less you'll pay per employee, per month.

As a customer of Sage for Small Business, you can cancel your monthly rolling subscription at any time, and you will not be charged again after the date you cancel. If you cancel during the free period, your account will never be charged. Please note, depending on when you cancel, your subscription may not come to an end until the following subscription month.

Depending on the current promotion, this may also mean you will not be eligible for future promotions or discounts.

More information about terminating your subscription can be found in our terms and conditions here.

Absolutely. It’s simple and straightforward to import your current data from Excel (and other spreadsheets and data systems) into Sage Accounting, including your customer and supplier details, your products and services, opening balances, transactions from bank statements, invoices, and your chart of accounts. We’re on hand to show you how, or you can watch our step-by-step video guides.

Get help fast with award winning support and unrivalled business advice at your fingertips. Easily access all our support channels from within Sage for Small Business or in your Sage application under the Help menu. Our teams create and maintain a wealth of content from help articles, step by step videos and expert advice to help you achieve your business outcomes.

Buy Payroll and you can automatically support 5 employees. It's easy to add more in-product, up to a maximum of 150 employees. The cost is per employee, per month. The more employees you add to your Payroll plan, the less you'll pay per employee, per month.

Sage Copilot is a generative AI productivity assistant that can transform how you manage your business and do your work.

It is an intelligent tool that automates complex tasks, offers personalised business advice, and provides proactive recommendations to improve performance. It will adapt to your evolving needs as you use it.

Learn more about Sage Copilot

Once you've purchased Sage Accounting, set up the product, and started using it, Sage Copilot will be activated on your account. Sage Copilot uses your data to provide valuable insights and answers to your questions, making it especially helpful once you've entered data into Sage Accounting.

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