Small business software that supports you

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

Accounting Start is ideal for VAT registered small businesses who are starting out and need software to help them submit tax returns, manage cashflow, and send invoices. This is popular with sole traders and micro-businesses because the built-in AI productivity assistant Sage Copilot acts as your support. 

Accounting Standard is ideal for small businesses with growing headcount and more complex needs. 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, allowing you to tackle more complex needs at pace and across multiple employees or countries. 

All of the payroll plans included with 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 you get the benefits of integration from the start as Payroll is already included at no extra cost. The benefit is that your Payroll data will be synced with Accounting from your very first pay run. You can also access everything from a single homepage. Your accountant or bookkeeper will access to both to ensure you are legally compliant for both accounting and payroll liabilities and can watch your data flow from one to the other. You'll also 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 as Sage Payroll comes with HR features included. 

Yes. Sage Accounting includes Payroll at no extra cost. As you grow your business you can upgrade your Sage Accounting plan to get more advanced features of both Accounting and Payroll, 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. However, you can also purchase Payroll separately if you have fewer than 150 employees and no Accounting needs, with the ability to upgrade this plan as you go for more advanced features. 

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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.