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Sage for Accountants and Bookkeepers

The platform for your success

Get a compliant, automated solution for every accounting task in one place to make your workload flow. Sage for Accountants can be customised to suit the needs of your practice and your clients. Perfect for busy bookkeepers and accountants who want to grow their practice and help clients thrive quicker.

Get your accounting workflow done faster

Manage multiple clients, meet compliance, and get your core accounting tasks completed in less time using automation. Make decisions faster, streamline processes, and free up hours for valuable strategy and advisory tasks that helps your clients thrive.

Client relationship building

Help clients stay profitable with professional proposals.

Effortless client management

Better serve your clients by onboarding and managing quickly and securely in one place. Cut admin time with automated billing, insights, services and expenses. So you can work on keeping your clients profitable.

Automated data entry

Eliminate manual errors and ensure accuracy every time when it comes to keeping digital records.

Easy client accounting

Simplify day-to-day accounting tasks, ledger categorisation, reporting, and payroll processing. We do the complex calculations so you can focus on your people and make smarter, decisions faster.

Accurate cash flow forecasting

Enhance your financial advisory services with accurate cash flow forecasting, budgeting, and reporting. Provide valuable real-time insights for your clients.

Time saving payroll

Get payroll done quickly and easily. A single, centralised view of every clients' payroll helps you stay on top of tasks.

How to sign up to Sage for Accountants

Build your plan your way. It's free to sign up to Sage for Accountants but you can add-on features or self-serve client subscriptions and extra documents in-product.
Sign up your practice and get complementary features free.
Customise your product by adding features and subscriptions for your practice and clients.
Add-on automated documents as and when you need them.
Only pay for what you need. This will be billed monthly.

Sage for Accountants

A customisable accounting solution for your practice and clients. Only pay for what you need, add more features in-product.
Free
We take your billing information at checkout to enable future payments for custom features.

Tools for your practice:

  • Sage Accounting
  • Sage Payroll
  • Centralised client management
  • Final accounts and tax submission tools
  • Cashflow forecasting
  • Member benefits and client discounts

Add-on features: 

  • Automated pricing and proposals
  • Automated data entry
  • Client cashflow forecasting

What else you can get with Sage for Accountants

Powerful reporting and insights

Make smarter business decisions with accurate, real-time reporting and forecasting.

Sage membership

Your membership includes access to Member Masterclass, community forums, learning, and software certification.

Award-winning expert support

We are a trusted partner for Irish accountants offering technology and client expertise from the moment you subscribe.

Sage for Accountants FAQs

When you sign up to Sage for Accountants you’ll have access to free accounting and bookkeeping features that will help you manage tax and stay compliant. These features allow you to calculate and submit tax returns, ensuring a seamless workflow process from client acquisition and record keeping to filing and submitting taxes.

These solutions work together to make managing accounting and taxes easier and error free - both for your practice and for your clients. These can be integrated so you can make a single submission, as data is auto-populated across the different capabilities.

What you'll get with your Sage for Accountants subscription:

  • Free subscription to Sage Accounting Plus for your practice.
  • Free subscription to Sage Payroll (for up to 100 employees) for your practice.
  • Expert support and training.
  • Sage membership benefits.
  • Final Accounts (Year-end accounting)

Keep your accounts secure and error-free while making year-end preparations easier.

  • Auto-populate key data to speed up account creation.
  • Prepare and file accounts for various business types, including sole traders, partnerships, and limited companies.

Sage for Accountants is a customisable platform with all the essential tools you need to support your practice and clients.  It's easy to improve the efficiency of your practice while staying compliant with automation and processing. From data capture through to tax, and everything in between, Sage for Accountants allows everything to blend in one single seamless workflow.

Accountancy and bookkeeping with Sage Accounting: Support every client regardless of the complexity of their business size. Share real-time reports with clients and view full transaction histories.

Compliance:
Use our Final Accounts and tax solutions to manage one set of digital records. You can stay on top of compliance deadlines, minimise data entry, and view the latest client data and reporting.

Payroll:
Provide payroll services easily, or let clients serve themselves and pay people in four simple steps. 

Automated data entry:
Data automation and processing is made simple. Clients can simply capture documents by scan, email, or photograph and Sage will do the rest by auto-population.

Sage gives you expert advice and access to learning pathways that help you expand on your skillset and keep constantly up to date on the latest legislation to help you support clients. And you can choose a way that works for you:

Watch the on-demand webinar to make sense of MTD for ITSA.
Download the MTD guide for everything you need to know about changes from HMRC.

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