Nurture your creative business with stress-free accounting

Sage Accounting for photographers, film producers and other creatives helps you easily manage your finances from anywhere. It gives you clear visibility of money going in and out and a quick way to create and send invoices automatically.

Use Sage Accounting to:

• See how much profit you’re earning from clients
• Pay your designers, copywriters and account managers using our Payroll add-on
• Create a digital paper trail and file VAT returns to stay compliant
• Record expenses on the go with AutoEntry to snap and capture receipts
• Give bookkeepers and accountants permission to review finances and collaborate with you in real time
• Pay employees at your practice on time, every time with Sage Payroll
• Quickly raise quotes and invoices to get paid faster
• Control cash flow with accurate forecasting

Sage Accounting is the affordable, easy-to-use choice for most creative businesses. It enables the recording of income and expenses and syncs transactions with your business bank account. You can also snap and capture receipts with your phone. Sage Accounting also simplifies the generation and emailing of invoices to customers or clients. You can take out a free 30-day trial and see if it's suitable for your business.

Creative professionals will benefit from accounting software if they want to spend less time on tasks like invoicing. It will also reduce admin and offer an accurate view of a business's performance. This type of software will also help creative professionals comply with SARS tax guidelines and collaborate with an accountant.

There are plenty of ways you can save time with Sage Accounting. Here are some examples:

Automate manual tasks

By automating tasks, you can cut down the amount of time you spend on manual data entry to save money and focus on the areas of the business that need the most attention.

• Set up recurring invoices to avoid starting from scratch each time
• Add invoices in bulk to save time
• Get Google Drive integration to get automatic copies of invoices and quotes online
• Connect your bank and let transactions flow into Sage Accounting for easy reconciliation
• Make sure that you’ve always got the right amount of stock – quickly view your inventory and create reorder levels and quantities
• Get inventory reports to see stock information in seconds

AutoEntry

Spend less time on admin and more time on your creative work with a paperless way to manage receipts. Simply snap, scan or email a photo of your receipts, bank transactions, invoices or other documents for your Sage accounts using AutoEntry. Then categorise, publish and share them with your accountant through Sage Accounting. AutoEntry captures tax summaries and full line item details including description, quantity and unit price, so it’s an easy way to log the information you need, when you need it.

Other ways to save time:

• Use dashboards to instantly view your financial data
• Use real-time data to collaborate faster with accountants or bookkeepers
• Create and send invoices, easily follow up with clients on outstanding invoices and track the health of your business in real time from anywhere with the cellphone app
• See a live running total of your tax liabilities, plan ahead and submit to SARS
• View cash flow forecasts in real-time to make faster business decisions